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Partner Profits Rise Over 3G Customer Growth
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Partner Communications, Israel's second-ranked mobile operator, has finally found success from its 3G service offering after struggling to grow its NGN user base as a proportion of its subscriber mix. Latest figures for Q306 reveal that it had 219,000 3G users (or 8.3% of the total), against 165,000 3G users (or 6.4% of the total) over the year. Although this still remains on the low side, it is encouraging for the operator, and has led to an almost six-fold y-o-y rise in net profits to ILS184.7mn. The operator's ability to garner interest in the market for its 3G services has