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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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Millicom provides updated outlook during Investor Meeting in New York

Luxembourg, January 9, 2019 – Millicom’s common shares began trading on NASDAQ in the U.S. today under ticker symbol “TIGO”. To coincide with this important milestone, the company is hosting a meeting with investors and financial analysts to discuss its strategy and outlook. Presenters include: Mauricio Ramos, CEO; Tim Pennington, CFO; Esteban Iriarte, COO Latin America; Xavier Rocoplan, Chief Technology and Information Officer; Rachel Samrén, Chief External Affairs Officer; HL Rogers, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, among others. Presentation materials referenced during the event are

Luxembourg, October 23rd, 2018 Cable expansion accelerating

Q3 2018 highlights (i) ·  Solid Latam service revenue growth of 4.7% and EBITDA growth of 4.2% · Fourth consecutive quarter of positive organic mobile service revenue growth ·  Cable growth with Home revenue up 12.5% · Double-digit Home growth continues in Bolivia, Guatemala, Paraguay, and Honduras ·  Colombia investments driving improving operating and financial performance with EBITDA up 13.7% ·  Strong cash flow generation continues - equity free cash flow of $243 million YTD, up 18.9% ·  Cable Onda acquisition accelerates our cable expansion and completes

Tigo Business offers VMware Workspace ONE to business customers in Latin America

Luxembourg, October 10, 2018 – Millicom’s Tigo Business announced today it will start offering VMware Workspace ONE to its enterprise customers in Latin America. This digital workspace platform brings a new security standard for companies that want to protect their data while also allowing for employees to bring their own devices to work (BYOD). This product is available from Tigo Business in El Salvador and Colombia today, and will become available later on in Guatemala, Honduras, Bolivia and Paraguay. VMware Workspace ONE is an intelligence-driven digital workspace platform that simply

Millicom’s TigoUne recognized in Colombia’s list of Anticorruption Active Companies

Luxembourg, March 5th, 2018 – Millicom announced today that its Colombian subsidiary TigoUne has been recognized as the first telecommunications company in the list of Anticorruption Active Companies (Empresas Activas Anticorrupcion) in Colombia. The recognition is a testament to Millicom’s focus on ensuring the highest ethical standards in the way it does business across all its operations.  · TigoUne joins the list of Anticorruption Active Companies after being assessed by The Secretariat of Transparency of the President’s Office. · It is one of 18 companies who received this

Millicom’s Colombian subsidiary signs agreement to sell and lease back towers to American Tower

Luxembourg 18 July, 2017 – Millicom International Cellular S.A. ("Millicom") announced today that its subsidiary Colombia Móvil S.A. E.S.P (“Tigo”) has agreed to sell approximately 1,200 wireless communications towers to a subsidiary of American Tower Corporation (“ATC”) in Colombia.  As a result of the transaction, Tigo will receive approximately 448 billion COP, equivalent to US$147 million, in cash.As part of the transaction, Tigo and ATC have entered into a long-term agreement in local currency whereby ATC will lease to Tigo wireless communications towers to support its wireless

US$ 300 million syndicated loan closed in Colombia

Luxembourg, June 22, 2017 – Millicom International Cellular S.A. ("Millicom") announced today that its subsidiary Colombia Movil closed a US$ 300 million syndicated loan. The loan, denominated in US dollars, carries an interest rate of 250 basis points over LIBOR and has an average maturity of 4.5 years. Proceeds will be used to repay an inter-company loan from Millicom, which in turn plans to use the funds to reduce holding company debt and for general corporate purposes. The facility was led by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and The Bank of Nova Scotia as Joint Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners.

