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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 Paraguay Becomes First Provider in Latin America to Gain GSMA Mobile Money Certification

Luxembourg, December 5th, 2018 – Millicom’s subsidiary Tigo Paraguay has become the first provider in Latin America to gain GSMA Mobile Money Certification. The certification scheme, which was launched in April 2018, is a global initiative to bring safer, more transparent and more resilient financial services to millions of mobile money users around the world. “Today, we’re empowering more than 5 million people with Tigo Money across Latin America who otherwise would be excluded from the local economies. As an operator, we are setting new standards in the region around customers’ privacy

New Study Underscores Millicom’s Socio-Economic Impact on Latin America

Results illustrate significant contribution to digital innovation, social wellbeing, and economic growth.Luxembourg, November 28th, 2018 – Millicom, a leading provider of cable and mobile services that operates under the TIGO brand in Latin America, recently commissioned a study about its socio-economic impact in the countries where the company has a presence. The study, which was conducted by Copenhagen Economics, showed that the company has invested over US$ 3.7 billion in Central and South America from 2014 to 2017, which represents 4.4% of the combined direct foreign investment in

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

Millicom acquires spectrum in Paraguay

Luxembourg, January 5th, 2018 - Millicom International Cellular S.A. ("Millicom") announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary in Paraguay, Telefónica Celular del Paraguay SA (Tigo), has acquired three of the seven available blocks of 2x5MHz spectrum in the 700MHz band at a total cost of $36.325m, plus certain social and network coverage obligations.  Jose Perdomo, General Manager of Tigo Paraguay, commented: “This new spectrum will allow us to cost-effectively continue to expand our 4G network in Paraguay and provide high-speed mobile data services to more Paraguayans. We are proud

Millicom signs agreement to sell and lease back towers to American Tower in Paraguay

Luxembourg 26 April, 2017 – Millicom International Cellular S.A. ("Millicom") announced today that its subsidiary Telefonica Celular del Paraguay S.A.  (“Tigo Paraguay”) has agreed to sell approximately 1,400 wireless communications towers to a subsidiary of American Tower Corporation (“ATC”) in Paraguay.  As a result of the transaction, Tigo Paraguay will receive approximately Gs700 billion, equivalent to US$125 million, in cash.Additionally, Tigo Paraguay and ATC have entered into a long term local currency leasing agreement whereby ATC will provide Tigo Paraguay with wireless

Millicom signs agreement to acquire TV Cable Paraná in Paraguay

Stockholm, 15 February, 2016 - Millicom boosts its cable expansion plans today with the announcement that it will acquire TV Cable Paraná, the leading cable platform in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay’s second largest city. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval.Millicom’s Home brand Tigo Star already provides pay-TV and broadband in most other urban regions in Paraguay. Tigo is deploying and modernizing both fixed and mobile networks to fulfil the growing need for Paraguayans to connect to the internet. TV Cable Paraná covers around 40,000 homes passed with approximately 15,000

Tigo Paraguay announces the construction of Paraguay’s first UPTIME Tier 3 Certified Data Centre

· Millicom, known as Tigo in Paraguay has successfully obtained UPTIME Design TIER 3 Certification on its new data centre which will go live in April 2016. · Millicom’s partner who will deliver the data centre in record time is Swedish Pre-Fabricated Data Centre Specialist Flexenclosure. · The new facility will enable Tigo to target Paraguay’s growing demand from businesses with new services under the Tigo Business brand · The data centre will deliver much needed disaster recovery services, in line with the government’s Critical Infrastructure Protection, especially in the wake of

Tigo Paraguay to offer customers 4G internet accessible on all enabled smartphones

12 January 2016 – Millicom announces that Tigo Paraguay is preparing to launch 4G/LTE commercial services and high speed internet on all enabled smartphones. Customers this month are replacing their Sim cards with 4G Sim cards for free, in anticipation of Tigo’s soon expected roll-out of 4G/LTE commercial services in Paraguay.Paraguay’s National Telecommunications Council, known as CONATEL, approved Tigo Paraguay’s application for a 4G license in the 1,700-2,100 MHz (AWS) band in December 2015. Tigo, Paraguay’s leading mobile network operator, has agreed to pay USD$45 million for three

Facebook partnership with Millicom

Stockholm, 17 December, 2013 – Millicom announced today a partnership between Facebook and Tigo in Paraguay. For the first time, Facebook appears in a TV campaign cobranded with Tigo Paraguay - the country’s premier mobile operator. With this launch, Millicom is leading the digital way in Latin America.The partnership means Tigo customers can now access Facebook through their handset without incurring any data charges and connect with the social media network’s two million users in Paraguay and its 1.2 billion users worldwide. Additionally, it is the first time any major social media

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