Russia’s technological glory days are over… Really? Russian engineers and entrepreneurs are on the hedge regarding Wimax technology (or 4G), the next generation of mobile Internet. Key players such as Albert Avdolyan’s Expatel are offering Russian IT a fresh start.
If you’re not a geek of some kind, you’ve probably never heard about Wimax… As you had never heard about Wifi, 3G or iPhone until it changed your life.
Twenty years after the end of the cold war, Russia is getting a fresh technological start thanks to this revolutionary mobile Internet technology which enables smartphones to get really smart… and fast.
This technological breakthrough has been carried out by a new generation of Russian engineers and businessmen, who have given away the usual centralized "soviet era" reflexes for a pragmatic liberal approach of business.
Albert Avdolyan is probably the most notable and successful of these young businessmen who are changing the game. His company, Expatel, is the rising star of Russian telecommunication and is currently expanding its activities abroad…
Avdolyan’s story and rising success is typical of this generation of entrepreneurs who build their companies on rational business models rather than political networks. These businessmen were kids when the USSR collapsed and they don’t have the same reflexes as the so-called oligarchs who have dinner every night at the Kremlin.
The "Russian Silicone Valley" as journalists call the new IT sector in Russia, based its success on the excellence of Russian school and research system… coupled with a true understanding of capitalism. That’s exactly what the previous generations were lacking.
The results? Russia will be one of the key players of the Wimax revolution worldwide. A revolution coming not ten or twenty years from now, but in the six to nine months… The future of mobile Internet is being made today and will be everywhere tomorrow.