Prensa Latina reports on this trend.

Mobile Internet access in Panama makes fast progress, as the country has 43 percent users connected to the mobile network, according to a report on digital trends in Latin America.

Although email remains the most used service, social network has gained considerable ground, closely followed by online news searching, the research conducted in 15 countries of the region found.

However, there are no substantial changes in users’ interests, who keep searching for more videos and TV services.

Maybe this increase is due to the gradually increasing connectivity and bandwidth from cellular networks.

These technological advances contrasts with the highly expensive prices paid by users and therefore the low access poorer sectors of societies have to it, in a country with one of the highest inequality rates in the continent.

However, the seven million mobile lines working in Panama are the result of the expansion of different services of this kind of product and the ferocious competition among four companies to have control over the domestic market.

The mobile phone companies Movistar, Claro, +Móvil and Digicel had a turnover of 3.7 billion dollars between 2008 and 2014; a third of that amount was reached only last year, according to Public Services Authority.