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SBA Communications buys 7,000 Millicom sites for $975m

by Georgia Sweeting | Oct 29, 2024

Florida-based tower infrastructure company SBA communications has purchased 7,000 telecoms towers situated across South America from Millicom, in a deal worth $795 million.

Xavier Niel’s $4.1 billion bid for Millicom is too low, company says

by Georgia Sweeting | Jul 1, 2024

French billionaire Xavier Niel has offered to buy out the shareholders of Latin American telco group Millicom, valuing the group at $4.1 billion. Niel already owns a 29% stake in the company though his firm Atlas Investissement.

Billionaire Xavier Neil ponders Millicom acquisition

by Georgia Sweeting | May 28, 2024

French billionaire Xavier Niel is exploring the acquisition of Latin American telco group Millicom, which has been confirmed by both parties and a regulatory filing today.

Millicom expands partnership with Harmonic in Latin America

by Bradford Randall | Feb 21, 2024

Luxembourg-based telecommunications firm Millicom is expanding their partnership with Harmonic in Latin America, where Millicom has previously announced an intent to use Harmonic’s cOS broadband platform to provide high-speed internet to nine Latin American countries.

Millicom offloads 1,100 Colombian towers to KKR

by Harry Baldock | Jan 25, 2024

This week, Millicom’s subsidiary Tigo Colombia has agreed to sell around 1,100 of its mobile towers to US investment firm KKR. The towers will be managed by KKR in partnership with NEXO LatAm, the digital infrastructure platform that manages KKR’s fibre investments throughout Latin America.