By Wikipedia Bezeq announced on Wednesday that it will give its clients a week’s worth of free calls to cellular phones as compensation for the malfunction that…
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Bezeq is a telecommunications provider in Israel. Until the mid-2000s when it was owned by the Israeli government, Bezeq had a monopoly on wireline telephony and Internet access infrastructure. Though still the most dominant provider of telephone services, it has competition with the sole cable provider in the country (since September 2006), Hot, which offers a cables based telephone and internet access services as of 2005, and with 012 Smile and more recently netvision and Orange. On May 9, 2005, Bezeq was officially privatized when 30% of its shares were sold by the state to the Saban-Apax Investment group for $972 Million. The cellular communications provider Pelephone is a fully-owned subsidiary of Bezeq. Bezeq is also the largest shareholder in D.B.S. Satellite Services (1998) Ltd. , known by its trademark name, Yes, the satellite television provider in Israel.
