Palestinians get new cell phone network

While Palestinians and Israelis are moving ahead with peace talks, Israel will allow the Palestinians to set up a new cell phone network to meet growing demand.

Israel controls all frequencies for cell phones in the West Bank and Gaza, and ever since violence erupted between the sides in 2000, Israel’s defense ministry has turned down repeated Palestinian requests to establish a second network.

At the moment, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have only one cell phone network, which has operated since the 1990s.

[Via: Associated Press]