Tusass A/S,

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Tusass (formerly Greenland Technical Organization and Tele-Post), is a Greenlandic postal and

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company dating back to 1879. Tusass is the largest telecommunications company in

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. The company's headquarters are located in

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. The company is divided into three business areas: Postal service (Mail), Commercial and Technology and IT. Tusass manages the

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for Greenland

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, and owns the sea cable Greenland Connect.

History

TELE Greenland A/S was created in 1997, by the merging of TELE Greenland and Kalaallit Allakkeriviat (Greenland Postal Service). After the merger, Kalaallit Allakkeriviat became a business unit and was renamed as POST Greenland. The common designation "TELE-POST" for both business came into being. TELE Greenland A/S was rebranded as Tusass in 2021. Tusass is Greenlandic slang for "talk to you later". Post-greenland-uummannaq

Services

Mobile

Back in 2009, TELE Greenland had partnered with

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to build a complete 3G network. TELE Greenland announced in July 2013 a partnership with

to build a 4G network in Nuuk. The service launched 1 December 2013.

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was the second town to get 4G, it was launched on 28 March 2014. Later in 2014 the 4G network launched in Ilulissat,

Kangerlussuaq Kangerlussuaq (; ; da, Søndre Strømfjord), is a settlement in western Greenland in the Qeqqata municipality located at the head of the fjord of the same name. It is Greenland's main air transport hub and the site of Greenland's largest commer ...

and

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. The 4G network was expanded to

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in February 2015, and to

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in June the same year. In November 2017 TELE-POST announced a partnership with

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to modernise the entire mobile network in Greenland, as part of Tele Greenland's "Mobile First" strategy of bringing 4G high-speed internet to every city, town and settlement in Greenland. In December 2019 it was announced that Tusass had chosen Ericsson to build a 5G network in Greenland. 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) trial started in three cities in October 2022.

Internet

Tusass provides internet connections to towns and settlements using three different technologies: underwater sea cable (zone 1), radio chains (zone 2), and via satellite (zone 3). Places in zone 1 are landing points for the Greenland Connect and Greenland Connect North

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. In 2016 it was decided to deploy an extension to the Greenland Connect cable, called Greenland Connect North - as well as upgrading the existing cable. Products based on these upgrades launched on 11 December 2017, and introduced 30 Mbit/s as the top speed. Tusass operates several radio chains. The main chain is approx. 1500 km long and consists of 48 radio chain stations. The radio chain is connected to the Greenland Connect and Connect North cables. The radio chain provides telephony, internet, radio and television. In 2016 it was announced the radio chain would be upgraded and expanded, enabling faster internet speeds as well as moving several towns and settlements from zone 3 to zone 2. This work is expected to be completed in 2018. Several remote locations are only connected via satellites. In September 2017 Tele-Post switched from

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in several locations.

Current internet tiers

As of June 2020:

= Sea cable and radio chain

= Zone 3 - Satellite

References

External links

Tusass homepageTusass site for stamp collecting
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