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2021 Millicom Annual Report

MILLICOM INTERNATIONAL CELLULAR S.A.

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The empowering effect of connectivity 
should never be underestimated.

 
 
 
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Connectivity has the power to bring families 
together, educate children and inspire dreamers 
to reach their full potential. It can open limitless 
doors for businesses—to innovate more, grow 
faster or aim higher, whether you’re a small 
business owner or a CEO. 

We’re committed to connectivity and 
all that it empowers. And we’re proud 
to provide the broadband and mobile 
connections that make it possible. 

Our purpose, to build the digital highways 
that connect people, improve lives and 
develop our communities, drives us in all 
we do. We fulfill our purpose with a shared 
passion for our customers and a tireless 
commitment to doing what’s right—from 
narrowing the digital divide to reducing our 
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to catalyzing 
economic growth in developing markets. 

Eventually, everything connects. We strive to 
make sure everyone connects, too. 

Through our Tigo and Tigo Business brands, 
we provide a wide range of digital services, 
including high-speed data, cable TV, voice, 
Mobile Financial Services and business 
solutions. In 2021, we served customers in nine 
Latin American markets—Bolivia, Colombia, 
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, 
Nicaragua, Panama and Paraguay—as well as 
in Tanzania in Africa.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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1 Unless otherwise indicated, all references to “U.S. dollars,” “dollars” or “$” are to the lawful currency of the United States of America

2 Formerly Carbon Disclosure Project

Millicom 2021 Annual ReportAbout This Report Our sixth fully integrated annual report combines our financial1 and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance to provide our stakeholders a comprehensive overview of our purpose, business strategies, performance, actions and impact. The report identifies and quantifies how we perform as a company to create business value, transform communities and protect our environment in alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. We conduct bi-yearly materiality assessments to identify the issues of greater importance to our stakeholders. Our latest assessment (link) was conducted in 2020 and helped us better understand the impact of COVID-19 on our stakeholders’ perspectives. During 2020, we also conducted a gap analysis against investor-based frameworks, including the Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), and investor rating agency questions, all of which continue to shape our disclosures. The content is also mapped against Global Reporting Index (GRI) and Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards and is aligned with our 2021 TCFD reporting, published in our CDP2 report. The GRI and SASB indexes can be found in: https://www.millicom.com/results/ar-2021/. This year, we evolved how we communicate ESG to better align with leading ESG reporting frameworks and to help stakeholders better understand our issue-specific approaches. You’ll see the results on our website and in this report. We will continue to incorporate findings from these and other assessments and approaches in future reports and to seek feedback from investors, customers, employees and community leaders to inform our ESG efforts. Learn more about our ESG reporting approach here.ERM Certification and Verification Services (ERM CVS) has conducted independent assurance of selected 2021 ESG data. To understand the scope, activities and conclusions of the assurance process, please see the ERM CVS Assurance Statement, on starting on pages 42.3 

Note: Our Latin American (Latam) segment includes our Honduras joint venture as if it were fully consolidated, as this reflects the way our 
management reviews and uses internally reported information to make decisions about operating matters. It also includes our Guatemala 
operation.See also note A.1.2. in the notes to our audited consolidated financial statements for information regarding the acquisition of the 
remaining 45% equity interests in our Guatemala joint venture business on November 12, 2021.We also report in this way to provide increased 
transparency to investors in these operations.

Millicom 2021 Annual ReportWhat's Inside this ReportOverview04 Chairman’s Message05 Chief Executive Officer’s Message07 Our Year in Numbers08 Our Market Leadership09Our Purpose, Business Strategies and Performance10 Our Purpose12 Our Business Strategies and Performance 12 2021 Highlights 14 Chief Financial Officer’s Message 15  Our 2021 Financial Performance in  Latin America 19 Advancing Our Business Strategy23 Risk management 25 Evolution of Risk 26 Risk Management Tables30Our ESG Approach and impact  33 ESG Performance Tables42 Assurance Letter44 Environment49 Society63 Corporate Governance 64 Chairman’s ReportFramework and Shareholder Governance 65 Corporate Governance Framework 65 Shareholders and Shareholders’ MeetingBoard Governance 68 Board of Directors and Board Committees	72	Board	Profile:	Skills	and	Experience 77 Board Program 79 Board Committees 80 I. Audit Committee 86  II. Compliance and Business  Conduct Committee	88		III.	Compensation	Committee:	Remuneration ReportManagement Governance	103	Millicom	CEO	and	Executive	Team 111 Directors’ Financial and Operating Report 112 Management Responsibility Statement113Disclaimers and Non-IFRS Reconciliations114 Forward Looking Statements115 Non-IFRS Measures117 Non-IFRS Reconciliations123Financial Statements 215Corporate Information4 

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Chairman’s Message

As I reflect on the past year, I’m inspired 
by how much we accomplished—both 
in our financial performance and our 
steadfast commitment to the people, 
businesses and communities we 
serve. Our unwavering commitment 
to our business strategy paid off with 
significant growth in all of our markets, 
aided by strategic investments in our 
network and operations.

We  attribute our exceptional achievements to the 
commitment of everyone at Millicom—from our CEO to our 
Senior Leadership Team to each and every employee—to 
fulfilling our purpose. We build the digital highways that 
connect people, improve lives and develop communities. It 
was true 30 years ago when we launched, and it’s just as true 
today. 

Throughout 2021, our company responded to Millicom’s risks, 
challenges and opportunities with strong governance and 
oversight. The Board approved our divestment from our Africa 
business and the redeployment of capital into new growth 
opportunities in Latin America. Alongside the acquisition 
of the remaining 45% of our business in Guatemala, these 
moves strengthened Millicom’s position as the region’s 
leading telecom provider and put us on a path to strong, 
sustainable growth. 

The Board also provided  oversight of Millicom’s ongoing 
response to COVID-19, including adjusting our financial 
structure and restarting shareholder remuneration in response 
to our improved financial performance. After putting select 
strategies and investments on hold in the early days of the 
pandemic, we were able to execute our business strategy in 
full force in 2021. More details about Millicom’s approach to 
risk can be found starting on page 23 of this year’s report.

The Board believes a strong compliance culture is vital to the 
success of our business—and we’re proud to be a leader on 
ethics and compliance in our markets. Led by our Executive 
and Legal, Ethics and Compliance Teams, we continued 
developing and expanding our compliance program in 2021, 
embedding ethical behaviors into every one of our daily 
decisions and workflows. 

We’re equally proud of the increased diversity on our Board. 
With three new additions, we diversified by gender, age, identity 
and nationality in 2021, as well as introduced new experiences, 
backgrounds and business disciplines to our Board’s mix. 
Diversity is one of the core pillars of our Sangre Tigo culture 
and is a key strength for Millicom. We continued fostering a 
DE&I mindset at all levels of Tigo this year, including providing 
exciting and interactive training courses to help us create an 
environment where every voice is heard and respected. 

Finally, we reinforced our commitment to reducing the 
environmental impact of Millicom’s operations, improving 
information security and protecting our customers’ privacy. 

These and many other accomplishments in 2021 connect 
directly to the passionate and talented employees who 
embody our Sangre Tigo corporate culture. We thank them for 
their deep commitment to our purpose and their ability to rise 
to every challenge and opportunity. They are the life force of 
Tigo and we’re immensely proud of their dedication. 

I also want to thank my fellow Board members for contributing 
their business expertise and industry knowledge. And I want 
to extend the entire Board’s gratitude to departing members 
Tomas Eliasson and Lars-Åke Norling for their invaluable 
contributions over the past several years.

Lastly, we want to thank you for being part of Millicom’s success 
story. We look forward to continuing this journey with you.  

José Antonio Ríos García
Chairman of the Board of Directors

 
 
 
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Chief Executive 
Officer’s Message

If there’s one message I hope our 
employees, investors and other 
stakeholders take away this year, it’s 
this: We deserve to be proud. After 
a 2020 that tested our resilience in 
ways we never could have anticipated, 
Millicom performed exceptionally well 
in 2021. 

Our customers’ trust in Tigo is at an all-time high. We gained 
market share throughout the year, posting strong gains in 
every quarter. We affirmed our standing as Central America's 
leading telecommunications provider by inking deals to 
acquire full control of Tigo Guatemala and to divest in Africa. 
Our investments in modernizing and expanding our Central 
American networks have positioned us for sustained growth in 
markets with untapped digital potential. 

Perhaps most importantly, we demonstrated we have the 
fortitude, capabilities, strategies, teams and culture to emerge 
from a crisis stronger than we’ve ever been. And we did it 
while remaining laser-focused on our purpose, which is to build 
the digital highways that connect people, improve lives and 
develop our communities. 

I couldn’t be prouder. And I encourage our employees and 
leaders to feel the same sense of pride when reflecting on our 
accomplishments together. 

Every business line and every country in Latin America 
contributed to our outstanding performance. We added 3.1 
million mobile customers and 415,000 HFC home customers 
this year, strengthening our position as the leading telecom 
provider in our markets. We also continued executing our 
2021 investment plan, which included expanding our 
Colombia mobile network and modernizing our mobile 
networks in El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay and Bolivia.

Our revenue for 2021 increased 10.7% to $4.6 billion1. After 
making some difficult but necessary financial decisions last 
year to maintain operating cash flow and reduce debt, our 
improved financial position this year enabled us to invest an 
additional 23%in capital expenditures, while also exceeding 

our operating cash flow target for the year. We were able 
to resume shareholder remuneration in Q3, repurchasing 
approximately 1% of our shares outstanding.

Beyond our strong operating and financial performance, I’m 
excited to introduce you to our new Environmental, Social and 
Governance (ESG) framework, which represents a new way 
of communicating our longstanding corporate responsibility 
commitments and accomplishments. Our reason for the 
transition is simple: we wanted to provide a more complete 
picture of how social and environmental criteria play an 
integral role in every part of our business. 

Our new framework helps clarify our ESG commitments  while 
illustrating the intertwined relationship between our purpose, 
business strategies and ESG principles. It’s vital that we tell 
this story authentically. 

In practice, this means measuring our success by financial 
results, yes, but also how we contribute to the lives of our 
employees and the people in the communities we serve, and 
how we reduce our impact on the environment. 

We made dramatic progress across our ESG agenda in 2021, 
including committing to new Science-Based Targets to reduce 
our greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions in the coming years 
and by joining Race to Zero, the UN-backed campaign aimed 
at promoting a healthy, resilient, zero carbon recovery. See 
our Environmental section on page 44 to read more about our 
commitment. 

The digital divide and a lack of digital literacy continue to 
prevent as many as half the people in our markets from 
fully participating in society. We responded with initiatives 
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Unfortunately, many of our markets are still burdened by  
COVID-19. Throughout the pandemic, we’ve teamed up with 
government and community leaders to keep connectivity 
flowing and support the critical health needs of our 
communities. We remain deeply committed to the health and 
well-being of our employees and customers, as well as their 
friends and families. 

At Millicom, we believe doing good is good for our business, 
and that our business itself is good for our communities. Our 
Sangre Tigo culture is the beating heart of this belief. It’s how 
we rose to the challenge in 2021, and how we’ll make Tigo 
even better as we look to the future.

I’m thrilled to share this year’s annual report with you. As 
you’ll see on the pages that follow, our strategies are honed, 
our purpose is clear and our potential is far-reaching. Thank 
you to everyone—our employees, our customers, our Board, 
our community partners and our shareholders—for making 
it so. 

Finally, a special thanks to Tim Pennington, who will retire 
from his role of Chief Financial Officer on April 1. Tim joined 
the company in 2014 and played a leading role in steering the 
company through a period of significant transformation. Tim's 
stewardship and contributions extended well beyond the 
finance function to touch every part of the business. He will be 
missed, and we wish him well in this next chapter of his life.

Mauricio Ramos 
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer

increase digital access and literacy among vulnerable children 
by bringing together the two things that children in Latin 
America love most: fútbol and the internet. 

We also continued to provide digital literacy and 
entrepreneurship training to women and adolescent girls 
in Latin America through our Conectadas program. We’re 
particularly excited about our progress in El Salvador, where 
more than 6,000 women received entrepreneurship training 
through Conectadas, helping them capitalize on new 
business opportunities. These and other efforts reinforce our 
ongoing support of the UN Global Compact and Sustainable 
Development Goals.

We want to do more than just connect our communities; we 
want to be a conduit of investment capital for developing 
economies. For example, we announced a plan to invest $250 
million in Panama to boost local infrastructure and create 
a new fintech hub. The hub will boost the local economy, 
bring jobs to the country and serve our growing Tigo 
Money business in the region. Additionally, we secured full 
ownership of our Guatemala business in a transaction that is 
immediately accretive to our cash flow and net income and 
reflects our continued confidence in the thriving economy 
of Guatemala and our renewed commitment to the digital 
transformation of its society.

Internally, we remained focused on making Tigo a great 
place to work. We strengthened our already strong diversity, 
equity and inclusion (DE&I) programs this year, in our ongoing 
quest to make sure every Tigo employee feels empowered 
to contribute authentically. In that spirit, we established a 
new and ambitious target of reaching gender parity by 2030, 
including equal gender representation across the entire 
organization, as well as in its upper management positions 
globally.

A special thanks to Tim Pennington, 
who will retire from his role of Chief 
Financial Officer on April 1. He will 
be missed, and we wish him well in 
this next chapter of his life.

1 Financial results are presented on an IFRS basis and therefore do not consolidate the results from our Honduras joint venture. The results for our Guatemala subsidiary, are 
consolidated as from November 12, 2021. 

Millicom 2021 Annual ReportOur Year in Numbers
Financial, Operational and ESG Highlights

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Financial Highlights ("IFRS")

Operational Highlights ("Latam")

Revenue ($m)

4G Mobile Data Users (m)

2019 

2020 

2021

$4,336

$4,171

 $4,617

2019 

2020 

2021 

Gross Profit ($m)

HFC Homes Passed (m)

2019

2020

2021 

$3,135

$3,000

$3,316

2019 

2020 

2021

HFC Customer Relationships (m)

Financial results are presented on an IFRS basis and therefore excludes the 
results from our Guatemala operations (until November 12, 2021 as explained 
in Note A.1.2 to the Financial Statements) and Honduras joint ventures.  

The following Indicators reflect Latam segment (with Honduras and 
Guatemala).  

»  4G Customers

»  HFC Homes Passed

»  HFC Customer Relationships

»  Tigo Business Customers

Employees, contractors and ESG highlights reflect Latam and Africa.

2019

2020

2021

15.4

18.2

21.4 

11.5

11.9

12.4

3.5

3.7

4.1

345,000 

Tigo Business 
accounts

20,687

full-time employees 
and approximately 
12,000 contractors

Environmental, Social & Governance 
("ESG") Highlights ("Latam and Africa")

112,737

Teachers trained through Maestr@s Conectad@s

158,881 

Women who participated in our digital inclusion 
and training programs ("Conectadas") 

84% 

Percentage of Consumer Premise Equipment (CPE) 
recovered upon service termination or upgrades

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  Honduras 
Mobile #1
BBI #1
Pay TV #1

Guatemala 
Mobile #1
BBI #1
Pay TV #1

El Salvador
Mobile #1
BBI #2
Pay TV #2

Nicaragua 
Mobile #1 
BBI #2     
Pay TV #3

Panama
Mobile #1
BBI #1
Pay TV #1

Costa Rica 
BBI #3
Pay TV #2

Colombia 
Mobile #3
BBI #2
Pay TV #2

Market Leadership

Our long-term focus on converging Tigo’s fixed and mobile services 
throughout Latin America continues to pay dividends. Millicom’s 
gains in recent years stem from organic increases in our market 
share and investments in key acquisitions to further consolidate our 
regional footprint. 

We have invested more than $4.7 billion in Central America in the 
past three years, starting with our acquisition of companies in 
Panama and Nicaragua and our investment to assume full control 
of Tigo Guatemala. These assets allowed us to expand our portfolio 
of countries served and accelerate our fixed-mobile convergence 
strategy in the region. We also continue to modernize and expand 
our network in Latin America, with major infrastructure investments 
in Colombia, El Salvador, Panama, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Bolivia 
and Honduras. We are now the #1 or #2 mobile and/or broadband 
provider in many of the markets we serve.  

Modernization and expansion are key to making our network the 
most accessible and modern in the countries we serve, with the 
widest coverage area. Thanks to these and other investments, we’re 
providing customers with the high-quality fixed and mobile services 
they expect. And we’re meeting our own expectations to expand 
Latin America’s digital highways and advance economic prosperity 
in the region for years to come.

Bolivia 
Mobile #2
BBI #1
Pay TV #1

Paraguay
Mobile #1
BBI #1
Pay TV #1

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Our Purpose, 
Business 
Strategies and 
Performance

 
 
 
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Our Purpose
We build the digital highways that connect people, improve lives 
and develop communities.

We are what we believe.
We believe in connecting. In bridging distances. In 
strengthening the bonds that unite people across 
communities, cities and continents. 

We believe in helping businesses thrive. Whether 
it's a clothing retailer, an app developer, a parts 
manufacturer or a micro business owner, we 
empower entrepreneurs and organizations to 
compete in the 21st-century economy. 

Our purpose is to build the digital highways that 
power these connections. To inspire innovation 
and enable education. To promote equity and 
close the digital divide. To catalyze business 
growth. To create a better future for all. 

Everything we do extends from this purpose. 

Our business strategies focus on areas with the 
greatest economic potential, and areas where 
our investments can have a transformative 
impact. Our actions are a reflection of our values 
as people. From reducing GHG emissions, to 
increasing digital literacy among women and 
children, to expanding coverage in neglected 
communities, every one of our initiatives comes 
from a drive to always do better. To always be 
better. To provide value for our shareholders and 
all those who share our ideals. 

This is our story. This is our purpose.

Our Key Stakeholders
We engage a diverse group of stakeholders to inform 
our purpose, strategies and actions—from the 
customers who use our services, to the communities 
we work in, to the employees and investors who make 
everything we do possible. Here’s how we drive positive 
outcomes for these groups. 

Investors
We believe Millicom can serve as an investment 
vehicle for development in Latin America, helping 
us tap into the region’s tremendous potential and 
strengthen Millicom’s business. As our fixed and 
mobile networks reach more communities, we aim to 
continually grow our revenue and cash flow to create 
sustainable value for shareholders. 

Customers
Our digital highways supply the resources that 
empower individuals and organizations to aim higher 
and discover what the world has to offer. We strive 
to keep our products and services affordable so we 
can continue to open doors to learning, employment, 
commerce, entertainment, social interaction and 
civic involvement.

Communities
We depend on the communities in Latam as 
deeply as they depend on us. Through our strong 
governance and ESG initiatives in areas such as 
reducing our environmental footprint, safeguarding 
privacy, closing the digital divide, empowering 
women with technology skills and doing business 
the right way, we minimize risks, create new social 
and economic opportunities and reinforce Millicom’s 
standing in the community. 

Employees
We fulfill our purpose by sustaining an inclusive 
corporate culture that attracts talented people, 
values their diversity, inspires them to excel and 
rewards their accomplishments. Our culture is driven 
by what we call Sangre Tigo. It’s a shared belief in 
the purpose behind our work, a collective passion for 
making our customers the center of everything we 
do, a tireless commitment to doing what’s right and 
a deep sense of unity. 

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“We believe that building digital highways in Latin America will 
not only produce a great return for our investors, but also strong 
social contributions to those economies. That’s why we believe 
in the region.”

—Mauricio Ramos, CEO

Opportunities, Challenges and 
Uncertainties in Our Markets
Millicom’s future is deeply rooted in Latin America. While 
many of our markets are still grappling with the pandemic, 
local economies are gradually recovering as businesses 
and governments learn to adapt to this new reality. The 
International Monetary Fund World Economic Outlook 
projects that our Latin American markets will grow by roughly 
4.0% in 2022, above the regional average of 2.4%. But a lack 
of digital infrastructure threatens to hold these markets back. 
Accelerating the digital transition must be a priority for these 
countries’ economies to take the next step—and we’re laser 
focused on making it happen. 

Opportunities
High-speed connectivity has become indispensable to our 
customers and communities. The need for faster speeds and 
always-on service will only grow as more businesses in our 
markets embrace e-commerce and automation and adopt 
hybrid work models for their employees. With our modern 
network, market penetration and strategic framework, we 
believe we help lead a digital transformation in our markets 
and create sustained value for our shareholders. 

We have other reasons for optimism in the region. 
Remittances in countries like El Salvador, Guatemala and 
Nicaragua number in the billions of dollars per year, indicating 
a degree of economic stability that should bolster the region’s 
recovery. While the pandemic blunted its momentum, the 
middle class in Latin America had been growing steadily prior 
to COVID-19 and will likely rebound, further stabilizing local 
economies.  

In addition, the population in Latin America is likely to be 
more digitally savvy in the coming decades. Estimates say 
around 162 million of the region’s 661 million citizens are 
between the ages of 15 and 29, representing a significant 
growth opportunity for digital providers. The numbers 
suggest the transition may already be underway. While 
digital adoption rates are low overall (see “Challenges” below), 
annual growth rates for broadband and mobile are among the 
highest in the world.  

Challenges
Although Latin American economies are on the upswing, 
the pandemic took a devastating toll on communities and 
setbacks are possible. COVID-19 pushed millions into poverty 
and gutted local health systems. Unemployment skyrocketed 
and jobless rates remain high. Due to the fiscal restraints 
created by the pandemic, many governments are struggling to 
provide basic public services. We’ve grappled with this reality 
the past two years, but our business has grown regardless. 

The digital divide remains an obstacle. Many citizens in our 
markets live below the poverty line and/or live in an area 
that lacks broadband or mobile coverage. According to the 
World Bank, fewer than 50% of Latin American households 
have broadband access. The urban-rural divide is particularly 
stark, with 67% of urban households connected vs. 23% of 
rural households. Without internet access, these households 
miss out on critical e-learning, telehealth and employment 
opportunities and risk falling further behind.

We’re helping address this divide with initiatives across Tigo, 
most notably our investments in expanding rural coverage. Our 
partnership with Ericsson, for example, will extend network coverage  
to an additional 2.5 million people in Bolivia, Paraguay and Honduras. 

Uncertainties
COVID-19 remains a source of uncertainty in our markets. 
Vaccination rates have been increasing in our markets and are 
above 50% in Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Panama, 
but remained below 30% in Guatemala. Government 
responses to  outbreaks vary widely. That said, as vaccine 
access has been improving, most governments have stopped 
imposing strict lockdowns, reducing the potential for social 
unrest. We remain vigilant and ready to adapt should new 
strains of the virus emerge and governments change course. 

Our long-term success also hinges on the governments and 
regulators that control the digital spectrum. The broadband 
connectivity that Millicom provides is essential to private sector 
investment and growth, as well as the delivery of healthcare, 
education and other government services. 

We ask regulators to advance their digital economies with 
policies that prioritize affordable, long-term digital connectivity 
for users and businesses. In return for this stability, we will 
continue to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in the network 
infrastructure to serve individuals and businesses with robust 
speeds, expanded coverage areas and quality content. This 
issue is at the heart of digital development in these countries 
and is key to our strategic success. 

Millicom 2021 Annual ReportOur Purpose, Business Strategies 
and Performance

Our Business Strategies and Performance
Our purpose inspires our business strategies and drives their success. By shifting 
our focus in 2020 to keeping customers and employees safe and connected, we 
created the conditions for a robust 2021.

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2021 Highlights

Our revenue grew 10.7% year-over-year,  

aided by stronger commercial activity and consolidation 
of Guatemala (see Spotlight on next page).

78%

Network enhancements expanded our Latam mobile 
coverage area to 78% in our markets.

With 415,000 new fiber-cable 
subscribers in Latam

With 415,000 new fiber-cable subscribers in Latam, the Tigo networks 
kept pace with the surge in demand for high-quality broadband.

$922M

Our capital expenditures totaled $922 million, a 23% year-over-year increase 
that’s fueling our customer growth.

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SPOTLIGHT: 

Millicom (Tigo) acquire full 
control of Tigo Guatemala
On November 12, 2021, Millicom acquired the remaining 45% 
equity interest in its prior joint venture businesses in Guatemala 
(collectively, “Tigo Guatemala”) from our local partner for $2.2 
billion in cash. As a result, Millicom owns a 100% equity interest in 
Tigo Guatemala. The transaction is expected to be significantly and 
immediately accretive to Millicom’s cash flow and net income and 
to increase Millicom’s equity free cash flow1 by approximately $200 
million before incremental financing costs.

With this transaction, Millicom consolidates its position as the 
leading telecommunication service provider in Central America.

Guatemala

"The transaction is right in line with our stated inorganic capital allocation strategy, which 
includes the acquisition of the remaining minority interests owned by third parties in our 
operations, when those transactions can be executed in an accretive manner.

For Millicom, this new investment reflects our continued confidence in the thriving economy of 
Guatemala and our renewed commitment to the digital transformation of its society. Hand in 
hand with the vision and strong commitment of our team of more than 3,100 employees in the 
country, we will continue to build the digital highways that connect people, improve lives, and 
develop communities all throughout Guatemala. 

With this transaction, we will transform the financial profile of Millicom, significantly increase 
our cash flow and net income and greatly simplify our structure.”

Mauricio Ramos 
Millicom CEO

1 Non-IFRS measure. Please refer to millicom.com/investors/reporting-center for non-IFRS disclosures and reconciliations to the nearest equivalent IFRS measures.

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CFO’s message

2021 was a year marked by significant 
investment and growth and important 
strategic initiatives that will transform the 
financial profile of Millicom going forward.

Economic activity continued to recover gradually in our markets 
during 2021. Our countries continued to ease lockdowns 
implemented at the beginning of the pandemic, remittances 
from the U.S. to Central America sustained double-digit increases 
and vaccines rolled out through the region. Our commitment 
to delivering the best customer experience, including network 
quality and reliability, resulted in rapid customer and revenue 
expansion during the year. As a result, we returned to growth 
across the business, and accelerated investments that we expect 
will help drive faster growth in the future. We met or exceeded the 
vast majority of our operating and financial targets for the year, 
and our solid cash flow allowed us to successfully execute a $50 
million share buyback program.

Strategically, 2021 was an important year as we continued to 
divest out of Africa and invest capital into Latin America. During 
2021 we disposed of our stake in AirtelTigo, liquidated our entire 
position in Helios Towers and signed an agreement to dispose of 
our Tanzania operations. In addition, we continued to focus on 
Latin America. We acquired the remaining 45% equity interest 
in our joint venture business in Guatemala from our local 
partner for $2.2 billion in cash, which we expect to significantly 
increase our cash flow and net income, while simplifying our 
structure.  The $2.2 billion bridge financing was provided by 
a group of international banks. Millicom intends to refinance 
the bridge with the planned issuance of approximately $1.5 
billion of new long-term debt and approximately $750 million 
of new equity via a rights offering (with preferential rights 
for existing shareholders) expected for Q1 2022. Out of the 
planned issuance of approximately $1.5 billion mentioned 
above, on January 27, 2022, Comcel, our principal subsidiary 
in Guatemala, completed the issuance of a new 10-year $900 
million bond with a coupon of 5.125%.

Looking ahead, the investments we have made in 2021 and in 
recent years have positioned Millicom to sustain solid customer 
and revenue growth in every business unit and every country. 
Meanwhile, as we near completion of major investment 
projects, we anticipate lower levels of capital investment of 
approximately $3 billion in total over the next three years, which 
we expect should generate growing levels of operating cash 
flow and equity free cash flow, that we intend to use toward 
reducing our leverage toward our long term target of 2.0x and 
to resume share buybacks, beginning in 2023. 

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Revenue for the year ended December 31, 2021, increased 
10.7% to $4,617 million due to strong operational results in 
all business lines and countries—compared to relatively weak 
performance in the year ended December 31, 2020, at the 
onset of the pandemic—as well as additional revenue from the 
consolidation of our Guatemala operations in November 2021.

Operating expenses increased 11.4% as a result of higher sales 
and marketing costs to support robust customer growth in 2021, 
as compared with 2020 when strict lockdowns significantly 
curtailed commercial activity. 

Depreciation and amortization decreased 1.0%. Depreciation 
decreased due to network modernization activities, which 
accelerated the depreciation of older infrastructure in 2020. This 
was offset by an increase in amortization from our decision to 
transition the Cable Onda brand to Tigo in Panama, which took 
effect in April 2021. 

Share of net profit in our joint ventures in Guatemala (until 
November 12, 2021) and Honduras increased by 22.6% due 
to strong operational performance and lower financing costs 
stemming from the reduction of debt in Guatemala.   

As a result of these factors, operating income for the year 
increased 47.5% to $659 million.

Interest expense decreased 15.0% to $531 million because of 
lower debt levels, following repayment activities over the last year. 

We prioritized net debt reduction in 2021, bringing proportionate 
leverage down to 2.81x in the third quarter of the year from 
3.20x at the end of 2020. Our leverage ended 2021 at 3.36x 
also on a proportionate basis, impacted by the acquisition of our 
equity interest in Guatemala.  We will continue to prioritize net 
debt reduction in 2022.2

Other non-operating expenses were $50 million in 2021, as 
compared to an expense of $106 million in 2020. The expense in 
2021 reflected foreign exchange losses and the change in value 
of call option asset and put option liability in Panama while the 
expense in 2020 reflected foreign exchange losses and the mark 
to market of our equity investments in Jumia and Helios Towers. 
The revaluation of our previously held interest in Guatemala 
generated an income of $670 million in 2021.

Tax expense increased 85.7% to $189 million, mainly due to 
improved profitability in 2021 compared with 2020.

As a result of the above factors, net profit for the year was $590 
million, or a gain per share of $5.84.

1 Financial results are presented on an IFRS basis and therefore do not consolidate the results from our Honduras joint venture. The results for our Guatemala subsidiary, are 
consolidated as from November 12, 2021.

2 This paragraph includes Non-IFRS measures. Please refer to the non-IFRS disclosures in this annual report for a description and for a reconciliation of non-IFRS measures.

 
 
 
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Our Purpose, Business Strategies 
and Performance

Our 2021 Financial 
Performance in Latin 
America3

Financial performance 
key messages:

» Growth in all business lines and countries

»  Acquisition of equity interest in cash 
generative business in Guatemala

»  Continued divesting out of Africa and  
re-investing capital into Latin America

»  Lowered average cost of debt and average 

age of maturities extended 

In 2021, our business continued to show its resilience, ending 
the year with growth across our business lines and in every 
country where we operate. In addition, we continued to 
execute our capital allocation strategy of investing in Latin 
America.

Commercial activity rebounded in our markets in 2021 as 
mobility returned to the region. As a result, Latam service 
revenue increased 6.7% organically compared with 2020. 

In Mobile, which generates 59% of Latin American service 
revenue (60% in 2020), service revenue increased 4.7% year-
over-year (1.1% decline in 2020), reflecting robust commercial 
activity in prepaid and postpaid as mobility restrictions eased. 
Our prepaid business experienced solid growth, as we saw 
strong customer intake in markets where we have recently 
invested in spectrum and in improving the network, such as 
in Colombia and El Salvador. Our postpaid business returned 
to growth in the second quarter of the year, buoyed by an 
increase in customers migrating from prepaid to postpaid. As 
a result, we grew our customer base by 3.1 million to end the 
year with  44.9 million.

In our Cable and other fixed business, which generates 40% 
of Latin American service revenue (39% in 2020), service 
revenue increased 8.5% in 2021, an acceleration from the 
4.5% decline in 2020. The increase mainly reflects increased 
customer intake driven by demand for broadband services in 

our markets, compared with 2020 when we saw a slowdown 
in the cable business reflecting the many effects of the 
pandemic, including our decision to implement basic lifeline 
services to our customers who could no longer pay. 

We continued to increase our footprint in Latin America, 
passing an additional 524,000 homes on our HFC network, up 
from 428,000 in 2020, ending the year with 12.4 million HFC 
homes passed (11.9 million in 2020). Increased demand for 
broadband services bolstered our new customer relationships, 
and we added 415,000 net HFC customer relationships in 
2021, up from 277,000 in 2020, ending the year with 4.1 
million ($3.7 million in 2020). Strong customer growth resulted 
in an increase in the penetration of our HFC network from 
31% in 2020 to  33% in 2021. 

In 2021, economic activity recovered in our markets, while 
remittances from the U.S. to Central America sustained 
double-digit growth year-on-year. Vaccination rates improved 
to over 50% in Colombia, Panama, El Salvador and Costa Rica, 
but were still below 30% in Guatemala. In the first half of the 
year, we experienced spikes in the number of COVID cases 
in some of our markets. However, governments generally 
refrained from imposing strict lockdowns, choosing instead to 
use curfews or voluntary quarantine programs, which had a 
negligible effect on commercial activity. 

All of our countries had positive service revenue growth during 
2021, primarily driven by the return to commercial activity 
as mobility restrictions lessened. El Salvador saw the highest 
growth in the region, with service revenue up 14.4% in 2021, 
compared to flat growth in 2020, as our mobile business 
drove growth stemming from recent spectrum and network 
investments in that country. Panama also had outstanding 
performance propelled by the consumer mobile and home 
businesses, with service revenue growing 7.3% in 2021. 
Colombia also performed exceptionally well, with service 
revenue up 6.2% organically in 2021 (1.1% decline in 2020). 
We saw strong growth in all businesses lines in Colombia, 
including our mobile business, where we have been rolling 
out the 700 MHz spectrum acquired in 2019. Guatemala 
continued to deliver strong results, driven by a healthy mobile 
business and a growing home business; service revenue 
grew 7.2% (3.1% in 2020). Our other markets all grew in 
2021 compared to 2020 as mobility and commercial activity 
improved. 

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EBITDA in Latam increased 6.7% organically, an improvement 
from a 3.7% decline in 2020, ending the year at $2,498 
million. Positive EBITDA performance was primarily due to 
strong top-line performance across the business, and lower 
bad debt provisions compared with the previous year. EBITDA 
increased in local currency year-on-year in all countries except 
for Colombia and Paraguay. Colombia declined 2.4% as a 
result of a significant increase in sales and marketing expenses 
from strong mobile intake during the year.  Paraguay declined 
3.8%. reflecting investment in soccer content. 

Capex in Latin America totaled $1,111 million in 2021, 18.0% 
more than in 2020 as we accelerated investments in our 
network across the region. 

In Mobile, we invested heavily in the Colombia mobile 
network expansion, as well as the modernization of our mobile 
networks in El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay and Bolivia. 

These investments had a meaningfully positive impact on our 
operational and financial performance for the year, especially 
in Colombia and El Salvador. Overall, our 4G network covered 
approximately 78% of the population of our markets at year-
end, up from 74% at the end of 2020.

In Home, we continued to invest in expanding our HFC 
networks in Latam, where we passed 524,000 new homes 
during year, mainly in Bolivia, Colombia and Nicaragua. 
More importantly, we connected  415,000 new customers 
as broadband and Pay TV penetration continued to drive 
demand for our services during 2021.

The success  of our results in 2021 and the resiliency of the 
businesses has only made us more confident in the long-term 
opportunity that we are pursuing.

Tim Pennington
Chief Financial Officer

3 These key messages refer to Latam (with our Honduras joint venture and our Guatemala operations as if they were fully consolidated) and include Non-IFRS measures. Please 
refer to the non-IFRS disclosures in this annual report for a description and for a reconciliation of non-IFRS measures.

Our 2021 Financial Performance 
in Latin America

Latam 
($m)

9%
Paraguay

10%
Bolivia

23%
Colombia

6%
Other

7%
El Salvador

Revenue by
country 

26%
Guatemala

9%
Honduras

10%
Panama

Mobile
$3,372m
54%

Revenue by
business

Other
$70m
1%

Equipment 
Sales Revenue
$503m
8%

Cable and 
other fixed
$2,275m
37%

Service revenue
Organic decline +6.7%
$5,716m

EBITDA
Organic decline +6.7%
$2,498m

OCF
Organic decline +0.5%
$1,387m

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1  Includes HFC, DTH, Copper and other technologies with the exception of Colombia that refers to HFC only.

