Internet in Israel

ADSL has been available in Israel since the late 1990s in theory, but it only became practical to an average residential customer in 2001. Since then prices have dropped considerably.

In Israel, every ADSL or cable modem user has to pay separately to the infrastructure provider and to the ISP (unbundled package).

The typical connection speed has remained at 1.5 Mbit/s (with 150 kbit/s upstream) for the bulk of 2005 and 2006. Connections of over 2 Mbit/s (with a 250 kbit/s upload speed) have only been introduced in the summer of 2005 to the mainstream. Maximum speeds via ADSL currently reside at 8 Mbit/s Down / 800 kbit/s up (as of Dec 2007), while on Cable they are 10 Mbit/s Down and 1 Mbit/s up.
The only company that is currently providing ADSL services is Bezeq, a recently-privatized company, which competes against HOT, the only Israeli cable company, that provides TV, Internet infrastructure and VoIP services. All ADSL service require and use the PPPoE or PPPoA protocol's (mostly PPPoE), and all cable modem connections operate over the PPTP/L2TP protocol.

ADSL & Cable modem connection speeds available:

Additional Notes
1. 150Kbit/s for ADSL customers, 128/256/512 Kbit/s for Cable customers

Gateways
* [http://www.bezeq.co.il/ Bezeq] - national telecommunications provider (ADSL)
* [http://www.hot.net.il/ HOT] - Israeli cable company (Cable)
* all mobile companies; Cellcom, Mirs, Orange, Pelephone.

ISPs
* [http://www.bezeqint.net/ Bezeq International]
* [http://www.smile.net.il/ Smile 012 Tikshoret]
* [http://www.netvision.net.il/ NetVision 013 Barak]
* [http://www.neto.net.il Internet Rimon]
* [http://www.israsrv.net.il/ israsrv]
* [http://www.qos.net.il/ qos]
* [http://www.a2z.net.il/ a2z]
* [http://www.urbis.net.il/ urbis]
* [http://www.interal.co.il/ interal]
* [http://www.kinneret.co.il/ kinneret]