Yota () is a Russian

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. Formerly, Yota was a Russian mobile phone brand and

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manufacturer. Yota was a

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of Skartel LLC. Yota later suffered bankruptcy due to a lawsuit. Garsdale Services Investment Ltd. owned 100% of Yota's shares and 50% of MegaFon's shares. In turn, Garsdale is controlled by AF-Telecom (82%), Telconet Capital (13.5%), and the Russian Technologies State Corporation (4.5%).

History

In 2006, the co-owners of the St. Petersburg company Korus, Denis Sverdlov, and Bulgarian businessman Sergey Adonev established a provider of

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. In 2008, Skartel was the first company in Russia to deploy

standard networks in

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and

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in a range of 2.5–2.7 GHz. In 2010, Yota announced its plans to launch LTE on its network. The first test of the new standard network took place in

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on 30 August 2010. The

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gained access to the Internet at a rate of 20–30 Mbit/s. About 150 base stations have been installed in Kazan. The

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s into the LTE network deployment constituted $20 million. The fourth generation

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network, which was tested by the Yota provider in Kazan, was switched off the next day. On May 9, 2012, Yota's

was replaced by its

network. In September 2012, 4G networks were launched in the Russian cities of

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, Ufa,

, Moscow, and Saint Petersburg. In April 2019, Yota filed for bankruptcy. The bankruptcy stemmed from a lawsuit filed against the company by its contracted manufacturer, Hi-P Singapore.

Long-term evolution

Officially,

was the first Russian city where the

network was deployed, commercially launched on 22 December 2011. Then, it was adopted in Krasnodar (29 April 2012), Moscow (10 May 2012), and Sochi (11 May 2012).

was connected to LTE on 23 May 2013. And later on, Ufa and Saint Petersburg have also joined this service. LTE networks work within a range of 2.5–2.7 GHz, which is one of the ranges accepted as standard by the

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. In Russia, these frequencies have also been selected by the Ministry of Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation for the 4th generation networks. AF-Telecom (

Megafon MegaFon () is the second largest mobile phone operator"МегаФон" б ...

) and Skartel concluded the contract on joint development of networks for the fourth generation LTE mobile communications in Russia based on a business model of the

(MVNO). On 10 July 2012, Megafon and Skartel shareholders declared the end of the transaction.

Yota Devices

In July 2011, Yota presented a new family of devices compatible with Yota's 4G

network. The devices had names like "Yota One" and "Yota Many". Unlike previous models, they were designed by the company itself. Shaped like a "plain box", Yota Many is a portable

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hotspot device that is smaller than its predecessor. Yota's primary device, the Modem Yota, operates on Yota's 4G LTE network and looks like a slightly larger and thicker version of the Yota One. On 12 December 2012, Yota Devices announced the first "YotaPhone"

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, a double-display

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. It has a 4.3-inch, HD

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display on the front and an

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display on the back. The prototype runs version 4.2 of the Android

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. Yota Devices released more information at the

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in February 2013. YOTAPHONE II

References

External links

YotaPhone 2 official website
(offline)

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History

Long-term evolution

Yota Devices

See also

References

External links