Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Luxemburg ), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small l ...

is known for opening local television and radio stations in other countries.

RTL Group RTL Group (for "Radio Television Luxembourg") is a Luxembourg-based international media conglomerate, with another corporate centre in Cologne, Germany. The company operates 68 television channels and 31 radio stations in Germany, France an ...

is operated in many countries. Luxembourg is the home of the world's biggest satellite company,

SES SES, S.E.S., Ses and similar variants can refere to: Business and economics * Socioeconomic status * Scottish Economic Society, a learned society in Scotland * SES, callsign of the TV station SES/RTS (Mount Gambier, South Australia) * SES S.A., ...

, 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 Wi-Fi () is a family of wireless network protocols, based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio wa ...

project called Hotcity.Bienvenue sur Hotcity
/ref> * Internet users: 100,000 (2001) *

Country code Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The term ...

(Top-level domain):

.lu .lu is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Luxembourg. .lu domains are administered by RESTENA. Since 1 February 2010, the administrative contact no longer needs to be based in Luxembourg. History For many years, the applic ...

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(49° 41'36 N; 6° 19'45 E)

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

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