2  EBITDA and EBITDA Margin and after organic growth are Non-IFRS measures. Please refer to the non-IFRS disclosures in this annual report for a descriptionand for a 

reconciliation of non-IFRS measures.

Latam1 

($m)

9%

Paraguay

10%

Bolivia

23%

Colombia

6%

Other

7%

El Salvador

Mobile

$3,372m

54%

26%

Guatemala

9%

Honduras

10%

Panama

Revenue by

country 

Revenue by

business

Other

$70m

1%

Equipment 

Sales Revenue

$503m

8%

Cable and 

other fixed

$2,275m

37%

Service revenue

Organic decline +6.7%

$5,716m

EBITDA

Organic decline +6.7%

$2,498m

OCF

Organic decline +0.5%

$1,387m

ColombiaOthers $53mMobile $513m Cable and other fxed $752mService RevenueCABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customer relationships1 1,615As of year end 2021+133Net additions+9.0%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users 5,456As of year end 2021 +1,488Net additions+37.5%YOY growthService revenue2  $mOrganic decline –1.1%EBITDA $mOrganic decline –2.4%EBITDA margins %34.0%202031.2%2021BoliviaMobile $342mCable and other fxed $268m Service RevenueCABLE and other fixed (’000)  Home customerrelationships1 676As of year end 2021 +112Net additions+19.8%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users 2,653As of year end 2021 +244Net additions+10.1%YOY growthOthers $2m$4572020$4412021$1,2582020$1,3192021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +6.3%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +7.4%EBITDA margins % 39.7%202040.0%2021$2322020$2492020$5752020$6122021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +3.8%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +2.6%EBITDA margins % 44.7%202043.9%2021$2472020$2592021$5162020$5482021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +7.3%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +9.6%EBITDA margins % 43.8%202044.4%2021$2562020$2812021$5672020$6082021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +14.4%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +18.7%EBITDA margins % 35.1%202036.3%2021$1372020$1622021$3482020$3982021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +7.3%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +10.3%EBITDA margins % 51.8%202053.6%2021$7782020$8572021$1,2732020$1,3652021Others $3mMobile  $1,079mCable and other fxed $283m CABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1675As of year end 2021+68Net additions+11.3%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users5,037As of year end 2021+425Net additions+9.2%YOY growthGuatemalaService RevenueOthers $6mMobile $440m Cable and other fxed $102m CABLE and other fixed (’000)Home customerrelationships1188As of year end 2021+13Net additions+7.1%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users 2,401As of year end 2021+287Net additions+13.6%YOY growth+24.8%YOY growthHondurasService RevenueMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users1,252As of year end 2021CABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1485As of year end 2021Others $4mMobile  $236mCable and other fxed $368m+249Net additionsService Revenue+22Net additions+4.7%YOY growthOthers $1mMobile $250m Cable and other fxed $147m  CABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1288As of year end 2021+15Net additions+5.4%YOY growth+10Net additions+4.2%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users1,500As of year end 2021+240Net additions+19.0%YOY growth+9Net additions+29.9%YOY growth–41Net loses–3.9%YOY declineEl SalvadorService RevenueCABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1249As of year end 2021Cable and other fxed$139mCosta RicaService RevenueMobile $192mCable and other fxed $32mCABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships141As of year end 2021MOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users1,010As of year end 2021NicaraguaService RevenuePanamaService revenue2  $mOrganic growth 2.7%EBITDA $mOrganic decline –3.8%EBITDA margins % 46.4%202043.7%2021$2522020$2422021$5132019$5262021ParaguayMobile $323m Cable and other fxed $202m Service RevenueCABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1 495As of year end 2021+42Net additions+9.4%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users2,138As of year end 2021+311Net additions+17.0%YOY growthOthers $1mMillicom 2021 Annual Report 
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Latam1 

($m)

9%

Paraguay

10%

Bolivia

23%

Colombia

6%

Other

7%

El Salvador

Revenue by

country 

26%

Guatemala

9%

Honduras

10%

Panama

Mobile
$3,372m

54%

Revenue by
business

Other
$70m

1%

Equipment 
Sales Revenue
$503m

8%

Cable and 
other fixed
$2,275m

37%

Service revenue
Organic decline +6.7%
$5,716m

EBITDA
Organic decline +6.7%
$2,498m

OCF
Organic decline +0.5%
$1,387m

1  Includes HFC, DTH, Copper and other technologies with the exception of Colombia that refers to HFC only.

2  EBITDA and EBITDA Margin and after organic growth are Non-IFRS measures. Please refer to the non-IFRS disclosures in this annual report for a descriptionand for a 

reconciliation of non-IFRS measures.

Latam1 

Latam1 

($m)

($m)

9%

Paraguay

9%

Paraguay

10%

Bolivia

10%

Bolivia

23%

Colombia

23%

Colombia

6%

Other

6%

Other

7%

El Salvador

7%

El Salvador

Revenue by

country 

Revenue by

country 

26%

Guatemala

26%

Guatemala

9%

Honduras

9%

Honduras

10%

Panama

10%

Panama

Mobile

$3,372m

Mobile

$3,372m

54%

54%

Revenue by

business

Revenue by

business

Other

$70m

Other

$70m

1%

1%

Equipment 

Sales Revenue

Equipment 

$503m

Sales Revenue

$503m

8%

8%

Cable and 

other fixed

Cable and 

$2,275m

other fixed

$2,275m

37%

37%

Service revenue

Organic decline +6.7%

Service revenue

Organic decline +6.7%

$5,716m

$5,716m

EBITDA

Organic decline +6.7%

EBITDA

Organic decline +6.7%

$2,498m

$2,498m

OCF

Organic decline +0.5%

OCF

Organic decline +0.5%

$1,387m

$1,387m

ColombiaOthers $53mMobile $513m Cable and other fxed $752mService RevenueCABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customer relationships1 1,615As of year end 2021+133Net additions+9.0%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users 5,456As of year end 2021 +1,488Net additions+37.5%YOY growthService revenue2  $mOrganic decline –1.1%EBITDA $mOrganic decline –2.4%EBITDA margins %34.0%202031.2%2021BoliviaMobile $342mCable and other fxed $268m Service RevenueCABLE and other fixed (’000)  Home customerrelationships1 676As of year end 2021 +112Net additions+19.8%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users 2,653As of year end 2021 +244Net additions+10.1%YOY growthOthers $2m$4572020$4412021$1,2582020$1,3192021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +6.3%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +7.4%EBITDA margins % 39.7%202040.0%2021$2322020$2492020$5752020$6122021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +3.8%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +2.6%EBITDA margins % 44.7%202043.9%2021$2472020$2592021$5162020$5482021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +7.3%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +9.6%EBITDA margins % 43.8%202044.4%2021$2562020$2812021$5672020$6082021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +14.4%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +18.7%EBITDA margins % 35.1%202036.3%2021$1372020$1622021$3482020$3982021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +7.3%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +10.3%EBITDA margins % 51.8%202053.6%2021$7782020$8572021$1,2732020$1,3652021Others $3mMobile  $1,079mCable and other fxed $283m CABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1675As of year end 2021+68Net additions+11.3%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users5,037As of year end 2021+425Net additions+9.2%YOY growthGuatemalaService RevenueOthers $6mMobile $440m Cable and other fxed $102m CABLE and other fixed (’000)Home customerrelationships1188As of year end 2021+13Net additions+7.1%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users 2,401As of year end 2021+287Net additions+13.6%YOY growth+24.8%YOY growthHondurasService RevenueMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users1,252As of year end 2021CABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1485As of year end 2021Others $4mMobile  $236mCable and other fxed $368m+249Net additionsService Revenue+22Net additions+4.7%YOY growthOthers $1mMobile $250m Cable and other fxed $147m  CABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1288As of year end 2021+15Net additions+5.4%YOY growth+10Net additions+4.2%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users1,500As of year end 2021+240Net additions+19.0%YOY growth+9Net additions+29.9%YOY growth–41Net loses–3.9%YOY declineEl SalvadorService RevenueCABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1249As of year end 2021Cable and other fxed$139mCosta RicaService RevenueMobile $192mCable and other fxed $32mCABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships141As of year end 2021MOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users1,010As of year end 2021NicaraguaService RevenuePanamaService revenue2  $mOrganic growth 2.7%EBITDA $mOrganic decline –3.8%EBITDA margins % 46.4%202043.7%2021$2522020$2422021$5132019$5262021ParaguayMobile $323m Cable and other fxed $202m Service RevenueCABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1 495As of year end 2021+42Net additions+9.4%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users2,138As of year end 2021+311Net additions+17.0%YOY growthOthers $1mColombiaOthers $53mMobile $513m Cable and other fxed $752mService RevenueCABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customer relationships1 1,615As of year end 2021+133Net additions+9.0%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users 5,456As of year end 2021 +1,488Net additions+37.5%YOY growthService revenue2  $mOrganic decline –1.1%EBITDA $mOrganic decline –2.4%EBITDA margins %34.0%202031.2%2021BoliviaMobile $342mCable and other fxed $268m Service RevenueCABLE and other fixed (’000)  Home customerrelationships1 676As of year end 2021 +112Net additions+19.8%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users 2,653As of year end 2021 +244Net additions+10.1%YOY growthOthers $2m$4572020$4412021$1,2582020$1,3192021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +6.3%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +7.4%EBITDA margins % 39.7%202040.0%2021$2322020$2492020$5752020$6122021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +3.8%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +2.6%EBITDA margins % 44.7%202043.9%2021$2472020$2592021$5162020$5482021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +7.3%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +9.6%EBITDA margins % 43.8%202044.4%2021$2562020$2812021$5672020$6082021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +14.4%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +18.7%EBITDA margins % 35.1%202036.3%2021$1372020$1622021$3482020$3982021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +7.3%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +10.3%EBITDA margins % 51.8%202053.6%2021$7782020$8572021$1,2732020$1,3652021Others $3mMobile  $1,079mCable and other fxed $283m CABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1675As of year end 2021+68Net additions+11.3%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users5,037As of year end 2021+425Net additions+9.2%YOY growthGuatemalaService RevenueOthers $6mMobile $440m Cable and other fxed $102m CABLE and other fixed (’000)Home customerrelationships1188As of year end 2021+13Net additions+7.1%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users 2,401As of year end 2021+287Net additions+13.6%YOY growth+24.8%YOY growthHondurasService RevenueMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users1,252As of year end 2021CABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1485As of year end 2021Others $4mMobile  $236mCable and other fxed $368m+249Net additionsService Revenue+22Net additions+4.7%YOY growthOthers $1mMobile $250m Cable and other fxed $147m  CABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1288As of year end 2021+15Net additions+5.4%YOY growth+10Net additions+4.2%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users1,500As of year end 2021+240Net additions+19.0%YOY growth+9Net additions+29.9%YOY growth–41Net loses–3.9%YOY declineEl SalvadorService RevenueCABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1249As of year end 2021Cable and other fxed$139mCosta RicaService RevenueMobile $192mCable and other fxed $32mCABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships141As of year end 2021MOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users1,010As of year end 2021NicaraguaService RevenuePanamaService revenue2  $mOrganic growth 2.7%EBITDA $mOrganic decline –3.8%EBITDA margins % 46.4%202043.7%2021$2522020$2422021$5132019$5262021ParaguayMobile $323m Cable and other fxed $202m Service RevenueCABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1 495As of year end 2021+42Net additions+9.4%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users2,138As of year end 2021+311Net additions+17.0%YOY growthOthers $1mColombiaOthers $53mMobile $513m Cable and other fxed $752mService RevenueCABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customer relationships1 1,615As of year end 2021+133Net additions+9.0%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users 5,456As of year end 2021 +1,488Net additions+37.5%YOY growthService revenue2  $mOrganic decline –1.1%EBITDA $mOrganic decline –2.4%EBITDA margins %34.0%202031.2%2021BoliviaMobile $342mCable and other fxed $268m Service RevenueCABLE and other fixed (’000)  Home customerrelationships1 676As of year end 2021 +112Net additions+19.8%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users 2,653As of year end 2021 +244Net additions+10.1%YOY growthOthers $2m$4572020$4412021$1,2582020$1,3192021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +6.3%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +7.4%EBITDA margins % 39.7%202040.0%2021$2322020$2492020$5752020$6122021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +3.8%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +2.6%EBITDA margins % 44.7%202043.9%2021$2472020$2592021$5162020$5482021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +7.3%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +9.6%EBITDA margins % 43.8%202044.4%2021$2562020$2812021$5672020$6082021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +14.4%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +18.7%EBITDA margins % 35.1%202036.3%2021$1372020$1622021$3482020$3982021Service revenue2  $mOrganic growth +7.3%EBITDA $mOrganic growth +10.3%EBITDA margins % 51.8%202053.6%2021$7782020$8572021$1,2732020$1,3652021Others $3mMobile  $1,079mCable and other fxed $283m CABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1675As of year end 2021+68Net additions+11.3%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users5,037As of year end 2021+425Net additions+9.2%YOY growthGuatemalaService RevenueOthers $6mMobile $440m Cable and other fxed $102m CABLE and other fixed (’000)Home customerrelationships1188As of year end 2021+13Net additions+7.1%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users 2,401As of year end 2021+287Net additions+13.6%YOY growth+24.8%YOY growthHondurasService RevenueMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users1,252As of year end 2021CABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1485As of year end 2021Others $4mMobile  $236mCable and other fxed $368m+249Net additionsService Revenue+22Net additions+4.7%YOY growthOthers $1mMobile $250m Cable and other fxed $147m  CABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1288As of year end 2021+15Net additions+5.4%YOY growth+10Net additions+4.2%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users1,500As of year end 2021+240Net additions+19.0%YOY growth+9Net additions+29.9%YOY growth–41Net loses–3.9%YOY declineEl SalvadorService RevenueCABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1249As of year end 2021Cable and other fxed$139mCosta RicaService RevenueMobile $192mCable and other fxed $32mCABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships141As of year end 2021MOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users1,010As of year end 2021NicaraguaService RevenuePanamaService revenue2  $mOrganic growth 2.7%EBITDA $mOrganic decline –3.8%EBITDA margins % 46.4%202043.7%2021$2522020$2422021$5132019$5262021ParaguayMobile $323m Cable and other fxed $202m Service RevenueCABLE and other fixed (’000) Home customerrelationships1 495As of year end 2021+42Net additions+9.4%YOY growthMOBILE (’000)4G smartphone data users2,138As of year end 2021+311Net additions+17.0%YOY growthOthers $1mMillicom 2021 Annual Report 
 
 
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Our Purpose, Business Strategies 
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SPOTLIGHT: 

Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala, 
Honduras and Paraguay

Tigo Money paves the way for 
financial inclusion 
In Latin America, roughly 70% of citizens are unbanked or 
underbanked, excluding them from traditional finance systems. 
Our Tigo Money digital wallet provides a much-needed 
alternative—one that’s well suited to Latin America’s young, 
increasingly digital population. 

In 2021, Tigo Money made major strides in making financial 
products and services accessible to more customers. 

In July, we announced a plan to invest $250 million in Panama to 
build a regional fintech center and expand local infrastructure. 
The hub will boost Panama’s economy and bring jobs to the 
country, while allowing us to grow Tigo Money with in-house 
resources—a win-win for customers and investors. 

We also began creating more opportunities for consumers to use 
Tigo Money. This includes making QR code payments available to 
customers and initiating partnerships with key players to improve 
our value proposition for our clients.

With Tigo Money, we’re empowering people to participate in 
local economies while also strengthening our presence in Latin 
America. At Tigo, doing good is good for business.

Bolivia, El Salvador, 
Guatemala, 
Honduras and 
Paraguay

Advancing Our Business Strategy
The decisions we made in 2020 when COVID-19 hit, paved the way for strong growth in 2021. Customer trust in the Tigo brand 
hit at an all-time high, leading to more customer acquisitions. Our focus on cash flow generation and debt reduction enabled us 
to invest an additional 18.0% in capital expenditures in Latam this year, giving us critical momentum as we expanded our market 
reach. These investments also positioned us to meet the needs of our markets long term, as our coverage areas grow and demand 
for home, business and mobile connectivity increases. 

Millicom’s business strategies are grounded in six interconnected areas. Here’s how we performed in each.

Expand Broadband
Demand for high-quality broadband continued to surge in 
2021 as remote and hybrid work models became the norm 
for many people and businesses. The Tigo cable network 
kept pace by adding 415,000 new HFC home customers in 
2021 in Latam, giving us a total of 4.1 million by the end of 
Q4. Overall, we finished the year with 12.4 million HFC homes 
passed and provided high-speed services to 33% of the 
homes in our markets.  

We also continue to modernize and expand our fiber-cable 
network in anticipation of future growth. 2021 investments 
like our new fiber infrastructure in Paraguay and Bolivia are 
bringing high-speed connectivity to more people, including 
remote communities traditionally cut off from the digital 
economy. 

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Go Digital
Our investments in digital infrastructure are transforming 
our business, giving Tigo customers more of what they 
want and improving our efficiency company-wide. Digital 
reloads of prepaid mobile services and digital payment 
collections increased by 35% in 2021. Apps like One App and 
Mi Tienda drove much of this increase by making it easier 
for customers to recharge their phones or purchase Tigo 
services from their mobile devices. Through e-care tools like 
our Tigo bot, we continued automating many of our service 
interactions, allowing us to shift the focus of our retail stores 
from customer service to mobile postpaid sales. Finally, Tigo 
Money continued its rapid ascent as a Tigo priority, ending the 
year with 5.6 million customers in five Latam countries—an 
increase of 13.5% compared with 2020 (see spotlight story 
below).

Internally, we made significant progress on upgrading our 
IT infrastructure and teams, increasing efficiency across our 
business at less cost. With a digital-first mindset enabled by 
a virtualized cloud architecture, we were able to eliminate 
unnecessary administrative work, decommission outdated IT, 
recruit more top talent and make more strategic use of our 
resources.

SPOTLIGHT: 

Bridging the Last Mile of 
Connectivity
Many people in our markets live in remote villages with minimal 
infrastructure. Bringing coverage to these areas often requires more 
than just commitment. It takes a healthy dose of Sangre Tigo. 

In 2021, we traveled through forests, up mountains and over 
dangerous roads to install new cell towers and bring coverage to 
underserved communities across Latin America. 

Thanks to our efforts:

More than 400,000 Panamanians received mobile and digital 
coverage through 179 new coverage points. Out of those, 
150,000 received connectivity for the first time, including 70,000 
people in the  Guna Yala and Ngöbe-Buglé regions, which have a 
multidimensional poverty index of 91%. 

2,205 sites were updated and 1,296 sites were deployed in 
Colombia, expanding our coverage area by 13,000 square 
kilometers—an area 36 times the size of Medellin.  

Each project helped close the digital divide a little more for 
residents by giving them access to social, educational and economic 
opportunities previously out of reach. 

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Drive Convergence
Our commitment to making Millicom the most modern and 
expansive telecom network in the Latam region requires 
infrastructure that can adapt seamlessly to the latest 
innovations and market trends. In 2021, we continued 
modernizing our Latam networks with projects to expand 
our 4G capacity in Paraguay and Honduras, in addition to 
completing upgrades to our El Salvador network. All told, we 
added more than 550 new 4G sites to these markets and 
added coverage to more than 500 towns. 

We also announced a $135 million investment to further 
modernize our mobile networks in Honduras, Paraguay and 
Bolivia in partnership with Ericsson. As part of the project, 
Ericsson will replace Tigo’s current 4G packet core with 
the company’s dual-mode 5G core, paving the way for 5G 
deployment across the continent. In addition to boosting our 
network performance, we expect the investment to expand 
our network coverage to an additional 712 municipalities and 
2.5 million people across the three countries. 

Colombia and 
Panama

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Accelerate B2B
Our Tigo Business segment continued its strong growth 
trajectory in 2021. We added approximately 46 thousands of 
new accounts—a record 15% year-over-year increase—while 
investing more than $100 million connecting and providing 
digital solutions to new businesses, schools, hospitals and 
universities in our markets. We also partnered with Amazon 
Web Services to expand our portfolio of cloud solutions, 
encourage business innovation and improve cybersecurity. 
These solutions support our customers’ ongoing shift to 
remote and hybrid work environments while preserving 
network speed, reliability and security.  

Small and medium-size entrepreneurs are fundamental to the 
region’s long-term growth potential, which is why we continue 
to offer services to help our SME customers cope with COVID. 
These include putting services on hold free of charge to 
certain businesses in Panama and providing minimal service 
at low costs to certain  of our Paraguayan customers. We also 
extended our Ciclo de Conferencias Tigo Business program, 
a series of free webinars and other learning resources to help 
small business owners retool for success during and after the 
pandemic. 

Monetize Mobile 
We ended 2021 with 44.9 million mobile customers, an 
increase of 3.1 million compared with 2020. This includes 
1.1 net additions in postpaid, with the vast majority of these 
coming from Colombia, where our investments in spectrum, 
network and distribution channels have extended our 
reach and improved the customer experience. Our prepaid 
subscriber base reached 38.9 million in 2021, a 5.6% year-
over-year increase. We currently offer 78% 4G coverage 
for the 120 million people in the countries where we have a 
presence.

We continued expanding access to self-service content 
through our content supermarket and Tigo Sports, allowing 
customers to watch their favorite content wherever and 
whenever they want. This includes adding premium channels 
like HBOMax and Paramount+ in 2021 and exclusive fútbol 
programming using the Tigo Sports app. We also rolled out a 
mobile edition of Amazon Prime video to prepaid customers—
the first mobile operator in Latin America.  We ended 2021 
with a total of 21.4 million 4G smartphone data users, that is, 
giving 48% of our mobile customer base the ability to stream 
content on the go. 

400,000+

rural Panamanians received mobile and 
digital coverage for the first time in 2021.

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Customer Centricity
We’re on a mission to streamline the Tigo customer 
experience by empowering our customers to solve a wider 
range of needs on their own. Digital self-service and e-care 
tools like WhatsApp made it easier for customers to make 
payments, check their balance and usage, get refills, report 
outages and make service appointments without assistance. 
We managed more than 400,000 monthly transactions 
through WhatsApp in 2021. Customers performed more than 
450,000 monthly transactions in the Tigo WiFi 360 app, which 
gives customers full control over their WiFi network—including 
parental approval over content streaming—on home set-top 
boxes, computers and mobile devices. Overall, more than 10 
million active users relied on our self-service and e-care apps 
in 2021. 

Tigo customers are enthusiastic about these and other 
service improvements. Our approach to measuring 
customer satisfaction evolved in 2021, as we moved from 
a transactional focus to a more relational approach, which 
we call our brand equity ecosystem.  We believe this is a 
better way to measure our strategic intent of best customer 
experience.  Our Net Promoter Score (NPS)—a measurement 
of customers’ willingness to recommend Tigo products 
and services—increased across the board in 2021. We now 
have superior brand NPS scores in broadband in most of our 
countries. 

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The increase is likely due to a range of factors, including 
enhanced mapping of our customer journeys,  our digital 
self-service and e-care tools; operational and network 
improvements; improved field, in-store and call center service; 
and increased customer loyalty from our 2020 Lifeline 
program, which preserved services for customers with unpaid 
balances in the early stages of the pandemic. 

To ensure ongoing improvement, we continuously monitor five 
key customer satisfaction metrics in each of the nine countries 
we serve in Latin America. By analyzing country-by-country 
data rather than aggregate, we can better understand our 
strengths and weaknesses in each market and make targeted 
improvements. This information is shared with our board each 
month.

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active users relied on our self-service 
and e-care apps in 2021

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Risk Management
COVID-19 continues to affect the global economy and our 
countries, communities, customers and employees—and 
much of our focus remains on tackling the consequences of 
this pandemic. However, the core elements of our strategy, 
and the fundamental risks and opportunities connected to the 
strategy, remain largely unchanged. The same holds true for 
the underlying characteristics of our risk landscape and our 
value proposition. 

Our Risk Landscape
Our risk profile continues to evolve with our business strategy 
firmly centered on the developing Latin American markets 
and economies in which we operate. Our gradual shift of 
capital over recent years from Africa to Latin America, and to 
Guatemala in 2021, has significantly changed the risk profile of 
the Group.

Our prudent decisions on capital allocation and cash flow 
management in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, 
and adaptation of business models and ways of working 
protected our customers, communities and our business, 
resulting in a strong recovery in 2021, and positioned us well 
for further growth. The challenges of COVID-19 highlighted 
the importance of our businesses as a central component of 
digitalization and progress in our communities and countries. 
This, as well as our leading positions in our markets, increasingly 
subscription-based business, track record of customer growth, 
and opportunities for expansion, including in our MFS business, 
are all evidence of our sound business model. 

Our infrastructure and information systems have  remained 
resilient and coped well with an increase in demand, particularly 
related to data, as well as in detecting and defending against 
an increasing number of cybersecurity threats.

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Our Risk Appetite
Millicom operates its business in emerging markets with 
potentially unpredictable political and economic environments 
and a higher inherent level of risk compared to mobile and 
cable businesses in more mature markets.

Our geographic portfolio, varied customer access points 
(at home, at work and on the move), and suite of products 
and services encompassing communication, information, 
education, entertainment, financial services and other areas, 
reduce our exposure to any individual country, product or 
service. 

Our governance and oversight structure, internal control 
environment (including SOX compliance), risk-based decision-
making and compliance culture, and assurance processes 
across our businesses enable us to reduce uncertainties and 
contain risks in ways that many of our peers may not be able to. 
Refer to the Governance Section of this report starting on page 
63 for further information.

Consequently, while we have a higher inherent risk appetite 
than many of our peers in the telecommunications and cable 
industry, and a wider risk profile than many international 
businesses, we only accept risks in our businesses and markets 
to the extent that opportunities for sufficient returns exist, 
and where we can design, implement and operate appropriate 
systems and controls to manage those risks.

“Throughout 2021, our company responded to 
Millicom’s risks, challenges and opportunities with 
strong governance and oversight." 

José Antonio Rios Garcia 
Chairman of the Board of Directors

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Our Approach to Risk Management 

Our enterprise-wide approach to risk has the following 
key characteristics:
»  Risk is linked with opportunity and is closely aligned with 

strategic goals

»  The Board of Directors sets Millicom's appetite for risk and 

»  Prioritizing risks based on likelihood of occurrence and 
importance to the business, as measured by identified 
and measured financial and non-financial criteria covering 
operational, financial, reputational and human impacts of 
the risk

monitors progress toward target risk levels

»  Quantifying, measuring and monitoring using risk 

indicators, with action plans to reduce gaps between current 
and target risk levels

»  Automated alerts and escalation for any potential breach of 
appetite for key risks managed centrally and in each country

»  Setting of clear, specific and owned actions that target the 

potential impact or likely occurrence of risks, and monitoring 
of effectiveness of those actions. 

»  Risks are actively managed to optimize the balance of risk 
and reward, enhance value and protect against threats

»  Our focus is on reduction of uncertainty to enhance 

decision-making in strategy formulation and allocation of 
capital and resources

Our methodology includes:
»  Alignment of risk ownership and responsibility with 

organizational goals and decision-making responsibility 
from the Board and Executive Team to country General 
Managers and heads of functions across the organization

»  Alignment of risk appetite with strategic and operational goals

»  A global framework and common methodology, tools and 
processes in every location and function managed by a 
central risk function

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Evolution of Risk in 2021
2021 has seen many changes as our businesses adapted 
and grew out of the instability and uncertainty created by 
COVID-19. With the exit from Africa almost complete and with 
full ownership of our Guatemala business since November 
2021, our geographical and geopolitical profile is now firmly 
centered in the Latin American markets in which we operate.  

The mitigating actions and plans we put in place to protect 
and help customers and employees set the foundation for 
our rapid return to growth across all our markets in 2021, 
and positioned us well to continue this growth in 2022 and 
beyond. 

The challenges we faced in 2020 tested the resilience and 
agility of our people and networks. Having successfully 
navigated these uncertain times, we continue to execute our 
operational strategy and investor proposition plan.

Macroeconomic conditions in most of our markets showed a 
significant improvement in 2021 compared with 2020 with 
notably less uncertainty and volatility. New ways of working 
and living and the global response to managing through the 
pandemic led to a resumption of economic activity. Many 
of the key actions we took in 2020, including protection of 
employees, continuation of service to our most affected 
customers, and reallocation of capital to growth opportunities 
strongly contributed to the recovery of our business in 2021. 
However, we remain cautious and continue to closely watch 
the projections for recovery and GDP growth forecasts in Latin 
America to shape our financial structure, capital expenditures 
and debt management approach in the coming year.

We continued to invest in protecting our information systems 
against potential cyberattacks as risks in this area continue to 
rise. We also continued to enhance our protocols and planned 
responses in the event that threats materialize. Cybersecurity 
will continue to be an area that we pay particular attention to 
as the frequency and type of threats continue to rise globally.

During 2021 we assessed the impact of climate 
change on our businesses, both in terms of operational 
resiliency and the extent to which our businesses 
contribute to climate change. Although overall 
exposures in this area for our businesses are relatively 
limited,  adverse weather events continued to increase 
in likelihood in our countries (particularly in Central 
America) and we expect this will continue in the future. 
We continue to review our business practices to identify 
and implement change to reduce or minimize impact 
on climate change, including developing a path to 
committing to carbon reductions (as described in more 
detail in the section starting on page 30). 

In addition to the above and elsewhere in this report, 
we have highlighted key areas of risk and our mitigating 
actions during 2021 in a table on the pages that follow. 
More details can also be found in our Governance 
section, starting on page 63, and in our most recent 20F 
filing with the SEC.

Our Executive Team remained unchanged in 2021, 
although our CFO has announced that he will retire 
in 2022, and his replacement has already joined the 
Company to allow an orderly transition. This helped us 
to continue on the path set during 2020's pandemic 
and to drive progress on both short- and longer-term 
initiatives, including execution of our strategy, building 
our culture and creating the future. With the three new 
additions to our Board in May, Millicom now has more 
experienced leadership in Latin America and in our fixed 
line and content businesses.   

While we manage and monitor many more risks within 
the Millicom risk universe, we have highlighted the areas 
of risk below that remained of key focus in 2021.

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Mitigation and actions

Evolution in 2021 (likelihood 
and impact of the risk 
materializing)

Board Perspective

1. Strategy and strategic 
direction:

Uncertainty in the formulation 
and governance of an 
appropriate and executable 
strategy and strategic direction 
that supports the vision of the 
company. Inadequate processes 
for gathering and analyzing 
information in formulation of the 
strategy

2. Portfolio management and 
capital allocation:

Acquisition or retention of 
businesses that are poorly aligned 
to strategy, are overpriced, and/or 
that generate lower-than-required 
return on investment. Investment 
and capital management that 
enable the company to meet 
its strategic objectives within 
its financial and operational 
capabilities.

3. Macro-economic conditions:

Volatility or uncertainty in 
macroeconomic conditions (e.g., 
but not limited to: currency, 
inflation, remittances); underlying 
drivers impacting our markets 
and the disposable income of 
consumers; and the currencies in 
which we generate and upstream  
cash.

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Our strategy is based on our vision of 
building digital highways that connect 
people and communities in our target 
markets. The events of 2020 and 2021 
have reinforced our purpose. Our focus 
on the six key pillars of our strategy 
remains unrelenting, and we closely 
track performance in execution of 
our strategy with key financial and 
operational  indicators and monitor 
external factors such as macro, political 
and key demographics in our markets.

Our Board oversees and approves our 
strategy and any refinements that may 
be required.

Our purpose and strategy is set out 
starting on page 19 .

We carefully consider opportunities to 
acquire, merge, or divest businesses 
based on market dynamics, portfolio 
balance and opportunities for 
long-term value creation,  focused 
on Latin America where we see the 
best opportunities for future growth 
and value creation. During 2021 we 
successfully acquired the 45% interest 
in our Guatemalan business from our 
local partner and signed an agreement 
to sell our Tanzanian business (our last 
remaining African operation) .

See page 8 for more on our market 
leadership.

Uncertainty remains around the longer 
term macro situation in many of our 
markets and populations, and how 
this affects affordability of mobile and 
fixed services, as well as competition. 
However, demand for our services 
returned strongly in 2021 supporting 
our view of the necessity of effective 
communication and connectivity in 
modern day economies, and the digital 
agenda of governments.  In 2021 the 
currencies of the countries in which we 
generate cash remained relatively stable 
against the US dollar, with the exception 
of the Colombian Peso which declined 
by 16% during the year.

We consider currency volatility in our 
budgeting, forecasting, tax and treasury 
management processes.

See page 12 for a review of the financial 
performance in 2021

Impact

Impact

Impact

In 2021 the Company started to see the 
benefits of staying on its strategic course 
and key decisions taken during 2020.   
Millicom’s strategy and strategic direction 
remain firmly focused on serving customers 
and communities today and building for 
the future, with specific focus on its Latin 
American markets. 
The Company picked up its investment 
in 2021 and continued to deliver on its 
purpose and grow  across all its markets 
and businesses during 2021, a testament to 
strong execution of a robust strategy. 

The Board closely monitors capital allocation 
against the organizations’ strategic and 
operational goals and financial capacity.  
Building convergent enabled businesses in 
growth economies in Latin America is our key 
strategic focus. 
Acquiring full ownership of our Guatemalan 
business and agreeing to sell our Tanzania 
business were two key moments, to both 
strengthen our portfolio and narrow our 
focus on our core Latin American region. 
as integration of the acquisitions made in 
Central America in the last two year years; 
and continuing roll-out, expansion and 
upgrade of mobile and fixed data networks.

Currency fluctuations are a key risk inherent 
to Millicom’s business and, while impacting 
reporting and earnings in USD, do not 
impact competitiveness or strategic aspects 
of managing our local businesses. The 
Guatemala acquisition with relative stability 
of its currency against the US dollar  has 
improved the Groups overall currency risk 
profile. The Group seeks to mitigate part of 
this risk by aiming to borrow up to 40% of 
total debt in local currency. 
All of the countries in which Millicom 
operates in Latin America experienced 
economic growth in 2021 and are on track 
for long-term GDP growth, rising disposable 
income and levels of prosperity. 
The Board oversees management’s 
processes and controls governing financial 
and macroeconomic risk against pre-
determined levels of risk appetite, and 
carefully considers currency exposure in 
portfolio and debt management.

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  Risk

Mitigation and actions

Evolution in 2021 (likelihood 
and impact of the risk 
materializing)

Board Perspective

4. Political, civil and regulatory 
environments:

Instability, unrest, or lack of 
predictability in regulation or rule 
of law in the countries in which 
we conduct business. Uncertainty 
in regulatory and tax rulings, 
including indirect taxation and 
regulatory pressure through tariffs, 
taxes and service penalties.

5. Technical transformation and 
convergence

Failure to identify / anticipate 
drivers of technological change 
together with adaptability and 
resource to implement change.

Threat of cross-industry 
convergence and further 
commoditization of existing 
products and services. Strategic 
risk of ‘betting on the wrong 
technology’ or ‘missing the 
technology of the future’.

6. Competition and customer 
experience:

Market structure, market position, 
actions taken by competitors, 
and customer experience have a 
significant impact on attracting 
and retaining customers. Lack 
of attention to market and 
customer needs or poor customer 
experience negatively impact 
the subscriber base, and operator 
reputation.

Competition for mobile and 
home subscribers continues to 
increase, while prepaid customers 
remain a large and important 
contributor to revenue. Quality of 
service, innovation and converged 
offerings as key differentiating 
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We have both local and central teams 
monitoring the political situation 
in the countries where we operate, 
and considering and assessing the 
implications of evolving global political  
trends for potential impact on our 
businesses. We proactively engage 
with  organizations whose policies and 
guidelines affect our businesses..    
We implement impact analysis and 
efficiency programs to offset the 
impact of newly introduced or expected 
changes in taxes and regulations. For 
example, in 2021 we increased our focus 
on reducing our carbon emissions and 
announced our commitment to science-
based target setting related to climate 
change. 
We continue to watch the political 
developments and consequences for our 
Nicaraguan business, and implement 
controls to manage risks in that country.

