Yota subscribers base exceeded 100 000
25-08-2009
Yota, the company providing access to fast wireless internet via Mobile WiMAX (4G) technology, announces that the number of company subscribers has exceeded 100 000. Notable is that this number stands for active users, who pay for the Internet.
Since June 1, when Yota network commercial operation begun in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, it was joined by almost 60 thousand new subscribers. The rest are the «old» subscribers, who have connected to the network in these cities at the test operation stage and have continued using it up till now. In late June Yota network test operation has started in Ufa, where it will last till September 30. For only one month, as sales of subscribers devices were officially launched in Ufa, there were registered 5 thousand new users.
Average traffic of a Yota subscriber in July equals to 10.3 GB. The same amount at the mean is used by a subscriber of a wired internet service in Moscow. Besides, Yota customers started using their WiMAX internet mobile features more actively. If a share of mobile subscribers (those using 6-10 sectors of base stations) and ultra mobile ones (using more than 10 sectors) was 25-30% in April — May period, by July it reached 46%. Accordingly, a share of stationary subscribers (using 1-2 sectors) has decreased: from 30% in April — May period to 13% in July.
«A milestone of 100 thousand active users was taken over by Yota within only two and half months since the commercial operation was started», says Yota Sales Director Igor Torgov. «We would like to thank our clients for believing into a new technology and supporting us. In the beginning of autumn new Yota access devices will appear on the market. Thus in September, under the agreement with Intel and some laptop producers, new laptop models with built-in Mobile WiMAX module will be supplied to the Russian market by 6 vendors. In the second half of September the sales of portable Yota Egg WiMAX/Wi-Fi router will be commenced, and starting with September 1 Asus routers will be available to natural persons (previously they were sold to legal entities only)».