Sources inform “Globes” that Tevel Telecom general manager Betzalel Kenigsztein is leaving his position to become a senior executive at UPC Netherlands.
Kenigsztein confirmed the report, and added that he had received “an offer I can’t refuse.” He said he would become VP engineering at UP Netherlands, a company with 2.5 million television subscribers, 300,000 Internet subscribers, and 360,000 telephone subscribers.
Kenigsztein explained, “After 15 years at Tevel Telecom, I’m sorry to be leaving at a time when the company is beginning to make rapid progress. We only recently began cable telephony testing.”
Kenigsztein was appointed only a year ago CEO of Tevel Telecom, the telecommunications concern of the cable TV companies, after the highly publicized resignation of Nissim Alfia.
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Published by Globes [online] - www.globes.co.il - on September 10, 2003