Skybrokers decommissioned the former TELE Greenland Teleport in Copenhagen in Denmark

De-commissioning TELE Greenland Teleport Denmark HERO

Skybrokers decommissioned the former TELE Greenland Teleport in Copenhagen in Denmark

In September 2023, Greenlandic Telco Tusass (formerly TELE Greenland) requested Skybrokers to carry out the decommissioning of their former Teleport facility in Hvidovre close to Copenhagen in Denmark. The de-installation plan involved the removal of three Andrew 9.3m antennas, one 7.3m antenna, and a VertexRSI 3.8m Batwing antenna system. This process was scheduled to occur over two separate visits, with the first visit set to take place in October 2023, during which one of the 9.3m antennas would be taken down from the site for a customer in Mexico. The second visit was planned for April and May 2024, during which the team would dismantle the remaining antennas. Subsequently, two antennas found a new home in Eastern Europe and two antennas were transported to our facility in Holland for final antenna refurbishment before being made available for sale.

Big project with complex logistics and great help of Tommy Besby, Jimmy Tjørved from rental company Nordjysk Lift, Karsten Poulsen from crane company Lastbilcentralen A/S and Jørn Falsbæk from company Marius Pedersen for the waste skips for recycling metal and cabling.

Tusass is the postal and telecommunications company from Greenland. It is the largest telecom company in Greenland and is headquartered in Nuuk with an office in Copenhagen, Denmark. The company manages the top-level domain for Greenland .gl, and owns the sea cable Greenland Connect, a 2-pair 128*10 Gbit/s submarine fiber cable connecting Canada, Greenland and Iceland. Formerly known as TELE Greenland, the company was rebranded in 2021 as Tusass, Greenlandic slang for “talk to you later”.

: The TELE Greenland teleport in Hvidovre..

: ..close to Copenhagen in Denmark..

: ..was decommissioned in April/May 2024.

: Five large Earth Station Antennas were dismantled.

: The last Andrew 9.3m antenna was..

: ..de-installed in May 2024..

: ..with a four-member installation team.

: The antenna was lifted to ground level..

: ..for further disassembly.

: An 80T crane was arranged for the lifting..

: ..of the reflector..

: ..and the Tripod mount.

: The AZ jack is lifted carefully..

: ..as well as the other heavy mount parts.

: Reflector disassembly starts.

: The team took 20 panels apart..

: ..and cleaned them with high pressure wash.

: Sub reflector is cleaned.

: All parts are carefully packed in custom made transportation crates..

: ..for easy handling..

: ..and final transportation to the new end-user.

: The 2nd Andrew 9.3m Antenna was..

: ..taken down 2nd half of April..

: Antenna is ready for lifting.

: An Andrew 7.3m antenna was..

: prepared for de-installation..

: ..beginning of April 2024.

: Here the de-icing enclosure was removed.

: The antenna was made ready for lifting..

: ..with a 80T crane.

: Reflector was lifted to ground level.

: The Tripod Mount was disassembled.

: All antennas were cleaned with high pressure wash.

: The first Andrew 9.3m was de-installed in October 2023..

: ..with a three-member installation team.

: Heavy equipment was arranged..

: ..for the dismantling and loading of trucks.

: On May 17th 2024 all antennas were dismantled and packed..

: ..and ready for loading trucks.

: In total four trucks were loaded.

: It took the team five weeks..

: ..to clean the site.

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Skybrokers decommissioned the former TELE Greenland Teleport in Copenhagen in Denmark

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