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'''Yota''' ({{lang-ru|Йота}}) is trademark of companies of '''WIMAX Holding Ltd''' in [[Russia]], [[Belarus]] and [[Nicaragua]] <ref>http://www.yota.ru/ru/news/details/?ID=125262</ref>. '''Scartel''' ({{lang-ru|Скартел}}) is a [[Russia]]n [[service provider]] <ref>http://www.yota.ru/en/news/details/?ID=310</ref> (TV, music and video) via own wireless network. It was the first Russian [[ISP]] to launch high-speed wireless network based on [[Mobile WiMAX]] <ref>http://www.yota.ru/en/info/main/</ref>. The network operates under the standard [[IEEE 802.16e]]-2005 with very high frequency 2.5-2.7&nbsp;GHz <ref>http://www.yota.ru/en/info/main/</ref>.
'''Yota''' ({{lang-ru|Йота}}) is the trademark of a Russian multinational telecommunications services provider (high speed [[mobile broadband]], video, phone, TV, music, apps) <ref>http://www.yota.ru/en/services/main/</ref>. Yota currently operates in [[Russia]], [[Belarus]] and [[Nicaragua]] <ref>http://www.yota.ru/en/news/details/?ID=152337</ref> and will launch in Peru very soon <ref>http://www.yota.ru/en/news/details/?ID=177309</ref>.

[[File:SamsungSWC-U200b.jpg|thumb|left|[[Samsung SWC-U200]] modem, which was given free to testers of Yota network in [[Saint Petersburg]] in 2008]]
[[File:SamsungSWC-U200b.jpg|thumb|left|[[Samsung SWC-U200]] modem, which was given free to testers of Yota network in [[Saint Petersburg]] in 2008]]


Revision as of 11:16, 25 April 2010

WIMAX Holding Ltd.
Company typeLtd
IndustryTelecommunications, Consumer electronics,
Digital distribution
Founded2007 (SLL Scartel)[1]
2008 (ИОО «Yota Бел»)[2]
Area served
Russia Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ufa, Sochi, Krasnodar
Belarus Grodno (planned)
Nicaragua Managua (in test operations [3])
Peru (planned)
Ryazan, Naberezhnye Chelny, Samara, Tolyatti, Novosibirsk, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Ekaterinburg, Perm, Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Novgorod (planned in 2010) [4]
Key people
Denis Sverdlov
(Russia SLL Scartel), Serguei Adoniev
OwnerTelconet Capital Limited Partnership (74,9 %)
Russian Technologies State Corporation (25,1 %, since 2008 [5])
Number of employees
12,000
SubsidiariesRussia SLL Scartel (Синамакс and Макмис owned by Scartel [6])
Scartel Starlab [7]
More [8]
Belarus ИОО «Yota Бел» (100%[9])
Nicaragua Yota de Nicaragua (75%[10])
Websiteyota.ru


Yota (Russian: Йота) is the trademark of a Russian multinational telecommunications services provider (high speed mobile broadband, video, phone, TV, music, apps) [11]. Yota currently operates in Russia, Belarus and Nicaragua [12] and will launch in Peru very soon [13].

Samsung SWC-U200 modem, which was given free to testers of Yota network in Saint Petersburg in 2008

Yota is the largest WiMAX network in the world [14].

Coverage

Yota Egg (pictured) looks like Wibro Egg
Box with Samsung SWC-U200 modem, which was given free to testers of Yota network in Saint Petersburg in 2008

As of fall 2009 there are operational networks in Moscow (WiMAX 2.3 GHz, 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz. Outdoor UMTS-2100 is not allowed in Moscow), St. Petersburg and partly in Moscow Oblast and Leningrad Oblast, in free public testing in Ufa, Sochi and Krasnodar. The network is being constructed in Samara. It is planned that by fall 2012 at least in 180 cities with population over 100 000 people (Moscow Oblast, Leningrad Oblast, Kazan, Serpukhov etc) the network will be operational.[15]

Network and services

Various types of devices provide connection to Yota network. Among them are modems, notebooks, routers and HTC MAX 4G (the world’s first GSM+Mobile WiMAX phone). Yota offers unique mobile services, using the possibilities of fast wireless internet access: mobile IPTV, video-on-demand, online music catalogue listing hundreds of thousands of tracks by world leading lables, photoblogging portal and lots of others.[16]

Censorship attempt

Further information: Freedom of the press in Russia

From 3 to 9 December 2009, several websites, such as kasparov.ru, nazbol.ru, rusolidarnost.ru, rufront.ru, newtimes.ru, kavkazcenter.com, kremlin.ru became unavailable for some users of Yota WiMAX in Moscow, Russia. Some of them suggested it as an attempt to censor websites of political opposition in Russia.

CEO of Scartel LLC. Denis Sverdlov commented to a Russian newspaper Vedomosti, that in November 5, operator got a precaution from the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg with a recommendation to deny access to extremist sites. In the same time, as Vedomosti noted, the only website listed as extremist resource by the Russian Ministry of Justice is kavkazcenter.ru. Experts, questioned by Vedomosti, suggested that the Skartel company attempted to compose their own list of extremist resources. But the press service of the company rejected such suggestions and claimed that the company blocks only access to extremist resources, recognized as such by Ministry of Justice. The inability to access other sites was explained by the provider with technological reasons: only newer Yota users which obtained recently registered IP addresses with mask 109.188.0.0/16 experienced problems accessing some websites, because these IP addresses were still being filtered by some hosting providers.

By the December 9th Yota restored access to all these sites except kavkazcenter.com, which is still unavailable due to legitimate reasons.[17]

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Scartel.

References

  1. ^ http://yota.ru/en/news/details/?ID=310
  2. ^ http://www.yota.ru/ru/news/details/?ID=88522
  3. ^ http://cnews.ru/news/top/index.shtml?2009/12/15/373484
  4. ^ http://cnews.ru/news/top/index.shtml?2009/12/15/373484
  5. ^ http://yota.ru/en/news/details/?ID=855
  6. ^ http://www.kommersant.ru/doc-rss.aspx?DocsID=1023945
  7. ^ http://www.yota.ru/en/news/details/?ID=310
  8. ^ http://www.yota.ru/en/news/details/?ID=310
  9. ^ http://www.wimax.com/commentary/blog/blog-2009/october-2009/multiplying-yotas-1023
  10. ^ http://www.yota.ru/ru/news/details/?ID=125262
  11. ^ http://www.yota.ru/en/services/main/
  12. ^ http://www.yota.ru/en/news/details/?ID=152337
  13. ^ http://www.yota.ru/en/news/details/?ID=177309
  14. ^ Maravedis, 4Q 2009, http://www.unova.ru/article/2631, http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1310343
  15. ^ http://echo.msk.ru/programs/tochka/621263-echo/
  16. ^ http://news.c4it.tw/archives/7180 (CC-BY 3.0)
  17. ^ Yota blocked access to Russian opposition resources for several days, by Lenta.Ru, December 7 (in Russian)
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