Millicom buys Telefonica mobile businesses in Central America for $1.65 bln -statement
20/02/2019 21:26
Feb 20 (Reuters) - Millicom International Cellular
TIGOsdb.ST , a cable and mobile operator in Latin America and
Africa, said on Wednesday it has bought for $1.65 billion the
mobile telecommunications assets of Spain's Telefonica in
Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
Last month, Telefonica TEF.MC said it had reached an
agreement to sell its Guatemalan and El Salvadoran operations to
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's America Movil AMXL.MX .
(Reporting by Julia Love in Mexico City; Writing by Frank Jack
Daniel and Will Dunham)
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