Greenlanders are hooking up to the Internet in droves since the Greenland Connect sea cable was connected to the island on 24 March. Within the first month of its operation, Internet use jumped 25 percent.
Sermitsiaq reports Tele Greenland’s new ADSL Premium service is particularly popular, luring hundreds of customers with its faster speed and larger capacity for downloading at a single set rate. In anticipation of a big increase in their Internet customers, Tele Greenland has already approached the government and asked it to lower rates by 35 million kroner.
If the government agrees to help make Internet access more affordable, the lower rates will take effect on 1 June. Tele Greenland wants to use 30 million kroner to reduce its rate per megabyte, and the remaining five million kroner to reduce installation and subscription prices.
Greenland currently has 12,300 Internet users, a small number in most countries. But the rapid increase in Internet use is causing Greenland’s postal service, Tele Post, to lose out. SIKUnews reports that between 2001 and 2008 the sale of postage stamps fell by up to 38 percent and the overall amount of post delivered dropped by the same percentage.
The decline in traditional postal services is slowly eroding Tele Post’s profitability, suggesting that one day Greenland’s snail mail may be forced into extinction. But for now, the island is enjoying its new connectivity to the World Wide Web.
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The answer is easy, Jorge: ‘he’ represent very well how we are…. so don’t trust anyone from crapland. -me either-
If they would have been ‘ordinary’ I couldn’t have become grim, angered and filled with an obsessive wish to destroy them all.
The world might be save in the end, but first I must fullified that task.
nice post, thanks for sharing. But in this case i am realy confused. Please tell me for more detail…
This is a very welcome event for Greenland! The previous Internet system was 100% satellite based, so was really expensive and somewhat slow to use.
HELLO I AM BOB. I AM NEW TO INTRNETS. I WANT TO MEET WOMEN FROM THE FACESPACE. GUS COME LIVE IN GREENLAND YOU CAN SEE REAL INDEPENDANCE WE FIND YOU JOB SO YOU NOT SIT HOME NOT BASH SCANDINAVIANS ON ICENEWS ALL DAY.
“silvio berlusconi.is groenland big enough”
i dont know but he cant stay here, the crook’s here would scare him.
“sorry to disturb you,i write from italy and i was just asking myself if you got a place where we can hide silvio berlusconi.is groenland big enough?we can’t live anymore with this guy around.”
I did never understand why the Italians chose a chauvinist, pedantic, arrogant and coarse man like Prime Minister: I do suppose in the other wing, things would not be better. Some Italian friends say he is a ‘winner’, and he has his fans! Italy, a wonderful country and European cultural cradle – with Greece -, does not deserve a clown.
Miss Merkel, Miss Merkel, … please wait … please wait … ( 30 minutes later ) … please wait … : HAHAHAHA!! Mrs. Merkel would say, ‘poor’ clown !!!!
“GREAT, NOW THEY WILL REALLY GET INDEPENDENT…”
Why should they get independent?
GREAT, NOW THEY WILL REALLY GET INDEPENDENT…
sorry to disturb you,i write from italy and i was just asking myself if you got a place where we can hide silvio berlusconi.is groenland big enough?we can’t live anymore with this guy around.
Poor guys. They got high speed connection! Now they will stop fishing, hunting and even drinking – and start blogging, googling and twittering ;-)