
Telecommunication in Panama
Compared to the European Union, Panama has a slight downturn in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +507, there were a total of 6.47 million connections in 2020. Among them were 5.83 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.4 per person. In the EU, this figure is 1.2 mobile phones per person.With about 11,022 webhosts, Panama is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 6,371 million of these, or about 58 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 94.39 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Panama ranked 27th in an international comparison. The upload rate of only 13.24 Mbit/second was significantly lower (94th place). The quality of the Internet, consisting of signal fluctuations (jitter) and latency, is very far ahead at 44th place.In mobile internet, i.e. on tablets and smartphones, Panama comes 104th with a download speed of 16.67 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 11 Mbit was enough for 43rd place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in February 2022 from 180 countries.
The following diagrams show the development of the various telephone and Internet connections as a percentage of the country's population. Values above 100% mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.
Access to the Internet in Panama from 1990 - 2020
Broadband internet in Panama 2001 - 2020

Landlines 1990 - 2020
Mobile phones 1990 - 2020
Distribution in 2020 | Panama Total | Panama percent | EU Total | EU percent |
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Internet users | 2.77 m | 64.25 % | 379.48 m | 84.74 % |
Broadband users | 562,413.00 | 13.03 % | 163.72 m | 36.56 % |
Landlines | 649,156.00 | 15.04 % | 160.15 m | 35.76 % |
Mobile cellulars | 5.83 m | 135.02 % | 540.56 m | 120.71 % |