Telephones - main lines in use:
495,800 (2008)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
3.805 million (2008)

Telephone system:
general assessment: domestic and international facilities well developed
domestic: mobile-cellular telephone subscribership has increased rapidly with combined fixed and mobile-cellular teledensity reaching 130 per 100 persons in 2008
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 (2008)

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

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

Internet country code:
.pa

Internet hosts:
8,067 (2009)

Internet users:
934,500 (2008)