Panama: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 620,436 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 17 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 6.947 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 190 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: domestic and international facilities well-developed domestic: mobile-cellular telephone subscribership has increased rapidly international: country code - 507; landing point for the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1), the MAYA-1, and PAN-AM submarine cable systems that together provide links to the US and parts of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America; satellite earth (2015) |
Broadcast media | multiple privately owned TV networks and a government-owned educational TV station; multi-channel cable and satellite TV subscription services are available; more than 100 commercial radio stations (2007) |
Internet country code | .pa |
Internet users | total: 1.873 million percent of population: 51.2% (July 2015 est.) |