Action Cellular Rent A Phone Expands to Israel Amid Changes in Gulf Tensions

(San Francisco, CA, February 23, 1998) Action Cellular Rent A Phone is pleased to announce that it now provides cellular and satellite phone rentals in Israel and throughout the Middle East. According to Action President, Lee Dorfman, "the company expedited its plans to offer Israeli and Middle East cellular service due to the frequent changes in the Persian Gulf resulting from the Iraqi weapons inspection on-again off-again stalemate".

News crews and peace negotiators traveling to the Middle East are now able to secure either a cellular or satellite telephone on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Action Cellular's Israel offices as well as its US offices stock phones for several different countries, since the wireless systems around the world are based on different technologies. The company can deliver phones to its customers prior to departure or alternatively, phones can be delivered in the destination country. Action Cellular services in excess of 200 countries worldwide.

According to Dorfman, "more and more reporters and government officials are renting a telephone when traveling overseas". Over the last 9 years, Action or one of its international partners has rented telephones to the governments of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Egypt, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom and the United States.

Action has provided telephone rentals to Al Gore, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bill Clinton, Diane Feinstein, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, Lech Walesa, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela, Oscar Arias, the Royal Marines, the Royal Saudi Family, the Sultan of Brunei, the U. S. Navy and the Pentagon.

Action has also provided phone rentals for the United Nation's 50th anniversary celebration in San Francisco, while Action's French office provided phones for the 50th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy. Action also expects to provide phones for Israel's 50th birthday celebration.

Action Cellular also works with major corporations, airlines, travel agents and tour groups to promote its rental phones around the world. For more information, contact Lee Dorfman at (415) 929-0400 or 1-800-RENT-PHONE or write to lee@rentaphone.com. Action Cellular can be found online at http://www.rentaphone.com.

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