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Article: Cable companies request full domestic license
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- Jerusalem Post
- Article date:
- July 22, 2002
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Headline: Cable companies request full domestic license
Byline: GWEN ACKERMAN
Edition; Daily
Section: Economics
Page: 16
Monday, July 22, 2002 -- Israel's cable companies yesterday requested
a domestic telecommunications license from the Communications Ministry,
indicating they intend to keep to a government- set timetable that
expects the merged cable company to compete with Bezeq on voice services
by 2005.
Communications Minister Reuven Rivlin said that the request was evidence
that Israel is moving toward an open, competitive domestic telecommunications
market, but analysts were more circumspect.
"They asked for the license to calm the regulator and show him ...