Here, before the rise of Yandex Taxi (which eventually bought Uber Russia), we used to have several independent "taxi aggregators", you'd call them and they'd t

Here, before the rise of Yandex Taxi (which eventually bought Uber Russia), we used to have several independent "taxi aggregators", you'd call them and they'd tell you your car's license plate and when it would arrive. I don't remember it taking any longer than Yandex Taxi/Uber. Now it's actually worse, since Yandex Taxi has bought the majority of local taxi aggregators, it feels like the quality is worse than before because they're a monopoly and there's no competition.