Communications in the State of Palestine occur across many media, including telephone, radio, television, and internet. The telecom infrastructure is growing at a very rapid pace and continually being updated and expanded.
Telephone
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Country calling code
Country calling codes or country dial-in codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching telephone subscribers in the networks of the member countries or regions of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The codes are defined by the ...
: +970 or +972
There is one fixed line company -
Paltel
Palestine Telecommunications (Paltel) Company ( ar, الاتصالات الفلسطينية شركة), listed in the Palestine Exchange (PEX) as PALTEL, is the largest employer (after the government) in Palestine, employing almost 3,000 people. P ...
- with 363,000 customers
Mobile
There are 2 mobile operators in the Palestinian territories:
Jawwal with two million customers, and
Ooredoo with 400,000 customers.
Radio
There are 25 licensed FM stations broadcasting in the Palestinian territories.
FM Stations
*Ajyal - www.radioajyal.com
*Raya - www.raya.fm
*Sama - www.sama-fm.com
*AlSharq - www.alsharq.ps
On October 1, 1999, the International Telecommunication Union assigned the call block E4A through E4Z to Palestine. Aircraft tail numbers, amateur radio stations, vessels at sea and other radio facilities licensed by the Palestinian Authority will carry call signs beginning with "E4."
Internet
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Country code top-level domain (ccTLD): .PS
* Internet users:: More than 230,000 Paltel ADSL customers by the end of Q3 2014
Censorship
In 2008 opennet stated "Access to Internet in the Palestinian territories remains relatively open, although social filtering of sexually explicit content has been implemented in Gaza. Internet in the West Bank remains almost entirely unfiltered, save for a single news Web site that was banned for roughly six months starting in late 2008. Media freedom is constrained in Gaza and the West Bank by the political upheaval and internal conflict as well as by the Israeli forces."
On 23 April 2012
EFF
EFF or eff may refer to:
Politics
* Economic Freedom Fighters, a South African communist political party
* Economic Freedom Fund, an American political organization
* Election Fighting Fund, a British suffragist organization supporting the ear ...
published a list of websites censored by some Palestinian ISPs.
On 23 April 2012 the
Tor Project announced that they are witnessing politically motivated censorship in
Bethlehem.
In May 2012, the Ma'an news agency stated "The Palestinian Authority has quietly instructed Internet providers to block access to news websites whose reporting is critical of President Mahmoud Abbas."
Mail
Palestine Post
Palestine Post ( ar, البريد الفلسطيني) is the company responsible for postal service in the State of Palestine.
See also
* Postage stamps and postal history of the Palestinian National Authority
* Postage stamps and postal history ...
is responsible for providing postal service in
West Bank, while the
is responsible for postal service in the
Gaza Strip
The Gaza Strip (;The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p.761 "Gaza Strip /'gɑːzə/ a strip of territory under the control of the Palestinian National Authority and Hamas, on the SE Mediterranean coast including the town of Gaza.. ...
. Generally, international letters addressed to West Bank are routed through both Jordan and Israel and the international letters addressed to
Gaza
Gaza may refer to:
Places Palestine
* Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea
** Gaza City, a city in the Gaza Strip
** Gaza Governorate, a governorate in the Gaza Strip Lebanon
* Ghazzeh, a village in ...
are routed through only Israel. Delays often happen during sending and receiving letters from Palestine. Without these two national postal authorities, no international courier service would be serving the areas.
Newspapers
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List of newspapers in Palestine
References
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See also
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Palestinian territories
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