Yota

WiMAX Holdings Ltd.
Company typeLimited company
IndustryTelecommunications, consumer electronics, digital distribution
Founded2007 (SLL Scartel)[1]
2008 (ИОО Yota Бел)[2]
Defunct2019
FateBankruptcy
Area served
Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Astrahan, Kazan, Khabarovsk, Kovrov, Kostroma, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Murom, Naberezhnye Chelny, Novosibirsk, Obninsk, Orenburg, Samara, Sochi, Tomsk, Tula, Ufa, Vladivostok, Vladimir, Yoshkar-Ola[3]
Key people
Igor Torgov (CEO)
ServicesMobile internet, cell phone operator
Revenue$486.78 million[4] (2017)
$116.55 million[4] (2017)
OwnerMegaFon
SubsidiariesSLL Scartel (Синамакс and Макмис owned by Scartel[5])
Scartel Starlab [6]
More[6]
ИОО Yota Бел (100%[7])
Yota de Nicaragua (75%[8])

Yota[9] (Russian: Йота) was a Russian mobile phone brand and mobile broadband manufacturer.[10] Yota was a trademark 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%).

  1. ^ "Yota — the first Mobile WiMAX network in Russia". Yota.ru. Archived from the original on 30 June 2012. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
  2. ^ "Yota пришла в Белоруссию". Yota.ru. Archived from the original on 27 February 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
  3. ^ "Карта покрытия Yota". Yota.ru. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Yota отчиталась о чистой прибыли в 6,8 млрд рублей за 2017 год". ИА REGNUM (in Russian). 27 July 2018. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Ъ-Газета - Интернет взял высокую "Йоту"". Kommersant.ru. 11 September 2008. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
  6. ^ a b "Yota — the first Mobile WiMAX network in Russia". Yota.ru. Retrieved 12 December 2011.[dead link]
  7. ^ [1] Archived October 29, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Yota строит WiMAX в Никарагуа". Yota.ru. Retrieved 12 December 2011.[dead link]
  9. ^ "Yota — официальный сайт оператора". www.yota.ru. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  10. ^ "The YotaPhone runs Android 4.2, has LTE, and two screens". 28 December 2012.