With fixed and mobile businesses in 
each of our strategic markets, we have 
the necessary building blocks for fixed / 
mobile convergence, and in future 5G.

In 2021 we deployed over $1 billion in 
expanding, developing and modernizing 
our networks and infrastructure, to enable 
customer growth and enhance customer 
experience.

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strategy and convergence goals see 
section starting on page 19.

With a focus on home penetration for 
cable and 4G subscriptions, Millicom 
also has partnerships with key content 
and service providers such as Netflix and 
Amazon, as well as exclusive broadcast 
rights including football in many of our 
markets.

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promoter scoring (NPS)  complementing 
our existing transactional NPS to better 
track customer satisfaction across all our 
markets and services, and use this data 
to refine and enhance our customers’ 
experiences. These operational KPIs 
now form a fundamental part of our 
performance management and employee 
reward programs. See  section starting on 
page 88 on how NPS is included in short-
term incentives.

See section starting on page 19 to 
learn more about tools, partnerships 
and processes we have invested in to 
improve customer experience and gain 
insights. See page 8 for a summary of 
the competitive landscape in our markets 
and our position.

Impact

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Impact

Political and regulatory risks for Millicom’s 
businesses remain relatively high in many of 
the countries in our footprint. 
We expect this trend to continue with 
governments seeking to increase sources 
and levels of income to stimulate economic 
activity in recovering from lower sources of 
income during the pandemic. 
The Board oversees Millicom’s interaction 
with key governmental and regulatory 
agencies, and promotes transparency and 
predictability in regulation. The Board 
monitors climate related risks and impact 
and the Company's efforts in managing 
its business sustainably within its social 
responsibility programs.

Advancements in technology, and increasing 
demand for more data and higher quality 
services, are trends that continue to define 
the telecommunications and media 
industries. In 2021 we continued to expand 
and modernize our networks to meet 
growing demand and prepare for the future. 
For instance in 2022 we plan that over half 
of our new homes cable build will be Fiber to 
the Home. 
Millicom’s strategy seeks to balance its 
short-term operating and financial goals 
with key technological and transformational 
investments that will ensure the business 
remains strong and prepared for the medium 
and long term.

In a world where demand for content, 
access to information and communication 
services is increasingly critical in enhancing 
and improving lives, positive customer 
experience is a vital attribute. This has been 
further evidenced in 2020 with disruptions in 
physical movement and interactions.

"Best Customer Experience" is one of the 
key pillars of Millicom’s strategy and a key 
differentiator in customer choice of operator.

Millicom’s comprehensive customer 
satisfaction program in place facilitates a 
continuous cycle of improvement across all 
facets of customer experience in all operating 
markets.

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  Risk

Mitigation and actions

Evolution in 2021 (likelihood 
and impact of the risk 
materializing)

Board Perspective

7. Financial structure and 
capacity

Millicom may be at a 
disadvantage compared to 
competitors in access to and cost 
of capital. Financial constraints 
including debt covenants, debt 
service requirements and credit 
ratings could negatively impact 
our  ability to execute on our 
organic and inorganic growth 
strategies.

8. Networks and infrastructure 
resilience:

Disruptions to service, or 
compromised ability to restore 
services to customers in 
acceptable time frames, can cause 
loss of revenue, increase expenses 
and have a negative impact on 
customer experience.

9. Cybersecurity and data 
protection:

Intrusion into systems or 
networks and inappropriate 
access to sensitive data could 
have significant operational, 
regulatory, legal and reputational 
implications.

Failure to implement systems 
and processes to prevent, detect, 
repel and respond to information 
security threats, and properly 
manage data requests (e.g., from 
governments and regulatory 
authorities.

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We carefully manage our sources 
and uses of capital to enable us to 
responsibly meet the operating, 
investing and financing needs of the 
business. 
We manage our debt maturity and 
monitor opportunities for lowering 
our cost of debt and increasing our 
debt efficiency on an ongoing basis. 
We diligently monitor and manage 
headroom against our key covenants 
and key aspects related to our credit 
management program.  
In 2021 we successfully refinanced a 
number of our long-term bonds reducing 
our average cost of debt and extending 
maturities, returned around $50 million 
to shareholders in a share buyback 
program,  and raised $2.15 billion of 
finance to enable us to complete the 
acquisition of our Guatemalan business. 

Our network resilience controls and 
mitigating activities include ongoing 
vulnerability assessments, simulation 
exercises and business continuity 
management plans, which are tested 
on a regular basis. This includes physical 
risk resulting from the effects of climate 
change in the form of natural disasters, 
such as extreme weather events. Risk 
surveys are performed in each country 
every three- years on a rotational basis. 
We develop our investment programs 
with consideration of elements including 
outage risks, external dependencies, 
network redundancy, climate and 
sustainability risks. 
During 2021 our networks continued to 
prove their resiliency and capability to 
manage continuous increases in data 
consumption. Our IT networks and 
response systems identified and repelled 
a number of cybersecurity attacks 
during the year. See the following risk  
for further details.

Our Global Information Security Office 
and Global Security Operations Center 
centrally manages and coordinates risk 
mitigation related to cybersecurity and 
data protection. We have implemented 
processes and tools to identify and 
respond to threats, test vulnerabilities, 
and deployed training programs to raise 
awareness and security consciousness 
of employees. We have engaged third 
parties to perform network penetration 
testing and audits to identify 
improvement opportunities and assist 
with enhancing network security and 
protection systems.  Learn more on page 
60 about the initiatives we implemented 
in 2021 to improve protection of critical 
systems, and ensure compliance with 
relevant data protection rules.

Impact

Impact

Impact

Millicom’s financial structure is both a key 
facilitator and inhibitor of its ability to grow 
its business and create value. 
The acquisition of our Guatemalan 
business in November 2021 increased 
our leverage and so the Board decided to 
seek shareholder funding for part of the 
acquisition cost. The Guatemalan business 
is the highest cash generating business in 
the Group and we expect it to accelerate the 
reduction of leverage toward longer-term 
target levels.  
The Board closely monitors balance sheet 
structure and the sources and uses of funds 
in the business. Operating and equity 
free cash flow, leverage, and shareholder 
remuneration are key areas of focus of the 
Board in approving the strategy, annual 
budgets and monitoring results.

Millicom’s purpose to build the digital 
highways that connect people, improve lives 
and develop our communities, relies heavily 
on the coverage, quality and availability of 
its networks and infrastructure. 
Capital allocation in expanding, 
modernizing, maintaining and protecting 
networks and vital infrastructure are critical 
in the successful execution of Millicom’s 
strategy. 
The Board endorses acceleration or 
increased investment in networks in pursuit 
of opportunities, balanced with investment 
in physical and digital controls to maintain 
service and strengthen resiliency.  

The threat and potential disruption from 
cybersecurity attacks have become a   
significant threat to the successful operation 
of any organization, particular those that 
rely on information systems to collect, 
process and manage data. These threats 
have only heightened in 2021 as business 
continues in its reliance on networks, 
communication systems, and the internet. 
We faced three major attacks in 2021 with 
no substantial impact on the business.  
Innovation, technological advancements 
and ever increasingly regulatory 
requirements to capture and process data, 
heighten risks in this area. In 2021 the 
Board further expanded its oversight in 
this area, reviewing Millicom's information 
security enhancement program in both its 
Compliance and Business Conduct, and Audit 
Committees and with active engagement 
in the Company's dedication of resources 
and allocation of capital to strengthen 
and continually improve its cyber control 
environment.

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  Risk

Mitigation and actions

Evolution in 2021 (likelihood 
and impact of the risk 
materializing)

Board Perspective

10. Licenses and spectrum:

The availability of licenses and 
spectrum is limited, closely 
regulated, and increasingly 
expensive. Inability to obtain 
the required quantity or band 
of spectrum from regulators or 
third parties at a price we deem 
to be commercially acceptable, 
could have significant negative 
consequences for the operation of 
our businesses.

11. People, workplace and well-
being:

The security environment within 
many of the countries within our 
geographical footprint sometimes 
exposes our employees and 
contractors to situations which 
may subject them to physical, 
psychological or emotional 
harm. COVID-19 has resulted 
in an elevated risk of illness for 
many members of our  workforce 
(particularly our frontline 
employees). 

12. Conduct:

Actions and behaviors of our 
employees, business partners 
and other stakeholders impact 
the Company’s reputation, 
compliance with rules and 
regulations and may impact our 
ability to operate our businesses.

We have a carefully formulated 
spectrum and license strategy and 
management plan for each of our 
markets. 
We actively monitor and engage with 
government and regulatory bodies on 
spectrum and license related matters. 
We often negotiate renewals/retention 
in the initial allocation contracts and 
we carefully consider opportunities 
to acquire new spectrum based on 
spectrum quality, fit with network needs, 
and customer demand. 
In recent years have successfully 
obtained and renewed the spectrum we 
need to continue to operate and expand 
our businesses.

We manage the health, safety and well-
being of staff based on international 
standards, industry best practices, 
and advice and support from local 
authorities. We have rolled out a 
comprehensive proactive diversity and 
inclusion program that promotes and 
celebrates Sangre Tigo culture. 
Since 2020 employee and customer 
health and well-being became, 
more than ever, a key element of our 
purpose and responsibility. We have 
now adapted working environments 
and ‘gone’ digital and virtual in many 
business areas to protect and support 
our people.  
More about our approach to employee 
health, safety, and security  is set out on 
page 49.

Through clear policies, training and 
monitoring activities, we ensure that all 
our staff remain aware of the risks to 
them as individuals and to the company 
and know how to act if faced with risk in 
these areas. 
In 2021, we continued to roll out and 
strengthen our compliance culture 
programs and initiatives, including in the 
areas of workplace behavior, our supplier 
networks, and in our MFS business. 
See page 86 for more business ethics 
action items in 2021.

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The landscape related to spectrum and 
licenses to operate is constantly changing, 
particularly in our markets as governments 
seek higher financial and consumer benefits 
from spectrum auctions, competition 
for lower spectrum bands, and industry 
consolidation. In particular, in Colombia 
there has been a high profile and public 
discussion over spectrum pricing. 
The Board oversees Millicom spectrum 
strategy and is responsible for review  and  
approval of all significant spectrum and 
license purchases. 
Millicom actively engages with regulators 
and governments on spectrum matters, and 
promotes fair and transparent allocation and 
pricing of spectrum and licenses.

It is the Sangre Tigo culture embodied in 
our people that bring our vision to life. Every 
day, thousands of Millicom employees and 
contractors diligently work on building 
the digital highways that provide services 
benefiting our customers and communities. 
In 2021 they have adapted and responded 
and continue to grow in these ongoing 
challenging times. The Board has monitored 
the Company's approach to navigating 
into, and continuing through uncertainties 
with its employees and customer safety-first 
approach.  
We are proud of the importance placed on 
ensuring that Millicom is a place where our 
people  feel safe, protected, supported  and 
accepted for who they are, in ways that 
enable them to do well, and that enhance 
their lives and the lives of those around 
them.

Doing business the right way is a 
fundamental and reinforced message in the 
tone from the top in the organization.

The Board’s Compliance and Business 
Conduct Committee maintains oversight 
of Millicom’s Compliance program, 
monitoring and endorsing initiatives that 
strengthen controls and enhance the culture 
of compliance in its business and with its 
business partners. 

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Millicom’s purpose and business strategies are deeply 
intertwined. As our market leadership grows through the 
adoption of digital technologies, so does our ability to 
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Environmental, Social and 
Governance Framework
Over this past year, our purpose and commitment came 
together in a particularly powerful way, as COVID-19 disrupted 
our lives and highlighted the vital importance of internet 
connectivity. Looking back, it’s clear the pandemic accelerated 
what had been a gradual but steady shift to a digital 
economy. In the process, it brought renewed attention to the 
millions of citizens who lack high-speed access to the internet.

To help address this digital divide, we’re working with schools 
and community organizations on a number of fronts such 
as skills-building resources and opportunities for economic 
empowerment in underserved communities. We especially 
focused on closing the homework gap by offering connected 
learning solutions for remote classrooms and a range of 
innovative digital learning tools with some of our flagship 
initiatives Maestr@s Conectad@s and Conectadas. 

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Our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) framework 
articulates our renewed approach to improving lives, 
strengthening communities, reducing our environmental 
impact, managing climate risks and governing our business 
with integrity. Together, our ESG initiatives help us chart 
a path for sustainable growth and create long-term value 
for our stakeholders. Corporate Governance, Compliance 
and Cybersecurity are covered in detail in the Corporate 
Governance Report, starting on page 63. 

In 2021, we evolved how we communicate ESG to better 
reflect the relationships between our initiatives and our 
business strategies. Aligned with leading ESG methodologies, 
this new framework provides a more complete picture of 
the work we do, helps our stakeholders better understand 
our issue-specific approaches, and gives us a platform to 
announce a bolder set of goals and commitments.

The framework mirrors the results of a follow up materiality 
assessment we conducted in 2020 to better understand 
the impact of COVID-19 on our stakeholders' perspectives. 
The assessment revealed that many areas are of increasing 
importance to our stakeholders, including climate change, 
the digital divide and employee and contractor health and 
wellness. 

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Sustainable Development Goals
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted 
by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a 
shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and 
the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent 
call for action by all countries - developed and developing- in 
global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and 
other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies 
that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and 
spur economic growth - all while tackling climate change and 
working to preserve our oceans and forests. 

We’ve measured our progress against the SDGs since 2018. 
But in 2021, we stepped up our approach to assessing and 
tracking our achievements. We started by digging deep into 
the 169 targets set out by the SDGs, identifying where we 
made the biggest impacts and whether we could quantify our 
contributions with metrics.  

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We then went one step beyond by having Tigo operations in 
all nine of our LATAM markets do the same for their respective 
countries’ SDGs and targets. As part of the analysis, we 
totaled up our impact in each market, giving us a sense for 
how much we’re helping communities meet their individual 
goals. 

In addition to measuring our impact, the results are already 
helping us focus our know-how and resources on the areas 
where our contributions are making the biggest difference. 
We believe this approach will move the needle for our 
communities and help our partners better understand our 
impact. 

Visit https://www.millicom.com/what-we-stand-for/reporting/  
to learn more about our approach.

At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals 
(SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries—
developed and developing—in global partnership. 

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We report our progress against our renewed ESG Framework, which includes 
the public commitments established in the Five-Year CR plan built on our 
2018 Materiality Assessment, and updated and adjusted as per our ongoing 
engagements with internal and external stakeholders. Performance Tables1 
have been redesigned to reflect the renewal of our ESG Framework.

Goals and targets that have been revised are flagged in the tables on the 
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1 This report includes  our Honduras joint venture as if it were fully consolidated, as this reflects the way our management reviews and uses internally reported information 

to make decisions about operating matters. It also includes our Guatemala operation. Following our strategical decision to divest out of Africa, data for Tanzania is 

disclosed for a reduced subset of Environmental and Compliance metrics. 

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Environment

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Our Goals

Target

Target 
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What we did in 2021

Our performance/status

Enhance data quality and 
standardization of calculation 
and reporting of baselines and 
targets to reduce carbon footprint 
and achieve costs savings and 
reduce carbon footprint.

Develop and implement a 
comprehensive strategy for 
climate change mitigation and 
resilience for Tigo operations and 
customers.

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Design one pilot project for emissions 
reduction and one for offsetting / 
carbon pricing by 2020.

Fossil fuel consumption and energy 
consumption reduction targets set 
by 2021.

Comprehensive strategy for climate 
change mitigation and resilience 
for Tigo operations and customers 
approved and announced by Q2 
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2020

Not Applicable. 

 2021 We have set and submitted our first 

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near-term Science-Based Targets 
(SBTs), pending validation for public 
announcement, and already guiding 
our energy and emissions reduction 
strategy. In addition, we have joined the 
Business Ambition for 1.5°C campaign - 
the world’s largest and fastest-growing 
group of companies that are aligning 
with 1.5°C and helping to halve global 
emissions by 2030, committing no 
set net-zero targets according to the 
Science-Based Target initiative Standard 
by 2023.

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also processed the 2020 backlog.

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Completed.

Completed.

Completed. Target active internally, 
pending validation for public 
announcement.

We achieved 84% CPE end to end 
recovery in the Latam region. This 
is equivalent to  over 3 million 
recovered devices.1

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Conduct an inventory of all waste 
generated at operations and publish 
related targets by 2020.

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Data standardization and target-setting 
efforts were slowed down due to the 
urgency of the pandemic.

In process.

Environmental impact assessments 
executed, reviewed, revised, 
standardized and with action plans 
consolidated for regional execution 
by January 2021.

2021 We have renewed ISO 14001 

certification in all our operations. As 
part of the standard's requirements, 
environmental issues and aspects are 
identified on an ongoing basis, along 
with action plans to close identified 
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Updated and standardized 
environmental policies, guidelines 
and processes are currently under 
final  review for publication. 

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Our Goals
Our Goals

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Implement regional strategy 
to advance digital literacy with 
educational programs on basic 
and advanced digital knowledge 
and entrepreneurial skills. 

Reach 400,000 women trained 
through our digital inclusion program 
by 2023.

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Year

2023

All countries complete research on 
use of technology by children and 
adolescents by Q4 2020.

All countries implement action plans 
based on results of the research by 
2020.

All operations implement CSAM 
blocking mechanism by 2020.

2020

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Conduct research programs 
in each market on the use of 
technology by children and 
adolescents to tailor content 
and adapt Child Online 
Protection training based on 
results and insights.

Continue our efforts to prevent 
access to online Child Sexual 
Abuse Material ("CSAM") 
through our networks by 
continuously implementing 
blocking mechanisms region-
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initiatives.

Continue our programs to 
reduce the gender gap in the 
use of mobile technology.

What we did in 2021
What we did in 2021

Our performance/ Status
Our performance/ Status

Trained 158,881 women.
We have developed a regional 
Conectadas App through which 
participants will be able to access 
trainings in all our markets. Initial roll 
out in pilot phase was done in December 
2021.

Refocused. 
Upon revision during the pandemic and in 
its aftermath, priorities were reassessed. 
In view of the emerging needs, efforts 
have been shifted towards the training 
of teachers, to provide them with digital 
skills for remote and hybrid learning. 

6 out of our 9 Latam operations 
currently have new system in place that 
incorporated the blocking of CSAM sites. 
Migration to new system is underway for 
all operations.  

Completed.

Refocused.

Refocused.

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2020

GSMA extended the Connected Women 
initiative until 2023

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Close the digital gap in our Latam 
operations by 2020 in line with 
the acquired commitments 
through Global System for Mobile 
Communications Association's 
("GSMA") connected Women 
initiative.

Expand Child Online Protection 
("COP") training program for our 
employee volunteer program 
by creating online training 
platform in all our operations.

Online training platform live in all our 
operations by 2020.

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By 2023 reach 120,000 volunteering 
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Reach,  through our COP programs:  
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200,000 parents and caregivers; 
 70,000 teachers.

2023

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In progress

This target was refocused in 2019, 
acknowledging the higher effectiveness 
and engagement of in-person training. 
Due to the ongoing mobility restrictions, 
in-person activities have not yet been 
resumed.

COP-related volunteering continues 
to be predominantly virtual due to the 
pandemic. This has resulted in a reduction 
of available volunteering opportunities.  
That said, our employees still provided 
13,400 virtual volunteering hours for COP 
programs.

2021 continued to be challenging for 
the roll out of our program as lockdowns 
remained in our countries. Our focus on 
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us to support the training of teachers on 
the use of digital tools for online classes 
and helping children and adolescents to 
understand the opportunities and risks of 
being online. 
We have partnered with the Real Madrid 
Foundation to reach 11,200 children 
and adolescents in their schools with 
our Conectate Segur@ and Conectadas 
programs starting in late 2021.
Despite the ongoing mobility restrictions 
regionwide, we provided Child 
Online Protection training to  22,891 
children  112,737 teachers and 114,952 
parents and caregivers. during 2021.

Conduct assessments in Latam 
markets on socio-economic 
conditions and technological 
capabilities of women and girls 
who are the beneficiaries of our 
programs to measure benefits 
achieved through trainings. 

Measure impacts of 
connectivity in communities 
targeted by our programs 
to assess improvements in 
socioeconomic conditions of 
beneficiaries, and optimize 
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dynamic nature of the ongoing 
pandemic.

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Design and roll out to operations 
a regional impact measurement 
methodology by 2020.

All countries implement an impact 
measurement methodology related 
to connectivity and digital inclusion 
by 2022.

Provide internet to 1300 schools and 
public institutions by 2023 reaching 
our set commitment with the OAS 
ICT Alliance.

2020 We  have leveraged on previous research 

done in our markets and will revise targets 
considering the transition to post-covid 
contexts.

Refocused

2022

Due to the pandemic this goal has been 
delayed to better understand the impact 
and role of connectivity during this 
situation.

Refocused

2023

 2267 schools and 586 public institutions 
connected in our Latam operations.

Completed. 

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Build an inclusive work environment that is representative of our 
workforce, the markets where we operate and the customers who we 
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Promote a culture of inclusion through policies, procedures, and regular 
training, and activities that foster employee collaboration.

Enhance employee wellness and growth through policies, programs 
and practices designed to support their aspirations professional and 
personal development.

Target 
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Annual

What we did in 2021

Our performance/ Status

During 2021 we implemented several 
training to different audiences: 
Unconscious bias webinar for Senior 
Leaders, DE&I training and LGBQT panel 
for all employees. 
We established quantitative gender 
targets as a company. We created 
counsels to identify gaps operation by 
operation and established a plan in how 
to close the gaps globally. Targets will be 
announced during the following weeks. 
We reviewed wage gaps across the 
organization and took measures to 
correct where gaps were identified.  
In addition, we reviewed annual salary 
increases to ensure equity in pay 
increases.

82% employees received the 
training.

Set public 2030 Diversity, Equity 
and Inclusion targets, announced in 
early 2022.

GPTW 2021 survey shows that  
we have higher engagement in 
segments included in our DE&I 
strategy.

Enhance due diligence 
processes by including 
sustainable procurement criteria 
for Global strategic suppliers.

Ensure that 100% of Global strategic 
suppliers obtain sustainability 
assessment scores of 45 or greater 
by 2023.

2023 We identified, among suppliers still below 
a score of 45, corrective action plans that 
can be implemented in order to close 
existing gaps and reach or surpass that 
target score.

27.5% of current strategic supplier 
base  have scores 45 or higher on 
Ecovadis.

Extend related training to 
procurement team.

Train 100% of procurement 
staff in responsible supply chain 
management issues related to our 
core risks.

2023

As during 2020, the responsible supply 
chain management training was 
delivered in the form of e-learning, being 
available both to corporate and local 
offices’ Procurement employees.

92% of our Latam and HQ 
Procurement teams received 
Responsible Supply Chain training 
in 2021.

Train all suppliers with Group 
spend >$1.0m by 2023, and 
measure their progress on 
corrective action plans through 
sustainable procurement 
platform and audits.

Train all suppliers with Group spend 
>$1.0m by 2023, and measure their 
progress on corrective action plans 
through sustainable procurement 
platform and audits.

2023 We created an online sustainability 

training through which we are increasing 
our scope of suppliers reached. For 2021 
we set out to reach 75% of our strategic 
or critical suppliers. This online training 
will become the standard training that 
every new supplier must complete when 
working with Millicom.

We surpassed the 2021 target, 
reaching 76% of eligible suppliers.

Enhance due diligence 
processes by including 
sustainable procurement criteria 
for Global strategic suppliers.

Vet all Global strategic suppliers 
through our sustainable procurement 
platform.

2023 We continued integrating our systems at 

regional levels, achieving higher efficiency 
and streamlining the Ecovadis vetting 
process.

44% of the strategic suppliers in our 
updated list have been vetted on our 
sustainable procurement platform.

  Completed 

  In Progress 

  Refocused 

  Delayed

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Society

Topic

Our Goals

Target

Target 
Year

What we did in 2021

Our performance/ Status

Consolidate and enhance 
human rights policies and 
practices covering privacy, 
freedom of expression, supply 
chain and vulnerable groups 
to meet standards of United 
Nations Guiding Principles on 
Business and Human Rights.

Consolidate and enhance 
human rights policies and 
practices covering privacy, 
freedom of expression, supply 
chain and vulnerable groups 
to meet standards of United 
Nations Guiding Principles on 
Business and Human Rights.

Develop and deploy Human 
Rights Impact Assessment 
(HRIA) toolkit in all Latam 
markets.

Develop and deploy Human 
Rights Impact Assessment 
(HRIA) toolkit in all Latam 
markets.

Develop and deploy Human 
Rights Impact Assessment 
(HRIA) toolkit in all Latam 
markets.

Develop and deploy Human 
Rights Impact Assessment 
(HRIA) toolkit in all Latam 
markets.

Consolidate and enhance 
human rights policies and 
practices covering privacy, 
freedom of expression, supply 
chain and vulnerable groups 
to meet standards of United 
Nations Guiding Principles on 
Business and Human Rights.

Develop and deploy Human 
Rights Impact Assessment 
(HRIA) toolkit in all Latam 
markets.

Develop and deploy Human 
Rights Impact Assessment 
(HRIA) toolkit in all Latam 
markets.

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2019

Completed.

Completed 

Develop remediation plan to cover 
gaps by Q4 2020 for implementation 
under 5-year plan.

2020

The need for remediation plans 
undergoing continuous review where 
HRIAs have been conducted.

Our various human rights-related 
processes, particularly those related 
to Privacy, Freedom of Expression, 
Supply Chain and vulnerable groups 
have been implemented and 
expanded in accordance with gaps 
identified during Human Rights 
Impact Assessments. related to the 
implementation of Human Rights 
Impact Assessments established.

Training on HRIA toolkit conducted 
in all operations by Q4 2019.

2019

Training completed in countries where 
HRIAs have been conducted. Remaining 
operations received awareness building 
training on topic and will receive the full 
training as HRIA roll-out continues into 
2022.

Conduct HRIAs in all operations by 
Q4 2020.

2020

Completed HRIA in CO, PY, BO and NI.  
Deferred to2022 for GT, PA, CR and SV.

In Process

Develop remediation plan to cover 
findings of HRIAs by Q2 2021.

2021

No material issues were raised in the CO, 
PY and BO or Ni HRIAs which required a 
remediation plan.

Delayed

Training on HRIA toolkit conducted 
in all operations by Q4 2019.

2019

Training completed in countries where 
HRIAs have been conducted. Remaining 
operations received awareness building 
training on topic and will receive the full 
training as HRIA roll-out continues into 
2022.

Develop remediation plan to cover 
gaps by Q4 2020 for implementation 
under 5-year plan.

2020

The need for remediation plans 
undergoing continuous review where 
HRIAs have been conducted.

Our various human rights-related 
processes, particularly those related 
to Privacy, Freedom of Expression, 
Supply Chain and vulnerable groups 
have been implemented and 
expanded in accordance with gaps 
identified during Human Rights 
Impact Assessments. related to the 
implementation of Human Rights 
Impact Assessments established.

Conduct HRIAs in all operations by 
Q4 2020.

2020

Completed HRIA in CO, PY, BO and NI.  
Deferred to2022 for GT, PA, CR and SV.

Delayed

Develop remediation plan to cover 
findings of HRIAs by Q2 2021.

2020

No material issues were raised in the CO, 
PY and BO or Ni HRIAs which required a 
remediation plan.

Completed

Roll out training on human 
rights in all Latam markets by 
2020.

Human rights training to CR Team by 
Q4 2019 and extended to designated 
business teams by Q4 2020.

Protect customer rights to 
privacy and freedom of 
expression.

Develop Grievance Mechanisms 
for customer privacy or freedom of 
expression issues by Q4 2019.

2020

Target met in 2021

Completed

2019

Framework for grievance mechanisms for 
HQ and Operations levels completed.

Completed

Develop web-based, one-stop Privacy 
Center for customers on company 
policies, terms and conditions, and 
practices relative to privacy and 
freedom of expression by Q4 2019.

Develop Grievance  Mechanisms 
for customer privacy or freedom of 
expression issues by Q4 2019. 

2019

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2019

Framework for grievance mechanisms for 
HQ and Operations levels completed.

Completed

  Completed 

  In Progress 

  Refocused 

  Delayed

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Corporate Governance is covered in detail in the Corporate Governance Report, starting on page 63. More information on 
Compliance is included in the section for Compliance and Business Conduct Committee starting on page 86.

Topic

Our Goals

Target

Build a strong corporate culture 
that seeks compliance excellence; 
build an ethical business culture in 
which employees at all levels are 
committed to doing what is right and 
upholding the Company’s values and 
standards.

100% of GMs and executive teams 
with compliance KPI built into 
remuneration package by 2020.

100% of the above group plus their 
direct reports with compliance KPI 
built into remuneration package 
by 2021.

Target 
Year

2020

2021

95% of Compliance & Ethics training 
for active employees yearly.

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Provide corrective action 
recommendations for each 
Ethics Line case 
substantiated through the 
investigation process.

Have a Compliance & Ethics Program 
that is central to business strategy; 
effectively embedded in the 
business processes and procedures; 
and focused on the actual impact 
the company’s program has in the 
countries where it operates as well 
as on our employees, customers, 
stakeholders and communities.

100% of operations with online 
platform deployed and functional 
for a high-quality program that 
integrates preventive measures, key 
controls, reporting mechanisms and 
due diligence processes capable of 
detecting and correcting misconduct 
and wrongdoing.

Annual

Annual

2023

What we did in 2021

Our performance/ Status

91% of GMs have compliance KPIs 
built into remuneration package.2

99% of employees completed the 
Code of Conduct training.

An  allegation is submitted to 
the Ethics Line and subsequently  
the date on which a response is 
provided is recorded. Our current 
average response time to Ethics 
Line allegations is within 3 business 
days of being submitted through 
the hotline.

Where a concern or allegation 
is substantiated, investigation 
findings and recommendations for 
corrective action are provided to the 
appropriate review committee.

Both the forms and the Third Party 
Due Diligence tool are standardized 
and accessible for our Operations.

This is the fourth year we have tied 
the GM Compliance objectives with 
their bonuses.  
Heatmap and KPIs scorecards have 
been presented to the Board of 
Directors as a way to assess progress 
towards Compliance objectives. 

Deployed the annual mandatory 
training on Code of Conduct to all 
operations and HQ employees..

Responded within 3 business days 
to each Ethics Line allegations 
submitted through hotline.

Provided corrective action 
recommendations for each 
substantiated Ethics Line case.  The 
corrective action is tracked through 
completion.

This year we continued with the 
automation of the Sponsorships, 
Donations, and Government Official 
Interaction forms for HQ and Latam. 
We have a Third Party Due 
Diligence platform that serves 
both as a repository as well as a 
process management tool to vet 
vendors before being onboarded. 
This tool also runs background 
checks on existing vendors, based 
on automated watch list, adverse 
media, and law enforcement 
searches.

2 Following our acquisition dated November 12, 2021, Tigo Guatemala has adopted our GM remuneration package,  aligning with our 100% target for 2022.

  Completed 

  In Progress 

  Refocused 

  Delayed

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Our Performance
About our ESG metrics 

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2021 metrics have still been impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (as 2020). Therefore some of the reported values may 
reflect atypical variations. 

Environment

E-waste recycled through responsible waste management program (tonnes)

KPI

Bolivia

Colombia

Costa Rica

El Salvador

Guatemala

Honduras

Nicaragua

Paraguay

Panama 

Tanzania

Energy use3

2018

2019

2020

2021 (Latam only)

8

587

310

147

400

—

5,586

431

118

123

1,303

10

Not included

Not included

105

Not included

400

—

138

8,800

—

1,373

—

118

181

162

—

75

527

—

24

1,858

—

71

365

310

—

1,858

168

Not included

Total Energy Consumption / Sources of energy by asset type

2018

2019

to Latam only)

(Latam only)

2020 (Restated 

2021  

Base station and fixed network sites

Fuel (000 l)

Energy from fuel (MWh)

Grid Electricity (MWh)

Our fleet

Fuel (000 l)

Energy from fuel (MWh)

Data centers and offices

Fuel (000 l)

Energy from fuel (MWh)

Grid Electricity (MWh)

Shops

Fuel (000 l)

Energy from fuel (MWh)

Grid Electricity (MWh)

Total Energy Consumption (MWh)

Grid Electricity (MWh)

Fuel (000 l)

Energy from fuel (MWh)

Energy from renewable sources (MWh)4

Total Energy Consumption (MWh)

Emissions and e-waste overview

10,435

104,456

450,131

4,247

42,685

441,336

4,680

46,721

459,496

4,667

46,590

514,684

4,064

38,609

450

4,490

89,688

23

234

3,257

31,230

293

2,926

74,598

72

717

5,696

53,630

5,558

52,017

323

3,220

228

2,281

124,808

118,679

63

626

11

105

16,811

11,618

16,538

13,304

556,630

14,972

147,789

527,552

7,869

77,558

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600,842

10,762

104,197

New KPI for 
2021

704,419

605,110

705,039

646,667

10,464

100,993

18,772

766,432

Total weight of e-waste recycled through our responsible e-waste 
management program (tonnes)

Scope 1 emissions (Tonnes of CO2e)

Scope 2 emissions (Tonnes of CO2e)6

Scope 3 emissions (Tonnes of CO2e)

% of operations set up on global responsible e-waste recycling program

1,957

39,181

140,605

N/A

91

16,371

20,553

137,754

3,994

100

2,436

33,6295

152,060

4,654

33,161

146,525

1,585,0577

2,202,250

100

100

3 Since Latam constitutes the baseline for our emissions reduction targets, 2020 figures have been restated accordingly, using updated emission factors for Scope 2 and including 
fugitive emissions for Scope 1 from 2020 onwards. 2019 and 2018 figures have not been restated and include also Africa.  

4 This metric refers to energy from renewable sources in addition to that inherent to each country's specific electricity grid- The different grid compositions are reflected in Scope 2 
emissions through the different emission factors. used for calculation of GHG emissions due to grid electricity consumption.

5 Starting in our restated Scope 1 emissions for 2020, we include fugitive emissions using emission factors from “Refrigerant & other” worksheet in the condensed set of the 2021 UK 
GHG Conversion factors set “Refrigerant & other” worksheet in the condensed set of the 2021 UK GHG Conversion factors set.  Emissions from fuel (motor diesel and gasoline) are 
calculated using World Resources Institute (2015) GHG Protocol tool for stationary combustion, version 4.1 and Mobile Combustion GHG Emissions Calculation Tool Version 2.6. 

6 Emissions from electricity are calculated using Electricity Emission Factors from IEA, version 2020, except in the case of Colombia.

7 Scope 3 emissions for 2020 and 2021 have been calculated by an expert third party. The GHG accounting and reporting was based on the ‘The Greenhouse Gas Protocol: A 
Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard – Revised Edition’ (GHG Protocol) and the supplementary ‘Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Accounting and Reporting Standard’. The 
calculations for the reporting years considered a diversity of data sources; for example: spend, model and number of devices purchased and sold, product’s life-cycle assessments 
(LCA), LCA and environmentally-extended input-output (EEIO) databases, and the number of employees. Scope 3 emissions reported in the 2020 Annual Report were limited to air 
travel emissions and have been restated in this current report to reflect the current scope under analysis.  

