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Partner Communications Announces It Received a Petition Concerning Billing Units


    Partner Communications Company Ltd. ("Partner")
    (Nasdaq:PTNR)(LSE:PCCD)(TASE:PTNR), a leading Israeli mobile
    communications operator, announced that it was served on Tuesday,
    December 4, 2007, with a petition, filed against the Minister of
    Communications, Pelephone Communications Ltd. (a cellular operator in
    Israel) and others, and against Partner and Cellcom Israel Ltd.
    (another cellular operator) as formal respondents, in the High Court
    of Justice in Jerusalem. The petition requests that the High Court of
    Justice shall order the Ministry of Communications to determine that
    the amendment to the licenses of all cellular operators in Israel
    (entered into force on 3 September 2007), regarding the requirement of
    the cellular operators to only offer tariff plans based on the basic
    billing unit (12 seconds) rather than any other billing unit, shall be
    applied retroactively, or alternatively, the petitioner requests that
    subscribers with existing tariff plans based on non-basic billing
    units, be able to move to a tariff plan based on the basic billing
    unit with no charge imposed.

    At this preliminary stage, Partner is considering the merits of
    the petition and is unable to assess the extent of the validity and
    the merits of this petition.

    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 2.796
    million subscribers in Israel (as of September 30, 2007). Partner´s
    ADSs are quoted on the NASDAQ Global Select Market(TM) and the London
    Stock Exchange. Its shares are also traded on the Tel Aviv Stock
    Exchange (Nasdaq:PTNR) (LSE:PCCD) (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
    www.orange.co.il/investor_site/.