Luxembourg eSIM
Data for Luxembourg on POST and Orange, from $5.89. It never expires, tethering is included, and refills land on the line you already have, with nothing new to install.
- Networks
- POST and Orange
- Typical speed
- 91 Mbps typical, 28 Mbps at busy times
- 5G
- yes, non standalone
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans for Luxembourg
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $5.89 | $5.89 | |
| 3 GB | Never expires | $2.63 | $7.89 | |
| 5 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $1.98 | $9.89 | |
| 10 GB | Never expires | $1.49 | $14.89 | |
| 20 GB | Never expires | $1.39 | $27.89 | |
| 50 GB | Never expires | $1.54 | $76.89 |
Every plan works the moment you land. Unused data returns to your wallet when the line closes, and customers get at least 100 MB of free rescue data a month even at zero balance.
What 91 Mbps actually means in Luxembourg
Typical download speed on Orbislo in Luxembourg: 91 Mbps. That puts Luxembourg well above the Europe median of 71 Mbps.
The tenth percentile is 28 Mbps. That gap between the median and the floor is normal and it is where the frustration lives: the connection is quick most of the time and noticeably slow in the busiest few percent of moments, typically at transport hubs at peak hour.
At these speeds nothing on a phone is limited by the connection. Video calls are comfortable, a laptop can be tethered for a full working day, and large photo backups finish without planning around them.
Which networks you will be on
Orbislo carries traffic in Luxembourg on POST and Orange. Your phone is not tied to one of them. When the network you are attached to congests or drops, the profile moves you to the other, and it happens without a prompt and without you noticing anything except that the connection kept working.
This matters more than the headline speed. Almost every travel eSIM sold today resells a single upstream agreement per country, so when that one network has a bad hour you have a bad hour with it and your only option is to buy a second eSIM from somebody else. A profile with more than one network behind it can make a decision you never see.
5G in Luxembourg: yes, non standalone. Worth knowing that 5G on a travel profile is normal rather than special, and that the tenth percentile above is the number that will decide how the trip feels, not the generation label in the status bar.
What data costs in Luxembourg
A 500 MB plan for Luxembourg starts at $0.32, which is $0.00 a gigabyte. That is the number to compare between providers, because a headline price attached to a different allowance tells you nothing.
The comparison most providers would rather you did not run is cost per gigabyte actually used. Independent surveys of travel data put the share of purchased data lost to expiry between 20 and 35 percent, because a plan that expires on day thirty deletes what you did not get through. Orbislo data has no expiry date, so the gigabyte you paid for is still there on the next trip. At the same headline price that is 25 to 40 percent more usable data, and in Luxembourg it means the effective cost is nearer $0.00 a gigabyte than $0.00.
Because nothing expires, the cheapest way to buy for Luxembourg is to buy slightly less than you think you need and top up if you run out. Topping up takes about ten seconds and does not involve installing anything. Buying too much is the expensive mistake everywhere else and merely a neutral one here.
Landing in Luxembourg
Install before you fly, on your home wifi. The profile downloads while you still have a connection you trust, then sits dormant until you land in Luxembourg and it attaches to POST.
On landing there is one thing to check: data roaming has to be switched on for the Orbislo line. It is off by default on both iOS and Android, and it has nothing to do with roaming charges here, because the plan is prepaid and there is no bill to run up. Turn it on for the Orbislo line and leave it off for your home line, and your home number keeps working for calls and bank codes without costing anything.
Getting a local SIM in Luxembourg
Before a prepaid line with a Luxembourg number goes live, the operator must record the holder's name, habitual residence, date and place of birth, and the type, issuing country and number of an identity document, and keep a copy of that document.
What is restricted in Luxembourg
- Mobile signal repeaters: Installing a mobile phone repeater or signal booster without the consent of the operator whose frequencies it repeats breaks the 2005 radio spectrum law. Fines reach 5,000 euros for an individual and 25,000 euros for a company, and can double for a repeat offence.
- Emergency calls over Wi-Fi: Emergency calls cannot be made over Wi-Fi calling in Luxembourg, so a phone needs a mobile network signal to reach 112 or 113, even when Wi-Fi calling is switched on.
Worth knowing about Luxembourg
- A home allowance from any European Union country covers a stay here, and so does one from Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway, since the same regime reaches the European Economic Area.
- A cordless phone of the DECT type may be used without any licence, on the 1880 to 1900 MHz band Europe assigns to it, provided it meets the national radio interfaces LUX/RI CT_DECT 01 and LUX/RI CT_DECT 02.
- A visiting radio amateur may operate a mobile or portable station for a short stay on a foreign licence issued under the CEPT recommendations, and has to sign on with the prefix LX/ before their own callsign, or LX6/ on a novice certificate.
- Luxembourg operators have required identification before activating a prepaid SIM since early 2016. A law of 7 June 2017 then forced the deactivation of older anonymous prepaid cards whose holders had not identified themselves by 12 July 2017.
- The identity rule for prepaid lines applies only to services that use Luxembourg numbers. The operator keeps the identity data for as long as the line is active and for three years after the number is deactivated, then must erase it.
- A Tango prepaid card stays blocked until it is identified. A visitor can do this online by uploading photos of a passport and completing a photo check, or in a Tango shop with a passport, identity card or residence permit. A minor's card must be identified by a legal representative.
- Credit on a new POST TipTop prepaid SIM is valid for 90 days, and each top-up extends the card's validity by 30, 60 or 90 days depending on the amount. Buying a data option does not extend validity, and credit and bonus are lost if no top-up is bought before the credit expires.
- Dial 112 for ambulance, fire and rescue, and 113 for the Grand Ducal Police. The 112 line is free and answered around the clock.
- By law, every caller can reach 112 free of charge and without any means of payment, and every call to 112 is handled by the emergency centre of the national fire and rescue corps, the CGDIS.
- Public warnings under the national LU-Alert system reach foreign phones too. A tourist or cross-border worker whose phone is connected to a Luxembourg operator's antenna when an alert goes out normally receives the cell broadcast message, provided the phone's software supports it.
- LU-Alert also sends warnings by SMS to phones in the affected area, including those on foreign numbers. On some foreign numbers the message arrives from an ordinary phone number rather than the sender name LU-Alert, because some countries turn text sender names into numbers.
- A consumer who changes provider can ask the old provider to refund any remaining prepaid credit. The provider may charge a fee for the refund only if the contract says so, and the fee must reflect its real costs.
- A consumer living in Luxembourg or anywhere in the EU can ask the regulator's mediation service to settle a dispute with a Luxembourg telecom provider, once a complaint has first been made to the provider and no court case is under way.
How Luxembourg compares across Europe
- Regional typical speed
- 71 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, POST, Orange
- 5G
- Yes, non standalone
- Next fastest nearby
- Netherlands, 94 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Sweden, 91 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 1: Luxembourg City
