Panama Communications 2008

Telephones - main lines in use:
432,900 (2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
1.694 million (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: domestic and international facilities well developed
domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular telephone density is approaching 70 telephones per 100 persons
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 stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); connected to the Central American Microwave System

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 101, FM 134, shortwave 0 (1998)

Television broadcast stations:
38 (including repeaters) (1998)

Internet country code:
.pa

Internet hosts:
7,078 (2007)