In turn, Garsdale is controlled by AF-Telecom (82%), Telconet Capital (13.5%), and the Russian Technologies State Corporation (4.5%).

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

In 2008, Skartel was the first company in Russia to deploy WiMAX standard networks in Moscow and Saint Petersburg in a range of 2.5–2.7 GHz.

The fourth generation LTE network, which was tested by the Yota provider in Kazan, was switched off the next day.

In September 2012, 4G networks were launched in the Russian cities of Novosibirsk, Krasnodar, Sochi, Samara, Vladivostok, Ufa, Kazan, Moscow, and Saint Petersburg.

[11][12] Officially, Novosibirsk was the first Russian city where the LTE network was deployed, commercially launched on 22 December 2011.

Shaped like a "plain box", Yota Many is a portable Wi-Fi hotspot device that is smaller than its predecessor.