DALLAS, United States-U.S.-based DSC Communications Corp.’s cellular infrastructure division, Celcore, has begun work with TELE Greenland A/S to test and evaluate a DSC Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) system in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.
Greenland, located far northwest of the European continent, is the largest island in the world, with a surface area of 2.2 million square kilometers. The total population is just 55,000 spread over 16 towns and 70 settlements; Nuuk, on the western coast, is home to about 13,000. Though self-ruling, Greenland has political ties to Denmark.
TELE Greenland, the national service provider owned by the Greenlandic Home Rule Government, has a concession for all telecommunications on the island and covers 99 percent of the population.
The DSC system being tested comprises a GlobalSwitch and three GlobalCell base stations. It is designed specifically for applications where service for a small subscriber base may not be cost effectively delivered by traditional GSM architecture, according to DSC.
“The TELE Greenland project is a tremendous opportunity for DSC to demonstrate that GSM systems can be cost effectively deployed in low-subscriber density markets,” said Tom Berger, vice president of Celcore.
Acquired by DSC in December, Celcore specializes in developing Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS) and GSM cellular systems for emerging markets.
