Paraguay coverage

What the Paraguay numbers mean

Two numbers matter and only one of them is the one every seller quotes. The typical speed, 31 Mbps, tells you what a good moment looks like.

The tenth percentile, 7 Mbps, is the one that matters. It is the speed in the worst tenth of the day, when the cell above the station is full and everybody around you is on it too. A country with a high median and a low floor is a country that works beautifully right up until the moment you actually need it.

If the trip depends on video calls or tethering, plan around the busy figure rather than the typical one.

What happens in Paraguay when the network is busy

Congestion is not a fault, it is a Tuesday evening. The question is what your eSIM can do about it, and for most travel eSIMs the answer is nothing: one wholesale agreement per country, one network, and no way out except buying a second eSIM from somebody else while standing in the street.

Here, Orbislo traffic runs over Tigo and Personal. When the network you are on degrades we move you to another one, mid trip, without you asking, and tell you afterwards rather than interrupting you at the time.

Mobile operators in Paraguay

• Telecel: Telecel held 45.89 percent of Paraguay's active mobile lines in 2024 and has had the largest share since 2019, according to the regulator CONATEL's report on mobile telephony and internet.
• Nucleo: Nucleo held 27.69 percent of Paraguay's active mobile lines in 2024, the second largest share among the four licensed operators, CONATEL reports.
• AMX Paraguay: AMX Paraguay held 22.35 percent of the country's active mobile lines at the end of 2024, according to CONATEL's 2019 to 2024 report.
• Hola Paraguay: The state owned operator Hola Paraguay held 4.06 percent of active mobile lines in 2024, a share that stayed roughly stable across the period CONATEL studied.

5G in Paraguay

• On 4 August 2026 CONATEL granted national licences for mobile broadband in new bands: Nucleo received 3700 to 3800 MHz and Telecel received 2300 to 2400 MHz, following public tender 01/2026.

Network notes for Paraguay

• Paraguay had about 9.2 million mobile users in 2024, a penetration of 144 percent, and 74.2 percent of active users were on prepaid plans, according to CONATEL.
• Between 2019 and 2024 average mobile latency in Paraguay fell from 41 to 29 milliseconds and average download speed rose 17.6 percent, while the average cost per gigabyte fell by more than half, CONATEL reports.