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Our Performance—continued

Society

Diversity, equity and inclusion

KPI

% of women in managerial positions

% of women across our employee base

Supply Chain

KPI

% of strategic suppliers who signed the supplier code8

% of all suppliers who have signed the supplier code

% of procurement teams trained on responsible supply chain management

% of suppliers with Group spend >$1.0m trained on Millicom's ESG strategy and 
requirements9

Health & Safety
KPI

% of operations certified against ISO 45001

Number of employee fatalities

Number of contractor fatalities

Number of H&S incidents reported10

Lost-time injury rate per 1000 employees

Absentee rate (%)11

Digital Education 
KPI

Women enrolled in digital inclusion programs ("Conectadas")

Teachers who completed 100% of Maestr@s Conectad@s program

Number of children reached by COP training (´000)

% of operations in Latam blocking child sexual abuse content

Digital Inclusion & Social Investment
KPI

Monetary value of employee volunteering ($)

Volunteering hours14

Total cash contributions ($'000)

In-kind giving (at cost) ($'000)

Schools and public institutions connected to the internet

Year ended December 31,

2018

2019

2020

2021

28

41

36

37

2018

2019

2020

89

65

81

90

68

88

38

38

79

46

75

New KPI for 2021

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2021 (Latam 
only)

84

70

92

78

2018

New KPI for 2019

1

2

369

0.5

1.3

2019

100

0

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53

1.97

1.34

2020

100

1

2

49

1.35

1.45

2021

100

0

2

41

0.83

1.97

2018

2019

2020

117,340

207,019

New KPI for 
2020

New KPI for 
2020

360

71

480

75

91,340

137,019

543

44

2021

158,88112

112,73713

566

67

2018

2019

2020

2021

235,000

24,732

3,776

6,737

1,361

405,503

51,425

2,686

6,139

1,416

346,863

30,323

1,754

7,286

2,745

138,174

13,525

915

10,902

2,849

8 A supplier is considered strategic if they follow one or more of the following: significant spend, multi-year relationship in place or expected, products and services in a strategic 
spend category, direct impact on delivery capability, potential impact on brand and reputation and difficulty of switching to alternative suppliers.

9 Suppliers considered for this training are those with a 2020 spend over $1M,, excluding related parties, competitors, utilities, and government entities. Suppliers with an 
identified CSR robust program (Ecovadis score of 45 and above) are automatically considered trained.

10 H&S incidents are defined as incidents in which Millicom/ Tigo employees take one or more days of lost time due to injury.. Values from 2019 forward have been corrected for 
comparability. 2019 incidents removed from the count include "near miss" and contractor incidents.

11 The absentee rate is the number of unplanned absences versus the average number of workdays in in the reporting period, expressed as a percentage.

12 As from 2021, this metric is reported on a calendar year basis as opposed to past reporting cycles, which went from October 1st to September 30 of the reporting year. An 
additional 39,934 women were enrolled in digital inclusion programs between October 1st and December 31st, 2020, which were not included in the 2020 annual report, nor 
in the above values. 

13 As from 2021, this metric is reported on a calendar year basis as opposed to past reporting cycles, which went from October 1st to September 30 of the reporting year. An 
additional 65,718 teachers completed the Maestr@s Conectad@s training between October 1st and December 31st, 2020, which were not included in the 2020 annual report, 
nor in the above values. 

14 As from 2019, it includes COP-related programs volunteering hours.  

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Fundamental Rights

KPI

Law enforcement requests15
Total number of law enforcement requests (Latam)

Law enforcement requests per type

Interception

Customer metadata

Mobile Financial Services ("MFS")

Major Events
KPI

Number of major events

Major events per type

Shutdown or restriction of services

Proposals for significant changes in local laws

Proposals for significant changes in technical or operational procedures

Disproportionate interception or customer data requests

Politically motivated messages

Other

GOVERNANCE

Ethics

KPI

% of employees who acknowledged the Code of Conduct

% of employees who have completed the Code training

% of procurement staff trained on Anti-Corruption

% of senior managers trained on Anti-Corruption

% of revenue from MFS subject to AML controls

% of operations (where) we conducted a compliance risk assessment

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2019

2020

2021

40,132

37,007

53,420

2,121

37,497

514

2,304

34,203

500

2,645

50,176

599

Year ended December 31,

2019

2020

2021

10

15

8

1

1

0

0

0

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2

0

3

0

2

8

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3

2

0

0

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Year ended December 31,

2018

2019

2020

2021

91

90

97

99

97

30

96

94

94

93

95

90

99

99

93

99

97

100

99

99

100

99

100

100 
 (Latam 
only) 

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services we provide). These three categories encompass the vast majority of requests we receive. We report all other requests outside of the definitions as major events.

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Being good environmental stewards is a core element of fulfilling our  
purpose. This is why, rooted in deep knowledge of our business and our 
region, we deploy initiatives to make our digital highways as resilient 
as possible, to operate with world-class standards and to work with 
partners across our value chain to reduce our environmental footprint 
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We have set and submitted our first near-term Science-Based 
Targets to reduce our GHG emissions, and joined Business 
Ambition for 1.5°C, with the objective of reaching 

net zero emissions by 2050.

By modernizing 1,100 sites in Nicaragua, we consumed 20% to 25% less 
electricity and saved more than 1.5 million KWh compared with last year. 

84%

We recovered 84% of our CPE after people terminated or upgraded 
their services, 12% more than our target for the year.   

Panama

Colombia

In addition to the active Power Purchase Agreements in 
Panama, we have begun the roll out of an innovative energy 
sourcing model, with over a thousand new rural sites in 
Colombia, as well as certified over 13 million KWh of this 
operation’s 2021 grid electricity consumption as renewable.

Smarter designs helped us close 232 sites in Colombia, 
reducing our electricity use and costs while increasing our 
coverage area. 

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Environment

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report 
projects an escalating climate crisis unless we limit the global 
temperature increase to 1.5°C compared with pre-industrial 
levels. 

The consequences of inaction will be severe: More frequent 
and intense heat waves; more powerful hurricanes, flooding 
and wildfires; continued sea level rise in coastal communities; 
ocean warming that devastates marine ecosystems; and 
the prospect of climate refugees fleeing drought and other 
weather-related disasters. 

Regionally, our Latin American markets are vulnerable to 
climate-related disasters such as floods and hurricanes, which 
are already taking a heavy toll on the region’s health and 
infrastructure. 

We spent much of 2021 assessing our business risk related to 
climate change and inventorying our GHG emissions, with the 
goal of developing a climate resilience strategy that can help 
our business and communities prosper in the face of these 
threats. 

We’ve always worked collaboratively across our business to 
use resources more efficiently and minimize our operating 
waste. In early 2022, we amplified our commitment with the 
announcement of new GHG emissions targets. In accordance 
with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals on 
climate action, the new targets represent our most ambitious 
commitment yet to reducing our environmental footprint. 
Reaching our targets won’t be easy, but we’re excited by the 
challenge and inspired by the progress we’ve already made. 

Collectively, we believe these actions help us optimize our 
business performance, reduce business risk, deliver improved 
connectivity and service to our customers, and meet our 
stakeholder expectations for environmental stewardship—all 
core to how we fulfill our purpose each day.  

Setting Science-Based Emissions 
Targets
We’re constantly pursuing new strategies and technologies 
to reduce our carbon footprint, and this year we formalized 
our strategies into a single overarching commitment. In 2021, 
we took a more ambitious approach, recalculating our 2020 
Scope 1 and 2 emissions and performing a comprehensive 
Scope 3 emissions inventory. This broader and fresh analysis 
was the basis to develop a comprehensive mitigation strategy, 
based on aggressive reduction targets. 

Our Commitment
We have submitted our first near-term Science-Based Targets 
for validation. Our ambition is to establish targets in line with 
a maximum 1.5°C increase above pre-industrial levels for our 
Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions and a 2°C increase for Scope 3, 
and to lay the groundwork for strong, coordinated action in 
the region. Because we plan to be active participants in Latin 
America's digital transformation to enable a thriving, resilient 
economy, we aspire to go beyond these targets in the next 
decade, joining the Business Ambition for 1.5°C campaign and 
committing to achieving net zero emissions by or before 2050 
in alignment with the Science-Based Targets initiative.

With these targets, we are joining other leading private sector 
companies in pledging to slash our emissions within the next 
decade. We anticipate even more ambitious targets in the 
years to come, as we keep in mind the international coalition 
of countries and companies aiming for net zero emissions by 
2050. 

Our strategies will encompass emissions from sources that 
are under our control, emissions associated with our purchase 
of electricity (Scope 2), and emissions from upstream and 
downstream sources, including relevant suppliers and clients 
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A science-based 
pathway to net zero 
emissions

Millicom has joined the "Business Ambition 
for 1.5°C campaign", formally committing 
achieving net zero emissions per the 
Science-Based Targets initiative standard 
by or before 2050.

We use the strictest ambition levels available for our 
Scope 1 and 2 emissions inventories and goals, as these 
are the sources over which we have the most control. We 
set a more conservative target for our Scope 3 emissions, 
which are our most significant emissions drivers but where 
our control is most limited. This will allow us the time 
to form partnerships with authorities, competitors and 
suppliers on integrated strategies for reducing emissions. 

In the short-term, our mitigation strategies will include a 
combination of energy efficiency, renewable energy and 
market instruments. Many of these strategies are already 
in operation, while others are in the planning stages. We 
will report on these in more detail in future disclosures.

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Energy Efficiency

By modernizing our network infrastructure, we’re delivering 
more and better services to our mobile and broadband 
customers while consuming less electricity. 

SPOTLIGHT

Nicaragua

For example, we invested in 
modernization upgrades for more 
than 1,100 sites in Nicaragua in 
2021. The new technology consumed 
between 20% and 25% less electricity 
than before the upgrades—higher 
than our initial projections—saving 
us more than 1.5 million KWh . 
The new sites also require fewer 
maintenance visits, saving substantial 
amounts of fuel and labor. 

1.5 million KWh

Electricity saved by modernizing 
more than 1,100 sites in Nicaragua. 

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Likewise, we modernized more than 1,050 sites in Panama, 
with efficiency figures in line with the savings from our 
Nicaragua sites. Our Panama sites reduced our electricity 
consumption by 0.9 million KWh. 

In Colombia, we continued rolling out our 700 MHz network. 
This smarter design expands our coverage area while reducing 
the number of sites we need to serve customers. To date, we 
have closed 232 sites, reducing our associated electricity use 
and network costs. 

Looking forward, we’re collaborating with local management 
teams to identify other areas where we can reduce our energy 
consumption and GHG emissions, as well as implement best 
practices to reduce our environmental footprint. Measures 
we’re considering include updating the cooling systems in our 
data centers (e.g., using naturally cool air or water rather than 
mechanical chillers), replacing legacy equipment with new 
power-saving options, using hybrid fuel systems in off-grid 
sites, and replacing diesel and gasoline vehicles with more 
efficient options. 

Renewable Energy
While renewable energy as a whole is on the upswing in Latin 
America, regulatory roadblocks hinder our ability to purchase 
renewable energy directly in many of our markets. That said, 
renewable energy is a key linchpin of our emissions reduction 
strategies. As governments begin to loosen restrictions on 
energy-related public-private partnerships, we expect to 
pursue renewable energy for our operations more aggressively. 

In 2021, we entered year two of a Power Purchase Agreement 
(PPA) for our Panama operation. Through this contractual 
agreement between Millicom, third-party energy providers 
and local utilities, we’re able to partially power our mobile 
and fixed networks with local renewable energy sources, 
avoiding up to 1,200 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year. We will 
continue to negotiate new PPAs as they become available in 
our regions. Furthermore, our Colombia operation has certified 
over 13,000 MWh of their 2021 grid electricity consumption 
through Renewable Energy Credits (RECs), a measure towards 
decarbonizing our electricity consumption. 

We’re also pursuing renewable energy installations at many of 
our operational sites. We maintain an onsite solar capacity of 
over 4,700 MWh for powering our base stations, 

We're beginning to roll out innovative Energy as a Service 
(EaaS) sourcing models for our mobile sites. After a successful 
pilot in Honduras, we began the roll-out of four new EaaS 
sites supplied with solar energy in rural Colombia the first of 
over 1,200 sites to be deployed over the next 4 years. With 
this new model, in which over 70% of our sites are off grid, 
we're focusing on expanding our coverage while minimizing 
our reliance on fossil fuels. We believe this will have a minimal 
additional impact on our carbon footprint—a big step in 
the decarbonization of our services. The full benefits of this 
addition will build up as roll-out continues.

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SPOTLIGHT

Costa Rica

As part of the Green 
Initiatives, mentioned 
above, Tigo Costa Rica 
adopted 

1,000 trees 
with the
“ Asociación 
Amigos de 
Un Millón de 
Árboles”. 

Green Initiatives
We engage employees and customers in environmental initiatives 
across our markets, helping improve resource efficiency, protect 
and restore local ecosystems and reduce the impact of our 
operations. Examples include: 

»Cell phone recycling initiatives in Colombia, Guatemala, 

Nicaragua and Panama 

»Environmental volunteering program in Tigo Colombia

»Environmental literacy content in Tigo Bolivia’s EducaTigo channel

» Environmental volunteering planting native species with the 

Million Trees Miami campaign.

E-Waste and the Circular Economy
As a broadband and mobile provider, e-waste from our CPE 
is one of our biggest challenges—and one of our biggest 
opportunities. Through our CPE Recovery Program, we aspire 
to recover most or all of the equipment our customers use for 
broadband or mobile connectivity should they terminate or 
upgrade their services. Once recovered, the equipment is either 
redeployed in the field or responsibly recycled. 

Our results were hampered in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic, 
but we rebounded strongly in 2021, recovering 84% of our 
CPE—12% more than our target.

Our CPE Recovery Program is reducing our environmental 
impact across the board. By reusing and recycling old 
equipment rather than throwing it away, we accomplished the 
following in 2021:

»  Reused 617 tonnes of plastic.

»  Avoided more than 1,4M cubic meters of water consumption, 

the equivalent of 493 Olympic swimming pools.

»  Avoided 2,158 tons of CO2 emissions

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2021 Highlights

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Nearly 3,000  

Guatemalan citizens 

received a COVID-19 vaccine at our Tigo Plaza vaccination center—
designed, installed and launched by Tigo Guatemala volunteers over 
two days. 

More than 500 Tigo leaders and 16,905 employees received Diversity, 
Equity & Inclusion training in 2021, putting us well on our way to our 
goal of 100% participation. 

11,200

In September, we joined forces with Fundación Real Madrid to support 
69 social sports projects, giving 11,200 boys, girls and family members 
access to new digital education opportunities. 

 6,000+ women 
entrepreneurs in 
El Salvador  

Using digital skills learned in our Conectadas entrepreneurship 
program, we provided entrepreneurship training to 6,000+ women 
entrepreneurs in El Salvador.  

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Our People
Our purpose comes to life through the talent, energy and 
dedication of our 20,687 employees and roughly 12,000 
contractors. We rely on our people to embody Sangre Tigo—
the lifeblood that fuels our business success. Sangre Tigo is 
not just one thing; it’s everything. It’s the exemplary service 
an employee offers to a customer, making his or her day. It’s 
the dedication shown by a technician installing a cell tower 
atop a rugged mountain, bringing mobile service to a rural 
village for the first time. It’s the love we have for one another 
and our communities, which flashes each time a peer or 
customer reaches out for help. 

In turn, we strive to build a culture inside our company 
that inspires our employees’ creativity, celebrates their 
uniqueness, stokes their passions, and empowers them to 
make a difference in people’s lives. We’re also continuously 
working to improve our industry-leading diversity of talent 
across the company, because we recognize that there’s 
always more work to be done. Our goal is to empower the 
workforce and storytellers of tomorrow by providing pathways 
to technology and media careers. We have zero tolerance for 
racism, xenophobia or any other form of discrimination and 
we strongly support local and global initiatives – including 
policy changes – that will advance equity, justice and equal 
protections for all.

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We owe much of our success in 2021 to the spirit of Sangre 
Tigo, which inspired us to put the well-being of our employees 
and customers first throughout the pandemic. We’re proud to 
say that in addition to going all out to protect our employees’ 
health,  we did not implement any restructuring programs 
related to the pandemic or redundancies. What's more, we 
retained more than 93% of our key talent over the same 
period. Our faith in our employees was rewarded this year 
with our highest-ever scores in our annual Great Place to 
Work survey. 

It’s this same spirit that drives us as we look to the future—
from our commitment to making Tigo a more inclusive 
workplace to our transition to a hybrid work model, which 
we believe will encourage both the human interaction 
people need and the independence and flexibility modern 
employees crave.

Great Place to Work®
Employee Trust in Millicom 
at an All-Time High 
Our Great Place to Work survey is our annual 
opportunity to take the pulse of our employees. 
We’re proud to say the 2021 survey produced our 
best results ever. Our overall trust index reached 
85, while all Tigo operations scored above 80 
for the first time. More than 14,000 employees 
participated in the survey.

The Tigo trust index has increased 
four years straight.
We're committing to continue making 
Tigo one of the greatest places to work 
in Latin America.  

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SPOTLIGHT:
Sangre Tigo 2.0

PULSES

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We are 
ONE TIGO

TIGO runs  
in our veins

We make it 
happen the  
right way

We give 1,000%  
for our  
customers

BEHAVIORS
»  We have one purpose and 

we make an impact

»   We are inclusive  

and united

»  Together we win
»  We value our differences
»   We manage Tigo  
assets as if they  
were our own

»  We are proud of  

our company and  
our history

»  We are innovators 
»  We are fast and we  
go the extra mile
»  We are passionate
»  We care for our 
communities

»  We lead by example and 
we do what we preach
»  We never compromise  

our integrity

»  We are transparent  
and accountable
»  We find solutions  
and deliver results
»  We see challenges  
as opportunities

»  Our customers are at the 

center of everything we do

»  We are direct, honest  

and open

»  We always do it right,  

from the first time

»  We make decisions based  

on data insights
»  We think, act and  

live digital

Evolving Our Leadership Culture with Sangre Tigo 2.0
As our organization evolves, so does what we expect from our leaders. 

In 2021, we sharpened our focus on leadership with the Tigo Leadership Model, which is intended to strengthen and 
further codify our Sangre Tigo culture. 
More than 100 of our top senior leaders helped create the model at the Tigo Leadership Summit in February. During the session, 
leaders and managers from across Tigo’s operations determined the most relevant leadership attributes for our leaders and defined 
the leadership behaviors required to fulfill our purpose. 

In Q4, we introduced new Tigo leadership standards based on our model. In a session attended by 600 Tigo leaders, participants 
were introduced to this new leadership framework and learned how to embody Sangre Tigo in their every action. Each country is 
preparing to integrate these new standards within their operations in 2022. 

We believe a culture is a living, breathing organism, and that it must be nurtured to thrive. With our new Tigo Leadership Model, 
we're continuing to advance our culture and empowering our leaders to steer the organization into the future. 

We’re often repaid for our belief in Sangre Tigo in surprising—and delightful—ways. 

Check out this charismatic tune from Tigo Panama employee Edwin Cortes on how he defines Sangre Tigo. 

Tigo Hybrid Work Model
Aided by advances in video conferencing and collaboration 
software, remote and hybrid work styles became more 
common at Tigo during the pandemic. Many of our 
employees basked in the freedom, becoming more creative 
and productive while achieving a better work-life balance. 

We believe the future of work is flexible, adaptable and 
forward-looking. After many months of analyzing how remote 
work styles fit the type of work we do, we announced a new 
Tigo hybrid work model in 2021. This new model allows 
employees to switch fluidly between Tigo's premises and 
employees' homes depending on their roles and the day-to-
day tasks required. 

Employees and managers can decide when and where they’re 
most productive, using the office as a destination to meet with 
coworkers, find inspiration and exchange ideas that promote 
collaboration and innovation. When working remotely, they’ll 
have access to digital tools that are in step with how they 
prefer to communicate, share and collaborate. 

Some roles are dependent on equipment, information or 
interactions only available at the workplace and thus will be 
required to be on site full time, as determined by managers 
and HR. 

As one of the first telecom companies to move to a hybrid 
model in the countries where we operate, we believe the 
transformation will give us an edge in attracting talent, 
strengthen our DE&I commitment, accelerate our innovation 
and lead us to becoming a higher-performing organization.

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Human Resources Transformation
Today’s business environment isn’t the same environment 
that existed ten years ago, five years ago or even one year 
ago. We are embarked on a journey to transform our HR 
department, creating a digitally optimized model that’s agile, 
innovative and adaptable to an ever-changing business world.
The transformation aims to improve the employee experience 
on all fronts, from streamlining manual tasks, to empowering 
leaders to build and develop teams, to freeing up time for 
employees to focus on high-reaching goals so that teams 
can focus their energy and efforts toward Tigo’s business 
strategies and purpose: to build the digital highways that 
connect people, improve lives and develop communities.

In 2021, we started rolling out the first phase of our new 
Workday system, which encourages employees to be more 
productive and strategic instead of bogging down in repetitive 
tasks. We’ve since rolled out a number of additional modules 
on core HR functions, including Recruitment & Onboarding, 
Absence, Benefits, Core Compensation, Reporting and 
Interfaces with Payroll. Phase two will include Performance, 
Training, Succession Planning and Advance Compensation. 
We’re also working toward giving our managers full visibility 
on our talent, with specific dashboards and reports. 

Having this information at our fingertips makes our 
employees' and managers’ decisions more accurate and 
efficient.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Respect for all people is core to our Sangre Tigo culture. 
We recognize that the strength of our company flows from 
creating an inclusive environment that attracts talented 
professionals with a broad array of backgrounds, experiences 
and perspectives. When every employee feels empowered 
to contribute authentically, the resulting innovation helps 
ensure that our business, products and services reflect the full 
spectrum of interests in our markets. One of our Sangre Tigo 
pulses—We are one Tigo—embodies our commitment to 
inclusivity and togetherness. 

In 2021, we continued executing the diversity, equity and 
inclusion (DE&I) strategy we’ve pursued the past several years 
and formalized in 2020. Our strategy focuses on building a 
more inclusive culture, with three specific pillars: Inclusive 
Leadership, Inclusion, and Opportunities for All. Internally, 
inclusion means "everybody has a voice."

Inclusive Leadership
Tigo leaders are committed to build a more diverse and 
inclusive culture. This year, we reinforced this leadership 
commitment in trainings, town halls, panels, and a series of 
local initiatives, helping ensure that our employees had a 
clear understanding of our evolving strategy and action plans 
moving forward.

In DE&I trainings attended by nearly 500 Tigo leaders in 
2021, we reflected on the role of inclusion in driving our 
strategy and building our culture. We covered topics like 
recognizing and overcoming implicit bias in the workplace 
and developing the leadership skills to create more equitable 
outcomes for all employees. 

Sixty-plus Tigo leaders also participated in “Unconscious 
Bias in Recruitment and Selection” training. This training 
complemented our company-wide effort to recognize 
and eliminate preconceived notions in the hiring process. 
Strategies to accomplish this include introducing gender 
neutral job descriptions, maintaining a diverse panel of 
interviewers and posting all positions internally and externally.

39% 

Of women in senior management positions 
at Millicom as of December 31, 2021.

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Awareness and training
In addition to leadership accountability, our 2021 
DE&I approach centered on employee awareness and 
communication. In the spirit of Sangre Tigo, we launched our 
“We are one Tigo” campaign to raise awareness of diversity's 
central role in our culture. "We are one Tigo" is not a one-time 
initiative, but a genuine commitment to building a culture that 
includes everyone. 

We bolstered the campaign through town halls, panels and 
conversations. Topics included what DE&I means at Tigo, 
the issues faced by employees in the workplace, and the 
responsibilities we have individually and as a group to create 
an welcoming, inclusive work environment. 

We also designed and implemented a training for all Tigo 
employees that explored DE&I concepts and unconscious 
bias in the workplace. We set a goal of training 100% of 
our employees; as of December 2021, more than 16,905 
employees had completed the training.

Giving employees a voice is critical to our DE&I efforts as we 
seek to provide more meaningful support in the workplace. 
In 2021, Tigo operations in multiple countries established 
DE&I councils made up of 70-plus employees from diverse 
backgrounds. These councils helped us identify specific gaps in 
our DE&I approach and make targeted improvements in each 
location. They also gave our employees the opportunity to 
participate in and lead diversity initiatives at Millicom and put 
our values into practice. 

Initiatives pursued by various DE&I councils include 
addressing the gender pay gap, empowering women in 
technology fields, and advancing the rights of our LGBTQ+ 
employees by extending benefits to same-sex couples.

Opportunities for All 
Our employees' differences are among our greatest sources 
of strength. We embrace these differences by striving to 
give everyone at Tigo the same opportunity for professional 
success regardless of race, gender, gender identity, sexual 
orientation, age, ethnicity, disability, appearance or beliefs.

In 2021, we continued to redesign and implement new 
practices in recruiting and selection to reduce potential bias 
in our hiring and talent development processes. This includes 
creating gender-neutral job descriptions, empowering 
a diverse panel of interviews to screen candidates and 
encouraging hiring managers to provide feedback to internal 
candidates that were not selected for new positions. 

We also sought to level the playing field internally by 
conducting pay equity analyses and implementing and 
monitoring equal opportunity policies and practices. 

In addition to reducing bias company-wide, we launched 
initiatives to empower specific groups within Tigo. In 
celebration of Women’s History Month, we hosted a Women’s 
Empowerment webinar in March 2021 with guidance on how 
women can close the gender gap in the tech field. The webinar 

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highlighted key concepts on leadership and equality, and 
provided invaluable advice to young professionals navigating 
the tech industry in a digitally powered era. 

Moderated by journalist Carolina Amoroso, the webinar 
featured our own Susy Bobenrieth, Millicom’s EVP Chief 
Human Resources Officer, and Doreen Bogdan-Martin, 
Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau for 
the International Telecommunication Union. Approximately 
2,400 people attended the webinar.

Our journey to build a place where all employees feel like they 
can be themselves continues. And we will continue to make 
sure each and every employee appreciates that we're all part 
of the journey.

SPOTLIGHT: LGBTQ+ awareness
LGBTQ+ employees make  
their voices heard

It’s easy for members of the LGBTQ+ community to feel isolated in 
Latin America’s culturally conservative social climate. But many of 
our perceived differences melt away when we simply listen. 

During Pride month in June, we hosted a global webinar featuring 
a panel of five LGBTQ+ employees sharing their experiences and 
personal stories. Close to 2,000 people participated in the webinar, 
with the overarching message that you can be your authentic self 
at Tigo. 

Our webinar coincided with an internal and external LGBTQ+ 
awareness campaign, which highlighted several employees sharing 
what inclusion and acceptance mean to them as Tigo employees: 

" My greatest wish is that we can all achieve 
love without prejudice. Love is too great to 
be kept hidden in a closet.”
—Alexander Salazar Chaves,  
Loyalty & Churn Analyst, Tigo Costa Rica

" I'm proud to be part of a company that's 
diverse and inclusive … and that always 
contributes to the world being a place 
where everyone feels and accepted."
—Natalia Cardona,  
Consumer Insights Manager, Tigo Honduras

“ Throughout my life I have discovered 
different ways to raise my voice with pride, 
and in Tigo I have found another place 
where I can be proud of who I am!”
—Mario Vásquez,  
Communications Specialist & Human Rights  
and LGBTI Lifestyle Blogger, Tigo Nicaragua

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Health & Safety
Our health and safety priority over the past two years has 
been to keep our employees safe at all costs from COVID-19. 
With the advent of vaccines, we were able to reopen our 
offices and adjust our protocols, but always with an eye to 
doing what’s best for employees individually and as a group. 

In each country, we correlated our responses with the advice 
of local health authorities and conditions on the ground. 
The 2021 edition of the pandemic saw fewer government 
lockdowns and more social mobility, but the number of 
cases continued to increase but stabilized in the latter half of 
2021, as vaccination rates in the populations of our countries 
of operation rose. We monitored these situations closely and 
tailored our health and safety protocols to both our corporate 
guidelines and all applicable local guidelines for the workplace. 

Our Health & Safety Teams maintained the enforcement of 
COVID-19 safety protocols for workspace cleaning, personal 
hygiene, issuance of personal protection equipment and social 
distancing guidelines, as recommended by the World Health 
Organization and U.S. Centers for Disease Control. 

We also facilitated a number of programs in our markets to 
educate employees on COVID-19 prevention and treatment 
options, as well as emphasize the importance of vaccination 
for our employees and their families. 

Beyond dealing with COVID-19, we were able to obtain 
recertification of ISO 45001 Health and Safety Standards and 
ISO 14001 Environmental Standards in all our operations. 

SPOTLIGHT: Guatemala

Tigo volunteers help vaccinate 
nearly 3,000 Guatemalan citizens
Caring for our communities is fundamental to our Sangre Tigo 
culture. So when the COVID-19 vaccine became available in 
Guatemala, local Tigo employees and leadership jumped at 
the chance to make it as easy as possible for the public to 
get vaccinated.  

In partnership with the Social Security Institute, employees from 
across the company designed, installed and launched a public-
facing vaccination center within two days at the Tigo Plaza in 
Guatemala City. 

Nearly every department had a hand in the effort, including Tigo 
People, Marketing, Administration, Supply Chain, IT, Operations 
and Physical Security. The center is conveniently located near 
several residential communities, giving local residents access to 
the vaccine without having to travel to a nearby medical center. 

The campaign was an unqualified success. 

With the help of more than 95 Tigo volunteers, 2,833 members of the 
public received their first and second doses of the Moderna vaccine. 

Tigo Guatemala received more than 2,000 messages of gratitude 
from the public, with 99% of the vaccinated themselves giving 
the campaign high marks. 

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We prevented employee fatalities and major losses to our 
workforce throughout 2021. Unfortunately, there were two 
fatalities in our contracted services. 

1,911 and 1,872

Employees vaccinated in Honduras 
and Colombia respectively during Tigo 
vaccination campaigns.

Vaccination Campaigns
Vaccines gave us a new tool in the fight against COVID-19, and we 
took full advantage in 2021, gaining permission from several local 
governments to provide onsite vaccinations for our employees. 

Tigo Honduras, for example, sought and received authorization 
from the country’s Social Security system, trade unions, the 
Auditing Commission, and the private health system to perform 
vaccinations onsite. Within four hours of receiving the approvals, 
we had set up sites in our Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula offices. 

All told, we vaccinated 1,911 of our Honduran employees. Nearly 
80% of our Honduran employees are now fully vaccinated, 
compared with approximately 25% of Hondurans as a whole.  

Tigo Colombia followed a similar path, receiving approval from 
both the government and the local businessman’s union to offer 
onsite vaccinations. 

Tigo Colombia vaccinated 1,872 employees during the 
campaign, along with 428 family members and 327 third parties. 

We believe vaccines are one of the most effective ways to 
protect the health of our employees and their families, and we 
will continue to encourage their use.

2,833

Guatemalan citizens vaccinated at 
our Tigo volunteer-led vaccination 
center in the Tigo Plaza.

Guatemala

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Digital Education
We witness the life-changing power of digital connectivity 
throughout all aspects of Millicom’s business. Never was this 
more evident than during the COVID-19 pandemic, which 
laid bare the importance of connectivity to social, civic and 
economic participation. 

However, such benefits remain frustratingly out of reach for 
millions of people who are on the wrong side of the digital 
divide because of disparities in education, income and access 
to in-home or mobile technology networks. 

That’s why in addition to expanding our networks to 
provide better connectivity to more people, we partner with 
organizations throughout Latin America to teach people of 
all ages how to use the internet and safely harness the social, 
educational and economic opportunities it provides. 

By expanding affordable connectivity to more people on the 
one hand and educating people how to take advantage of 
that connectivity on the other, we’re accomplishing several 
goals at once: Creating a more equitable landscape in which 
people have the tools to fully participate in society; providing 
the digital infrastructure for a sustainable economic recovery 
in our markets; and building the digital customers of the 
future that will sustain our growth. 

Our Digital Education programs focus on three areas: 

Digital ownership: We promote digital adoption in 
communities so people can take advantage of the 
opportunities the internet provides. This includes aiming to 
keep customers connected when times are difficult, as we did 
with our Lifeline program in the early days of the pandemic. 

Online protection: We take action to protect children’s rights 
and mediate children’s exposure to inappropriate content, 
online predators, cyberbullying and online threats.

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Empowering people to thrive in the digital economy: 
We offer digital literacy and technology training to children, 
adolescents, women and other groups, helping spark 
innovation in the classroom and prepare participants for 
future employment. 

Conectadas 
Launched in 2017, our Conectadas program provides digital 
literacy and entrepreneurship training to women and 
adolescent girls in Latin America, creating a springboard 
for social and economic opportunity. To date, more than 
575 thousand women and girls have been trained through 
Conectadas. 

In 2020, we deepened the program’s focus on 
entrepreneurship by providing personalized technical 
assistance to female Tigo Money sales agents in El Salvador. 
Inspired by the success of the pilot, we took Conectadas 
to the next level in 2021, sowing the seeds for women’s 
empowerment throughout the country. 

Approximately 400 Salvadoran women from the Tigo value 
chain received entrepreneurship training this year, among 
them Tigo Money agents and owners of points of sale and 
activation from more than 60 municipalities. Roughly 700 
Salvadoran microentrepreneurs and 5,000 Tigo clients also 
participated, along with many Tigo Money users. 

New allies and partners helped drive the expansion, including 
the Economic Competitiveness Project of the United States 
Agency for Development (USAID), the Business Foundation 
for Social Action (FUNDEMAS), Banco Agrícola, Fedecrédito, 
La Constancia, Belcorp, Vogue, UN Women and local media.

“I learned how to use WhatsApp Business and other digital tools 
to contact our clients, send promotions, schedule meetings, 
make customer billboards and organize my digital inventory. 
I’m putting into practice everything I’ve learned and will 
continue to do so.”

—Mayra Rivera, Tigo point of sale, Santa Tecla, La Libertad, El Salvador

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Expanding Our Reach with the 
Conectadas App
Women with work or child care responsibilities or who live 
in remote locations often lack the time or means to attend 
our Conectadas workshops. That’s why we began selectively 
testing a new Conectadas app in December 2021 that will be 
fully available next year. A digital version of our Conectadas 
training, the app trains users on topics like basic internet 
usage, personal finances and the effective use of digital tools 
for business. We expect the app to help us reach thousands of 
additional women in 2022 and beyond. 

SPOTLIGHT: Honduras
Creating Opportunity for Kids in 
High-Risk Communities
In Honduras’s marginalized communities, gangs often feel like 
the only way out for children living in poverty. 

The Genesis Project gives kids another option. Since arriving in 
Honduras in 2015, the project has focused on motivating young 
people to reject violence, develop tech skills, build life plans and 
participate in the development of their communities. 

Tigo Honduras reaffirmed our commitment to the Genesis Project 
in 2021 through an agreement with the National Foundation 
for Development of Honduras (FUNADEH) to provide free 
connectivity and technological training to local youth. 

Aligned with our purpose to connect people, improve lives and 
develop communities, our aim is to further strengthen the 
education of Honduran boys and girls by providing internet 
access and digital education in high-risk communities. 

To date, we’ve created opportunities for more than 13,900 young 
Hondurans, including:

Providing free internet services to more than 20 Youth Outreach 
Centers located in socially vulnerable communities.

Providing technology training in partnership with local and 
national entities, giving participants the skills to pursue 
employment or self-employment opportunities in tech.

Volunteering in the Youth Outreach Centers to share knowledge 
on entrepreneurship, women’s empowerment and the responsible 
use of information and communication technologies.

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Maestr@s Conectad@s
Closing the digital skills gap is vital for children in Latin 
American countries, yet many classrooms lack the tools or 
resources to provide an effective digital education. We created 
our Maestr@s Conectad@s (Connected Teachers) program 
to help teachers develop and facilitate technology-based 
curricula, giving students in our markets access to the same 
educational opportunities as children in other parts of the 
world. 

We have trained more than 112,737 teachers in partnership 
with the AHYU Foundation since 2019. The online workshops 
are led by instructors experienced in the effective use of 
technology in the classroom.

In November 2021, we organized the first regional Maestr@s 
Conectad@s Congress. Twelve experts facilitated virtual 
lectures on key topics such as Emotional Intelligence in the 
Classroom, Teaching and Coaching, and Video Games in 
Education. More than 33,000 teachers from all over Latin 
America joined these sessions, which awarded them a digital 
certification of participation.

Honduras

13,900

Honduran youth 
who have received 
free internet access 
and/or learned 
digital skills through 
our participation in 
Project Genesis.

