COMPLETION OF SALE OF MILLICOM'S SRI LANKA OPERATION

COMPLETION OF SALE OF MILLICOM'S SRI LANKA OPERATION

New York and Stockholm, 16 October 2009 - Millicom International Cellular S.A.
(“Millicom”) (Nasdaq Stock Market: MICC and Stockholmsbörsen: MIC) today
announces that the unconditional agreement for the sale of Tigo (Private)
Limited, its Sri Lanka operation, to Etisalat has now closed.

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Francois-Xavier Roger
Chief Financial Officer
Telephone:  +352 27 759 327

Peregrine Riviere
Head of External Communications
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Emily Hunt
Investor Relations
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Millicom International Cellular S.A. is a global telecommunications group with
mobile telephony operations in 15 countries in Asia, 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 287 million people.

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to Millicom's expectations and plans, strategy, management's objectives, future
performance, costs, revenues, earnings and other trend information.  It is
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on Form 20-F, for a discussion of certain of these factors.

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above. Millicom does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.