East Jerusalem - Post Report Question and Answers
Do you have any recommendations regarding mobile phones? Did you keep your home-country plan or use a local provider?
I have used both Israeli and Palestinian cellphones, and found it is best to get an Israeli phone. Israeli (Orange) is good but you don't get good reception in parts of the West Bank or Gaza. Palestinian (Jawwal) will roam to Orange so you can get service anywhere, but it is such a pain to pay the bills because you have to go in person through checkpoints to Ramallah, and cannot simply give them your credit card on the phone. It is simply too difficult and inconvenient. - May 2006
