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012 Mobile Adds 9 Shekel Plan – Answers iPad/Tablet Owners?

Orange’s low-cost brand 012 Mobile has added a new package to its arsenal – its first metered plan – priced at 9 shekel per month, with a modest amount of usage included. The overage fees are mild, comparatively, and this

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Buying a New Phone? Consider a Private Store

The Israeli Globes published an article today comparing the price of a new, carrier-“subsidized” phone with the price of the same phone bought at a typical cell phone store.  The results are shocking!  By buying the phone through your carrier, you may

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Low-Cost YouPhone Now Added to the Site

YouPhone’s plans are certainly on the cheap side, and offer added incentives to shoppers of Mega and Dor Alon in the form of further monthly discounts.  Now, they are the lowest-cost unlimited talk plan listed on this website, at 79 shekel

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012 Mobile Now Added to the Site

Although I initially intended to launch with just the five carriers, I had been preparing 012 Mobile’s spot on this site slowly on the side.  Today, that has reached its pinnacle, and I am happy to announce that information about

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Carrier Contact Information and Frequency Explanation Added

In light of user feedback, I’ve added basic contact information for each of the cell providers to their associated pages on this website.  I know that navigating some of these company’s websites can be a challenge in the best of

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Switch to HOT Mobile, Don’t Pay Until the Year’s End

HOT Mobile is running a deal for anyone wishing to switch carriers to one of their unlimited plans – those who switch now don’t pay until the end of the calendar year. More information is posted around their site, here (Hebrew).

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Registering for Golan Telecom without a Teudat Zehut (Israeli Identification Number)

Although foreigners can register for many services in Israel by using their passport numbers instead of Israeli identification number (teudat/mispar zehut), this does not seem to be the case with Golan Telecom.  This is something I’ve heard on the grapevine,

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Regarding Cell Phone Antenna Technologies

Not all cell phones are created equal!  I don’t just mean this with regards to the features that they have, and certainly not in the context of iPhone vs. Android.  Rather, the part of a cell phone which makes it

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Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to the launch of the Israel Cell Compare website! I started this website to help the English-speaking community in Israel find basic information about the many cell phone plans available.  This mostly came about as a need

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