Partner signed an agreement with the fiber infrastructure company IBC that will allow it to sell the high-speed Internet

Partner is gearing up in the fiber market: The communications company has signed an agreement with the fiber infrastructure company IBC that will allow it to sell the high-speed Internet service - through the wholesale market. Partner is the first company in Israel to start deploying fiber optics and also connect homes to this infrastructure, and today 700,000 households have access to the fiber optics it has deployed - of which 200,000 are paying subscribers. The agreement with IBC will allow the partner to expand its number of customers even in areas where infrastructure has not yet been deployed.
For Partner, the agreement with IBC is more lucrative: the cost of selling ultra-fast Internet through the company costs NIS 75 (excluding VAT) for up to 1 GB, while the cost of a customer at Bezeq costs NIS 79 (excluding VAT). In addition, IBC gives 10% discount to access providers on all subscribers they have as soon as they accumulate more than 15,000 subscriptions - meaning the customer costs NIS 67.5.
The IBC fiber project today has access to 700,000 households. In the past year, competition in the field of fiber optics has skyrocketed with the entry of the two largest communications companies in Israel - Bezeq and HOT - into the field. Bezeq, which has already distributed fibers in most of Israel, but has not lit them (connected apartments and houses) - began to do so only in March, after receiving regulatory relief, including waiving the national retirement obligation. About a year ago, former communications minister Bnei Gantz approved the HOT merger deal with IBC. The company now owns HOT, Cellcom, Keren Tashi and the Electric Company.
The approval of the transaction was conditional on IBC undertaking to lower barriers to entry for the use of its network for small companies; And expand its ultra-internet network to
While the Bezeq Group and the IBC Group are subject to retirement obligations, no such obligation applies to Partner. Partner began to retire fiber already in 2017 and has already gained 200,000 new subscribers and to gain more customers the wholesale market allows it to expand the number of customers and compete with the big companies. 1.7 million households in the next five years, with an emphasis on equal retirement in the periphery.