The city TV tower became the main object for photo shoots and videos of Sverdlovsk citizens. Staff training, demolition process and its results filled social networks and messengers. According to "MegaFon", in the morning hours on March 24 Internet traffic in the city center in comparison with the usual Saturday grew twice.

Not only Yekaterinburg residents decided to become eyewitnesses of the event, but also residents of the nearest cities of the region. Svyazisty recorded guests with smartphones from Sukhoi Log, Berezovsky, Pervouralsk, Nizhny Tagil, Novouralsk and Kamensk-Uralsky.

The most popular "viewing platforms" were the areas near the shopping center "Greenwich", the area of ??1905, next to the streets of Decembrists, Chapaev, Kuibyshev, Rosa Luxemburg. According to "MegaFon", there was the largest growth in data transmission. At the same time, the audience was not up to talking on the mobile - voice traffic on Saturday fell.

"Sverdlov residents decided to watch the process with smartphones in their hands, preferring to make video and live broadcasts. From the city center, our subscribers posted a network of information on the network that can be compared with the placement of 300,000 photographs. We prepared eight base stations close to the site for increased load, and they helped to deliver exclusive frames to the Internet promptly, "said technical director of MegaFon in the Urals Anton Shcherbakov.

Thousands of residents have replenished social networks with content with hashtags #My tower and #TV tower. According to statistics, most often MegaFon subscribers posted photos and videos of the process itself and its results in the social networks Instagram and Facebook, and the most popular instant messenger was WhatsApp.

PHOTOREPORT explosion of the tower see here.