Data compression will greatly increase the throughput of the Palestinian cross-traffic, and will prevent it from interfering with the Internet traffic. This will also give Paltel the edge over Israeli ISPs. Traffic generated on the proxy server is pure profit. The larger the number of users the more developed and advanced Internet usage becomes, the greater the demand on the bandwidth will become. The larger the number of users, the larger the Palestinian cross traffic becomes, the higher the profit margins.
Cross traffic is traffic generated between local nodes.
Clients are charged Internet rates for this local traffic. A large user base would provide PalTel with the opportunity to introduce new and more advanced data communications services. It is faced with the cof developing the infrastructure and providing the Internet services to the Palestinian population at prices that compete with those provided with a well-developed Israeli Internet market. With the monopoly rights over data communications in PA areas, PalTel does have a great opportunity of meeting these challenges and developing an advanced Internet environment for the Palestinian community.