Paltel Group
Key Personnel
Abdul Majeed Melehem General Manager
Appointed in 2010 Abdul Majeed ’ s vision was to position Paltel as the leader of technological development in Palestine , by investing in stateof-the art network infrastructure . Mr . Melhem has more than sixteen years of professional experience in the telecommunications sector , where he occupied several managerial positions before joining the Paltel family . Prior to that , Mr . Melhem was the Sales Director at Jawwal Company .
Outside of Palestine , the company is intent on careful yet not insignificant expansion into neighboring territories after seeing promising signs from small-scale operations in Iraq and Jordan .
Stepping up The company began operations in 1997 and provides state of the art services to the Palestinian end user , including local and international fixed telephony services , internet , data communications , mobile services and next generation services .
Its revenue growth is reflective of achievements operationally . For example , it has doubled fixed broadband speeds for the past few years and is on course to deliver 3.7 megabits a second , seven times the 0.5 speed once common across Palestine .
“ We now have 2.6 million mobile customers and 400,000 landline customers , and want our customers to get used to using higher speed services ,” Aker added . “ We also want to take our offerings to outside users .”
Paltel ’ s achievements have come despite tough challenges presented by political restrictions on business , the most significant being the absence of available 3G and equipment import / export limitations .
“ Data is the future and we are only allowed to use data for our fixed network which limits our growth potential ,” Aker said . “ The West Bank is a
94 August 2014