Greenland calls for the worldwide shutdown of the landline

The Greenland network operator Tusass calls on to shut down the telephone fixed network worldwide.Tusass wants to switch off his landline completely throughout the year.

The landline telephony will die out in Greenland this year.Greenland's only network operator Tusass announced this in a press release.But Tusass apparently wants to start a worldwide movement.Because the company also demands that telecommunications companies around the globe are enthusiastic about outdated technology.

"In 2022, the time of landline technology and telephony expired," says the press release.Therefore, no more suitable spare parts worldwide should be produced so that the maintenance of the outdated landline is impossible.It is already very difficult.

It is not entirely clear what technology the press release refers to - presumably on analog telephone connections via the copper wire, but possibly also to DSL.

Other countries also want to abolish landline

In fact, the demand is less unique than it may sound.In other countries, too, people are already working actively on the abolition of the veteran technology.In Great Britain, for example, the end of 2025 should be over at the latest.

There, the 192 million kilometers of copper cable are to be replaced by fiber optic lines.From 2026, fixed-wing stone will only work there if they are digitally connected to the network via an IP connection.

Germany is - at least as far as the digital connection of the phones is concerned.In this country, analog telephone connections and ISDN connections have been abolished-the switch to IP connections was almost completed in 2020, and the 300,000 remaining connections remained in 2020 may also have been converted or deactivated.

However, there are still a number of copper cables in the ground in this country.Although they are used with modern VDSL technology, they are a massive modernization hurdle, since high data speeds can only be maintained over a few hundred meters via VDSL.Fixed fiber cables do not have this problem and also offer much higher transmission speeds anyway.

Among the internet connections booked in Germany is fiber optic with a share of around three percent in a European comparison in the final group.