Partnership with Facebook’s internet.org in Colombia

Stockholm, 15 January, 2015 – Millicom, the international telecommunications and media company (Stockholmsbörsen: MIC), announced today a partnership between its Tigo operation in Colombia with Facebook’s Internet.org initiative. It follows the collaboration begun in Paraguay in December 2013 and Tanzania in April 2014.The exclusive partnership gives Tigo customers the opportunity to access a number of information, social media and government services without any data charges via the internet.org app. These include: -           AccuWeather -           Facebook -           UN Women:

Merger in Colombia completes to provide a new era of digital choice

Stockholm, 14 August, 2014 – Millicom (Stockholmsbörsen: MIC), the international telecommunications and media company, announced today the completion of the merger of its Tigo mobile business with the cable and fixed line operator UNE, owned by Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM).The merger of the two operations will: · create a business offering a comprehensive range of bundled digital services to millions of households including mobile and fixed telephony, mobile and fixed products · exploit the complementary offerings of Tigo with UNE and its affiliates and · execute a key

Final regulatory approval given to merger with UNE – transaction due to complete shortly

Stockholm, 3 August, 2014 – Millicom (Stockholmsbörsen: MIC), the international telecommunications and media company, announced today that the proposed merger of its Tigo operation in Colombia with UNE has been given the last of the authorities’ regulatory approvals by the country’s Finance Superintendent.Millicom will now work with EPM, the owner of UNE, to complete the transaction and prepare a joint shareholder meeting within the next few weeks. Following the meeting, it intends to announce the directors and officers of the merged company. A further announcement on the effective date

Millicom merger with UNE receives first of three regulatory approvals from Colombian authorities

Stockholm, 16 April, 2014 – Millicom today announced that its proposed merger with UNE in Colombia has been given conditional approval by the country’s regulator for Industry and Commerce, the SIC.The SIC’s approval includes conditions on use of spectrum, the terms of which the company is reviewing. The proposed merger is also being considered by two other regulatory bodies concerned with television (the ANTV) and Finance (SIF) and expects their decisions shortly to enable the transaction to take effect in Q2.

Millicom launches a free social TV app in Colombia

Stockholm, April 1, 2014 – Millicom (Stockholmsbörsen: MIC) today unveiled mi.tv (www.mi.tv), a free social TV application available for Android phones and a web app for smartphones, PCs and tablets.mi.tv will revolutionize the way users get guidance, information and inspiration on what’s airing on TV, follow shows, be reminded of favourite programmes and share the experience with friends. Users can tailor the service to their own taste and link to social media. mi.tv recommends shows based on users’ preferences, requiring no more browsing and zapping around 300 cable TV channels to find

Millicom completes issue of 8-year bond

Stockholm, October 16, 2013 – Millicom, the leading international telecommunications and media company (Stockholmsbörsen: MIC), announced today that it has successfully completed the issuance of a new US dollar denominated bond.The company successfully completed the issuance of an eight year $800m bond with a fixed coupon of 6.625%. The demand for the bond reached $2.4bn. Millicom intends to use the proceeds to finance its proposed merger transaction in Colombia.

Millicom and EPM finalise merger agreement

· Millicom and EPM have completed the full documentation of the merger agreement for the combination of their Colombian telecommunications and media businesses · The transaction will now be reviewed by the Colombian authorities. Provided this process concludes positively, we expect the transaction to complete by the end of H1 2014 Stockholm, October 1, 2013. Millicom, the international telecommunications and media company (Stockholmsbörsen: MIC) and Empresas Públicas de Medellín E.S.P. (‘EPM’), the largest public service company in Colombia, signed today a final agreement to combine

Millicom and EPM reach principal agreement

· Millicom and EPM conclude principal negotiations on structure and key terms for the combination of Millicom’s Colombian operations with fixed-line company UNE to create an integrated digital player · The combination represents an attractive opportunity to continue Millicom’s strategic transformation into a diversified digital player and to migrate towards the target of doubling revenue by 2017 and increasing profit · The proposed combination is expected to be accretive to Millicom FCF in 2014. Synergies of over $600 million of NPV have been identified · Transaction is subject to

Millicom & EPM in exclusive negotiations for a potential combination of their telecom businesses in Colombia

Stockholm, February 5, 2013 – Millicom International Cellular S.A. (“Millicom”) (Stockholmsbörsen: MIC) announces today that it has entered into exclusive negotiations with EPM regarding the possible combination of their Colombian telecom operations.EPM (Empresas Públicas de Medellín) is an industrial and commercial conglomerate owned by the municipality of Medellín. It is the largest shareholder of UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones (‘UNE’) which provides cable TV and fixed telephony services across the region encompassing Medellín, the second largest city in Colombia. UNE owns 25% of Colombia

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