The Marathon group's Xphone company received a license on Thursday for the provision of cellular services, using the prefix 018.

The Company is the sixth company with cellular infrastructure after Pelephone, Cellcom, Partner, Hot Mobile and Golan Telecom. The network that will be used by the company is shared by two additional companies (Cellcom and Golan Telecom), within the framework of CMG, which was established for this purpose.