YOTA and Samsung Accelerate Nationwide Mobile WiMAX Deployment in Russia
Yota, the Russia-based Mobile WiMAX service provider, today announced an additional contract with Samsung to support plans for a nationwide Mobile WiMAX network in Russia. Under the new contract, Samsung will supply more than 5,000 Mobile WiMAX macro cellular base stations and Access Control Routers (ACR) to Yota from March 2010. Yota plans to expand its Russian Mobile WiMAX network this year to 15 cities including Sochi, which will host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
Yota currently provides commercial Mobile WiMAX services to more than 300,000 subscribers across three cities in Russia –- Moscow, St. Petersburg and Ufa. Yota has also started delivering Mobile WiMAX service to more than 50,000 subscribers in Kransnodar and Sochi. Yota has added more than 3,000 new subscribers per day and plans to expand Mobile WiMAX coverage to 180 cities in Russia.
In addition to the expansion of coverage in Russia, Yota is also actively extending its Mobile WiMAX services with Samsung in other markets around the globe. Yota launched a trial service in Nicaragua last December and is preparing to launch in Belarus in the second quarter of 2010. In January Yota was also awarded Mobile WiMAX bandwidth spectrum use for nationwide network services in Peru. Yota is aiming to provide Mobile WiMAX service across the world including Latin America, the CIS, Asia and Africa.