From 6 November Belarussian mobile operator Velcom will be offering GPRS-roaming over Israel’s Cellcom network. The connection is granted automatically to subscribers with International roaming or SMS-roaming and also GPRS and / or MMS. Velcom now offers GPRS-roaming on 90 networks in 48 countries.
Cellcom is the largest mobile operator by subscriber numbers in Israel with some 3.2 million subscribers in 3Q 2008. It competes with Orange and Pelephone with 2.9 and 2.7 million subscribers respectively. In 4th place is MIRS with an estimated subscriber base of around 400,000:
African subscriber figures courtesy of Africa & Middle East Telecoms-Week, another publication from Blycroft.