Millicom acquried the South American assets of Telefonica.

Millicom, an international telecommunications and media company, acquried the entire share capital of Telefónica Móviles Panamá, S.A., Telefónica de Costa Rica TC, S.A from Telefonica. The total purchase price is $1.6bn. Mauricio Ramos, CEO of Millicom said "This significant investment of market leading mobile operations will make our combined businesses even stronger. We are acquiring the #1 mobile operator in Panama and in Nicaragua and the #2 mobile operator in Costa Rica. As a result, we now have both fixed and mobile in every market we operate in Latin America. The transaction gives us full in-market scale and the benefits of significant synergies. Furthermore, together with our earlier acquisition of Cable Onda in Panama we are reshaping the industry landscape in Central America, paving the way for a healthy investment environment to help fulfil our purpose of building the digital highways that will connect our people and develop our communities in these countries."