Telecommunications in Luxembourg

Luxembourg is known for opening local television and radio stations in other countries. RTL Group is operated in many countries. Luxembourg is the home of the world's biggest satellite company, SES, located in Betzdorf.

Statistics
  • Telephones - main lines in use: 314,700 (1999)
  • Telephones - mobile cellular: 215,741 (2000)
  • Telephone system: highly developed, completely automated and efficient system, mainly buried cables
    • domestic: nationwide cellular telephone system; buried cable
    • international: 3 channels leased on TAT-6 coaxial submarine cable (Europe to North America)
  • Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 9, shortwave 2 (1999)
  • Radios: 285,000 (1997)
  • Television broadcast stations: 5 (1999)
  • Televisions: 285,000 (1998 est.)
  • Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 8 (2000) Note: Work has started in 2006 on a citywide WiFi project called Hotcity.[1]
  • Internet users: 100,000 (2001)
  • Country code (Top-level domain): .lu
gollark: Companies don't really do accounting, or much internal division of labour or anything. Generally, they're just one person or maybe a smaller team sharing resources a bit.
gollark: Yes, I am sure you're thinking "but but but my company has a giant HQ and shiny adverts!" It's not really a company.
gollark: Stock exchanges allow you to trade shares in companies and get dividends. But we don't actually have companies.
gollark: Okay, so. Stock exchanges don't really work. There have been many attempts and they never ended up going anywhere, although this was possibly just due to people not finishing the code or something. It's just that the kristconomy™ is not structured for it.
gollark: Should I deploy my usual "stock exchanges don't really work" explanation?

References
  1. Bienvenue sur Hotcity

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