Pelephone to pilot UMTS network (Israel)
Israeli cellco Pelephone is poised to begin internal trials of its new UMTS network, with company employees expected to be issued compatible handsets within next few days, according to a media report. Further the report says that the mobile operator has completed overseas trials of the new network infrastructure. Pelephone have invested approximately ILS1 billion on the new infrastructure and commercial services are expected to commence by early 2009 .
