Rami Levy Communications () is a
mobile virtual network operator
A mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) is a wireless communications services provider that does not own the wireless network infrastructure over which it provides services to its customers. An MVNO enters into a business agreement with a mobil ...
in
Israel
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, using the network from
Pelephone
Pelephone (, , lit. "miracle phone") is a mobile network operator in Israel, and also the first company to offer mobile telephony services in Israel. Due to this, the brand-name "Pelephone" became the genericized trademark
A generic tradema ...
. Founded in 2011, it is owned by
Rami Levy Hashikma Marketing
Rami Levy Hashikma Marketing (, Rami Levy Shivuk Hashikma) is the third largest Israeli retail supermarket chain, behind Shufersal Ltd. and Alon Blue Square, Alon Holding–Blue Square Ltd., with annual revenues of Israeli new shekel, NIS 1.1 ...
. The
prefix
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Prefixes, like other affixes, can b ...
assigned to Rami Levy Communications is 0556.
History
In September 2010, Rami Levy became the fourth company in Israel to receive a
mobile virtual network operator
A mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) is a wireless communications services provider that does not own the wireless network infrastructure over which it provides services to its customers. An MVNO enters into a business agreement with a mobil ...
license from the
Israel Ministry of Communications. The company previously announced in a 2010 statement to the
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
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that upon receiving this license, it would open a new subsidiary, Rami Levy Hashikma Marketing Communications Ltd., and sell advanced mobile telephone services in its supermarkets.
In February 2011 Rami Levy signed an agreement with the mobile network provider Pelephone, allowing the supermarket chain to use Pelephone's infrastructure to provide cellular phone services. In December 2011 Rami Levy Communications went live with the opening of two branches in
Jerusalem
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. Rami Levy Communications is the first MVNO to buy blocks of minutes from other cellular companies and resell them to consumers for less than the providing company charges.
In 2021 the company was convicted of misuse of databases and was fined 600,000 ILS. Senior employees of the company were convicted of additional offenses.
See also
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Economy of Israel
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References
{{Israeli mobile phone companies
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