Bezeq

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Image:Bezeq logo.png Bezeq (בזק) is Israel's national telecommunications provider, and had a monopoly on wire based telephony. Though still the most dominant provider of telephone services, it has competition with the sole cable provider in the country, called HOT, which offers a cables based telephone service as of 2005 and with Kavei Zahav - 012, which is an Israeli Internet service provider. On May 9, 2005 Bezeq was officially privatized, after 30% of its shares were sold by the state to the Saban-Apax Investment group for $972 Million. [1] The wireless telephone market in Israel is divided among four other companies: