Unassociated Document
FORM
6-K
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Report
of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant
to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of
the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For July
3, 2008
Commission
File Number: 001-33271
CELLCOM
ISRAEL LTD.
10
Hagavish Street
Netanya,
Israel 42140
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(Address
of principal executive offices)
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Applicable
CELLCOM ISRAEL ANNOUNCES
DISMISSAL OF A PURPORTED
CLASS
ACTION FILED AGAINST THE
COMPANY
NETANYA,
Israel, July 3, 2008 – Cellcom Israel Ltd. (NYSE: CEL) (the “Company”) announced
today that a purported class action lawsuit filed in the District Court of
Jerusalem against the Company and two other cellular operators, in September
2007, was dismissed without prejudice on July 2, 2008, following an agreed upon
request of the plaintiffs to withdraw their claim. The plaintiffs claimed that
the defendants charged their subscribers for SMS messages sent by them to
subscribers who chose to disable receipt of SMS messages and/or mislead the
senders by an indication on their cell phones that such messages were
sent.
Had the
dismissed lawsuit been certified as a class action, the total amount claimed
from all three defendants was estimated by the plaintiffs to be approximately
NIS 182,500,000, without specifying the amount claimed from the Company. The
defendants agreed, for service oriented considerations, not to charge, to
provide an indication of failure and to refund their customers for such SMS
messages (amounting to negligible sums).
For
additional details see note 16(A)(22) to our Financial Statement included in our
Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2007.
About Cellcom
Israel
Cellcom
Israel Ltd., established in 1994, is the leading Israeli cellular provider;
Cellcom Israel provides its 3.096 million subscribers (as at March 31, 2008)
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 HSPA 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
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Company
Contact
Shiri
Israeli
Investor
Relations Coordinator
investors@cellcom.co.il
Tel:
+972 52 998 9755
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Investor Relations
Contact
Ehud
Helft / Ed Job
CCGK
Investor Relations
ehud@gkir.com
/ ed.job@ccgir.com
Tel:
(US) 1 866 704 6710 / 1 646 213
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Signatures
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized.
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CELLCOM
ISRAEL LTD.
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Date:
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July
3, 2008
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By:
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/s/ Liat
Menahemi Stadler
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Name:
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Liat
Menahemi Stadler
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