Yota

In 2006, the co-owners of the St. Petersburg company Korus, Russian businessman Denis Sverdlov and Bulgarian businessman Sergey Adonev, established Skartel, a provider of wireless broadbands WiMAX. In 2008, Skartel became the first company in Russia to deploy WiMAX standard networks in Moscow and Saint Petersburg in a range of 2.5–2.7 GHz. In 2010, Yota announced its plans to launch a subscription-based LTE network with a rate of 20–30 Mbit/s. The first test of the new standard network took place in Kazan on 30 August 2010, installing about 150 base stations. The investments into the LTE network deployment constituted $20 million. The fourth generation LTE network, which was tested by the Yota provider in Kazan, was switched off the next day.

On May 9, 2012, Yota's WiMAX was replaced by its LTE network. In September 2012, 4G networks were launched in such cities as Novosibirsk, Krasnodar, Sochi, Samara, Vladivostok, Ufa, Kazan, 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.

In July 2011, Yota presented a new family of devices compatible with Yota's 4G WiMAX 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 Wi-Fi 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" prototype, a double-display smartphone. It has a 4.3-inch, HD LCD on the front and an e-ink display on the back. The prototype runs version 4.2 of the Android operating system. Yota Devices released more information at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February 2013.

In November 2014, President of Russia Vladimir Putin gifted General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping a YotaPhone 2.