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SPOTLIGHT: Bolivia
24-Hour EducaTigo Channel 
Empowers Viewers with 
Digital Skills

Only about 40% of Bolivian households have internet access, 
preventing many Bolivian students, teachers and families from 
acquiring the digital skills to participate in modern society. 

We addressed this digital literacy gap in 2021 with the 
launch of EducaTigo, the country’s first TV channel with 
full-time educational content. 

Launched in September 2021, EducaTigo airs curated content 
focused on digital skills building, responsible internet use, 
cybersecurity and other digital education topics. The channel 
airs 24 hours a day on the Tigo Home cable network.

Programs include Patchers, a miniseries that instructs students 
on the risks of digital technology; and Teaching in Digital 
Skills, which offers tips for teachers on preparing children and 
adolescents to succeed in the digital era.  

Since its launch, EducaTigo has transmitted more than 30 
educational programs and 16 educational capsules.

To expand EducaTigo's reach, Tigo Bolivia signed an agreement 
with the Bolivian Space Agency to broadcast the channel on 
the Bolivian satellite Tupac Katari. With the agreement, satellite 
viewers can watch the free signal from anywhere in the world.

Conéctate Segur@ 
Young people have an almost limitless universe of learning, 
entertainment and social opportunities available on the 
Internet. But venturing online without the tools or experience 
to recognize and avoid potential dangers can expose children 
to considerable harm.

Tigo’s flagship program Conéctate Segur@ educates 
children, parents, teachers and caregivers on the risks and 
opportunities of digital technology, giving children a safe way 
to learn, explore and grow using digital tools. More than half 
a million children have been reached by the program from 
its inception in 2016 through 2021, with most online and 
in-person workshops facilitated by volunteers from our Acción 
Tigo program. 

Bolivia

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SPOTLIGHT: 
Fundación Real Madrid
Connectivity and Fútbol 
Come Together with Real 
Madrid Partnership

Fútbol is life for many Latin American children. But can a telecom 
company leverage children’s love of fútbol to promote online 
safety and digital literacy?

It turns out Millicom can through a new partnership with 
Fundación Real Madrid, the social work branch of one of the 
world’s most celebrated fútbol teams. 

In September 2021, Millicom and Fundación Real Madrid 
joined forces to support 69 social sports projects in our nine 
Latin America markets and the United States. 

With this collaboration, more than 11,200 boys, girls and family 
members served by the Fundación will have access to new digital 
education opportunities over the five years of the partnership. 

Kids will be trained on the responsible and productive use of the 
internet; learn how to use digital tools and prevent cyberbullying; 
and gain access to activities designed to empower women and 
young people to succeed in the digital economy. 

The 69 projects are just a starting point. Thanks to the combined 
reach of the Fundación Real Madrid and Millicom, the number 
of children served by the partnership is expected to grow 
substantially, as Millicom’s social impact programs have reached 
more than 200,000 children and teenagers since 2019.

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Latin America 
markets

11,200

Boys, girls and 
family members 
with access to new 
digital education 
opportunities 
thanks to our 
partnership with 
Fundación Real 
Madrid.

"It is greatly satisfying for the Real Madrid 
Foundation to count on the collaboration of 
Millicom-Tigo in the Americas to improve the lives 
of children in need, through education in values, 
sports and the use of technological tools."

—Emilio Butragueño, Director of Institutional Relations, Real Madrid F.C.

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Data Privacy
Privacy and Freedom of Expression
As one of the largest providers of digital services and content 
in our markets, we take seriously our responsibility to respect 
people’s dignity and safeguard their rights, including freedom  
of expression (FoE) and privacy. This extends from how 
we handle personal and confidential data for millions of 
customers to the workplace standards we uphold with our 
personnel and business partners.

To help us follow through on these commitments and identify 
areas to improve, we regularly seek input from and share best 
practices with experts, investors, NGOs, other companies and 
the academic community.

Our Privacy Statement
Millicom’s global and country-specific websites provide users 
with detailed information regarding our privacy practices. 
Visitors can readily learn how we use, process and protect 
personal data. We also provide transparent access to channels 
and contact points for users to raise privacy concerns. 
Furthermore, we trained approximately 18,000 individuals, 
including direct and indirect personnel of Millicom and the 
Tigo operations,  on  privacy and data protection basics in 
2021. 

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, some governments 
have requested customer data from us to help in their 
efforts with contact tracing and other follow-up actions. 
We adhered to our Privacy Statement and the terms of our 
Law Enforcement Assistance and Major Events Guidelines in 
handling all such inquiries. Learn more in the 2021 Millicom 
Law Enforcement Disclosure Report.

Information Security
Our ongoing goal is to be #1 in data protection for our 
industry. Our Global Chief Information Security Officer 

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oversees regional information security teams to ensure the 
confidentiality, integrity and availability of all business-critical 
systems and assets. The teams also identify potentially 
detrimental threats and risks and are responsible for 
safeguarding proprietary and personal customer information. 

Additionally, the regional teams work closely with Millicom 
business and technology leaders to ensure compliance with 
corporate policies and regional regulatory requirements within 
our various markets.

Processes are in place to regularly identify and assess threats, 
and test vulnerabilities to our network and systems to 
minimize the risk of security breaches. Our offices also conduct 
annual training for employees on information security. In 
2021, more than 80% of our employees participated in 
security awareness training covering key threats, prevention 
and company procedures. As phishing remains a major 
threat, simulations are performed regularly to test employee 
behavior, and improve our protection solution and response 
process.

In 2021, we launched a new Asset Protection Initiative to 
give us increased control of our sites and protect our fixed 
assets. Our Security Team implemented new asset protection 
protocols to protect network batteries, copper cabling and 
other components used at our mobile and cable network 
locations. In close coordination with Operations, local security 
teams are able to monitor access to our sites by technicians, 
as well as oversee equipment installations and repairs. 

Security personnel from in-country Security Operations 
Centers are able to track individuals who access our sites in 
real time, as well as monitor the installation of specific assets 
via serial numbers that have historically been susceptible to 
loss. 

In 2022, we plan to expand our asset protection protocols 
to cover certain physical assets in our supply chain, prior to 
installation at our network sites. We’re currently conducting a 
pilot program in Paraguay to monitor network batteries. 

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Supply Chain
In a globalized, complex and interconnected world, the 
importance of looking beyond our direct impacts and into 
those of our supply chain cannot be understated.  We do 
business with over 7,500 suppliers of all sizes across all 
markets where we operate in Latin America and, through 
them, we have an indirect, yet far-reaching, societal impact, 
which we seek to consciously address to create positive ripple 
effects that impact our communities as a whole, through 
better services, fair labor practices and robust environmental 
stewardship. We aim to build long-term partnerships that are 
mutually beneficial at Group and local level, and in accordance 
with all our legal and compliance obligations, to do business 
the right way.

We seek to work with businesses that understand and share 
our values and standards to promote our business purpose in 
every link of our supply chain. Our Supplier Code of Conduct 
sets core expectations in the areas of health and safety, 
environment, fair labor, ethics and compliance. As such, it is 
regularly revised to ensure its relevance. 

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Since 2018, we’ve provided training to more than 500 
suppliers on key ESG topics material to our business. In 2021, 
we transitioned to an online training module for suppliers  
considered as strategic, helping us reach a greater percentage 
of suppliers.  Through 2022 and 2023, we aim for all our 
strategic suppliers to take part in the training as a prerequisite 
for doing business with our company. 

Using the platform and methodology of EcoVadis, a third-
party ratings provider, we evaluate suppliers in key ESG areas 
such as environmental stewardship, labor and human rights, 
ethics and sustainable procurement. The results enable us 
to monitor supplier performance in these areas and how 
suppliers are progressing over time. Please refer to the 
"Performance Tables" section starting on page 33 for further 
results from these evaluations. 

"With the measures we adopted after the training, our 
Ecovadis score went from 33 to 73 and the benefits for us 
were multiple: we attracted customers that valued our strong 
CR approach supported by a third party, and our staff’s 
engagement increased. We took it as an opportunity; this is 
a client that not only brings us business but also cares about 
our company’s growth. I recommend my fellow suppliers to 
take advantage of this space"

—José Chaves Barboza, Go Consultores

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Strong Governance: Independence 
and Integrity

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Chairman’s Report
Millicom’s Board of Directors (“the Board”) and its committees dealt with 
many significant strategic, operational, regulatory and compliance-related 
matters in 2021. These included:

•  Reviewing and confirming strategic direction, along with related risks and 

opportunities 

•  Continuing the program to exit the African business and redeploy capital 

into growth opportunities in Latin America

•  Acquiring the remaining 45% equity interest in the joint venture 

businesses in Guatemala

•  Analyzing and overseeing the ongoing response to COVID-19, including 

financial structure, shareholder remuneration and cash flow management

•  Overseeing the management of cybersecurity threats and control 

environment improvements

•  Considering sustainability issues and responses

Introduction
The Board is responsible for setting the Company's strategy, 
risk appetite and operating goals, and for monitoring the 
implementation of satisfactory controls in all relevant 
areas, such as accounting, financial, legal, regulatory and 
compliance. The Board also supervises management in 
fulfilling its obligations and responsibilities, and continually 
assesses the company's economic situation.

I would like to thank all of our Board members and Senior 
Management for their commitment, dedication and 
significant contributions in serving Millicom in 2021.

Board Changes
In May, following elections at the Company's annual general 
meeting, we welcomed Mr. Bruce Churchill, Ms. Sonia Dulá 
and Mr. Lars-Johan Jarnheimer to the Board as Non-Executive 
Directors. The appointments bring Millicom a wealth of 
operational and strategy experience in Latin America and the 
telecommunication industry across the globe. 

I would like to extend our gratitude to both Tomas Eliasson 
and Lars-Åke Norling for their significant contributions to the 
Board. Tomas Eliasson joined the Board in 2014 and served 
as Chairman of the Audit Committee during his tenure, 
overseeing the development of Millicom’s internal control 
environment and its U.S. listing. Upon joining in 2018, Lars-
Åke Norling served as an invaluable member of the Board and 
its Compensation Committee and Compliance and Business 
Conduct Committee.

Enhancing Corporate Governance
The Company continues to enhance its management 
and oversight of its operating businesses, with many key 
functions and activities—including strategy, budgeting, 
allocation of capital, and key decisions on operating activities 
and significant issues—managed centrally, with direct 
reporting to the Board and its committees. In addition, the 
Company's central Legal, Ethics and Compliance, Internal 
Control, Risk Management, IT Security, Health & Safety, and 

Corporate Responsibility functions oversee activities in local 
operations, providing policies and procedures and enhancing 
methodologies, processes and reporting systems. Governance 
has also been incorporated into the ESG ecosystem, bringing 
an integrated approach that further strengthens our 
corporate culture.   

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I)
DE&I is one of the core pillars of our Sangre Tigo culture. 
Millicom relishes the increased diversity on the Board with 
respect to gender, age, identity and nationality, as well as 
depth of experiences, professional backgrounds and business 
disciplines. The diverse people in our operating countries, 
offices and headquarters comprise a key strength for Millicom. 
As we continue to work on fostering the most diverse, 
equitable and inclusive environment at all levels of TIGO, we 
have provided exciting and interactive training courses that 
further this mission. We're committed to making TIGO an 
environment where all voices are heard and respected. 

Compliance and Business Ethics
During 2021, we continued developing and expanding our 
compliance program. Led by our Executive and our Legal, 
Ethics and Compliance teams—and our culture of doing 
things the right way—compliance was embedded in our daily 
decisions and actions. Our Board believes this culture is a vital 
strength that contributes to the success of our business and 
meets the expectations of all our key stakeholder groups. 
We are proud to be a leader in ethics and compliance in our 
markets. 

In our 31st year, we thank you for being part of Millicom's 
success story and look forward to continuing this journey with 
you.

José Antonio Ríos García
Chairman of the Board of Directors

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Corporate Governance Framework

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Background
Millicom International Cellular S.A. (“Millicom” or the “Company”) is a public limited liability company (société anonyme) governed 
by the Luxembourg Law of August 10, 1915, on Commercial Companies (as amended). The Company was incorporated on June 16, 
1992, and registered with the Luxembourg Trade and Companies’ Register (Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés de Luxembourg) 
under number B 40 630. The Millicom Group comprises Millicom and its subsidiaries, joint ventures and associates. 

Millicom’s shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, in the form of Swedish Depository Receipts; and on the Nasdaq Stock Market in 
the U.S. since January 9, 2019, where Millicom is registered as a foreign private issuer. 

Millicom’s Corporate Governance Framework is primarily based on the following legislation, principles and regulations:

Publication

Authority

Swedish Code of Corporate Governance

Guiding Principles

Philosophy

Comply or Explain

Luxembourg Law

EU Directives and Regulations

Nasdaq Stockholm Issuer Rule Book

Nasdaq Stock Market Rules

U.S. Securities Laws

Good Stock Market Practice

Legislation

Legislation

Regulation

Regulation

Regulation

Comply

Comply

Comply

Comply

Comply

Guiding Principles

Corporate Citizenship

Within these frameworks, Millicom's Board develops and monitors internal guidelines and practices, as further described below, to 
ensure the quality and transparency of Millicom's corporate governance.

Swedish Corporate Governance 
Code
The Swedish Corporate Governance 
Code (“Swedish Code”) promotes 
good corporate governance to ensure 
companies are run sustainably, 
responsibly and efficiently. The Code 
complements mandatory laws and 
regulations and sets best practices that 
go beyond regulatory requirements. The 
Swedish Corporate Governance Board 
opted for self-regulation, and adopted 
a “comply or explain” philosophy. 
Therefore, companies may deviate 
from specific provisions, as long as they 
disclose the deviation and explain why 
they chose a different solution that is 
more suitable for their size and specific 
circumstances.

Compliance with Applicable Stock 
Exchange Rules
Neither Nasdaq Stockholm’s Disciplinary 
Committee, the Swedish Securities 
Council, nor the Nasdaq Stock Market 
reported any infringement of applicable 
stock exchange rules or breach of good 
practice on the securities market by 
Millicom in 2021.

1. Shareholders and Shareholders’ 
Meeting
The shareholders’ meeting is Millicom's 
highest decision-making body and a 
forum for shareholders to voice their 
opinions. Each shareholder has the 
right to participate in the shareholders’ 
meeting and to cast one vote for every 
share. Shareholders unable to attend 
in person may exercise their rights 
by proxy or vote in writing (by way of 
proxies).

Millicom’s Articles of Association 
(available on our website www.millicom.
com/our-company/governance/) 
set the Annual General Meeting of 
Shareholders (“AGM”) to be held in 
Luxembourg within six months of the 
close of the financial year.

Unless otherwise required under 
Luxembourg Law, an extraordinary 
general meeting (EGM) must be 
convened to amend the Articles of 
Association.

At the 2021 AGM, held virtually on May 
4, 2021, shareholders approved all the 
resolutions proposed by the Board, 
including the following key items:

•  the annual accounts and the 

consolidated accounts for the year 
ended December 31, 2020; 

•  the allocation of the profit of US 
$56,066,101 to the profit or loss-
brought-forward account of Millicom;

•   the discharge of all the current 

and former Millicom Directors who 
served at any point in time during the 
financial year ended December 31, 
2020, for the performance of their 
mandates; 

•  the re-election of Ernst & Young S.A., 
Luxembourg as Millicom's external 
auditor; 

•  the remuneration to the Board and 

external auditor; 

•   the instruction to the Nomination 

Committee; 

•  the share repurchase plan; 

•  the 2020 Remuneration Report; 

•  the senior management 
remuneration policy; and

•   the share-based incentive plans for 

Millicom employees. 

Further details can be found in 
the convening notice for the AGM 
(available in the Governance section 
of the Millicom website: Shareholder 
meetings).

On January 24, 2022, an Extraordinary 
General Meeting (EGM) was convened 
to increase the authorized share capital 
and amend the articles of association 
in preparation for the Rights Offering 
described in the CFO message on 
page 14. As the quorum required by 
Luxembourg Law and the Company's 
Articles of Association was not reached 
(44.48% of the Company's share capital 
was represented whereas 50% was 
required), the  EGM was reconvened and 
held on February 28, 2022 . The  EGM 
held on this date resolved to increase 
the Authorized Share Capital of the 
Company from 133.3 million to 200 
million ordinary shares with par value of. 
$1.50 each. 

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Millicom governance deviated in 2021 in relation to the Swedish Code in the following areas:

Code requirement

Millicom practice

Explanation

1.4–A shareholder, or a proxy representative of 
a shareholder, who is neither a member of the 
board nor an employee of the company is to be 
appointed to verify and sign the minutes of the 
shareholders’ meeting.

Minutes are signed by the Chairman of the 
shareholders’ meeting (who is not a member of 
the Board or an employee of the Company), the 
meeting secretary and an appointed scrutineer.

Millicom is a legal entity incorporated in 
Luxembourg and. as such, it follows Luxembourg 
Law in connection with procedures and rules for 
its shareholders’ meetings.

Share Repurchase Plans
During the period from August 2, 2021, to November 2, 2021, Millicom repurchased an aggregate amount of 1,369,284 shares (in 
the form of Swedish Depository receipts) under the repurchase program announced on July 29, 2021, and in accordance with the 
share repurchase plan approved at the 2021 AGM. No shares were repurchased under the share repurchase plan approved at the 
2020 AGM that was valid until May 4, 2021.

Corporate Governance Structure

Millicom’s Corporate Governance structure comprises the following three levels:

1.   Shareholders and representatives  

of shareholders.

Shareholders’ meeting

Nomination Committee

2.  Board of Directors and Committees 

appointed by the Board from among 
its members.

Board of Directors

Compliance and Business
Conduct Committee

Compensation Committee

Audit Committee

3.  CEO and Executive management, 

and its main functions managing 
governance, risk, compliance and 
ethics (including security), 
corporate responsibility, controls.

Chief Executive Officer

 Internal Audit

Executive Management Team

Compliance and  
Business Ethics

Business Control

Legal and 
Corporate 
Governance

Risk Management

Environmental, 
Social and 
Governance

Nomination Committee
Millicom's Nomination Committee elected in October 2020 was reappointed in November 2021 and is comprised of:

Member

Mr. John Hernander

Mr. Jan Andersson

Mr. Staley Cates

Mr. Peter Guve

On behalf of:

Nordea Investment Funds

Swedbank Robur

Southeastern Asset Management

AMF Pensionsförsäkring AB

Mr.  José Antonio Ríos García

Appointed by shareholders at the 2021 AGM

Position

Chairman

Member

Member

Member

Member

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The Nomination Committee is appointed by the largest shareholders of Millicom. It is not a Board committee. Its role is to propose 
resolutions regarding electoral and remuneration issues to the shareholders’ meeting in a manner that promotes the common 
interest of all shareholders, regardless of how they are appointed. Nomination Committee members' terms of office typically begin 
at the time of the announcement of the interim report (covering the period from January to September of each year) and end when 
a new Nomination Committee is formed.

Under the terms of the Nomination Committee procedure, the committee consists of at least three members appointed by the 
larger shareholders of the Company who choose to appoint a member and the Company's Chairman of the Board. 

The Company's Articles of Association stipulate that the Nomination Committee rules and procedures of the Swedish Code of 
Corporate Governance shall be applied for the election of Directors to the Company's Board of Directors, as long as such compliance 
does not conflict with applicable mandatory law, applicable regulation or the mandatory rules of any stock exchange on which the 
Company’s shares are listed. 

Nomination Committee proposals to the AGM include, among others:

•  Election and remuneration of Directors of the Board and the Chairman of the Board

•  Appointment and remuneration of the external auditor

•  Proposal of the Chairman of the AGM

Additional information on the procedure for appointment and role of the Nomination Committee is available on Millicom's website 
at  https://www.millicom.com/our-company/governance/nomination-committee/.

The table below sets out beneficial ownership of Millicom common shares, par value $1.50 each, by each person who beneficially 
owns more than 5% of Millicom common shares at December 31, 2021.

Shareholder

Swedbank Robur Fonder AB

Dodge & Cox

Number of shares

7,157,892

5,177,873

% Shareholding

7.0

5.1

Footnote: Except as otherwise indicated, the holders listed above (“holders”) have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares beneficially owned by them. 
The holders have the same voting rights as all other holders of Millicom common stock. For purposes of this table, a person or group of persons is deemed to have “beneficial 
ownership” of any shares, as of a given date, which such person or group of persons has the right to acquire within 60 days after such date. For purposes of computing the 
percentage of outstanding shares held by the holders on a given date, any security which such holder has the right to acquire within 60 days after such date (including shares 
which may be acquired upon exercise of vested portions of share options) is deemed to be outstanding, but is not deemed to be outstanding for the purpose of computing 
the percentage ownership of any other person.

Promoting Board Diversity
Millicom’s Nomination Committee recognizes the importance of diversity for promoting strong corporate governance, competitive 
advantage and effective decision-making. The Nomination Committee is responsible for periodically determining the appropriate 
skills, perspectives and experiences required of Board candidates based on the Company’s needs and the current Board composition. 
This determination will include knowledge, experience and skills in areas that are critical to understanding the Company and 
its business; richness of views brought by different personal attributes such as gender, race, age and nationality; other personal 
characteristics, such as integrity and judgment; and candidates’ commitment to the boards of other publicly held companies.

In its work, the Nomination Committee applies rule 4.1 of the Swedish Corporate Governance Code as its diversity policy.

Board Diversity Matrix (As of December 31, 2021)
Country of Principal Executive Offices “Home Country”:

Foreign Private Issuer

Disclosure Prohibited Under Home Country Law

Total Number of Directors

Part I: Gender Identity

Directors

Part II: Demographic Background

Underrepresented Individual in Home Country Jurisdiction

LGBTQ+

Did Not Disclose Demographic Background

Luxembourg

Yes

No

9

Female

Male

Non-Binary

Did Not Disclose Gender

3

6

0

0

6

0

0

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Female
33%

Gender of the 
Board

7th year
1

5th year
1

3rd year
2

Tenure of 
Directors

2nd year
2

Colombian
1

Male
67%

1st year
3

American
5

Nationalities

Brazilian
1

Danish
1

Swedish
1

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2. Board of Directors and Board 
Committees
The Chairman convenes the Board 
and leads its work. The Chairman is 
accountable to the Board and acts as 
a direct liaison between the Board and 
the management of the Company 
through the CEO. Meeting agendas are 
set with the CEO, and the Chairman 
communicates Board decisions where 
appropriate.

Role of the Board
The Board is responsible for approving 
Millicom’s strategy, financial objectives 
and operating plans, and for oversight 
of governance. The Board also plans for 
succession of the CEO and reviews other 
senior management positions.

As set forth in the Company’s Articles 
of Association, the Board must be 
composed of at least six members. The 
2021 AGM set the number of Directors 
at nine, comprising a Chairman, a 
Deputy Chairman and seven members. 
The Board is composed of eight Non-
Executive Directors and one Executive 
Director (who is also CEO of Millicom).

The Board selects the CEO, who is 
charged with daily management of 
the Company and its business. The 
CEO is responsible for recruiting the 
senior management of the Company. 
The Board reviews plans for key senior 
management positions; supervises, 
supports and empowers the senior 
management team; and monitors senior 
managers' performance. In accordance 
with the Swedish Code, the division of 
work between the Board and the CEO 
is set out in “The Rules of Procedure, 
Instructions to the CEO and Reporting 
Instructions” that was updated and 
approved by the Board on May 4, 2021.

Further details on the roles and activities 
of the various committees, as well as 
their responsibilities and activities, 
appear later in this section. 

Powers and Limitations of the Board 
Borrowing powers: The Board has 
unrestricted borrowing powers on behalf 
of, and for the benefit of, Millicom.

Time and age limit: No age limit 
exists for being a Director of Millicom. 
Directors mandates can be for a 
maximum of six years before either 
being re-elected or ending their 
service. There are no restrictions on the 
maximum continuous period that a 
Director can serve. The current Directors 
have been elected for a term starting on 
the date of the 2021 AGM and ending 

on the date of the 2022 AGM (i.e., for 
approximately one year). 

Restrictions on voting: No contract 
or other transaction between the 
Company and any other person shall 
be affected or invalidated by the fact 
that any Director, officer or employee 
of the Company has a personal interest 
in—or is a Director, officer or employee 
of—such other person. However, the 
following conditions apply:

•  The contract or transaction must 
be negotiated on an arm’s-length 
basis on terms no less favorable to 
the Company than could have been 
obtained from an unrelated third 
party; and, in the case of a Director, 
he or she shall inform the Chairman 
of his or her conflict of interest and 
abstain from deliberating and voting 
on any matters that pertain to 
such contract or transaction at any 
meeting of the Board.

•  Any such personal interest shall be 

fully disclosed to the Company by the 
relevant Director, officer or employee 
and, to the extent a Director is 
involved, to the next general meeting 
of shareholders. 

Share Ownership Requirements
Non-Executive Directors are not 
required to be shareholders of the 
Company. Share ownership of Directors 
is included in the Director biographies 
set out on the following pages.

Roles
Chairman of the Board
The Chairman is elected by the AGM. If 
the Chairman relinquishes the position 
during the mandate period, the Board 
elects a new Chairman from among its 
members to serve until the end of the 
next AGM.

Deputy Chairman of the Board
If elected by the Board, the Deputy 
Chairman acts as a sounding board 
and provides support for the Chairman. 
The Deputy Chairman convenes Board 
meetings in accordance with the 
Company’s Articles of Association and 
leads the Board's work in the event the 
Chairman is unavailable or is excused 
from a Board meeting. The Deputy 
Chairman may act as an intermediary 
in any conflicts among Board members 
or between the Chairman and the CEO. 
The Board can designate additional 
roles and responsibilities of the Deputy 
Chairman.

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Corporate Secretary
The Corporate Secretary is appointed 
by the Board to ensure that Board 
members have the proper advice 
and resources for performing their 
duties. The Corporate Secretary is 
also responsible for organizing and 
coordinating Board and committee 
meetings and ensuring that the minutes 
of those meetings reflect the proper 
exercising of Board duties.

The Corporate Secretary is also 
a confidante and resource to the 
Board and senior management, 
providing advice and counsel on Board 
responsibilities and logistics.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Together with the management team, 
the CEO leads the development and 
execution of the Company’s strategy, 
with a view to creating shareholder 
value and enacting the Company's 
purpose. The CEO is responsible for 
day-to-day activities and management 
decisions, both operating and financial. 
The CEO is a liaison between the Board 
and management and communicates 
to the Board on behalf of management.

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against the Directors proposed by the 
Nomination Committee. Shareholders 
also may elect different Directors.

The Board has adopted the qualification 
guidelines of an “independent director” 
as defined by the Swedish Code, and 
with consideration of the specific 
independence requirements within the 
Nasdaq Stock Market rules. A Director’s 
independence is determined by a 
general assessment of the Company or 
its executive management based on the 
Board's independence criteria.  

The CEO also leads Millicom's 
communications with shareholders, 
employees, government authorities, 
other stakeholders and the public.

Board Membership, Balance and 
Independence
The Nomination Committee and the 
Board periodically review the size and 
balance of the Board to determine 
whether any changes are appropriate.

At the AGM, held annually within six 
months of the end of the financial 
year, or at any other general meeting, 
shareholders may vote for or 

Independence of the Board

   Board comprising nine members

Chairman, Deputy Chair and 
seven members

  Non-Executive Directors

   Independent from the Company and its 
Executive Management

Executive Director

89%
José Antonio Ríos García 
Pernille Erenbjerg 
Odilon Almeida 
Bruce Churchill
Sonia Dulá 
Lars-Johan Jarnheimer
Mercedes Johnson 
James Thompson

11%
Mauricio Ramos

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Factors considered to determine the Directors’ independence (i) from the Company, executive management and (ii) the major 
shareholders

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Category

Managerial duties

Employment

Other services

Business relationship

Audit function

Cross directorships

Family relationship

Test

Is or has been the CEO of the Company or a closely related company within the past five years

Is or has been employed by the Company or a closely related company within the past three years

Receives a not-insignificant remuneration for advice or other services (beyond the remit of the 
Board position) from the Company, a closely related company or a person in the executive 
management of the Company

Has been in a significant business relationship or had other significant financial dealings with the 
Company or a closely related company within the past year—as a client, supplier or partner; either 
individually or as a member of the executive management team; or as a member of the Board or a 
major shareholder in a company with such a business relationship with the Company

Is or has within the last three years been a partner at, or has, as an employee, participated in an 
audit of the Company conducted by the Company’s or a closely related company’s current or then 
auditor

Is a member of the executive management of another company, if a member of the board of that 
company is a member of the executive management of the Company

Has a close family relationship with a person in the executive management of the Company, or 
with another person named in the points above, if that person’s direct or indirect business with 
the Company is of such magnitude or significance as to justify the opinion that the Board member 
should not be considered independent

YES to any of the above in relation to the Company or the management of the Company:  
=> Typically not independent from the Company or its executive management

Assessment

YES to any of the above in relation to a major shareholder:  
=> Typically not independent from a major shareholder

  Swedish Code’s independence provisions

Requirement

 Compliant

The majority of Millicom’s Board must be independent from the Company and its 
executive management team. 

 At least two of those independent Directors must also be independent from the 
Company’s major shareholders.

The majority of the members of the Audit Committee are to be independent in relation 
to the Company and its executive management. At least one of the members who is 
independent in relation to the Company and its executive management is also to be 
independent in relation to the Company’s major shareholders.

8 out of 9 Millicom Directors meet this criterion (89%)

All of Millicom’s Directors meet this criterion (100%)

All of Millicom's Audit Committee members meet this 
criterion (100%)

The Chairman of the Board may chair the Compensation Committee. The other members 
of the committee are to be independent of the Company and its executive management

All of Millicom's Compensation Committee members 
meet this criterion (100%)

  Nasdaq Stock Market rules

Requirement

Compliant

The Audit Committee must have at least three members, all of whom meet Nasdaq Stock 
Market and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission definitions of independence.

The four members of Millicom's Audit Committee all meet 
this criterion (100%)

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Combined experience, 
leadership and skillsets 
of the Board

Media/
Entertainment/
Content
6

Cable and 
Fixed line 
services
1

Network/
Infrastructure
1

Financial/
Fintech 
Sector
5

Industry

Technology
5

Others
5

Mobile/
Next-Gen 
Platforms
3

Telecom 
convergence 
2

CFO
2

CEO
5

Member of 
the Board 
of a Listed 
Company
8

Leadership
experience

Chairman
5

Governance and 
sustainability
5

M&A
8

Strategy/
Transformational 
Strategy
6

Operational/
Commercial
(Inc. Marketing 
and Sales)
6

Cyber security/Data Protection 2
Internal Controls (SOX) 2
Compliance/Regulatory 2

Functional 
areas

Financial 
expertise
7

Risk 
Management
7

Capital allocation 
(Inc. Shareholder 
Remuneration)
8

Latin America
6

EU/ 
Nordic 
Countries
6

Territories

U.S.
8

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Board Profile: Skills and Experience

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Mr. José Antonio Ríos García
Chairman, Non-Executive Director

Role: Re-elected as a Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Board in May 2021; first appointed in 
May 2017

Nationality: U.S., Spanish and Venezuelan citizen

Age: Born in 1945

Skills: Mr. Ríos brings significant experience and reputation at the forefront of the telecommunications 
and electronics industries, including media, content and leading consumer technology businesses. Mr. 
Ríos is a proven global business executive with over 30 years of leadership at multinational companies.

Experience:  Currently, Mr. Ríos also serves as (i) Senior External Advisor to President and Board of 
Directors of Celistics Holdings, a leading mobile payment platform and cellular top-up distribution 
business providing intelligent solutions for the consumer technology industry across Latin America, 
where he served as Chairman and CEO until September 2020, (ii) Board member (volunteer) of Up 
with People (Charity), and (iii) Honorary Business Representative (Latin America) of International 
Enterprise Singapore, among others. Previous senior management positions held by Mr. Ríos included: 
(i) International President and Corporate VP of Global Crossing (entity later acquired by Level 3 
Communications and then merged with Lumen Technologies), (ii) member of the Global Management 
Committee of Telefónica, (iii) President and CEO of Telefónica Media, (iv) Vice President of Hughes 
Electronics Corporation, (v) founding President and CEO of Galaxy Latin America (DirecTV Latin 
America), and (vi) Chief Operating Officer and Corporate Vice President at the Cisneros Group of 
Companies for 14 years, among others. 

Education: Industrial Engineer, Andres Bello Catholic University

Independence: Independent from the Company, its executive management and its major shareholders

Millicom shareholding at January 31, 2022 (including holdings by closely related persons): 
18,634 shares

Ms. Pernille Erenbjerg
Deputy Chair, Non-Executive Director

Role: Re-elected as a Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chair of the Board in May 2021; first appointed 
in January 2019

Nationality: Danish citizen

Age: Born in 1967

Skills: Ms. Erenbjerg brings years of experience operating a converged provider of communication 
and entertainment services and driving transformational processes in complex organizations, both 
organically and through M&A. 

Experience: Currently, Ms. Erenbjerg also serves as Chair of the Board of Nordic Entertainment Group; 
Deputy Chair of Genmab, a Danish international biotechnology company; and a Non-Executive Board 
member of RTL Group, Europe's largest broadcaster. Previous roles include: (i) member of the Board and 
member of the Audit Committee of Nordea, the largest financial services group in the Nordic region, (ii) 
President and Group Chief Executive Officer of TDC, the leading provider of integrated communications 
and entertainment solutions in Denmark and Norway, and (iii) Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice 
President of Corporate Finance at TDC, among others. 

Education: MSc in Business Economics and Auditing, Copenhagen Business School

Independence: Independent from the Company, its executive management and its major shareholders

Millicom shareholding at January 31, 2022 (including holdings by closely related persons): 
12,936 shares

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Board Profile: Skills and Experience—continued

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Mr. Odilon Almeida
Non-Executive Director

Role: Re-elected as a Non-Executive Director in May 2021; first appointed in May 2015

Nationality: U.S. and Brazilian citizen

Age: Born in 1961

Skills: Mr. Almeida strengthens the Millicom Board with decades of experience in the financial services, 
fintech and consumer goods sectors. His leadership style is anchored in value creation and business 
turnarounds involving retail and digital transformation, organic growth and successful M&A in the U.S., 
Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. 

Experience:  Mr. Almeida is the President and Chief Executive Officer of ACI Worldwide Inc., a global 
leader in electronic payment systems. Previous roles include: (i) President of Western Union Global 
Money Transfer, where he led Western Union’s global consumer omni-channel business across more 
than 200 countries and territories, (ii) Operating Partner at Advent International, one of the world's 
largest private equity funds, (iii) Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President of Digital Ventures at 
BankBoston (now Bank of America), (iv) Chief of Staff at Coca-Cola Company, and (v) Personal Care 
Director and Marketing Manager at Colgate-Palmolive, among others. 

Education: Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Maua Engineering School in São Paulo, Brazil; Bachelor of 
Business Administration, University of São Paulo; MBA with specialization in Marketing, Getulio Vargas 
Foundation in São Paulo. Mr. Almeida further advanced his education at IMD Lausanne, the Wharton 
School and Harvard Business School

Independence: Independent from the Company, its executive management and its major shareholders

Millicom shareholding at January 31, 2022 (including holdings by closely related persons): 
11,497 shares

Mr. Bruce Churchill
Non-Executive Director

Role: Elected as a Non-Executive Director in May 2021

Nationalities: U.S. citizen

Age: Born in 1957

Skills:  Mr. Churchill brings over 30 years of operational and strategy experience in the media industry, 
including senior management roles in Latin America. 

Experience: Currently, Mr. Churchill serves on the Board of Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, one of the 
largest hotel franchises in the world, where he also chairs the Compensation Committee. Previously, 
he was the President of DIRECTV Latin America, LLC, from 2004 to 2015 and served as Chief Financial 
Officer of DIRECTV from January 2004 to March 2005. Prior to joining DIRECTV, he served as President 
and Chief Operating Officer of STAR TV. He also served as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of 
Computer Sciences Corp from 2014 to 2017.

