LEUDELANGE, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Millicom International Cellular S.A. (“Millicom”)(STO:MIC)(NASDAQ:MICC) today announces that its cable business in Costa Rica, which has been operating under the brand name ‘Amnet’, has been rebranded to Tigo. It joins Millicom’s three other cable businesses in Central America already operating under the Tigo brand in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
Tigo is Millicom’s brand across all its markets in Latin America and Africa. Tigo has built a strong reputation for the provision of affordable, widely accessible and readily available communication, information, entertainment, mobile financial services and other value added services, all of which are designed to meet the specific needs of customers.
Angelo Iannuzzelli, the company’s General Manager in Costa Rica commented: “We are celebrating this change and we will offer our customers innovation in cable television, internet and phone services. Tigo will make a difference in the market.”
Tigo Costa Rica is, in conjunction with the rebranding, also launching new, attractively bundled products and services. Notably, the offering to corporate customers is enriched with new features such as a state of the art video conferencing solution. Tigo Costa Rica’s residential customers will be offered access to Video O n Demand services, HD quality and the option to watch internet content on their TV screens.
Mikael Grahne, Millicom’s President and CEO, commented: “The Tigo brand is derived from the Spanish word ‘contigo’, which means ‘with you’. Across our operations we pride ourselves on being close to our customers, understanding what drives their consumption choices and devising attractive products and services to meet their needs. We are delighted that our range of cable and broadband services in Costa Rica is now part of the growing Tigo family.”
About Millicom
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 various combinations of fixed telephony, cable and broadband businesses in five countries in Central America. The Group’s mobile operations have a combined population under license of approximately 270 million people.
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