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Millicom International Cellular S.A. is a global telecommunications group with mobile telephony operations in 14 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. It also operates cable and broadband businesses in five countries in Central America. The Group’s mobile operations have a combined population under license of approximately 267 million people.

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Tigo Pesa and WorldRemit enable easy international money transfers for the Tanzanian diaspora

Wed, Aug 19, 2015 09:00 CET

Stockholm, 19 August, 2015 – Millicom, (Stockholmsbörsen: MIC), today announced that Tigo Pesa, its Mobile Financial Services in Tanzania, has joined with WorldRemit, the London-based online peer to peer money transfer service. The partnership will enable the Tanzanian diaspora to directly send money to families and friends back home through their smartphones, tablets and computers.Announcing the launch in Dar es Salaam today, Tigo Head of Mobile Financial Services, Ruan Swanepoel, said Tigo Pesa is now the most common receive method for international remittances to Tanzania for WorldRemit

Millicom launches world’s first international mobile money service with currency conversion

Mon, Feb 24, 2014 09:50 CET

Stockholm, February 24, 2014 – Today, for the first time ever, mobile money users will be able to transfer cash across borders with currency conversion automatically included.Two of Millicom’s operations in Africa are pioneering the new international money transfer service. Tigo Cash users in Rwanda and Tigo Pesa customers in Tanzania will be able to send each other money in their respective currencies without having to travel and queue at a traditional bank or money agent. Using their mobile handsets, the service enables customers to use the funds to access a range of services in each

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Tigo Pesa and WorldRemit enable easy international money transfers for the Tanzanian diaspora

Millicom launches world’s first international mobile money service with currency conversion