Partner Communications Company Ltd. doing business as Partner, formerly known as Orange Israel , is a mobile network operator, internet Wi-Fi, fixed telephony service and OTT/IPTV provider in Israel. It formerly operated under the Orange brand name until 16 February 2016.
The company's shares are traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, where it is a constituent of the TA-35 Index, since August 2009, Scailex Corporation (owned by businessman Ilan Ben Dov) controls 51% of its shares.,[2] and in 2012 this stock of shares was sold to SB Telecom (owned by business man Haim Saban).
Operations
Partner Communications commenced full commercial operations in January 1999 and by 31 March 2001 had over 1 million subscribers, representing an estimated 21% of the cellular market in Israel at that time. As of June 2016 it has 2.7 million subscribers.[1]
The prefix (area code) for Partner customers is 054, although customers who requested to keep their old number from a different cellular company may have a different area code, as required by law.