Panama enjoys the fastest internet in Latin America – In Segundos Panamá

Telecommunication operators have improved their infrastructure to provide greater capacity to businesses and residential users, who are increasingly dependent on connectivity, said Irvin Halman, general manager of AIG. of Latin America mainland, according to a study by the British cable company. Applied to 200 countries.

World League broadband speed 2018 (broadband global league) compliant by the M-Lab company and compiled by cable, made 163 million tests from May of last year to the same month of the year. 39, current, and placed the Isthmus at the 72nd place in the world, while in 2017 it occupied 108.

After 19,860 national network monitoring, the investigation determined that the average download of a five gigabyte high definition (HD) movie takes one hour, 36 minutes and 54 seconds, with a rate of 7.05 megabytes per second (Mbps)

Telecommunication operators have improved their infrastructure to provide greater capacity to businesses and residential users, who depend more and more on connectivity, said Irvin Halman, deputy head of the National Authority for Government Innovation. Estrella de Panamá

The study acknowledged that the world's average speed has increased by 23% in one year, in addition, it indicated as a characteristic the proportionality between the size and development of nations, and gave the example of Singapore, which runs the scale, whose economy relies heavily on the digital network.

In the Caribbean, in addition to Barbados located in the world ranking 39, are followed by Aruba (49), the Cayman Islands (55), Trinidad and Tobago (56), US Virgin Islands (61), Bahamas (65) and Jamaica (69); while in scale, the sector's high-development countries such as Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico have been left behind.

The inclusion of Cuba (82) with ten other nations for the first time in this world league. that the monitoring determined that a film of five Gb in HD, on average to download it in the Greater Antilles one hour, fifty-seven minutes with eight seconds in broadband, with a rate of 5.83 Mbps .

The M-Lab report placed the United States at the 20-point scale of the world, a lower position than the previous study and Canada in 33rd place, which fell by nine places, while the predominance of higher positions corresponded to Europe and some Asian countries. 19659004] The 2018 League also showed surprises of favorable changes as Romania moved from the 18th to the 5th, Luxembourg (from the 33rd to the 8th) and Andorra (from 42 to 18); and if not, there are Taiwan (from three to 13), Latvia (from six to 13) and Hong Kong (from nine to 19).

M-Lab is an badociation of the Open Technology Institute of New America, Google Open Source Research and PlanetLab of Princeton University, among others, and began the scale in 2017 with 189 countries; The study pointed out that exponential growth relies on state-of-the-art infrastructure.