Yota

Yota (Russian Йота ) is a Russian Internet service provider, the unlimited mobile broadband Internet access allows. In June 2009, Yota was the first provider a the 4G technology of WiMAX, and in September 2010, the faster LTE Long Term Evolution technology in Russia.

Brand name, logo and ownership

The brand name Yota refers to the Greek letter iota for internet. The logo shows a person doing a handstand and is meant to symbolize that Yota considered familiar things from a different angle.

Yota is a trademark of the Russian company Scartel, its executive director since 2008 Sergei Adonjew. The company's headquarters is located in Saint Petersburg.

History

In June 2009, Yota came as the new provider for mobile broadband internet access to the Russian market. Since there which landline structure is still much worse than in other countries have mobile connections in Russia a special meaning. For a flat rate of 1400 rubles (about 35 euros ) per month Yota offers without any data constraint a mobile broadband Internet access (the current ADSL tariffs in Russia are at 300 to 1200 rubles).

Therefore Yota reached with its fast and cheap 4G network (WiMAX) in November 2009 more than 250,000 customers and achieved in the first fiscal half-year operating income of $ 6 million. End of June 2010 was one Yota 600,000 customers in the five major Russian cities Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ufa, Krasnodar and Sochi. The profit of the company in the first half of 2010 amounted to 66 million dollars.

In May 2010, Yota was but - after investments of about $ 500 million - surprisingly its withdrawal from the WiMAX technology known.

In Kazan an even faster mobile LTE network for a million people was set up in just two months, with 20 million U.S. dollars. By the end of 2010, Yota in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ufa, Krasnodar and Sochi wanted to invest a further 100 million U.S. dollars in the new LTE network. However, it was announced in summer 2010 that the Russian regulatory authority had withdrawn the company a license to use certain frequencies for LTE. This was based on a violation of the law, as the existing license only allowed the use of WiMAX, but not LTE.

Yota had offices in late 2010 with a total of around 1,200 employees in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Managua ( Nicaragua) and London. In the centers of the Belarusian cities Minsk and Grodno an LTE network has been established as of December 1, which is also planned for the cities of Mogilev, Brest and Gomel. The same is also planned for Peru, where the subsidiary Yota Del Peru has owned the nation's only license for mobile Internet access via 22 Mhz for the whole country and 78 Mhz for the region Lima.

Services

Yota offers in addition to the actual internet access various mobile services such as mobile Internet Protocol Television, Video -on- Demand ( in Russia the exclusive movies from Universal and Disney Studios ), an online music store with a catalog of over 700,000 titles, a photo blog portal.