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Communications 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. * Internet users: 100,000 (2001) * Country code (Top-level domain): .lu References (49° 41'36 N; 6° 19'45 E) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 landlocked country in Western Europe. It borders Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France to the south. Its capital and most populous city, Luxembourg, is one of the four institutional seats of the European Union (together with Brussels, Frankfurt, and Strasbourg) and the seat of several EU institutions, notably the Court of Justice of the European Union, the highest judicial authority. Luxembourg's culture, people, and languages are highly intertwined with its French and German neighbors; while Luxembourgish is the only national language of the Luxembourgish people, French is the only legal language, and all three — Luxembourgish, French and German — are considered official languages and are used for administrative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 and other European countries. It also offers national streaming platforms, content productions and a range of digital services. Important segments of RTL Group are RTL Deutschland, Groupe M6, Fremantle and RTL Nederland. The company, in its present form, was established by Bertelsmann, Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL) and Pearson in the year 2000. Over the years, Bertelsmann, a conglomerate based in the German city of Gütersloh, continued to increase its stake in RTL Group and currently owns just over 75% of the shares in the company after holding a stake of more than 90% in the past. RTL Group is one of a total of eight divisions of Bertelsmann: It is responsible for more than a third of its revenue and a large share of its operating profit. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SES S
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. SES S.A. is a Luxembourgish-French satellite telecommunications network provider supplying video and data connectivity worldwide to broadcasters, content and internet service providers, mobile and fixed network operators, governments and insti ..., a satellite owner and operator * Single Economic Space or Eurasian Economic Space, a project of economical integration of five post-Soviet states: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan * Single European Sky * Stock Exchange of Singapore * Subud Enterprise Services Science and technology * SES (universities), Science and Engineering South, a consortium of 6 research-intensive public universities in the Southeast of England, UK * Sedimentation enhancing strategy, Sedimentati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 waves. These are the most widely used computer networks in the world, used globally in home and small office networks to link desktop and laptop computers, tablet computers, smartphones, smart TVs, printers, and smart speakers together and to a wireless router to connect them to the Internet, and in wireless access points in public places like coffee shops, hotels, libraries and airports to provide visitors with Internet access for their mobile devices. ''Wi-Fi'' is a trademark of the non-profit Wi-Fi Alliance, which restricts the use of the term ''Wi-Fi Certified'' to products that successfully complete interoperability certification testing. the Wi-Fi Alliance consisted of more than 800 companies from around the world. over 3.05 billion W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Codes
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 ''country code'' frequently refers to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 or international dialing codes, the E.164 country calling codes. ISO 3166-1 This standard defines for most of the countries and dependent areas in the world: *a two-letter (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) *a three-letter (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), and *a three-digit numeric (ISO 3166-1 numeric) code. The two-letter codes are used as the basis for some other codes or applications, for example, *for ISO 4217 currency codes and *with deviations, for country code top-level domain names (ccTLDs) on the Internet: list of Internet TLDs. For more applications see ISO 3166-1 alpha-2. Other country codes *European Union: **Before the 2004 EU enlargement the EU used the UN Road Traffic Conventions licen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. * Internet users: 100,000 (2001) * Country code (Top-level domain): .lu References (49° 41'36 N; 6° 19'45 E) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