Education: MBA, Harvard Business School; Bachelor of Arts in American Studies, Stanford University

Independence: Independent from the Company, its executive management and its major shareholders

Millicom shareholding at January 31, 2022 (including holdings by closely related persons): 
2,604 shares.

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Board Profile: Skills and Experience—continued

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Ms. Sonia Dulá
Non-Executive Director

Role: Elected as a Non-Executive Director in May 2021

Nationalities: U.S. and Mexican citizen

Age: Born in 1961

Skills: Ms. Dulá brings a wealth of experience from the investment banking, technology and media 
industries, plus deep Latin America expertise. 

Experience: Currently, Ms. Dulá serves as an Independent Director on the Boards of (i) Hemisphere 
Media Group Inc., a publicly traded media company targeting the Spanish-language television and 
cable network business in the U.S., (ii) Acciona, S.A., a global renewable energy company, where she also 
serves on the Audit Committee, and (iii) Huntsman Corporation, a publicly traded global manufacturer 
and marketer of chemicals. Previously, she served as (i) Vice Chairman, Latin America at Bank of 
America Merrill Lynch, (ii) an Independent Director of Prisa, S.A., a leading education, media and 
communications company in Spain and Latin America, (iii) CEO of Grupo Latino de Radio (Grupo Prisa), 
(iv) Founder and CEO of Internet Group of Brasil, (v) Director General at Telemundo Studios Mexico, and 
(vi) Goldman Sachs, where she began her career as an investment banker.

Education: MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Magna Cum 
Laude, Harvard University

Independence: Independent from the Company, its executive management and its major shareholders

Millicom shareholding at January 31, 2022 (including holdings by closely related persons): 
2,604 shares

Mr. Lars-Johan Jarnheimer
Non-Executive Director

Role: Elected as a Non-Executive Director in May 2021

Nationalities: Swedish citizen

Age: Born in 1960

Skills: Mr. Jarnheimer has a track record of successfully developing and delivering strategies for 
promoting and selling products and services to consumers in highly competitive environments of 
complex and regulated businesses, including in the telecommunications and media industries.  

Experience: Currently, Mr. Jarnheimer serves as (i) Chairman of the Board of Telia Company, a 
telecommunications group with presence in Nordic and eastern European countries, (ii) Chairman of 
the Board of INGKA Holding B.V. (Ikea), (iii) Chairman of Egmont, a leading Nordic media company, 
and (iv) Deputy Chairman of the Board of SAS AB, a Swedish-listed aviation company, among others. 
He has also held various executive positions, including (i) President and CEO of Tele 2 and (ii) CEO of 
Comviq GSM,  among others.

Education: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Economics, Lund and Växjö University

Independence: Independent from the Company, its executive management and its major shareholders

Millicom shareholding at January 31, 2022 (including holdings by closely related persons): 
7,656 shares

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Board Profile: Skills and Experience—continued

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Ms. Mercedes Johnson
Non-Executive Director

Role: Re-elected as a Non-Executive Director in May 2021; first appointed in May 2019

Nationalities: U.S. and Argentinean citizen

Age: Born in 1954

Skills: Ms. Johnson brings years of experience at technology-oriented multinational and U.S.-listed 
companies in various leadership roles. 

Experience: Currently, Ms. Johnson serves on the Boards of three other Nasdaq or NYSE-listed 
technology companies: (i) Synopsys, a provider of solutions for designing and verifying advanced silicon 
chips, where she also chairs the Audit Committee; (ii) Teradyne, a developer and supplier of automated 
semiconductor test equipment; and (iii) Analog Devices, a multinational semiconductor company 
specializing in data conversion, signal processing and power management technology. Previously, she 
served as (i) Chief Financial Officer of Avago Technologies (now Broadcom) and (ii) Chief Financial 
Officer at LAM Research Corporation, among others.

Education: Degree in Accounting, University of Buenos Aires

Independence: Independent from the Company, its executive management and its major shareholders

Millicom shareholding at January 31, 2022 (including holdings by closely related persons): 
8,159 shares

Mr. James Thompson
Non-Executive Director

Role: Re-elected as a Non-Executive Director in May 2021; first appointed: in January 2019

Nationalities: U.S. citizen

Age: Born in 1961

Skills: Mr. Thompson brings extensive experience in investment management, contributing to the 
Board’s discussions on Millicom’s long-term strategy and capital allocation. 

Experience: Currently, Mr. Thompson is a private investor at Kingfisher Family Office, where he manages 
a portfolio focused on value-oriented investments. He is also a Non-Executive Director of C&C Group 
plc, serving on the Audit Committee and as Chair of its ESG Committee. Previously, he was a Managing 
Principal at Southeastern Asset Management, where he was responsible for the firm's operations. 
Between 2001 and 2006, Mr. Thompson opened and managed Southeastern Asset Management’s 
London research office. 

Education: MBA, Darden School, University of Virginia; Bachelor in Business Administration, University of 
North Carolina

Independence: Independent from the Company, its executive management and its major shareholders

Millicom shareholding at January 31, 2022 (including holdings by closely related persons): 
15,566 shares

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Board Profile: Skills and Experience—continued

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Mr. Mauricio Ramos
Executive Director

Role: Re-elected as Executive Director in May 2021; first appointed in June 2020

Nationalities: U.S. and Colombian citizen

Age: Born in 1968

Skills: Mr. Ramos brings his experience as CEO of Millicom, a position he has held since April 2015. During 
his tenure, he has designed, proposed and implemented the present strategy of the Millicom group, 
transforming the Company into a fixed internet and mobile business with a focus on Latin America. 
Under Mr. Ramos’ leadership, Millicom solidified its company purpose “to build the digital highways that 
connect people, improve lives and develop communities” and built a strong corporate culture described 
as Sangre Tigo. 

Experience: Mr. Ramos is also (i) a member of the Board of Directors of Charter Communications (U.S.), 
(ii) Chair of the Digital Communications Industry Community (World Economic Forum), (iii) Chair of 
the U.S. Chamber’s U.S.-Colombia Business Council (USCBC), and (iv) Commissioner at the Broadband 
Commission for Sustainable Development. Previously, he was President of Liberty Global’s Latin 
American division, a position he held from 2006 until February 2015. During his career at Liberty Global, 
Mr. Ramos held several leadership roles, including positions as Chairman and CEO of VTR in Chile, Chief 
Financial Officer of Liberty’s Latin American division, and President of Liberty Puerto Rico.

Education: Lawyer and Economist, Los Andes University

Independence: Not independent from the Company and its executive management, independent of 
the Company’s major shareholders

Millicom shareholding at January 31, 2022 (including holdings by closely related persons): 
232,562  shares

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The Board’s annual program includes:

1. Company strategy and strategic direction 

2. Operating and financial performance review; budget

3. Governance, legal and compliance matters 

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4. External affairs; sustainability and other ESG-related matters

5. Organizational structure and corporate culture

Summary of Board 
Activities in 2021

Immediately after the AGM, the Board of 
Directors held a meeting and agreed on 
key governance matters, the calendar and 
an annual program consisting of specific 
areas of focus on which the Board has a 
role to oversee and advise the Company.

Specific projects and topics arise in the 
normal course of business and are added 
to the program of the Board; some of 
these are handled by specific Board 
committees.

6. External financial reporting  

7. Risk management 

8. Capital structure and shareholder remuneration policy

9. Merger, acquisitions and divestments; joint ventures

10. Board performance self-evaluation

11. Human resource matters  

12. Reports from committees

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Board Program and Areas of Focus in 2021

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Board annual program

1. Strategic review

Focused actions

• Discussed, reviewed and approved the strategy

2. Operating and financial performance 
review

• Discussed priorities and challenges for each of the operations, including development of MFS, 
cable and mobile data businesses, efficiency measures and capital expenditure allocation

• Discussed with the Executive Team industry and geographic trends and the operational and 

financial strategy for each region, including the portfolio strategy

• Monitored challenges, threats, opportunities and other consequences of the coronavirus 

pandemic on the business and strategy

• Reviewed and approved spectrum acquisition, updated 2021 budget, and discussed and 

approved the 2022 budget

3.  Corporate governance, legal and 
compliance matters

• Made revisions and updates to governance documents (Board and committee charters, 

procedural rules and instructions to the CEO as well as the authority matrix)

4. ESG; sustainability and other external 
affairs related matters

5. Organizational structure and corporate 
culture

6. External financial reporting and non-
financial performance

• Elected the Deputy Chair and Committee Chairs and members

• Oversaw the development of the ESG strategy 

• Reviewed the external affairs strategic framework and implementation activities

• Periodically reviewed the political situation by market, with a specific focus on election 
periods, international relations and advice on related risk management requirements

• Reviewed regulatory and engagement challenges

• Reviewed climate-related risks and impact of the business on climate change

• Participated in performance reviews of the Executive Team and of the management, 

organizational and reporting structures

• Oversaw succession planning for the Executive Team

• Reviewed cultural initiatives, including Sangre Tigo, and DE&I developments 

• Held regular meetings with external auditors to review financial health of the Company

• Reviewed 2020 Annual Report and 20-F, including the 2020 Consolidated Financial 
Statements of the Group and standalone 2019 financial statements of Millicom 
International Cellular S.A. 

• Reviewed quarterly earnings releases and 2021 interim consolidated financial statements

• Approved corporate finance strategy, including refinancing of Group and local bonds to 

extend maturity and lower average cost of debt

7. Risk management

• Participated in the annual risk reassessment and reviewed the key risks facing the Group and 

its approach to managing risks

• Set the risk appetite of the Group

8. Capital structure and shareholder 
remuneration policy

• Approved refinancing of Group and local bonds to extend maturity and lower average cost of 

debt

• Recommended changes to the shareholder remuneration policy and approved share 

repurchase plan

9. Mergers, acquisitions, disposals and joint 
ventures

• Discussed acquisition and disposal developments across the Group, including approval of 

transactions such as the acquisition of the minority stake in the Guatemalan business, sale 
of the African businesses and sale of non-core investments

10. Board performance self-evaluation

•  Completed an annual self-evaluation of combined Board performance and individual 

11. HR matters

•  Evaluated the performance  and approved the compensation of the CEO

performances and reported to the Nomination Committee

12. Reports from committees

• Regularly reviewed reports from Audit Committee, Compliance and Business Conduct 

•  Oversaw succession planning for the Executive Team, including recruitment of and selection 

of the incoming CFO

Committee, and Compensation Committee on recent activities

• Discussed Nomination Committee Director appointment proposals

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Induction and Training
Millicom provides incoming Board 
members with information on their 
roles and responsibilities, the Board's 
operating procedures and Millicom’s 
business and industry. We provide 
access to governance documents, 
policies and procedures; meeting 
materials; and Company information 
through a secure online tool, in 
meetings set with the Executive Team, 
and through ongoing dissemination of 
information.

Millicom provides training on topics such 
as anti-bribery and corruption, ethics, 
independence and insider trading. 
In addition, new Board members 
received an introductory ethics and 
compliance training in 2021. The Board 

regularly receives detailed reports on 
specific areas that support Directors' 
understanding of Millicom’s business 
and operating environment.

Directors typically participate in at least 
one annual visit to Millicom’s operations 
to learn about the characteristics of 
the local market, see aspects of the 
business in operation, participate in 
social and corporate responsibility 
projects, and interact with local 
management. Due to the coronavirus 
pandemic, market visits planned in 
2020 and 2021 have been postponed 
to 2022.

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Board Effectiveness
The Board conducts an annual 
performance review process, wherein 
each Board member’s personal 
performance is also reviewed. This 
involves assessing Board and committee 
actions and activities against the 
Board’s mandate, as determined in the 
Board Charter, and the mandates of its 
various committees.

In 2021, the Board used a questionnaire 
to assess its performance against the 
Board's key duties, its composition and 
processes, and the performance of 
individual Board members. The results 
of the evaluation were presented to the 
Nomination Committee. In addition, 
the Nomination Committee continued 
the engagement with an international 
consultancy firm to assist in an 
assessment of the composition of the 
Board, now and for the future.

Board Meetings/Attendance at Regularly Scheduled Meetings of the Board in the 2021 Financial Year

Director

Mr. José Antonio Ríos García

Ms. Pernille Erenbjerg

Mr. Odilon Almeida

Mr. Bruce Churchill

Ms. Sonia Dulá

Mr. Lars-Johan Jarnheimer

Ms. Mercedes Johnson

Mr. Mauricio Ramos

Mr. James Thompson

Attendance

Former Directors (until May 2021)

Mr. Tomas Eliasson

Mr. Lars-Åke Norling

Overall attendance

Meeting Attendance

9 of 9

9 of 9

9 of 9

7 of 7

6 of 7

7 of 7

9 of 9

9 of 9

9 of 9

74/75

1 of 2

2 of 2

77/79

%

100

100

100

100

86

100

100

100

100

99

50

100

97

Board Committees
Written charters set out the objectives, limits of authority, organization and roles and responsibilities of the Board and each of its 
committees. The charters are available at www.millicom.com/our-company/governance/board-committees/. Details of Board roles 
and responsibilities, activities in 2021 and Directors’ emoluments are set out on the following pages.

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I wish to extend special thanks to my 
colleagues for their support of and 
commitment to the activities of the 
committee. I look forward to continuing 
our mandate through the 2022 AGM. 
In addition, our deep appreciation 
goes to both Tomas Eliasson and 
Pernille Erenbjerg for their significant 
contributions to the fulfillment of our 
duties in recent years. 

Ms. Mercedes Johnson
Chair of the Audit Committee

Governance

I. Audit Committee
I am pleased to present the Audit 
Committee’s report for 2021. As 
directed by our Charter, we convened 
five formal meetings during the financial 
year to satisfy our established set of 
responsibilities.

As economic conditions improved in 
our markets, our business saw a gradual 
recovery in 2021. These trends—as well 
as other drivers of risk like technological 
advancements, new legal requirements 
and environmental changes—were key 
areas of focus and shaped the Audit 
Committee’s agenda for the year. 
Once again, we directed our attention 
to the impact of M&A on our financial 
statements with the acquisition of the 
minority stake in Guatemala and the 
disposals in Africa. 

Supported by the guiding principles 
established by management in response 
to the pandemic and periodic updates 
on the strength of the business, the 
Audit Committee honed in on risk 
oversight in the areas of internal 
controls, cyber-security, supply chain 
disruptions and other external threats, 
some of which are exacerbated by the 
work-from-home environment.

Our Internal Audit Team assisted the 
committee by adjusting their assurance 
activities to the new risk profile and 
re-prioritizing programs to provide 
consulting services where appropriate. 
Heightened attention was given 
to assessing the Company’s cyber 
defenses in light of the growing risks in 
this area.

In addition to tracking important 
regulatory developments in financial 
reporting, the committee monitored 
tax obligations, new debt issuance 
and refinancing activities, as well as 
the evolution of the Company’s risk 
management programs.

The committee also increased its 
emphasis on the evolving need for 
disclosures of ESG performance metrics 
and targets. The committee focused its 
efforts on overseeing the design and 
testing of controls used to verify the 
accuracy of these reports. 

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Audit Committee Membership and Attendance at Regularly Scheduled Meetings in 2021

Audit Committee

Position

Ms. Mercedes Johnson

Chair*

Mr. Bruce Churchill

Ms. Sonia Dulá

Mr. James Thompson

Attendance

Member

Member

Member

Mr. Tomas Eliasson

Former Chair

Ms. Pernille Erenbjerg

Former Member

Overall attendance

*Designated as having specific accounting competence as per the EU Directive.

First appointment

May 2019

May 2021

May 2021

January 2019

May 2014

January 2019

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Meetings/
attendance

5 of 5

3 of 3

2 of 3

5 of 5

14 of 15

2 of 2

1 of 2

18 of 20

%

100

100

67

100

93

100

50

90

In addition, the Chairman of the Board, 
Mr. José Antonio Ríos García, attended 
all Audit Committee meetings.

Appointment and Role of the Audit 
Committee
The Audit Committee is composed 
solely of Non-Executive Directors, all of 
whom were independent Directors in 
2021. Members are appointed to ensure 
there is a mixture of relevant experience 
in both finance and broader commercial 
matters. The Board is confident that the 
collective experience of the members 
enables them to act as an effective 
Audit Committee. The Audit Committee 
is also satisfied that it has the expertise 
and resources available to fulfill its 
responsibilities.

The Board has delegated responsibility 
to the Audit Committee for overseeing 
the robustness, integrity and 
effectiveness of financial reporting, 
risk management, fraud reporting, 
SOX, internal controls, internal audit 
and external audit processes, and 
pre-approval of certain audit and 
non-audit services provided by the 

external auditor. The Audit Committee 
also oversees the establishment 
of accounting-related policies and 
procedures, the procedure for dealing 
with certain other types of complaints 
or concerns, and compliance with 
related laws and regulations.

The Audit Committee focuses on 
compliance with financial requirements, 
accounting standards and judgments; 
appointment, oversight and 
independence of the external auditors 
and appointment and oversight of 
certain other accounting firms that 
may be retained from time to time; 
transactions with related parties 
(including major shareholders); the 
effectiveness of the Internal Audit 
function; the Group’s approach to risk 
management; and ensuring an efficient 
and effective system of internal 
controls.

Ultimate responsibility for reviewing and 
approving Millicom’s Annual Report and 
accounts remains with the Board. 

The Chief Executive Officer, Chief 
Financial Officer, Chief Accounting 

Officer, Head of Internal Audit, Head 
of Business Controls, Head of Risk 
Management, and representatives from 
the Company's external auditor EY are 
invited to attend committee meetings. 
The Secretary of the committee is the 
Group Company Secretary. 

The Audit Committee Chairman 
prepares the meeting agenda in 
conjunction with the Chief Financial 
Officer. Regular private sessions are 
held, attended only by Audit Committee 
members and the external auditor, 
to provide an opportunity for open 
dialogue without management present.

At each regularly scheduled meeting, 
the Audit Committee receives reports 
from the Chief Financial Officer, the 
external auditor, and the heads of 
Internal Audit,  Business Controls and 
Risk Management. Additional reports 
are submitted by other officers of 
the Company as required. The Audit 
Committee received the required 
information from the external auditor 
in accordance with Luxembourg 
regulations.

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Summary of Areas of Focus and Actions in 2021

Governance

• Reviewed and amended the Audit Committee Charter, Internal Audit Charter and Risk Management 

Charter 

Financial reporting

• Reviewed key accounting and reporting issues at each meeting, including those related to the COVID-19 

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External auditor

pandemic

• Reviewed and approved each quarter’s earnings release; the 2020 annual earnings release; the Annual 

Report and 20-F together with the consolidated financial statements; the 2021 half-year earnings release; 
and each quarter's interim financial statements

• Reviewed the latest accounting developments and their effect on the financial statements, including the 
impact by acquisition of the remaining 45% of our business in Guatemala
•  Reviewed the alternative performance measures policy

• Received reports from the external auditor at each meeting in compliance with EU regulations covering 
important financial reporting, accounting and audit issues; this includes receiving updates on SEC 
guidelines regarding COVID-19

• Reviewed and approved all non-audit services rendered by the external auditors

• Approved the 2021 external audit strategy and fees and the proposed approach to address the challenges 

posed by the pandemic

• Considered the results of control testing performed by the external auditor in accordance with Section 404 

of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

• Reviewed the performance of the external auditor and its independence, including monitoring the nature 

and approving the fees of non-audit services

• Held regular meetings with the external auditor without the Chief Executive Officer or any other member of 

the executive management present

Internal audit activities

• Approved the 2021 Internal Audit plan and the reprioritization of work to address new and emerging risks 

Financing, treasury and tax

• Reviewed the Group’s tax strategy and structure and approved the tax policy

such as cybersecurity, ESG matters or impacts by the COVID-19 pandemic

• Reviewed internal audit findings arising from the delivery of the 2021 audit plan

• Approved the updated Group treasury and related policies, including policies on hedging and financial risk 

management

Risk management

• Provided guidance and oversight over risk management processes

Business controls and SOX 

• Reviewed alignment of top risks with strategy and recommended risk appetite

• Reviewed regular risk reports and risk management remediation plans

• Reviewed the results of the Group’s first year Sarbanes-Oxley attestation and discussed proposals for 
improvement; in particular, the committee considered the Sarbanes-Oxley implementation plan for 
businesses in Panama and Nicaragua

• Considered the impact of working from home and other changes brought about by the pandemic on the 
robustness of the internal control environment; reviewed the actions of the Group's Information Security 
Team to the changing cyber risk landscape

• Received and reviewed findings and recommendations regarding the design and operating effectiveness of 
internal controls over financial reporting based on the cycle of management testing of internal controls

Fraud management

• Reviewed fraud policies and quarterly fraud reports, as well as proposed actions to remediate identified 

cases

Revenue assurance

• Received regular updates on revenue assurance activities

• Reviewed trends and actions taken to minimize loss and revenue leakage

Related party transactions

• Reviewed related party transactions

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2021 Meetings
The Audit Committee held five regular 
meetings, mainly coinciding with key 
dates in Millicom’s external reporting.

Financial reporting
The Audit Committee reviewed earnings 
releases and financial statements for 
each quarter. Comprehensive reports 
from management and the external 
auditors highlighted the significant 
judgmental accounting issues for the 
attention of the committee. Important 
reporting and disclosure topics under 
both EU and U.S. listing requirements 
were addressed. 

Significant issues considered by the 
Audit Committee in relation to the 
financial statements for the year ended 
December 31, 2021 included:

1. Acquisition of full control in 
Guatemala – refer to note A.1.2. of the 
consolidated financial statements
On November 12, 2021, Millicom 
closed the agreement to acquire the 
remaining 45% equity interest in its 
joint venture business in Guatemala 
(collectively, "Tigo Guatemala") from 
the local partner for $2.2 billion in cash, 
assuming full control of the business.

The investment in Tigo Guatemala 
changed from equity accounting to full 
consolidation from the November 12, 
2021, acquisition date. 

 The purchase accounting is still 
provisional at December 31, 2021, 
particularly in respect to the evaluation 
of certain tangible assets. 

The committee reviewed and agreed 
with the accounting treatment 
proposed.

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2. Africa divestiture – 

A. Ghana disposal – refer to note A.2 of 
the consolidated financial statements
On April 19, 2021, the Group announced 
that it had signed a definitive 
agreement to sell its ownership in 
AirtelTigo to the government of Ghana. 
The sale was subsequently completed 
on October 13, 2021.

As part of the closing conditions, the 
partners agreed to contribute, each, up 
to $37.5 million for the reimbursement 
of certain local bank facilities. Millicom 
recorded a charge for such contribution 
in the statement of income under "Profit 
(loss) from other joint ventures and 
associates, net." 

The committee concurred with the 
decision to fully impair the above 
mentioned contribution totaling $37.5 
million. The carrying value of the Ghana 
JV was already nil.

B. Tanzania disposal – refer to note H of 
the consolidated financial statements
On April 19, 2021, Millicom agreed to 
sell its entire operations in Tanzania to a 
consortium led by Axian, a pan-African 
group that was part of the consortium 
that  acquired Millicom’s operations 
in Senegal in 2018. The Group is still 
awaiting the necessary regulatory 
approvals to complete the disposal.

The Audit Committee concurred with 
the above decision, until all regulatory 
approvals are obtained. 

C. Equity investments in Helios Towers 
– refer to note C.7.3. of the consolidated 
financial statements
As part of the Company’s divestiture 
strategy in Africa, in 2020 and 2021 
Millicom has been selling its remaining 
shareholding in the tower infrastructure 
company Helios Towers.’ Millicom sold 
its final stake of 7.6% (representing 76 
million shares) in June 2021 for $163 
million, triggering a net loss on disposal 
of $15 million recorded under ‘other 
operating income (expenses), net,’ as 
the sale price was below the market 
value price as of March 31, 2021.

The Committee agreed with the 
accounting treatment and presentation 
of the transactions. 

3. Debt exchange – refer to note 
C.3.1. of the consolidated financial 
statements
In September 2021, Millicom 
exchanged $302.1 million of the 
6.625% Notes due 2026 for $307.5 
million of the 4.5% Notes due 2031 (at 
a 101.812% exchange ratio). 

Millicom has recognised a gain from this 
exchange, derived from applying the 
"modification accounting" under IFRS 
9 to this exchange for approximately 
$15 million (recorded in the line 
“Interest and other financial income”). 
Transaction costs attributable to this 
exchange amount to approximately 
$4 million, and are amortized over the 
remaining life of the Notes due 2031. 

4. Impairment testing – refer to note 
E.1.6. of the consolidated financial 
statements
The Audit Committee received 
detailed impairment analysis from 
management, including sensitivities. 
The committee also considered 
additional sensitivity analysis presented 
by the external auditor. 

The results of impairment testing 
continue to support the existing 
carrying value of goodwill and other 
long life assets and no impairment was 
necessary. The Audit Committee agreed 
with the conclusions. 

5. Tax provisions and contingencies – 
refer to note G.3.2. of the consolidated 
financial statements
The Group operates in many countries 
where the tax and legal system is less 
mature and may be less predictable. 
Therefore, a number of matters relating 
to tax contingencies require judgment 
as to the likely probability of cash 
outflow or the potential amount of any 
outflow. The Audit Committee received 
regular reports from the Group Tax 
Director as to the status of each of 
these matters, the likely outcome, the 
provision required, if any, and proposed 
disclosure in the financial statements. 
The external auditor also presented an 
analysis of judgmental tax matters.

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Fraud Risk
The Audit Committee received and 
reviewed quarterly fraud reports in 
accordance with the Group’s fraud 
policy. 

External Audit Effectiveness
The quality and effectiveness of the 
external audit matter greatly to the 
Audit Committee. A detailed audit plan 
outlining the key risks and proposed 
geographical coverage is prepared and 
discussed with the Audit Committee at 
the start of each annual audit cycle. This 
year the plan also addressed questions 
from the committee regarding the 
external auditor's reassessment of risks 
in light of the pandemic and actions 
taken to maintain audit quality during 
home working.  

The committee assessed audit quality 
by referring to the standard of the 
reports received, the caliber of senior 
members of the audit team and 
the level of challenge provided to 
executive management, in addition 
to management feedback provided to 
the Audit Committee. This feedback 
allows the committee to monitor and 
assess the performance of the external 
auditor as part of a recommendation 
to the Board regarding the auditor's 
appointment. This was particularly 
important in 2020 given the launch of 
the external audit tender. 

Governance

Management Disclosure Committee
To assist with all matters related to 
earnings releases, financial statements 
and other market disclosures, Millicom 
has a Management Disclosure 
Committee comprising senior 
management from Finance, Legal, 
Compliance, Communications, Investor 
Relations and other functions as 
and when required. The Disclosure 
Committee identifies and considers 
disclosure matters in market releases, 
including releases that may contain 
material financial information.

Risk Management
The Audit Committee received 
regular reports on the Group’s risk 
management framework and process 
from the Management Risk Committee, 
as well as reports on changes to 
significant risks at the operational and 
Group levels and how these risks are 
managed. Further information is set out 
in the Risk Management section of this 
Annual Report. 

In addition, the Audit Committee 
reviewed financial risk, tax risks, policy 
and strategy, treasury policy and risks, 
and Group insurance coverage.

Internal Controls
The committee received the results of 
management's testing of key controls 
and testing by the external auditors. 
Management concluded that the Group 
had maintained effective internal 
controls over financial reporting.

A debrief of the Sarbanes-Oxley 
implementation program was held. The 
committee also reviewed and approved 
the planned scope of the 2021 program 
and approach to testing of key controls.

The Audit Committee discussed the 
impact on internal controls of the 
COVID pandemic and home working 
protocols that extended throughout 

2021. Decisive management actions 
and prior investments in technology to 
better facilitate the operation of internal 
controls meant that we were able to 
maintain a strong control environment.   

The committee reviewed regular reports 
on the results of management testing of 
key controls and the progress made to 
address any control gaps.   

Internal Audit
Execution of the 2021 Internal 
Audit Plan provided the Executive 
Management Team and the Audit 
Committee with an independent view 
of the effectiveness of Millicom’s 
internal control environment and 
governance processes. The plan was 
developed to ensure alignment with 
the strategic risks of the Millicom Group 
as well as consideration of the overall 
Group strategy, input from senior 
management, external audit findings 
and Internal Audit’s knowledge of the 
business.

The Audit Committee approved the 
2021 Internal Audit Plan, which was 
composed of assurance and advisory 
projects. The plan was primarily 
executed by the in-house Internal Audit 
Team, with support from specialists at 
one of the “Big 4” accounting firms. At 
each meeting, the Audit Committee 
received a report on internal audit 
activities, progress against the plan, 
updates to the plan and results of 
the audits completed in the period, 
including associated recommendations 
and management action plans where 
findings had been identified.

Information Security 
The Audit Committee received analysis 
from the Group Chief Information 
Security Officer on the impact on cyber 
risk and the plans enacted to protect 
employees as they transition to a 
remote working model.  

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Governance

Auditor Independence
The Audit Committee has policies 
to maintain the independence of 
the external auditor and to govern 
the provision of audit and non-audit 
services. The policies and approval 
process of non-audit services and 
audit-related services comply with 
SEC independence rules and with the 
latest EU and local regulations. Under 
these rules, the Audit Committee pre-
approves a list of services that can be 
rendered by the audit firm. If services to 
be rendered are pre-approved in nature, 
management can approve them when 
requested (following an established 
authority matrix) and present them to 
the Audit Committee on a quarterly 
basis for formal approval. If services 
to be rendered are not pre-approved, 
they should be pre-approved by the 
Chairman of the Audit Committee when 
requested and then submitted to the 
next full Audit Committee for formal 
approval. A schedule of all non-audit 
services with the external auditor is 
reviewed at each meeting.

For the year ended December 31, 2021, 
the Audit Committee approved fees for 
audit and audit-related services of $6.6 
million, together with fees for non-audit 
work of $0.5 million.

In compliance with independence rules, 
the previous audit partner rotated off 
the audit in 2019 and the current audit 
partner will rotate off the audit of the 
consolidated financial statements as of 
December 31, 2025, at the latest.

Audit tendering
Millicom first appointed EY as external 
auditor of the Company for the year 
ended December 31, 2012, following a 
competitive tender. Based on the most 
restrictive EU audit regulations and 
applicable Luxembourg Law, EY would 
have to rotate off the audit by 2032 
(20 years after initial appointment) 
at the latest with a mandatory tender 
for the audit by 2022 (10 years after 
initial appointment). In that respect, 
during the fourth quarter of 2020, the 
Audit Committee led the mandatory 
tendering process for the selection of 
the external audit firm for the integrated 
audit of the Group's consolidated 
financial statements for the year 
ending December 31, 2022, and made 
a recommendation for consideration 
by the Nomination Committee in early 
2021 on the date EY was reappointed.

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in a clear and understandable manner, 
so that the organization, at all levels, 
was apprised of both risks and controls 
that are in place. Similarly, we used data 
collected in our platforms to develop 
action plans and attack potential root 
causes.  

As we focused on the most pressing risks 
in 2021, we did not neglect the main 
elements of our compliance program, 
including, for example, our annual 
training for the entire company that 
covered, among other topics, our Code 
of Conduct, our Speak Up campaign, 
our anti-corruption policies and our anti-
money laundering (AML) program.

And despite the pandemic, we 
continued to build and refine our ethics 
and compliance program in 2021. 
For instance, we revised our Code of 
Conduct, as well as our AML, Speak Up 
and anti-corruption policies in order to 
adapt to the current risk landscape and 
adopt best practices. We also completed 
a robust risk assessment exercise.   

Our Company leadership continued its 
relentless commitment to maintaining 
our Sangre Tigo culture, with the 
application of ethics and compliance in 
our everyday interactions. Sangre Tigo 
signifies high integrity, zero tolerance 
for any form of corruption and a 
commitment to doing business the right 
way.   

On behalf of the Board, I would like to 
reconfirm our commitment to a culture 
of ethics and strong compliance that 
leads to success for the business and 
pride for our company. 

We are proud to be a compliance 
leader in our markets and look forward 
to engaging our customers and 
stakeholders by making it happen the 
right way.

Mr. Odilon Almeida
Chairman of the Compliance and Business 
Conduct Committee

II. Compliance and Business 
Conduct Committee
We started 2021 with purpose 
and an eye toward progressing 
the development of the ethics and 
compliance program, including 
continuing to enhance its reach to 
better help our employees do the 
right thing in the right way. As such, 
we continued enhancing our three 
strategic focus points: Embed & 
Entrench; Communication; and Data 
Analytics. By immersing the Compliance 
function in the Company's business 
processes, the team is better suited to 
detect and advise on potential risks 
in real time. The Compliance function 
also disseminated its messages in 
conjunction with other departments 

Compliance and Business Conduct Committee Membership and Attendance 2021

Committee

Mr. Odilon Almeida

Ms. Sonia Dulá

Ms. Mercedes Johnson

Attendance

Mr. Lars-Åke Norling

Overall attendance

Position

Chairman

Member

Member

First appointment

November 2015

May 2021

June 2020

Former Member

May 2018

Meeting 
Attendance

4 of 4

3 of 3

4 of 4

11 of 11

1 of 1

12 of 12

%

100

100

100

100

100

100

In addition, the Chairman of the Board, Mr. José Antonio Rios Garcia, attended all of the meetings of the Compliance and Business 
Conduct Committee.

Appointment and Role of the 
Compliance and Business Conduct 
Committee
Millicom’s Compliance and Business 
Conduct Committee oversees the 
Group's ethics and compliance 
program, and reports on and makes 
recommendations to the full Board 
regarding the Group’s compliance 
programs and standards of business 
conduct. More specifically, the 
Compliance and Business Conduct 
Committee:

• Monitors the Group’s ethics and 
compliance program, including the 
activities performed by the Ethics & 
Compliance Team and its interaction 
with the rest of the organization

• Monitors the investigations resulting 
from cases brought through the Group’s 
ethics line or otherwise

• Oversees allocation of resources and 
personnel to the compliance area

• Assesses the Group’s performance in 
the compliance area

• Ensures that the Group maintains 
proper standards of business conduct

• Oversees the cyber security risks.

Management representatives invited 
to attend the Compliance and Business 
Conduct Committee include the Chief 
Executive Officer, Chief Legal and 
Compliance Officer, Chief Financial 
Officer, Chief Technical Innovation 
Officer, Chief External Affairs Officer, VP 
Ethics & Compliance, VP Internal Audit, 
Chief Information Security Officer, and 
Head of Risk Management.

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Summary of Committee Activities in 2021
The committee Chairman prepares the agenda in conjunction with the Chief Legal and Compliance Officer. During meetings, 
the committee reviews the status of the ethics and compliance program, compliance-related issues, strategic responses (such as 
investigations) to any alleged violations of law or policy, AML initiatives, and any internal audit reports and remediation plans that 
concern the ethics and compliance program. 

The CEO and Executive Team are committed to our Sangre Tigo and are actively involved in fostering a culture of ethics and 
compliance from the top across all our lines of business.

Summary of Areas of Focus and Action Items in 2021

Compliance program elements 
reviewed

• Refined third-party management through a centralized due diligence program

• Reviewed anti-corruption program policies and automated procedures, including those covering new 

and emerging areas of risk and strengthening of the overall program

• Revised compliance policies and procedures and communication to the whole organization

• Reviewed training completion rates on Company compliance policies as part of select managers' KPIs

• Continued reviewing results of the compliance framework by Internal Audit as well as remediation 

actions and status

• Improved communication campaigns on various compliance subjects

• Hired head of Compliance Strategic Response and one new compliance officer

• Integrated compliance program within the recently acquired entities in Central America.

