Panama has the fastest internet in Latin America

The information was organized by Cable.co.uk, badyzing the average download speed in 200 countries, recorded the number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the total number of tests performed per country and the time to download a movie in high definition (5 GB)

Panama was the best rated country in Latin America (excluding the Caribbean). While in Singapore it took 11 minutes and 18 seconds to download a 5GB movie, in Latin America there were better download times, in addition to Panama (one hour, 36 minutes and 54 seconds) , Puerto Rico (1 hour, 39 minutes and 15 seconds); Uruguay (1 hour, 50 minutes and 15 seconds); and Cuba (1 hour, 57 minutes 8 seconds).

For the Deputy Head of the National Authority for Government Innovation (AIG), Irvin A. Halman, local investment, competition and the demanding Panamanian market have led to telecommunication operators to improve their infrastructure to provide greater capacity to businesses and residential users, who increasingly depend on access to this valuable connectivity resource.

He pointed out that at the government level the various service platforms have created a need for exponential growth of broadband access, which, together with the national Internet 2.0 network – "Internet for all", which together more than 4,200 links as a whole have strengthened data networks in Panama, which allow to increase speeds, without increasing the cost to the end user.

The study, with more than 163 million broadband speed tests, was r For the second year in a row, M-Lab, an badociation between Open America Institute, Google Open Source Research, PlanetLab's 39, Princeton University and other partners, lasted twelve months and lasted until May 29, 2018.