{{short description|Palestinian telecommunications company}} {{use dmy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Undisclosed paid|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox company | name = Palestine Telecommunications Company (Paltel)<br />{{lang|ar|شركة الاتصالات الفلسطينية}} | logo = frameless|upright=0.7|class=skin-invert | type = Public | founder = Sabih Masri | area_served = Palestine | key_people = Sabih Masri (Chairman) | industry = Telecommunications | genre = | products = Fixed, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, SMS, MMS, ISP, Fiber-optic communication | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | owner = | num_employees = 3,000 | parent = Paltel Group | divisions = | subsid = Paltel, Jawwal, Reach | footnotes = | homepage = {{URL|https://paltelgroup.ps/}} | vector_logo = | foundation = {{start date and age|1995}}<ref name="bberg">{{cite web |title=Palestine Telecommunications Company P.L.C.: Private Company Information |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=22690619 |website=bloomberg.com |accessdate=31 May 2018}}</ref> | location_city = Ramallah | location_country = Palestine | location = | company_slogan = | dissolved = }}
'''Palestine Telecommunications Company''' (commonly known as '''Paltel''') ({{langx|ar|شركة الاتصالات الفلسطينية}}), listed in the Palestine Exchange (PEX) as '''Paltel''', is a Palestinian telecommunications holding company based in Ramallah, Palestine.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web | title=Palestine Telecommunications Company (Paltel Group) {{!}} World Economic Forum | url=https://www.weforum.org/organizations/palestine-telecommunications-company-paltel-group/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927094425/https://www.weforum.org/organizations/palestine-telecommunications-company-paltel-group | access-date=2025-03-18 | archive-date=2016-09-27}}</ref> It consists of '''Palestine Telecommunications Company''' (known as '''''Paltel'''''), and '''Palestine Cellular Communications Company''' (known as ''Jawwal''), internet provider Hadara, Reach call center, and Palmedia broadcast media.<ref name=":0" />
Founded in 1995, today Paltel stands as one of the largest employers in Palestine.<ref name=":0" /> It is one of the largest telecommunication companies of the territory alongside Ooredoo Palestine and Jawwal, which is a subsidiary of Paltel itself.<ref name=":0" /> The company have more than 3,000 employees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Paltel's net earnings have grown from $12.1 million in 2000 to $120 million in 2014.<ref name=":0" />
== History == Paltel, established in 1995, became Palestine's leading telecommunications provider. Jawwal, its cellular network, launched in 1999 and grew rapidly, reaching millions of subscribers. The company expanded into Gaza in 2011, introduced 3G services in 2015, and launched Palestine’s first data center in 2019. In 2022, Jawwal introduced high-speed fiber internet and partnered with Arab Bank in 2023 to create the first neo bank in Palestine.<ref name="PCPSR">{{cite web |last1=Abudaka |first1=Mashhour |title=The Effects of the PA's Dissolution or Collapse on Telecommunication and Postal Services |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep20613 |publisher=Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research |access-date=2 December 2023 |date=2013-10-01}}</ref><ref>[http://www.buyusa.gov/westbank/en/briefs.html Palestinian Market Briefs - U.S. Commercial Service West Bank and Gaza] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830082837/http://www.buyusa.gov/westbank/en/briefs.html |date=2009-08-30 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3882440,00.html|title=Palestinian Authority to stop use of Israeli mobiles|newspaper=Ynetnews|date=29 April 2010}}</ref>
== Services and products ==
=== Palmedia === Palmedia for Multimedia Services Company is the media arm of Paltel.<ref name="PCPSR" /> Based in Ramallah, it provides media broadcast services and production services to media outlets such as Russia Today, the BBC, Al-Mayadeen, Al-Manar, and Hamas-affiliated Al-Quds TV, Al-Aqsa TV, and Palestine Today.<ref name="JTA">{{cite news |title=Israeli soldiers raid offices of Palestinian media production company citing 'incitement' |url=https://www.jta.org/2017/07/30/israel/israeli-soldiers-raid-offices-of-palestinian-media-production-company-citing-incitement |access-date=2 December 2023 |work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=2017-07-30}}</ref><ref name="CPJ">{{cite news |title=Israeli forces raid several Palestinian media production companies |url=https://cpj.org/2017/10/israeli-forces-raid-several-palestinian-media-prod/ |access-date=2 December 2023 |work=Committee to Protect Journalists |date=2017-10-19}}</ref>
In July 2017, the Israeli military raided Palmedia's offices in Ramallah on suspicion of "incitement to terrorism."<ref name="JTA" /> Their offices throughout the West Bank were raided again in October 2017 because of their provision of production services to Hamas-affiliated media outlets Al-Quds, Al-Aqsa, and Palestine Today.<ref name="CPJ" />
=== Products ===
* Fixed telephony * Global System for Mobile * General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) * EDGE * SMS * MMS * ISP * Fiber-optic communication
== See also ==
* Jawwal
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == {{commons category}} * {{Official website|https://www.paltelgroup.ps/}}
{{Communications in Palestine}}
Category:Telecommunications companies of Palestine Category:Palestinian brands Category:1995 establishments in Palestine