Yota - the first mobile WiMAX network in Russia

Ltd. "Skartel" announces the launch of a test operation of a network of mobile broadband access for Mobile WiMAX technology under the brand Yota. Network now provides coverage within the Garden Ring in Moscow and Petrograd Vasileostrovskogo areas of St. Petersburg, as well as the fragmentary coverage in several other areas of the two capitals. By the end of 2008 the company plans to ensure full coverage of these cities and some adjacent areas in the region in the direction of the main radial.

The company "Skartel" installed 150 base stations in Moscow and 80 in St. Petersburg, working in the range of 2.5 - 2.7 GHz. In total, the project of establishing the first Mobile WiMAX network in Russia until the end of 2008 in both capitals will be installed 1000 stations, each of which will be connected to the company's own transport network at a speed not lower than 200 MB / sec. All this allows data transmission rate to one user device up to 10 MB / sec. Investment in infrastructure and equipment brought from the fund Telconet Capital Limited Partnership; a total of the draft invested $ 300 million, now mastered more than $ 200 million

The contract to supply equipment for the construction of a network concluded with one of the world's leading manufacturers of telecommunications systems - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. "It seems that we already live in the future: what still seemed fiction yesterday, today you can see with your own eyes in Russia. In the two capitals began work full network of mobile WiMAX - Yota, network generation 4G ". To date, Yota - not only the largest in Russia, but also one of the world's largest networks Mobile WiMAX ", - commented Dr. Hyun Song, vice-president of Samsung Electronics.

At the time of launch the network on the market will be presented three types of user devices from Yota: USB-modems Samsung and ASUS, Express card ASUS and multi mobile WiMAX Wi-Fi center ASUS, which, in addition to WiMAX is a point of access Wi-Fi, as well as the ability wired Ethernet connectivity devices and two conventional telephone or fax machines. In USB-modems and Express card embedded software Yota Access, necessary to connect to the network. The devices for sale in retail trade network in November this year.