Partner Communications Announces It Received a Lawsuit Requesting Certification as a Class Action

Partner Communications Company Ltd. ("Partner") (Nasdaq and TASE:
PTNR; LSE: PCCD), a leading Israeli mobile communications operator,
announced that it was served on Thursday, September 20, 2007, with a
lawsuit requesting certification as a class action, filed against
Partner and against two other cellular operators in Israel (the
"Defendants"), in the District Court of Jerusalem, by plaintiffs
claiming to be subscribers of the Defendants. The claim alleges that
the Defendants charged consumers unlawfully, for SMS messages sent to
handsets which cannot receive such messages. Furthermore, the claim
alleges that the Defendants misled consumers who sent such messages,
as those consumers received an alert notifying that those messages
were sent.

If the lawsuit is certified as a class action, the total amount
claimed from the Defendants is estimated by the plaintiffs to be
approximately NIS 182 million (for all Defendants together).

Partner will contest this lawsuit vigorously. At this preliminary
stage, Partner is considering the merits of the claim and is unable to
assess the extent of the validity of the claim against it.

About Partner Communications

Partner Communications Company Ltd. ("Partner") is a leading
Israeli mobile communications operator providing GSM / GPRS / UMTS /
HSDPA services and wire free applications under the orange(TM) brand.
The Company provides quality service and a range of features to 2.733
million subscribers in Israel (as of June 30, 2007). Partner's ADSs
are quoted on the NASDAQ Global Select Market(TM) (NASDAQ: PTNR) and
the London Stock Exchange (LSE: PCCD). Its shares are also traded on
the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE: PTNR).

Partner is a subsidiary of Hutchison Telecommunications
International Limited ("Hutchison Telecom"), a leading global provider
of telecommunications services. Hutchison Telecom currently offers
mobile and fixed line telecommunications services in Hong Kong, and
operates mobile telecommunications services in Israel, Macau,
Thailand, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Vietnam and Indonesia. It was the first
provider of 3G mobile services in Hong Kong and Israel and operates
brands including "Hutch", "3" and "orange". Hutchison Telecom, a
subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa Limited, is a listed company with
American Depositary Shares quoted on the New York Stock Exchange under
the ticker "HTX" and shares listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong
under the stock code "2332". For more information about Hutchison
Telecom, see www.htil.com.

For more information about Partner, see
http://www.orange.co.il/investor_site/