Mobile accessibility, landlines and internet are well developed in Panama. In many cities there are internet cafes and even "InternetParaTodos" hotspots.
International dialing code for Panama: +507
Telephone / Mobile phone
In order to save the high roaming fees as a tourist and vacationer, you should opt for cheap prepaid offers and call e.g. via Skype with families and friends.
The best known companies in the country for telecommunications are Movistar (Telefonica Company = O2), Claro, Digicel and +Movil.
To top up the prepaid offers there are orange machines e.g. at the airport or the bus terminals. Furthermore, you can buy small scratch cards for 2, 5 or 10 dollars at many shopping malls. At Movistar you often get a fivefold increase of the amount and several free minutes in the same network, as well as good offers for mobile internet.
A typical info SMS is for example
"HOY 300 Minutos MOVISTAR y 5x tu Recarga! Solo Recarga hoy $3 y recibe $15 y adicional 300 Minutos MOVISTAR x 48hrs FREE. Solo aplica Plan Promo.Val 15-16mar"Internet
In most hotels today, guests get free access to the internet via WiFi. Throughout Panama, LTE technology continues to expand, allowing for extreme mobile bandwidths. In one hotel we even had 18Mbit download and 32Mbit upload speeds - the absolute madness. In many cities there are internet cafes, also along the main roads the network is very well developed and there are partly hotspots with "InternetParaTodos" a free internet for everyone! In the coaches on the route between Panama-David you also have good reception.
Simple USB Internet sticks are available, for example, from Claro for 15-20 dollars, here you can then buy packages from 2 dollars / day to 25 dollars for 30 days.
For TV, Internet and landline packages there are current offers from Claro, CableOnda and Cable & Wireless, which are now even offered in rural areas.