• Incorporated compliance factors into executives’ incentive programs for the fourth consecutive year; 

bonus awards are tied to achievement of compliance KPIs

• Supported Speak Up campaign by continuing to encourage employees through communication and 
training campaigns to use the system to report issues of perceived non-compliance with our policies 
and values

• Strengthened investigations team: further developed central investigations resources and enhanced 

regional investigation tools

•  Implemented corrective action framework for all operations

• Continued to align investigation procedures across the countries

• Continued effective case management, including by taking reasonable steps after detection of 

misconduct

Reporting and investigations

Global anti-money laundering 
(AML) program

• Implemented a new transaction monitoring tool in Paraguay and Bolivia.

• Continued global AML training and communications efforts, including the monthly AML Bulletin and 

specialized, targeted training for local AML teams and operations' upper management

• Continued to perform and enhance quarterly rounds of the AML risk assessments in all operations, 

including LATAM and Africa 

• Implemented new AML Risk Control Self-Assessment in all MFS LATAM operations to help us develop 

additional risk mitigation processes; this process is conducted quarterly 

• Analyzed and enhanced the transaction monitoring process, resulting in the improvement of several 

key metrics for risk mitigation

Information Security and 
Cybersecurity

• Review of the Information Security Framework and Governance structures

• Review of the  Information Security Program including identity and access management, vulnerability 

management, patch management and multi-factor authentication

• Review of results and improvement plans related to the NIST cybersecurity audit

• Received reports on cybersecurity incidences and responses

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For the whole Millicom Group, 60% 
of the annual bonus is based on three 
financial measures: service revenue, 
EBITDA and operating cash flow after 
leases (OCFaL). 

Of the remaining 40%, 10% is allocated 
to customer satisfaction—measured 
using Net Promoter Score (NPS)—and 
30% is based on individual strategic 
objectives.

Incentives are subject to performance 
measures and are regularly reviewed 
to ensure they remain aligned with the 
Group’s strategy and are stretching 
appropriately.

In addition, the CEO and EVPs are 
required to comply with minimum 
shareholding requirements. The CEO 
is required to build and maintain 
a shareholding with a value of at 
least 400% of base salary, a level he 
maintained in 2021. This encourages 
our top leaders to take a longer-term 
view on positive business performance 
in alignment with Company and 
shareholder interests.

The Group delivered a strong set of 
results in challenging and uncertain 
circumstances. The Group exceeded 
the performance target for each of the 
financial targets in 2021, reflecting a 
strong operational performance driven 
by exceptional customer additions 
and strong cost control. Millicom 
accomplished his while continuing to 
invest in further growth.

The Compensation Committee 
believes that in 2021, the CEO showed 
exceptional leadership of the business 
and our people, particularly during the 
extraordinary times that we have faced 
over the last 18 months. The CEO’s 
contribution exceeded the expectations 
of the Board and reflect a step change 
in our progress towards being the 
leading provider of digital highways 
in Latin America. Based on the overall 
performance against the financial 
measures and individual strategic 
objectives, the CEO received  
a cash bonus of $2,164,230 for  
2021 and shares of $2,164,230  
deferred over three years (DSP).

The Compensation Committee 
reviewed the outcomes in the context 
of underlying performance—
notwithstanding that the financial 
targets were set at a time of significant 
uncertainty—and the Board is 
satisfied that the outcomes for Group 
financial performance and individual 
strategic objectives are warranted. As 
a result, the Compensation Committee 
determined that no exercise of 
discretion was required to adjust the 
targets or outcomes.

By contrast, awards under the FY 2019 
Performance Share Plan, which are 
subject to a three-year performance 
period ending December 31, 2021, 
were disappointing. The committee 
used adjusted service revenue growth, 
adjusted cash flow (OCFaL) growth 
and Relative TSR as its performance 
measures. The Group partially met 
the service revenue growth target 
only, resulting in an award of 7.6%. No 
discretion was exercised in this case 
either.

During the year, the Compensation 
Committee reviewed the base salaries 
and incentive opportunities for the 
CEO, who received a 1.5% increase to 
$1,185,140 as of April 1, 2021. There 
was no increase in 2020. We have 
reduced the LTI opportunity for 2022 
and made a corresponding increase 
in the share component of the STI. 
The CEO’s total combined incentive 
opportunity remains unchanged.

However, this year the Board introduced 
a one-time Market Stock Unit (MSU) 
award linked entirely to the share price 
performance. As a result, a material 
amount of the total reward is linked 
to share price performance—either 
relative to peers (TSR for the LTI) or 
absolute levels of stock price (MSU).

Under the MSU plan, the CEO’s target 
award is $8 million spread over two 
years, subject to a share price of $43.09 
for the 2022 Tranche and $47.00 for the 
2023 Tranche. The maximum award will 
only be made if the share price reaches 
$52.77 in 2022 and $57.57 in 2023. The 
cash award will not be made until 2023 
and 2024 respectively. Based on the 
2021 closing share price, the total award 
would be approximately $2.72 million.

III. Compensation Committee

I am pleased to present the 2021 
Remuneration Report.

The key remuneration outcomes for 
the year and plans for the coming 
year are summarized below. Further 
detail is provided in the Annual 
Remuneration Report.  

The Compensation Committee 
meets regularly to review executive 
compensation and other HR-related 
matters to ensure competitiveness 
across our markets. We have a ‘pay for 
performance’ compensation philosophy. 
This encompasses both short-term 
and long-term incentives. The plans 
maintain a strong link to Millicom’s 
performance and are fully aligned with 
Millicom’s culture.

Remuneration consists of a base salary 
and various benefits and pension 
arrangements. The policy also provides 
for a high variable element through 
an annual short-term incentive (STI) 
bonus plan paid in cash and deferred 
shares (DSP) and a long-term incentive 
plan (LTI). The variable elements of 
remuneration are subject to stretching 
performance measures (financial and 
operational). For the Chief Executive 
Officer (CEO) and Executive Vice 
Presidents (EVPs), the majority of total 
compensation is variable, with a high 
proportion paid in shares.

The Compensation Committee believes 
the structure of our incentives reinforces 
the alignment of management 
and shareholder interests through 
performance linkage, payment in shares 
and extended time horizons for vesting.

Any annual bonus for the CEO and EVPs 
are paid at least 50% in shares that 
vest over three years. Awards under the 
Performance Share Plan are fully paid in 
shares and cliff vest after three years.

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The Annual Remuneration Report, 
together with this letter, is subject to 
an advisory vote at the 2022 Annual 
General Meeting (AGM). At the 2021 
AGM, 78.79% of shareholders voted 
in favor of the Remuneration Policy. 
We have engaged extensively with 
shareholders in the light of this vote 
and to reflect shareholder concerns, 
primarily over the introduction of the 
time-vested Restricted Share Units 
(RSUs) in the 2021 PSP. In response 
to this feedback, we have removed 
the RSU for 2022 and reverted to full 
performance-based LTI awards. This 
differs from U.S. practice but reflects 
concerns expressed to me and my 
colleagues by shareholders. We have 
also reduced the LTI opportunity for 
2022 and made a corresponding increase 
in the share component of the STI.

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There  were no other changes to the 
remuneration policy and the Board is 
confident that the policy has operated 
as intended over the year. A summary 
of the elements of executive pay for 
2021 is set out on page 92. 

The proposed revisions to the 2022 
compensation plan include:

We have changed the NPS measure for 
the annual bonus from transactional 
to relational to better reflect our 
performance compared to our peers in 
the market.

We removed RSUs from the 
Performance Share Plan, as mentioned 
on page 99.

With the forthcoming rights issue we 
will need to make adjustments to the 
existing unvested share plans, including 
the DSP, PSP and MSU.

The Compensation Committee is 
committed to ongoing consultation with 
shareholders and their advisory groups. 

On behalf of the Board, I hope you 
find the FY 2021 Remuneration Report 
informative.

Ms. Pernille Erenbjerg
Chair of the Compensation Committee

2. Compensation Committee’s Report
This report describes the remuneration philosophy—and related policy and guidelines—as well as the governance structures and 
processes in place. It also sets out the remuneration of Directors, as well as compensation of global senior management for the 
current and prior financial reporting years.

2.1 Role of the Compensation Committee
The Compensation Committee monitors and evaluates (i) programs for variable remuneration to senior management, including 
both ongoing programs and those that have ended during the year; (ii) the application of the guidelines for remuneration to the 
Board and senior management established at the shareholders' meeting; and (iii) the current remuneration structures and levels in 
the Company. The Compensation Committee makes recommendations to the Board regarding the compensation of the CEO and 
his direct reports; approves all equity plans and grants; and manages Executive Team succession planning. Final approval of the 
CEO remuneration requires Board approval.

The evaluation of the CEO is conducted by the Compensation Committee. The evaluation criteria and the results of the evaluation 
are then discussed by the Chairman with the entire Board. In 2021, the Board concluded that the CEO provided exceptional 
leadership in helping the Company take advantage of the recovery market opportunity and exceeding all financial and operational 
targets for the year. In evaluating his performance, the Board took into account the manner in which he rapidly refocused the 
business from revenue growth to protecting customers, employees and cash flow. Together with meeting the financial targets 
discussed below, the CEO received $2,164,230 in cash and $2,164,230 granted in deferred shares that vest over three years for 
the Company’s 2021 performance. The Chairman of the Board conveyed the results of the review and evaluation to the CEO. The 
senior management remuneration policy was approved by the shareholders at the AGM in May 2021, and will be presented for 
approval at the AGM to be held in May 2022.

2.2 Compensation Committee Charter
The Group’s Compensation Committee Charter can be found on our website under the Board Committees section and covers 
overall purpose/objectives, committee membership, committee authority and responsibility, and the committee’s performance 
evaluation.

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2.3 Compensation Committee Membership and Attendance 2021
Committee

Position

First Appointment

Meeting Attendance

Ms. Pernille Erenbjerg

Mr. Lars-Johan Jarnheimer

Mr. James Thompson

Attendance

Mr. Lars-Åke Norling

Overall Attendance

Chairman

Member

Member

January-19

May-21

January-19

Former Member

May-19

5 of 5

3 of 3

5 of 5

13 of 13

2 of 2

15 of 15

%

100

100

100

100

100

100

In addition, the Chairman of the Board, Mr. José Antonio Rios Garcia, attended all of the regularly scheduled meetings of the 
Compensation Committee.

2.4 Areas Covered in 2021
The Compensation Committee met five times in 2021 and was primarily focused on reward and management motivation and 
retention in the face of the unprecedented operating environment.

Topic

Commentary

Bonus (STI) and performance reports

• Reviewed and approved the Global Senior Management Team's 2020 performance reports 

and individual Executive Team payouts for STI/LTI (cash/equity)

• Reviewed and approved 2021 short-term variable compensation targets

Compensation review

• Approved all payments for Executive Team members

• Reviewed executive remuneration and governance trends and developments

• Reviewed and approved the peer group for the Executive Team benchmarking

• Approved changes to CEO and Executive Team compensation elements based on market 

competitiveness

Share-based incentive plans

• Approved the 2018 LTI (PSP) vesting

• Reviewed and approved all equity grants

• Reviewed and approved the 2021 share units plan (DSP and PSP) rules

• Reviewed and approved the 2021 long-term variable compensation targets

• Approved the one-off Market Stock Units (MSU) long-term incentive plan for a selected 

group of employees

• Reviewed the replenishment of the treasury share balance reserved for share-based incentive 

plans

• Reviewed share ownership guidelines and the compliance of each covered employee

• Reviewed performance and projections of outstanding LTI plans (2019, 2020 and 2021)

• Reviewed equity plans participant turnover

Global reward strategy and executive 
remuneration review

• Reviewed remuneration/C&B philosophy and strategy

Variable pay design

• Discussed and approved STI and LTI design for 2022

Other

• Reviewed and approved STI and LTI performance measures for 2022

• Reviewed and approved exceptional items, new hire equity grants, etc.

• Reviewed Executive Team’s severance payouts in a change of control

• Reviewed and discussed results of 2022 "Say on Pay"

• Reviewed changes to the Swedish Corporate Governance Code

Compensation Committee governance

• Reviewed and approved the Compensation Committee annual meeting cycle and calendar

• Reviewed the Compensation Committee Charter

• Updated Executive Compensation dashboard

• Reviewed and approved the use of an external compensation consultant

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3. Our Compensation Philosophy and Core Principles
The philosophy, guidelines, objectives and policy applicable to remuneration of the Global Senior Management Team were 
approved by the shareholders (item 22) of the AGM held on May 4, 2021.

3.1 Core Principles 
The Compensation Committee worked using the following objectives for the Global Senior Management Team's compensation.

What we strive for

Competitive and fair

Drive the right behaviors

Shareholder alignment

Pay for performance

Transparency

Market competitive and representative 
remuneration

Retention of key talent

What it means

Levels of pay and benefits to attract and retain the right people

Reward policy and practices that drive behaviors supporting our Company strategy and business 
objectives

Variable compensation plans that support a culture of entrepreneurship and performance, and 
incorporate both short-term and longer-term financial and operational metrics strongly correlated to the 
creation of shareholder wealth. Long-term incentives are designed to maintain sustained commitment and 
ensure the interests of our Global Senior Management Team are aligned with those of our shareholders.

Total reward structured around pay in line with performance, providing the opportunity to reward strong 
corporate and individual performance. A significant proportion of top management's compensation is 
variable (at risk) and based on measures of personal and Company performance directly attributable to 
short-term and longer-term value creation.

Millicom is committed to expanding external transparency, including disclosure around pay for 
performance, links to value creation, etc. We are also investing in HR information systems to facilitate 
measurement and internal communications related to incentive composition, including performance 
metrics, pay equity, goal setting and pay-for-performance relationships.

Compensation is designed to be market competitive and representative of the seniority and importance 
of roles, responsibilities and geographical locations of individuals (with the majority of the Global Senior 
Management Team roles located in the U.S.)

Variable compensation plans include a significant portion of share-based compensation, the payout of 
which is conditional on future employment with the Company for three-year rolling periods, starting on 
the grant date

Executive management to be "invested"

The Global Senior Management Team, through Millicom’s share ownership guidelines, is required to 
reach and maintain a significant level of personal ownership of Millicom shares

To drive the right behaviors and ensure expectations are aligned, we communicate clearly to our employees what we do and do not 
do when it comes to compensation. A summary is set out in the table below:

What we do

Align pay and performance

Designate a substantial majority of executive pay as at risk, based on a mix of absolute and 
relative financial and share price performance metrics

Impose limits on maximum incentive payouts

Engage in a rigorous target-setting process for incentive metrics

Set our STI threshold to pay only at 95% and higher levels of performance

Maintain robust share ownership guidelines for our top 50 executives

Provide “double-trigger” change-in-control provisions in equity awards

Maintain clawback policies that apply to our performance-based incentive plans

Retain an independent compensation consultant

What we don't do

Create special executive prerequisites

Hedge Company stock by executives

Provide dividends or dividend equivalents on 
unearned PSUs or RSUs

Offer tax gross-ups related to change in control

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3.2 Elements of Executive Pay
Compensation for the Global Senior Management Team in 2021 comprised a base salary, a short-term incentive (STI) plan and a 
long-term incentive (LTI) plan, together with pension contributions and other benefits (e.g., healthcare).

Salary

Pay element

Purpose

Maximum opportunity

Purpose and link to strategy

Designed to be market competitive to attract 
and retain talent

No absolute maximum has been set for 
Executive Team salaries. The committee 
considers increases on a case-by-case basis 
based on peer comparison. Pay increases 
usually reflect a combination of roles and 
responsibilities, local market conditions and 
individual performance.

Operational execution

STI

Pay element

Paid monthly in cash in U.S. dollars or the home 
currency of the executive

Reviewed by the Compensation Committee 
every March

The Compensation Committee aims to set 
salaries for the Executive Team at the median of 
the peer group.

Purpose

Payout opportunity

The STI links reward to key business targets (70%) and individual 
contribution (30%).

With less than 95% achievement of business targets, the 
award falls to 0%. The threshold achievement is 95% of 
the target, resulting in a payout of 80%. The opportunity 
is 200% for the achievement of 104% for service revenue, 
106% for EBITDA and 107% for OFCFaL.

The STI aligns with shareholders’ interests through the provision 
of 50% of the payment delivered in share units deferred over three 
years (DSP) for the senior leadership team. The DSP is awarded upon 
achieving the performance targets, with 30% paid after one year, 
30% after the second year and 40% after the third year of the grant 
date.

The target achievement for:   
CEO – 200%  
CFO – 150%

Purpose and link to 
strategy

These plans help incentivize and motivate leadership to execute 
strategic plans in operational decision-making and achieve short-
term performance goals, impacting Company performance and 
enhancing its value.

Maximum achievement: 
CEO – 400%
CFO – 300%

The financial and operational targets are;

• 

• 

• 

Service revenue 

EBITDA 

Operating free cash flow after leases (OFCFaL) 

Transactional Net Promoter Score (tNPS) 

• 
2021 GATEWAY: All Operations to have implemented a robust and stable 
Relational NPS measurement platform by year end (in addition to the 
achievement of tNPS targets). At individual level (Operations), if gateway is 
not reached there will be no payout on the NPS component, regardless of tNPS 
achievement. For Corporate, if any one of the Operations fails to meet the 
gateway, there will be no payout on the NPS component

• 

 Personal performance

20%

20%

20%

10%

30%

Benchmarking

Our STI is a key component of the Millicom Group culture. We 
benchmark to peer companies within the U.S. and Latin America.

Each year the Compensation Committee determines the 
annual STI opportunity for the Executive Team.

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LTI

Pay element

Purpose and link to 
strategy

Operational 
execution

Purpose

Payout opportunity

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The LTI links an important part of overall Global Senior Management 
Team compensation with the interests of our shareholders.

This plan aligns the Global Senior Management Team's longer-
term incentives with the longer-term interests of shareholders, 
encouraging long-term value creation and retention. 

Millicom emphasizes the One Team mentality by maintaining unified 
goals and objectives in the long-term incentive program for the 
Global Senior Management Team, with the purpose of driving the 
successful achievement of three-year performance goals designed to 
enhance long-term value of the Company.

The LTI is a performance-based share units plan (PSP) whereby 
awarded share units fully vest at the end of a three-year period, 
subject to achievement against performance measures and 
fulfillment of conditions.

LTI payouts are typically in share units and based on company three-
year cash flow and revenue targets approved by the Compensation 
Committee and the Board, in addition to shareholder return.

Performance share units plan (PSP) and RSU component

The weights for the PSP component are:

•   Service revenue: 15%
•   OFCFaL (operating free cash flow): 30%*
•   Relative TSR: 20%
•   Time Vested RSUs: 35%

The PSP and RSU component pays out/is settled in shares  
at the end of three years.

*Since the 2021 LTI, we use OCFaL (operating cash flow after leases) 
in lieu of OFCFaL (operating free cash flow after leases) and include 
a portion of the grant as RSUs following U.S. market practice. These 
will also vest at the end of the corresponding three-year period.

Market Stock Units (MSU) is a special one time stock-based 
performance plan to be settled in cash. The plan offers pro-rata 
vesting in two tranches (50% in June 2022 and 50% in June 2023), 
payable one year after vesting subject to continuous employment.

The number of MSUs is determined on the basis of a share price at 
inception of $43.09 for Tranche 2022 (10%) and $47.00 for Tranche 
2023 (20%). The awards are payable only after an additional 
12-month employment period post vesting.

For financial metrics, achieving less than 80% of the 
target results in a payout of 0%. In the event the Company 
achieves between 80% and 120% of the target, the 
corresponding portion of the grant will be adjusted in linear 
pro rata of the achievement, starting at a payout of 0% at 
an achievement of 80% up to a maximum value of 200% 
if the target achievement is 120% or higher. For TSR, no 
award is granted for performance below the peer group 
median. If the Company achieves a TSR performance at 
the median or above of a pre-determined peer, the grant 
will be adjusted in linear pro rata of the achievement 
starting at a payout of 100% up to a maximum value of 
200% for a target achievement of 120% or higher.

For the 2021 LTI, we granted 35% of the respective amount 
for each eligible employee as time-vested RSUs. Because 
of their lower volatility, RSUs help strengthen the retention 
component in the LTI plan and cushion exogenous impacts, 
such as the COVID pandemic. 

The target achievement (including the RSU element) for:  
CEO – 480% 
CFO – 175% 

The maximum achievement (including the RSU element) 
for:
CEO – 792%
CFO – 288%

At the vesting date, the value of the MSU is determined 
by the 30-trading day average share price ending on 
June 30, 2022 for Tranche 2022, and the 30-trading day 
average share price ending on June 30, 2023, for Tranche 
2023. For each tranche, the payment is made in cash 12 
months after the respective dates, subject to continuous 
employment. For every participant, payment is capped 
at 150% of their Target MSU Award Value set up for each 
tranche.

Participants of the MSU plan were required to forfeit their 
awards under LTI 2019 and LTI 2020 in respect of the 
financial targets (service revenue growth and operating cash 
flow), provided that the TSR component continues to be 
active for these schemes.

Benchmarking

Our LTI is a key component of the Millicom Group culture.

For executives, we benchmark to peer companies within the U.S.

Each year the Compensation Committee determines the 
annual LTI opportunity for the Executive Team.

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Company Performance

Time Vested RSUs

OCFal

Service Revenue

Relative TSR

Min

Target

Max

Min

Target

Max

Min

Target

Max

WEIGHT

30%

15%

20%

+

35%

In addition, the Board uses retention schemes to ensure continued retention of key individuals during periods of uncertainty.  

3.3 Other Employment Terms  
and Conditions
Notice of termination: If the employment 
of a member of Millicom’s Executive 
Team is terminated, a notice period of 
up to 12 months potentially applies. 
The Board regularly reviews best 
practices in executive compensation 
and governance and revises policies and 
practices when appropriate. Millicom's 
change-in-control agreements for 
eligible executives include "double-
trigger" provisions, which require an 
involuntary termination (in addition 
to change in control) for accelerated 
vesting of awards.  

Deviations from the policy and 
guidelines: In special circumstances, 
the Board may deviate from the 
above policy and guidelines; for 
example, providing additional variable 
remuneration in the case of exceptional 
performance. 

As mentioned in the previous Annual 
Report, the committee did not change 
any of the performance measures 
or targets for any of the “in-flight” 
incentive plans, STI or LTI.

For the 2021 STI/LTI plans, we 
established targets from the beginning 
of the year—although forecasting due 
to the pandemic was still challenging—
and did not make any adjustments 
during the year.

The committee geared the design 
of those plans to motivate our 
management teams in the hardest-hit 
countries to seize such opportunities 
and "kick back" into growth by 
incentivizing our employees to strive for 
excellence. This design has been quite 
successful, as it has helped substantially 
improve our financial KPIs.

Since the start of the COVID-19 
pandemic, we have not implemented  
any restructuring programs, and we 
chose not to furlough or implement 
redundancies, helping us retain 
approximately 93% of key talent during 
this period. 

3.4 Other Executive Compensation 
Policies 

Millicom’s clawback policy requires 
its Board of Directors’ Compensation 
Committee to seek recovery of incentive 
compensation awarded or paid to 
those officers covered under the policy, 
in the event the committee finds the 
restatement of Millicom’s audited and 
published financial statements results in 
compensation in excess of what would 
have been paid based on the restated 
operating and financial performance.

In addition, the Company’s insider 
trading policy prohibits any hedging 
or speculative transactions in the 
Company’s shares, including the use of 
options and other derivatives. It also 
prohibits directors and employees from 
selling the Company’s stock short. 

4. Key Developments for 2021
During 2021, we were attentive to 
the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 
pandemic and continued focusing on 
protecting the health of employees, 
customers and partners. We worked on 
several health and safety initiatives, 
including providing vaccinations to our 
employees; structuring return-to-office 
schemes that prioritize health and 
safety (such as hybrid approaches); 
delaying office re-openings where 
vaccines were not widely available; and 
other cautionary measures.

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4.1 Key Elements of 2021 CEO and CFO Pay
In 2021, the key elements of the CEO and CFO compensation, in line with the remuneration policy, were as follows;

Salary 
(USD) *

Short-Term Incentive

Long-Term 
Incentive

Pension

Benefits

MSU Plan

Mauricio Ramos  
(CEO)

$1,189,187

Tim Pennington 
(CFO)**

$709,949

200% of 
Base Salary 
delivered:

Performance 
Measures:

150% of 
Base Salary 
delivered:

Performance 
Measures:

50% in Cash Bonus PSP award of 480% 

50% in Share 
Units over 3 
years vesting 
30%/30%/40%

60% Financial

10% Customer

30% Personal

of salary with 
3-year cliff vesting 
(35% delivered in 
time vested shares 
and the remaining 
portion based 
on performance 
shares)

50% in Cash Bonus PSP award of 175% 

50% in Share 
Units over 3 
years vesting 
30%/30%/40%

60% Financial

10% Customer

30% Personal

of salary with 
3-year cliff vesting  
(35% delivered in 
time vested shares 
and the remaining 
portion based 
on performance 
shares)

Private 
healthcare

15% of salary

Life insurance

Car Allowance

Each of the two 
tranches have a 
target payment 
opportunity of 
USD 4 Million

Private 
healthcare

15% of salary

Life insurance

Car Allowance

Each of the two 
trances have a 
target payment 
opportunity of 
USD 800K

*CEO / CFO Salary as of December 2021.

**CFO Compensation paid in Pounds GBP and for purposes of this report converted to USD using December Closing Forex (0.7392 GBP/USD).

4.2 Summary of Total CEO/CFO Compensation
The compensation for the CEO and CFO is summarized in the table below:

In USD

Base Salary

Fringe Benefits**

Pension Expense

Total Fixed

Annual Bonus***

Deferred Share Units***

LTIP****

Total Annual Variable

Annual Compensation

MSU Plan*****

Total 2021 Compensation

% Annual Fixed

% Annual Variable

Mauricio Ramos (CEO)

Tim Pennington (CFO)*

2021

2020

2021

2020

1,185,140

87,551

284,243

1,556,934

2,164,320

2,164,320

5,630,400

9,959,040

11,515,974

8,000,000

19,515,974

13.52%

86.48%

1,173,000

82,225

284,520

1,539,745

1,301,131

1,301,131

5,630,400

8,232,662

9,772,407

—

9,772,407

15.76%

84.24%

707,532

46,362

106,130

860,024

969,079

969,079

1,237,889

3,176,047

4,036,071

1,600,000

5,636,071

21.31%

78.69%

669,757

37,600

100,464

807,821

508,896

508,896

1,200,964

2,218,756

3,026,577

—

3,026,577

26.69%

73.31%

*CFO compensation is paid in GBP and, for the purposes of this report, converted to USD using December Closing Forex for each period.

**Fringe benefits include car allowance, life and disability insurance, and medical and dental insurance.

***The sum of the annual bonus and deferred share units is the total for the short-term incentive award for the performance period. 2021 STI is to be paid and  
granted in Q1 2022.

****LTIP is performance share units granted in 2021.Calculated based on the average Millicom closing share price on the Nasdaq in the US for the three-month period  
ending December 31, 2021.

*****MSU plan: Our stock-based MSU performance plan is settled in cash. Pro-rata vesting occurs in two tranches (50% in June 2022 and 50% in June 2023), payable one year 
after vesting subject to continuous employment. The number of MSUs is determined on the basis of a share price at inception of $43.09 for Tranche 2022 (10%) and  $47.00 for 
Tranche 2023 (20%). The awards are payable only after an additional 12-month employment period post vesting.

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Excluding the MSU, the CEO’s reported pay increased from $9.8 million to $11.5 million, a 17.3% increase that reflected the 
significantly improved financial performance compared to the more-depressed 2020 outturn. The MSU was added as an additional 
incentive to improve the share prices over two years. At target, the scheme could pay the CEO $8 million for achieving a share price 
of $43.09 by July 2022 and $47.00 by July 2023. The mark-to-market total value of the MSU for the CEO is approximately $3 million 
based on 2021 closing share price. The MSU is settled in cash.

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Realized Pay Supplemental Table

In USD

Base Salary

Car Allowance

Pension Expense

Total Fixed

Annual Bonus Paid*

Deferred Share Units Vested**

LTIP Vested***

Total Variable Paid

Total Realized Paid

% Fixed

% Variable

Mauricio Ramos (CEO)

2021

2020

1,185,140

15,000

284,243

1,484,383

1,301,131

930,836

1,457,988

3,689,955

5,174,339

28.69%

71.31%

1,173,000

15,000

284,520

1,472,520

1,427,497

932,141

1,553,984

3,913,622

5,386,143

27.33%

72.66%

*Annual bonus paid is the cash portion for the short-term incentive award for the performance period in that calendar year (i.e., the 2021 column displays the amount paid in 
Q1 2021 from 2020 performance).

**Deferred share units vested are the shares vested from the pro-rata vesting of the three years prior (i.e., the 2021 column displays the amount vested in Q1 2021: 30% from 
2020 grant, 30% from 2019 grant and 40% from 2018 grant.

***LTIP vested are the shares vested from the cliff vesting of the LTI granted three years prior (i.e., the 2021 column displays the amount vested in Q1 2021 from 2018 grant.

The total short-term award for the CEO, CFO and other senior leadership team is split 50% in cash and 50% in share units deferred 
over a three-year period (DSP). The compensation for the CEO and CFO is heavily weighted to variable compensation in the form of 
share units vesting over a three-year period. As a result, total compensation as shown in the previous table may differ significantly 
relative to the actual realized compensation in any given year. The table below compares CEO total compensation to his actual 
realized compensation in the last three years.

2021 CEO Compensation

4.3 Performance on STI 2021
As in previous years, the annual bonus is determined by a mixture of business performance and individual performance factors.  
The business performance factors included measures of service revenue, earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and 
amortization (EBITDA), operating free cash flow after leases (OFCFaL), and a customer satisfaction metric based on Net Promoter 
Score achievement. For this year's plan, we started to migrate from a transactional NPS to a relational NPS metric. Thus, we 
included a gateway decision to ensure that payment on the transactional NPS component only takes place if the preparedness for  
the relational NPS was reached before year’s end. The use and relative weighting of financial performance target measures under 
the variable compensation rules are equal for all employees regardless of seniority or area of operation. This includes the CEO and 
the senior leadership team.

Reported Pay (millions)

Realized Pay (millions)

$19.5

$8.9

$9.8

$5.2

$5.4

$5.2

2019

2020

2021

2019

2020

2021

Base Pay         STI–Bonus         Share Awards         Other Compensation         MSU

Total Cash         Vesting Previous Awards

Notes
-In average approximately 73% of CEO compensation is delivered in form of share
-In average realized pay has been 47% of Reported Pay

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Base  
Salary

x

Target  
Percentage

x

Business  
Performance Factors

+

Individual 
Performance Amounts

=

Annual Incentive 
Amount

For the CEO and senior leadership team, a portion of the STI is paid in the form of deferred share units with a three-year pro-rated 
vesting, strengthening our pay-for-performance and retention incentives.

For 2021, the achievement of performance targets is set out in the table below;

2021 STI—Group Results for a Meets Personal Performance

Flow after Leases = 
EBITDA—Lease payments 
Cash Out—CapEx =/– 
Operating Working Capital—
Tax paid (excl deferred tax).

For the CEO and other eligible DSP participants, the issuance of share units under the DSP is subject to shareholder approval at 
Millicom’s AGM of shareholders. For employees not participating in the DSP, or to the extent that the DSP is not approved by the 
AGM, the STI will be implemented as a cash-only bonus program.

Under the 2021 STI, 2022 DSP share units are granted in Q1 2022 and will vest (generally subject to the participant still being 
employed by the Millicom group) 30% in Q1 2023, 30% in Q1 2024 and 40% in Q1 2025. The vesting schedule is unchanged from 
the 2021 DSP.

4.4 LTI (PSP)
This section reviews the LTI 2019 performance, which vested in January 2022 and paid out in Q1 2022 to one non- executive 
participant. It also reviews the LTI 2021 plan granted in 2021 to 41 participants, including the CEO and CFO.

Base  
Salary

x

Target  
Percentage

x

Performance Performance 
 (75%) + rTSR (25%)

=

LTI Payout

Target Opportunity

Company Performance

Service Revenue40%106.0%EBITDAOFCFalNPSPersonal PerformanceNPS:(Operational Free Cash Net Promoter Score) measures the willingness of customers to recommend a company’s products or services to others.Performanceratings:-ExceptionallyExceeds-Exceeds-Meets-Partially Meets-Doesn’tMeet20%20%20%10%30%OFCFal: Service Revenue:Is revenue related to the provision of ongoing services, excluding telephone and equipment sales.EBITDA:Is operating profit excluding impairment losses, depreciation & amortization, and gain/losses on fixed asset disposals.STI 2021100%target range  $5.86B$5.35B $6.64BX167%40%107.5%target range  $2.54B$2.27B $2.39BX40%127.0%target range  $0.54B$0.47B $0.50BX17%107.0%target range  110%95% 100%X30%100.0%target range  60%0% 30%–MeetsXMillicom 2021 Annual ReportGovernance

4.4.1 LTI (PSP) 2019 Performance 
The LTI 2019 plan vested in January 2022 with an award of 7.6%. The outturn of LTI 2019 has been audited by Ernst & Young in 
respect of the financial performance measures and by Towers Watson for the TSR.  

For LTI 2019, the achievement of performance targets is set out in the table below:

2019 Long Term Incentive (LTI)—Three Year Plan

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Notes: Relative TSR considered the following peers: America Movil, Telefonica, TIM Brazil, TEF Brazil, Entel Chile, Lilac

The PSP 2019 did not meet the criteria for vesting for the CEO and CFO awards:

Name

Mauricio Ramos  
(CEO)

Tim 
Pennington(CFO)

Type of 
award

Basis of award

Face value of 
award

Number of share 
units granted

End of 
performance 
period

Achievement

Number of shares 
vested

LTI19

400% of salary

$4,600,000

77,111

Dec-21

LTI19

175% of salary

$1,132,957

18,992

Dec-21

—%

—%

—

—

Deviations from the guidelines: In special circumstances, the Board may deviate from the above guidelines, such as providing 
additional variable remuneration in the case of exceptional performance. In these instances, the Board will explain the reason 
for the deviation at the following AGM. For the LTI in this review—PSP 2019, PSP 2020 and PSP 2021—no discretion has been 
exercised and none of the performance or other conditions have been changed.

4.4.2 Award LTI 2021 
A new plan was issued in 2021 in accordance with the remuneration policy guidelines, designed to drive shareholder value through 
a focus on service revenue growth, cash flow generation and relative total shareholder return against a relevant peer group. The PSP 
2021 plan was approved by shareholders at the 2021 AGM:

Metric

Weighting

Performance target

Performance measure

Service revenue

OFCF

TSR

15%

30%

20%

Time Vested RSUs

35%

Target growth

Target growth

A specific 3-year Cumulative Growth target

A specific 3-year Cumulative Growth target

The Company TSR relative to a peer group between 
2021 and 2023

At median - target payout; below median - nil; 20% 
above median - max

The peer group for the PSP 2021 is: America Movil, TIM Brazil, TEF Brazil, Entel Chile, Lilac, Telecom Argentina, Grupo Televisa, 
Megacable.                                                     

For the CEO and CFO, the award of LTI 2021 is summarized below:

Name

Mauricio Ramos 
(CEO)

Tim Pennington 
(CFO)

Type of award

PSU - 3 years

Cliff Vesting

PSU - 3 years

Cliff Vesting

Basis of award

480% of salary (35% in 
time vested shares)

175% of salary (35% in 
time vested shares)

Face value of 
award

Number of 
share units 
granted

End of performance 
period

$5,630,400

159,941

December 2023

$1,237,889

35,164

December 2023

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4.4.3 MSU Grant 2021
For the CEO and CFO, the 2021 MSU award is summarized below:

Name

Type of award

Basis of award

Face value of award (USD)

End of performance period

Payout date

Mauricio Ramos (CEO)

MSU – Tranche 1 payout 
June 2023

MSU – Tranche 2 payout 
June 2024

Tim Pennington (CFO)

MSU – Tranche 1 payout 
June 2023

MSU – Tranche 2 payout 
June 2024

Target payout if share 
price reaches $43.09 by 
July 2022

Target payout if share 
price reaches $47.00 by 
July 2023

Target payout if share 
price reaches $43.09 by 
July 2022

Target payout if share 
price reaches $47.00 by 
July 2023

$ 4,000,000

July 2022

July 2023

$ 4,000,000

July 2023

July 2024

$ 800,000

July 2022

July 2023

$ 800,000

July 2023

July 2024

As noted above, the Board believed it was necessary to introduce an additional one-off performance vested equity plan to incentivize 
senior management to improve the share price. The retention plan has been awarded to a selected group of executives, including the 
CEO and CFO. The plan is based on MSU and is a performance-based scheme where the outcome is dependent on the share price at 
the time of vesting. The MSU is settled in cash. We have retained 97% of all executives made eligible under this plan.

