Netanya, Israel–
October
9,
2007
While
the Company has not issued any
report concerning the development set forth below, the Company’s controlling
shareholder will provide an immediate report about this development under
its
Israeli reporting requirements and, consequently, the Company is filing
this
Form 6-K.
A
purported class action lawsuit filed against the Company, two other cellular
operators and two landline operators in the District Court of Tel-Aviv-Jaffa,
in
November 2006, in connection with sums allegedly unlawfully charged for
a
segment of a call that was not actually carried out, was withdrawn by the
plaintiffs with regards to the Company and the other two cellular operators,
following a procedural agreement reached between the plaintiffs in the
above
lawsuit and the plaintiffs in another, similar pending purported class
action
which was filed against the Company and two other cellular operators in
August
2006.
Had
the
withdrawn lawsuit been certified as a class action, the amount claimed
from the
Company and each of the other cellular operators by the plaintiffs would
have
been approximately NIS 53 million (the amount claimed from all five defendants
was estimated by the plaintiffs to be approximately NIS 159
million).
About
Cellcom Israel
Cellcom
Israel Ltd., established in 1994, is the leading Israeli cellular provider;
Cellcom Israel provides its 2,960 million subscribers (as at June 2007)
with a
broad range of value added services including cellular and landline telephony,
roaming services for tourists in Israel and for its subscribers abroad
and
additional services in the areas of music, video, mobile office etc., based
on
Cellcom Israel's technologically advanced infrastructure. The Company operates
an HSDPA 3.5 Generation network enabling the fastest high speed content
transmission available in the world, in addition to GSM/GPRS/EDGE and TDMA
networks. Cellcom Israel offers Israel's broadest and largest customer
service
infrastructure including telephone customer service centers, retail stores,
and
service and sale centers, distributed nationwide. Through its broad customer
service network Cellcom Israel offers its customers technical support,
account
information, direct to the door parcel services, internet and fax services,
dedicated centers for the hearing impaired, etc. In April 2006 Cellcom
Israel,
through Cellcom Fixed Line Communications L.P., a limited partnership
wholly-owned by Cellcom Israel, became the first cellular operator to be
granted
a special general license for the provision of landline telephone communication
services in Israel, in addition to data communication services. Cellcom
Israel's
shares are traded both on the New York Stock Exchange (CEL) and the Tel
Aviv
Stock Exchange (CEL).
For
additional information please visit the Company's website
http://investors.ircellcom.co.il