Russias Yota drops WiMAX for LTE

Russia’s Yota – one of the world’s largest WiMAX operators – said Friday it is to switch to LTE technology in a significant blow to the WiMAX camp

Samsung wins Russian WiMAX contract

Yota, the Russia-based mobile WiMAX service provider, has announced an additional contract with Samsung Electronics to support plans for a nationwide mobile WiMAX network in Russia.

Yota tests mobile WiMAX Release 2.0

Telecompaper reports that Russian WiMAX specialist Yota has announced that, together with its partner Samsung, it has commenced testing of the next version of mobile WiMAX technology: Release 2.0 (IEEE 802.16m standard).