03/14/2012

TelecoWorld: Panama

 

 

Official Name: Republic of Panama Capital: Panama City Population: 3,56 million (CEPAL 2011) Currency: Balboa Calling Code: +507 Regulator Agency: ASEP Autoridad Nacional de los Servicios Públicos

 

 

The figure presents the evolution of public telephony and cellulars in Panamá.

Source: Ente.

 

 

 

Thousands	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	∆Year
Mobile Accesses	1,749	2,174	3,011	3,915	6,067	6,496	7,281	12.08%
% Prepaid	92.1%	92.4%	93.5%	94.3%	94.8%	95.0%	93.5%	-
Fixed Accesses	470.5	488.3	495.3	524.0	536.4	553.1	542.5	(1.92%)
Broadband	17.6	112.7	150.3	196.2	233.9	275.6	282.8	2.61%

Source: ASEP and UIT.

 

 

Densities	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Mobile Accesses/100 inhab.	54.2	66.2	90.1	112.1	164.6	185.4	204.7
Fixed Accesses/100 inhab.	14.4	14.9	14.8	14.6	15.6	15.8	15.3
Broadband/100 inhab.	0.31	2.53	3.00	3.08	5.83	7.86	7.95

 

 

Fixed Telephony Operators

 

Panama Cable Wireless is the main local telephony operator, and its control is divided between: Cables Wireless (49%), Government of Panama (49%) and Employees (2%). C&W had 416 thousand fixed telephones in Sep/05 and 432 thousand in Sep/06.

 

 

 

 

Cellular Operator

 

The Bell South was acquired by Telefonica Moviles, with the other operations of Bell South in Latin America in march/2004.The operation was concluded in october/04 in Panama, appearing the Movistar.

 

 

 

 

 

TELECO PRODUCTS

Relatórios Teleco Telecom e Celular Workshop Teleco 23/May Consultoria Teleco Estudos e Outsourcing

EVENTS

More Events

REPORTS

Mavam