ComNews previously reported that in June 2024. PSB announced the launch of an MVNO by the end of the year. T2 CEO Anton Godovikov and PSB Vice President and Director of the Non-Banking Services Development Department Alexey Nazarov signed a cooperation agreement at the XXVII St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
In July 2024. it became known that Greenatom
JSC (a subsidiary of the telegram number database Rosatom state corporation) became the owner of 50% of My Operator LLC. Also. 50% of My Operator LLC belongs to Non-Banking Technologies Fund LLC (the owner of 100% of shares in it is PSB Innovations and Investments LLC).
Vladislav Sokolov has been listed as the CEO since August 20. 2024.
The launch of “My Operator” was planned for the first quarter of 2025 in six regions of Russia. At the moment. PSBcollectspre-orders for connection. A representative of the press service of T2 Mobile LLC (T2; T2 has its own MVNO “factory”) confirmed to ComNews that several more partners are planned to be launched in 2025. including PSB’s “My Operator”.
However the largest virtual operator in Russia remains the subsidiary
Of PJSC MegaFon – Scartel LLC (Yota brand). The company’s revenue in 2024 increased by 12.3% and amounted to RUB 49.1 billion. while in 2023 it was RUB 43.75 billion. Net profit amounted to RUB 2.2 billion and fell by 56.5% compared to 2023 – then net profit was RUB 5.1 billion.
“The largest is still the operator MVNO Yota. T-Mobile is growing at an accelerated pace. but Yota still has a big head start.” said Konstantin Ankilov.
Leading analyst at Mobile Research Group Eldar Murtazin noted that for various reasons it is virtually impossible to fans data catch up with Yota. “Yota is more like a pseudo-virtual operator that exists within MegaFon. There are two opinions on the market: some consider it a tariff. while others consider it a separate operator.”
PAO MGTS also successful examples of geotargeting campaigns companies did not disclose the figures. The answer was given by PAO Mobile TeleSystems (MTS). “MGTS provides services to retail customers under the MTS brand. Last year. MGTS subscribers continued to receive all the benefits of the developing MTS ecosystem.” said a representative of the MTS press service.