NEW YORK & STOCKHOLM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Millicom International Cellular S.A. (“Millicom”) (Nasdaq Stock Market: MICC and Stockholmsbörsen: MIC) today announces that it has completed the transaction announced on September 16, 2009 and has sold, on materially the same terms, its 74.1% share of its operations in Laos to Vimpelcom.
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Millicom International Cellular S.A. is a global telecommunications group with mobile telephony operations in 13 countries in Latin America and Africa. 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 260 million people.
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