Russia’s Yota to deliver SIM cards by drone

The Yota mobile operator plans to deliver SIM cards to its Moscow clients by drone, the RBC news agency reported on Wednesday, citing a senior official at Yota and the head of the company that will provide drones for the project.

Six light drones rented by Yota from the Copter Express company will deliver up to 700 SIM cards a day in four Moscow locations during a month-long experiment, said Vladimir Dobrynin, the operational director of the Skartel company, which owns the Yota brand.