Editing Yekaterinburg (section)

== Media and telecommunications ==
[[File:Abandoned Tower.jpg|thumb|[[Yekaterinburg TV Tower]] before it was demolished]]
In Yekaterinburg, a large number of print publications are published: about 200 newspapers, the most read being the ''Ural Worker'', ''Vecherny Yekaterinburg'', ''Oblastnaya Gazeta'', and ''For Change!'', and 70 magazines, with most read being ''Red Burda'' and ''I'm Buying''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=18 September 2011|title=Гильдия издателей периодической печати|url=http://www.gipp.ru/opennews.php?id=16898&type=0|access-date=26 February 2022|website=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110918054344/http://www.gipp.ru/opennews.php?id=16898&type=0|archive-date=18 September 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Welcome media-atlas.ru - BlueHost.com|url=http://www.media-atlas.ru/items/?cat=interview&id=2801|access-date=26 February 2022|website=www.media-atlas.ru|archive-date=15 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615163314/http://www.media-atlas.ru/items/?cat=interview&id=2801|url-status=dead}}</ref>

A television studio was built in Yekaterinburg (as Sverdlovsk) in 1955 and on 6 November of the same year, the first telecast appeared. Coloured television later appeared in 1976.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ru:Официальный сайт "Вести Урал" – Официальный сайт "Вести Урал"|url=http://ural.rfn.ru/region.html?rid=293|access-date=22 May 2018|website=Официальный сайт "Вести Урал"|language=ru-RU|archive-date=16 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716024143/http://ural.rfn.ru/region.html?rid=293|url-status=dead}}</ref> Now the television is broadcast by 19 companies, including but not all: STRC Ural, Channel Four, 41 Home, Channel 10, OTV, Union (Orthodox), and UFO 24. Broadcasting is carried out from the TV tower on Lunacharsky street (television studio GTRK Ural), the TV tower on the Moskovskiy Hill, and from the TV tower (radio relay tower) on Blyukher Street. In 1981, construction of a [[Yekaterinburg TV Tower|new television tower]] was started, which was to become the second tallest in Russia after the [[Ostankino Tower]] and cover the territory of most of the Sverdlovsk region, but economic difficulties postponed construction. As a result, the television tower was the tallest uncompleted structure in the world. On 24 March 2018, the television tower was demolished by detonation for the city's beautification in preparation of the [[2018 FIFA World Cup]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Вальханская|first=Наталья|script-title=ru:Взрыв и обрушение: снос телебашни в Екатеринбурге на видео очевидцев|language=ru|work=Телеканал "Звезда"|date=24 March 2018|url=https://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/201803240811-mv7f.htm|access-date=22 May 2018}}</ref> The Shartash radio mast, which broadcasts, is the tallest structure in the city, with a height of 263 meters.<ref>{{cite web|title=Тёмная башня|url=http://www.1723.ru/read/dai/dai-60.htm|access-date=22 May 2018|website=1723.ru}}</ref> In addition, several dozens of national and local news agencies are broadcast in Yekaterinburg, with the most watched being ITAR-TASS Ural, RUIA-Ural, and Interfax-Ural.

At the moment{{when|date=February 2024}}, there are 26 internet providers and 6 cellular operators in the city.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Uralnets|url=http://uralnets.ru/|access-date=26 February 2022|website=uralnets.ru}}</ref> According to ''Yekaterinburg News'', the city has signed a cooperative agreement with the Russian mobile operator [[Vimpelcom]], working under the Beeline brand. The partnership will involve cooperation on investment projects and social programmes focused on increasing access to mobile services in the city. Beeline has launched an initiative to provide Wi-Fi services in 500 public trams and trolley buses in Yekaterinburg.<ref>Fletcher, Martin. [http://yekaterinburgnews.com/daily-news/yekaterinburg-signs-cooperative-agreement-with-vimpelcom-under-beeline-brand/5622/ "Yekaterinburg signs cooperative agreement with Vimpelcom under Beeline brand"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130722210426/http://yekaterinburgnews.com/daily-news/yekaterinburg-signs-cooperative-agreement-with-vimpelcom-under-beeline-brand/5622/ |date=22 July 2013 }}, ''Yekateringburg News'', 19 July 2013. (Retrieved 22 July 2013).</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+Operators of mobile communication in Yekaterinburg
!Generation
!Mobile communication standard
!Operators
|-
|[[2G]]
|[[GSM]]
|[[MTS (network provider)|MTS]], [[MegaFon]], [[Beeline (brand)|Beeline]], [[Tele2 Russia]], Motive
|-
|[[2.5G]]
|[[General Packet Radio Service|GPRS]]
|MTS, MegaFon, Beeline, Tele2 Russia, Motive
|-
|[[2.75G]]
|[[EDGE (telecommunication)|EDGE]]
|MTS, MegaFon, Beeline, Tele2 Russia, Motive
|-
|[[3G]]
|[[UMTS]], [[CDMA2000|CDMA 1X]]
|MTS, MegaFon, Beeline, Tele2 Russia
|-
|[[3.5G]]
|[[High Speed Packet Access|HSPA]]
|MTS, MegaFon, Beeline, Tele2 Russia
|-
|[[3.75G]]
|[[Evolved High Speed Packet Access|HSPA+]]
|MTS, MegaFon, Beeline, Tele2 Russia
|-
|[[4G]]
|[[LTE (telecommunication)|LTE]]
|MTS, MegaFon, Beeline, Tele2 Russia, Motive, [[Yota]]
|-
|[[LTE Advanced|4G+]]
|[[LTE Advanced]]
|MTS, MegaFon, Beeline, [[:ru:Yota (бренд)|Yota]]
|}