5. Remuneration Approach for 2022
For 2022, the Board has proposed continuing with a consistent framework of STI and LTI, with a few changes explained below. We 
have removed the RSU component from the LTI, thus reducing the LTI opportunity for 2022, and made a corresponding increase in 
the share component of the STI, where the grant amounts are driven by annual performance but still provide a retention element 
through three-year pro-rata vesting (30%, 30%, 40%).

For the CEO, the at-target and maximum remuneration for 2022 is set out below*:

At Target
At Target

At Target
At Target

Shares
Shares
71%
71%

Shares
Shares
71%
71%

Cash
Cash
28%
28%

Cash
Cash
28%
28%

Benefits
Benefits
0.8%
0.8%

Benefits
Benefits
0.8%
0.8%

Fixed
Fixed
16%
16%

Fixed
Fixed
16%
16%

At Maximum
At Maximum

At Maximum
At Maximum

Shares
Shares
78%
78%

Shares
Shares
78%
78%

Cash
Cash
22%
22%

Cash
Cash
22%
22%

Benefits
Benefits
0.4%
0.4%

Benefits
Benefits
0.4%
0.4%

Fixed
Fixed
9%
9%

Fixed
Fixed
9%
9%

At Target
At Target

At Target
At Target

Variable
Variable
84%
84%

Variable
Variable
84%
84%

At Maximum
At Maximum

At Maximum
At Maximum

Variable
Variable
91%
91%

Variable
Variable
91%
91%

*CEO earnings opportunity 2022 target analysis (excludes MSU).

At target, CEO compensation is paid 71% in share units and 84% in variable compensation.

At maximum, CEO compensation is paid 78% in share units and 91% in variable compensation.

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5.1 Summary of Key Changes for 2022
We made two small changes to the 2022 remuneration plans, with a continued focus on pay for performance and incentivizing the 
retention of key talent.

For the 2022 STI, we will fully transition our NPS metric from a transactional focus to a relational approach. We believe this will be a 
more stringent way to measure our strategic intent to deliver the best customer experience.

For the LTI 2022, the structure of the award remains consistent with 2021, with only one change. As the business context is 
stabilizing and per feedback from our key shareholders, we reverted to 100% performance shares for our LTI plan. We made a 
corresponding increase in the share component of the STI, where the grant amounts are driven by annual performance but still 
provide a retention element through three-year pro-rata vesting (30%, 30%, 40%).

Base  
Salary

x

Target  
Percentage

x

Performance Performance 
 (70%) + rTSR (30%)

=

LTI Payout

Target Opportunity

Company Performance

6. Sundry

6.1 Summary of Outstanding Awards

Opening 
Balance

During the Year

Closing 
Balance

Performance 
Period

Award 
Grant 
Date

Vesting 
Date

Award 
Share 
Price in 
USD

Outstanding 
Balance 
as of Dec. 
2020

Share Units 
Granted in 
2021

Shares 
Vested in 
2021

Forfeited in 
2021

Outstanding 
Balance as of 
Dec. 2021

Award 
Details - 
Plan Name

2018 DSP

2019 DSP

2020 DSP

2021 DSP

2017

2018

2019

2020

1/1/2018 1/1/2021

1/1/2019 1/1/2022

1/1/2020 1/1/2023

1/1/2021 1/1/2024

2018 PSP

2018-2021

3/1/2018 3/1/2021

2019 PSP

2019-2022

3/1/2019 1/1/2022

2020 PSP

2020-2023

3/1/2020 1/1/2023

2021 PSP

2021-2024

1/1/2021 1/1/2024

2018 DSP

2019 DSP

2020 DSP

2021 DSP

2017

2018

2019

2020

1/1/2018 1/1/2021

1/1/2019 1/1/2022

1/1/2020 1/1/2023

1/1/2021 1/1/2024

2018 PSP

2018-2021

3/1/2018 3/1/2021

2019 PSP

2019-2022

3/1/2019 1/1/2022

2020 PSP

2020-2023

3/1/2020 1/1/2023

2021 PSP

2021-2024

1/1/2021 1/1/2024

Name

Plan Type

Deferred 
Share Plan

Performance 
Share Plan

Deferred 
Share Plan

Performance 
Share Plan

Mauricio 
Ramos 
(CEO)

TOTAL 
Mauricio 
Ramos 
(CEO)

Tim 
Pennington 
(CFO)

TOTAL Tim 
Pennington 
(CFO)

$66.11

$59.65

$45.86

$35.20

$66.11

$59.65

$45.86

$35.20

$66.11

$59.65

$45.86

$35.20

$66.11

$59.65

$45.86

$35.20

7,161

17,508

31,126

—

—

—

—

36,963

69,576

77,111

122,768

—

—

—

—

159,941

7,161

7,504

9,338

—

38,942

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

30,634

57,833

92,076

—

10,004

21,788

36,963

—

19,278

30,692

—

159,941

325,250

196,904

62,945

180,543

278,666

4,711

6,537

13,657

—

—

—

—

14,457

17,890

18,992

26,186

—

—

—

—

35,164

4,711

2,801

4,097

—

10,013

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

7,877

14,244

19,640

—

—

3,736

9,560

14,457

—

4,748

6,546

35,164

87,973

49,621

21,622

41,761

74,211

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6.2 Summary of Shares Owned vs. Target
Millicom’s share ownership policy sets out the Compensation Committee’s requirements for the Global Senior Management Team to 
retain and hold a personal holding of common shares in the Company to align their interests with those of our shareholders. All share 
plan participants in the Global Senior Management Team are required to own Millicom shares to a value of a percentage of their 
respective base salary as of January 1 of each calendar year.

For that purpose, we continue to uphold our share ownership requirements for our top 50 roles:
Global Senior Management Level

% of Annual Base Pay

101 

CEO

CFO

EVPs

General Managers and VPs

For the CEO and CFO:

400

200

100

50

Awarded 
unvested subject 
to performance 
conditions 

Awarded unvested 
not subject to 
performance 
conditions

Shares required to 
be held as % salary

Number of shares 
required to be 
held

Number of 
beneficially 
owned shares

Shareholding 
requirement met

Mauricio Ramos  
(CEO)

Tim Pennington  
(CFO)

209,911

46,458

68,755

27,753

400%

200%

133,285

232,562

40,188

70,095

 Yes 

 Yes 

Unless this requirement is met each year, no vested Millicom shares can be sold by the individual.

6.3 Details of Share Purchase and Sale Activity
During 2021, neither the CEO nor the CFO purchased nor sold any Millicom shares.

6.4 Historic CEO and CFO Pay

CEO Remuneration*

CFO Remuneration*

Group EBITDA

Average remuneration on FTE basis of employees of parent 
company**

2020 vs. 2019

2021 vs. 2020

Information Regarding 2021 (USD)

9.2%

(4.2)%

(1.4)%

0.5%

17.8%

33.4%

5.9%

3.6%

USD$M19.5

USD$M4.0

USD$B2.5

USD$25,280

*Year-over-year remuneration comparison compares total compensation column in 4.2 summary of total CEO/CFO compensation of this report (excludes MSU).

**Average remuneration on a full-time equivalent basis of employees of the Millicom Group other than the CEO, reported by each individual operation as of Dec 31, 2021.

6.5. Board Compensation

Governance of Director Remuneration
Decisions on annual remuneration of Directors (“tantièmes”) are reserved by the Articles of Association to the general meeting of 
shareholders. Directors are prevented from voting on their own compensation. Resolution 17 of the AGM on May 4, 2021, approved 
the Director remuneration from the date of the 2021 AGM to the date of the AGM in 2022.

2021 Director Remuneration
During early 2021, in proposing Director remuneration, the Nomination Committee received input from an external compensation 
advisor—including market and peer benchmarking—and considered the frequency of meetings and complexity of Millicom’s 
business and governance structures. After considering these and other relevant aspects, the Nomination Committee proposed 
keeping the structure and amount of remuneration for each role for the Non-Executive Directors the same as the prior year.

a) Non-Executive Director Remuneration
Remuneration of the Non-Executive Directors comprises an annual fee and shares denominated in U.S. dollars. The remuneration 
is 100% fixed. Non-Executive Directors do not receive any fringe benefits, pensions or any form of variable remuneration. No 
remuneration was paid to any of the Non-Executive Directors in 2021 or 2020 from any other undertakings within the Millicom 
Group.

b) Executive Director Remuneration
Executive Directors do not receive any remuneration in their capacity as Directors. 

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Approval of 2021 Director Remuneration
The Nomination Committee’s proposal for Director remuneration was approved at the AGM on May 4, 2021.

Name of Director

Year (i)

Cash-based fee 
($000's)

Share-based fee (ii) 
($000's)

Total 
($000's)

102 

Mr. José Antonío Rios García

Chair of the Board

Ms. Pernille Erenbjerg

Deputy Chair of the Board 
Chair of the Compensation Committee

Mr. Odilon Almeida

Chair of the Compliance and Business Conduct

Mr. Bruce Churchill A,

Ms. Sonia Dulá A, CBE

Ms. Mercedes Johnson A, CBE

Chair of the Audit Committee

Mr. Lars-Johan Jarnheimer  C

Mr. James Thompson A, C

Former Directors

Mr. Tomas Eliasson (until May 2021)

Mr. Lars-Åke Norling C, CBE  (until May 2021)

Total

2021

2020

2021

2020

2021

2020

2021

2021

2021

2020

2021

2021

2020

2020

2020

2021 (iii)

2020

100

100

100

122.5

75

75

72.5

85

107.5

85

62.5

85

85

95

75

687.5

637.5

200

200

150

150

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

950

850

300

300

250

272.5

175

175

172.5

185

207.5

185

162.5

185

185

195

175

1,637.50

1,487.00

(i)  Remuneration covers the period from May 4, 2021, to the date of the AGM in May 2022 as resolved at the shareholder meeting on May 4, 2021 (2020: for the period from  

June 25, 2020, to May 4, 2021). 

(ii)  Share-based compensation for the period from May 4, 2021, to May 2022 was based on the average closing price of Millicom shares for the three-month period ended April 

30, 2021, and represented a total of 24,737 shares (2020: 32,358 shares). 

A Member of Audit Committee

    C Member of Compensation Committee

CBEMember of Compliance and Business Ethics Committee

(iii)  Total remuneration for the period from May 4, 2021, to May 2022 after deduction of applicable withholding tax at source comprising 73% in shares and 27% in cash (2020: 

71% in shares and 29% in cash).

6.6 2021 AGM Vote

Director Remuneration

47,398,168

97.05%

55,994

0.11%

Senior Management Remuneration Guidelines and Policy

38,482,068

78.79%

8,894,385

18.21%

1,384,841

1,462,550

2.84%

2.99%

Votes For

%

Votes Against

%

Abstentions

%

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Millicom CEO and Executive Team

CEO

Mr. Mauricio Ramos

Position

CEO

103 

Role and responsibilities

• Leading the development and execution of the Company’s strategy

• Overseeing day-to-day activities and management decisions, both operating and financial
• Acting as liaison between the Board and management of the Company
• Leading the Executive Team

Mr. Mauricio Ramos
Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director

Mauricio joined Millicom in April 2015 as CEO and was elected as an Executive Director in June 2020. 

Previously, he was President of Liberty Global’s Latin American division from 2006 until February 
2015. Mauricio held several leadership roles at Liberty Global, including Chairman and CEO of VTR in 
Chile, Chief Financial Officer of Liberty’s Latin American division and President of Liberty Puerto Rico.

Currently, Mauricio is (i) a member of the Board of Directors of Charter Communications (U.S.), (ii) 
the Chair of the U.S. Chamber’s U.S.-Colombia Business Council (USCBC), (iii) a commissioner of the 
Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development and (iv) a member of the Presidential Advisory 
Council of the INCAE business school.

He is a dual Colombian and U.S. citizen who received Economics and Law degrees and a 
postgraduate degree in Financial Law from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota.

MILLICOM SHAREHOLDING AT JANUARY 31, 2022: 232,562 shares

Millicom’s Executive Team members support the CEO in the day-to-day operation and management of the Group, within their 
specific areas of expertise. The team meets at least once a month and more frequently when required. Millicom’s Executive Team is 
as follows:

Executive

Team

Role responsibilities

Mr. Tim Pennington

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Sheldon Bruha

Incoming Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Esteban Iriarte

Chief Operating Officer–Latam

Mr. Xavier Rocoplan

Chief Technology and Information Officer

Mr. Karim Lesina

Chief External Affairs Officer

Mr. Salvador Escalón

Chief Legal and Compliance Officer

Ms. Susy Bobenrieth

Chief Human Resources Officer

Finance and financial planning; financial performance 
reporting, including external financial reporting; 
budgeting, forecasting and monitoring expenditures 
and costs; implementation and enhancement of 
related controls; risk management; oversight of the 
African business.

As described above upon retirement of Mr. Pennington 
on April 1, 2022

Operations and development of the Latin American 
businesses

Networks, information technology, procurement and 
cybersecurity within the Group

Government relations, regulatory affairs, corporate 
communications, corporate responsibility and 
corporate security

Legal and corporate governance matters, including 
oversight, identification and management of legal 
issues, risks and claims of the Group; legal aspects of 
mergers and acquisitions and other corporate and 
commercial transactions; data privacy; compliance 
matters such as ethics, anti-bribery, anti-corruption, 
anti-money laundering and related compliance 
programs

Human resources matters, including talent acquisition 
and management, compensation, and diversity, equity 
and inclusion

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The profiles of the CFO and Executive Team members are provided below:

Mr. Tim Pennington 
Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

Tim joined Millicom in June 2014 as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Previously, he was the Chief Financial Officer at Cable and Wireless Communications plc, Group 
Finance Director for Cable and Wireless plc and CFO of Hutchison Telecommunications International 
Ltd, based in Hong Kong. Tim served as Finance Director of Hutchison 3G (UK), Hutchison 
Whampoa’s British mobile business. He also has corporate finance experience as a Director at Samuel 
Montagu & Co. Limited and as Managing Director of HSBC Investment Bank within its Corporate 
Finance and Advisory Department.

Tim is a currently  a member of the Board of Directors of Euromoney Institutional Investor plc.

He is a British national and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) degree in Economics and Social Studies 
from the University of Manchester.

MILLICOM SHAREHOLDING AT JANUARY 31, 2022: 70,095 shares

Mr. Sheldon Bruha 
Executive Vice President, Incoming Chief Financial Officer

Sheldon joined Millicom in January 2022 and will take over as Chief Financial Officer when Tim 
Pennington retires on April 1, 2022.

Prior to joining Millicom, he was the Chief Financial Officer at Frontier Communications, one of the 
largest fixed-line communication providers in the U.S., where he successfully helped navigate the 
business through its financial restructuring. Prior to joining Frontier, he held several senior financial 
leadership roles at Cable & Wireless, including Head of Corporate Development, where he led the 
strategic transformation and reshaping of the company prior to its sale to Liberty Latin America. He 
also held senior financial leadership roles at CDI Corp. Sheldon started his career at Lehman Brothers, 
holding senior investment banking positions in its New York and London offices focusing on the 
telecommunications industry.  

He is an American national and holds a a Bachelor of Science (Honors) degree in Business 
Administration from Washington University.

MILLICOM SHAREHOLDING AT JANUARY 31, 2022: no shares

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105 

Mr. Esteban Iriarte
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Latin America

Esteban was appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO), Latin America 
in August 2016.

Previously, Esteban was General Manager of Millicom’s Colombian businesses where, in 2014, he led 
the merger and integration of Tigo and the fixed-line company UNE. Prior to leading Tigo Colombia, 
Esteban was head of Millicom’s regional Home and B2B divisions. From 2009 to 2011, he was CEO 
of Amnet, a leading service provider in Central America for broadband, cable TV, fixed-line and data 
services, which Millicom acquired in 2008.

Currently, Esteban is a member of the Board of Directors of Sura Asset Management, one of Latin 
America’s leading financial groups.

Esteban is from Argentina. He received a degree in Business Administration from the Pontificia 
Universidad Catolica Argentina (Santa Maria de los Buenos Aires) and an MBA from the Universidad 
Austral in Buenos Aires.

MILLICOM SHAREHOLDING AT JANUARY 31, 2022: 45,679 shares

Mr. Xavier Rocoplan

Executive Vice President, Chief Technology and Information Officer

Xavier joined the Executive Team as Chief Technology and Information Technology Officer in 
December 2012.

Xavier started at Millicom in 2000 and initially served as CTO in Vietnam and subsequently Southeast 
Asia. In 2004, he became CEO of Paktel, Millicom's subsidiary in Pakistan, where he launched Paktel’s 
GSM operation and led the process that concluded with the disposal of the business in 2007. Xavier 
then served as head of Corporate Business Development, where he managed the disposal of various 
Millicom operations in Asia, the monetization of Millicom infrastructure assets (towers), and numerous 
spectrum acquisitions and license renewal processes in Africa and in Latin America.

Xavier is a French national. He holds a Master's in Engineering from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des 
Télécommunications de Paris and a Master's in Economics from Université Paris IX Dauphine.

MILLICOM SHAREHOLDING AT JANUARY 31, 2022: 51,506 shares

Mr. Karim Lesina
Executive Vice President, Chief External Affairs Officer

Karim joined the Executive Team as Executive Vice President, Chief External Affairs Officer in November 
2020.

Previously, he held the position of Senior Vice President, International External and Regulatory Affairs 
at AT&T, directing the internal international and regulatory affairs teams, as well as the external and 
regulatory affairs teams across four international affiliates: Turner, Warner Media, AT&T Latin America 
and Direct TV. Prior to AT&T, Karim led the corporate affairs team at Intel as the Government Affairs 
Manager for Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Rounding out a strong portfolio, he acquired extensive 
agency experience through his work with multinational public relations and communications firms at 
the commencement of his career.

Born in Dakar (Senegal), Karim is an Italian-Tunisian national and has a Master’s in Economics of 
Development at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve. 

MILLICOM SHAREHOLDING AT JANUARY 31, 2022: no shares

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Mr. Salvador Escalón
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer

Salvador became General Counsel in 2013, Executive Vice President in July 2015 and Chief Legal and 
Compliance Officer in 2020. 

Salvador joined Millicom as Associate General Counsel Latin America in April 2010. From 2006 to 2010, 
Salvador was Senior Counsel at Chevron Corporation, with responsibility for legal matters related to 
Chevron’s downstream operations in Latin America. Previously, he practiced at the law firms Skadden, 
Morgan Lewis and Akerman Senterfitt. 

Salvador is an American national. He holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and a B.B.A. in Finance 
and International Business from Florida International University.

MILLICOM SHAREHOLDING AT JANUARY 31, 2022: 49,591 shares

Ms. Susy Bobenrieth
Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer

Susy joined the Executive Team as Executive Vice President Chief Human Resources Officer in 2017.

Susy is a global human resource professional with over 25 years of experience in major multinational 
companies, including Nike, American President Lines and IBM. As an ex-Nike executive, she 
has extensive international knowledge and proven results in leading large-scale organizational 
transformations, driving talent-management agendas and leading teams. She possesses deep 
international experience, having lived and worked in Mexico, the U.S., Brazil, the Netherlands and Spain. 

Susy is an American national with Chilean heritage. She earned a degree from the University of 
Maryland, University College in 1989.

MILLICOM SHAREHOLDING AT JANUARY 31, 2022: 4,536 shares

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Management Governance
The Group seeks to embed governance 
activities in the daily operations of 
all businesses and in its corporate 
functions. The role of the Group’s 
Governance functions is to set policies 
and procedures in accordance with 
our obligations and international best 
practices. These functions then ensure 
policies and procedures are embedded 
in our businesses and serve to monitor 
compliance.

Each function has clear reporting lines 
through to the Executive Team and 
the CEO. Functions report to the Board 
committees, as previously described, 
based on the responsibilities of each 
committee.

Internal Audit
Group has a dedicated Internal Audit 
function to provide independent 
assurance over all businesses and 
corporate functions through a program 
of risk-based internal audits.  

Internal Audit reports to the Audit 
Committee of the Board with a 
dotted line to executive management. 
This function identifies areas for 
improvement, assigns management 
actions and monitors implementation 
progress.

In Colombia, where Millicom has a 
non-controlling local partner, there is a 
local internal audit team whose head 
is appointed by Millicom's business 
partner. Millicom's Head of Internal 
Audit provides input into the local 
internal audit plan to ensure appropriate 
risk coverage and participates in the 
local Audit Committee meetings. 

Prior to the full acquisition of 
Guatemala, Internal Audit coordinated 
with the local partner to define the 
scope for the annual internal audit 
plan, which was executed by a Big 
4 accounting firm. Internal Audit 
oversaw the execution of such projects, 
and reported on results, as well as 
participated in local Audit Committee 
meetings.

Business Control
The Board is responsible for the Group’s 
system of internal control, which is 
designed to manage, rather than 
eliminate, the risk of failure to achieve 
business objectives. This system can 
only provide reasonable, but not 
absolute, assurance against material 
misstatement or loss. The concept of 

reasonable assurance recognizes that 
the cost of control procedures should 
not exceed the expected benefits.

the development of our internal Center 
of Excellence for control testing based in 
El Salvador. 

107 

Responsibility for maintaining effective 
internal controls is delegated to the CEO 
and the Executive Team with oversight 
provided by the Audit Committee. 
The Executive Team is supported by 
a dedicated Business Control team 
responsible for the Internal Control 
framework. Each country also has its 
own dedicated local Business Control 
team responsible for monitoring and 
development of the local internal 
control environment.

Following the completion of the 
second-year controls attestation under 
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for the 2020 
financial year, we focused in 2021 
on efficiencies in internal controls 
over financial reporting through 
simplification and centralization.  We 
also worked on ensuring the controls 
we rolled out in the Telefonica-acquired 
operations in Nicaragua and Panama in 
2020 are efficient and sustainable.

In order to support our Sarbanes-Oxley 
program, we run a Group Steering 
Committee comprising members of 
the Executive Team and other senior 
management. The committee oversees 
the program, evaluates the findings of 
management testing and ensures the 
availability of appropriate resources.  

Business Control teams continue to 
place themselves at the heart of Group 
efficiency and transformation programs 
to ensure that robust internal controls 
are an integral consideration in each 
program.

Monitoring Systems
Aligned with our Sarbanes-Oxley 
program, we operate a program of 
management testing of key financial 
controls. Monthly management testing 
covering both business processes and 
IT general controls was administered 
through three main phases—walk 
through, interim and roll-forward—
which allowed greater alignment with 
our external auditor Ernst & Young (EY). 
In fact, 2021 was the first year that EY 
placed reliance on management testing 
(25%). The testing results, including 
remediation actions where required, 
were reported and discussed with the 
Executive Team, the Sarbanes-Oxley 
Steering Committee and the Audit 
Committee. During 2021, we completed 

We have enhanced the use of our 
Governance, Risk and Compliance 
tool and started migrating non-key 
control activities to the platform. This 
central tool, which is used by control 
owners in all operations in the Group, 
has improved the efficiency and 
quality of our internal controls and 
proved invaluable as teams moved to 
work remotely during the COVID-19 
pandemic.

Fraud Management and Reporting
Business Control is responsible for 
fraud risk management. We continued 
our education activities, including an 
awareness campaign aligned with 
International Fraud Awareness Week in 
November 2021.

Each operation prepares a quarterly 
fraud report and presents a summary 
to the Audit Committee, along with a 
description of the key actions taken. 
Quantitative and qualitative thresholds 
govern the reporting of individual fraud 
incidents to the Group CFO, CEO and 
Audit Committee.

Internal Control over Financial 
Reporting
The management of Millicom is 
responsible for establishing and 
maintaining adequate internal control 
over financial reporting. This process 
is designed to provide reasonable 
assurance regarding the reliability of 
financial reporting and the preparation 
of financial statements for external 
reporting purposes in conformity with 
International Financial Reporting 
Standards. Due to their inherent 
limitations, internal controls over 
financial reporting may not prevent or 
detect misstatements.

Management has assessed the 
effectiveness of internal control over 
financial reporting as of December 
31, 2021, and concluded that it was 
effective. The foregoing assessment 
does not constitute and is not meant to 
be an assessment of Millicom’s internal 
control over financial reporting for 
purposes of the U.S. Securities Exchange 
Act of 1934, as amended.

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How ESG  is governed

Role

As part of the External 
Affairs function, ESG 
oversees, advises  and 
makes recommendations 
to  Management 
regarding our ESG 
strategies and activities.

 Board of Directors

  Chief Executive Officer

10 8 

Executive Management 
Team sponsors for 
managing ESG

EVP Chief Legal and 
Compliance Officer

  EVP
   Chief External  
Affairs Officer

   EVP 
Chief Technology 
and Information 
Officer

EVP Chief 
Human 
Resources 
Officer

Senior
Management

   Corporate 
Compliance

    Corporate 
Anti-Money 
Laundering

Corporate    
Governance

Sustainability,  
Climate Change, 
Education

   Procurement 
and Supply 
Chain 
Management

Responsible 
supply chain 
management

   Corporate 
Information 
Security

Corporate 
Security & Crisis 
Management

Health, Safety 
and Environment

Diversity, Equity, 
and Inclusion

Risk Management
The Risk Management function 
identifies, analyzes, measures and 
monitors Millicom’s risks. The Chief Risk 
Officer is responsible for providing risk 
owners at the central functional and 
country levels with a methodology and 
the tools needed to balance risk with 
return. A Management Risk Committee, 
comprising members of the Executive 
Team and functions responsible for 
key risk, meets on a regular basis to 
provide oversight on the evolution of 
risk and the approach taken to manage 
risk. The Chief Risk Officer also reports 
to the Executive Team and the Audit 
Committee. The Audit Committee, 
on behalf of the Board, oversees risk 
management activities.

Our risk assessment processes and the 
principal risks managed by the Group 
are set out in the Risk Management 
section of this annual report.

Ethics and Compliance
Our corporate ethics and compliance 
program is central to our business 
strategy and is effectively embedded in 
the business processes and procedures. 
Our program integrates preventive 
measures, key controls, reporting 
mechanisms and due diligence 
processes with the aim of preventing, 

detecting, as well as correcting 
misconduct and wrongdoing. We 
measure the actual impact of this 
program on our employees, customers, 
stakeholders, and communities in the 
countries where we operate.

Our Ethics & Compliance function 
consists of global and local resources 
responsible for the Group’s corporate 
compliance, anti-money laundering 
and compliance strategic response 
programs. We also have a Compliance 
Officer in each market. 

Management and Governance of 
Compliance Activities 
Millicom strives to build a strong 
corporate culture that seeks compliance 
excellence, and in which employees at 
all levels are committed to doing what 
is right and upholding the Company’s 
values and standards. As we continue 
to evolve, in 2021 we revised our 
Code of Conduct, as well as our AML, 
anti-corruption and Speak Up policies. 
In the same vein, we continued to 
evaluate our progress in 2021 by 
including compliance questions in our 
Great Place to Work survey. We also 
evaluated our own compliance risks by 
conducting a robust risk assessment in 
the organization. 

We enhanced ethics and compliance 
knowledge through consolidated 

digital training provided in English and 
Spanish. Employees received mandatory 
training on the Code of Conduct, 
anti-corruption and anti-bribery and 
AML policies in order to reinforce the 
most important compliance concepts, 
influence employee behavior, and 
prevent misconduct through practical 
examples. We also provided targeted 
face-to-face training in addition to the 
digital training program.

Our Compliance Communication Plan 
for 2021 included weekly newsletters 
that highlighted the latest corporate 
enforcement actions, lessons learned, 
monthly campaigns on various 
compliance policies, and the celebration 
of the annual Corporate & Ethics 
Compliance Week in November 2021.

Aligned with our Sangre Tigo motto, and 
for the fourth year in a row, executive 
financial incentives and rewards 
included compliance goals, and clear 
KPIs were built into the remuneration 
package of our General Managers.

We continued monitoring enhanced 
risks  during the pandemic, namely 
fraud by third parties, requests 
for donations and more frequent 
government touchpoints as they 
reached out to private industry to 
request aid.

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Speak Up Policy and Issue 
Management
Continuing our compliance 
enhancements and evolution, we 
updated our Speak Up policy, included 
Speak Up in our training program and 
included a Speak Up campaign in our 
communications program. We have 
a team dedicated to following up on 
concerns that arise through Speak Up 
and are committed to addressing any 
such concerns in a fair, impartial and 
efficient manner. 

The Executive Team and the 
Compliance and Business Conduct 
Committee of the Board received 
regular updates on cases raised through 
the Ethics Line or other channels, and 
the Audit Committee is updated on 
matters that may impact financial 
reporting or the internal control 
environment.

ESG
For the fifth consecutive year, we 
included extensive data on our ESG 
activities in our Annual Report. The 
integral approach and impact to ESG 
is explained in the Our ESG Approach 
and Impact section starting on page 
30. As we navigate the second year 
of a global pandemic, we reaffirm the 
synergy between digital highways and 
sustainability as enabling a business 
model that positively impacts society 
and the environment and promotes 
responsibility.

Millicom’s ESG strategy leads the 
company to further integrate 
sustainability within Millicom's business 
operations. It does so by implementing 
best-in-class policies and processes 
for ESG governance; coordinating 
ESG activities and performance 
across business functions as well as 
with HQs; and publishing ESG-related 
performance metrics, data and 
information in our Annual Report. Our 
Annual Report continues to promote 
transparency toward investors and 
other key stakeholders on ESG risks and 
opportunities.

The ESG team constantly engages 
with internal and external stakeholders 
to ensure Millicom understands 
and addresses core ESG issues and 

objectives, bringing tangible benefit 
to communities in the delivery of its 
services. 

Stakeholder engagement occurs 
through a biennial materiality 
assessment and through ongoing 
interaction with our key stakeholders. 

ESG Governance
The Board oversees the Government 
Relations, Regulatory Affairs and ESG 
functions, which fall under the umbrella 
of External Affairs. This structure 
embodies the depth and materiality 
of these topics and the importance 
of monitoring their interconnected 
risks and opportunities. ESG portfolio 
management is managed by the 
Executive Vice President (EVP) Chief 
External Affairs Officer and his team. 
The EVP Chief External Affairs Officer 
reports directly to the CEO and is 
accountable for delivering updates on 
the ESG strategy to the Board. ESG 
progress and implementation reports 
and issue management updates to the 
Executive Team take place monthly, 
either through the EVP Chief External 
Affairs Officer or directly in specific 
cases.

Health, Safety, Environment and 
Security Services
With the continuation of the COVID-19 
global pandemic in 2021, our Health 
& Safety teams' primary objective 
remains to protect our employees 
and support our global operations. 
Our Health & Safety teams maintain 
the enforcement of COVID-19 safety-
related protocols for our workforce, 
including workspace cleaning, 
personal hygiene, issuance of personal 
protection equipment and social 
distancing guidelines as recommended 
by the World Health Organization and 
U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). 
Additionally, the Health & Safety teams 
have worked on numerous projects in 
our countries of operation to promote 
and educate employees on COVID-19 
prevention and treatment options, as 
well as the importance of vaccination 
for our employees and their families. 
We have sponsored vaccination drives 
in our countries, ensuring our employees 
and their family members have access 
to vaccines.  

Apart from dealing with the COVID-19 
pandemic, the Health & Safety and 
Environment teams were able to 
obtain recertification of ISO 45001 
Health and Safety Standards and 
ISO 14001 Environmental Standards 
in all our operations. In addition, we 
have expanded implementation of 
our energy efficiency programs to 
administrative and retail facilities in all 
of our operations.

The Health & Safety teams oversee 
the implementation of policy and 
Group standards in health, safety 
and environment, as well as facilities 
management, fleet management and 
fuel and energy resources. The Health & 
Safety teams also provide effective and 
efficient solutions to support our CDP 
(formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) and 
environmental energy efficiency plans.

Throughout 2021, we prevented  
employee fatalities and major losses to 
the Group. Unfortunately, there were 
two fatalities in our contracted services.

Our Security teams are responsible for 
the safety and protection of our people, 
facilities and assets. During this period, 
we continued the implementation of  
initiatives focused on protecting assets 
and mitigating losses of material and 
equipment at our network locations. 
Implementation of these initiatives 
has resulted in yearly loss reductions 
of assets in El Salvador, Costa Rica, 
Colombia and Paraguay. The Security 
teams will continue to promote asset 
protection and collaborate with our 
Operations teams on this initiative.

The Executive Vice President of Human 
Resources oversees the Health, Safety, 
Environment and Security functions.

Business Continuity 
Management of business continuity 
is positioned within the overall Risk 
Management function of the group, 
with each operating company having 
designated Business Continuity 
Managers. A global business continuity 
policy has been developed and 
implemented, together with supporting 
standards. 

Business continuity plans are reviewed 
and periodically tested each year to 
ensure coverage of the most important 
threats. 

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Crisis Management
Our global and operational business 
continuity and crisis management 
system is designed to address 
significant disruptions that might 
affect critical day-to-day activities. 
With respect to crisis management, 
our streamlined and complementary 
planning between Group and country-
level operations proved effective when 
country lockdowns and emergency 
orders restricting travel and movement 
impacted our operations. Additionally, 
crisis management planning was utilized 
on two different occasions in response 
to political turmoil and civil unrest in 
some of the countries where we operate.   

Risk assessment is a continuous 
activity that starts with a business 
impact analysis of all critical services 
and processes that require a disaster 
recovery and business continuity plan. 
After performing a risk assessment 
on all critical assets identified in the 
analysis, we address every relevant 
operational threat in a formal risk 
mitigation plan.

Millicom crisis management defines the 
proper response to, and management 
of, an intense, unexpected and 
unstable situation that disrupts normal 
operations and has highly undesirable 
outcomes that require extraordinary 
measures to restore normal operations. 
Crisis management aims to protect the 
safety of our staff, our reputation and 
our ability to deliver continuous and 
reliable service to customers, while also 
maintaining our contractual, legal and 
regulatory compliance.

In parallel, Millicom has physical security 
and loss-prevention standards that set 
minimum acceptable levels of critical 
site protection, as defined by industry 
best practices. All activities undergo 
monitoring and compliance activities

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Information Security
Our Global Chief Information Security 
Officer (CISO) manages the information 
security program and reports to the 
EVP Chief Technology and Information 
Officer. The CISO is responsible for 
identifying, managing and mitigating 
technology-centric risks throughout the 
company.

The CISO oversees regional Information 
Security teams to ensure the 
confidentiality, integrity and availability 
of all business-critical systems and 
assets. Other responsibilities include 
identifying potentially detrimental 
internal and external threats and 
risks and safeguarding proprietary 
and personal customer information. 
Additionally, the regional teams 
work closely with Millicom business 
and technology leaders to ensure 
compliance with corporate policies and 
regional information security-related 
regulatory requirements within the 
various countries where we conduct 
business.

The CISO meets regularly with the 
Compliance and Business Conduct 
Committee and Audit Committee to 
ensure appropriate risks are elevated 
and addressed. 

2021 continued with a high-level 
attack volume with a marked increase 
specifically in email-based phishing 
attacks or ransomware. This has been 
addressed through phishing awareness 
and training initiatives, as well as 
reinforcing the protection of our critical 
assets.  

During 2021, the global Information 
Security team focused on the 
identification, management and 
reporting of risk throughout the 
enterprise. 

• Risk management: We focused on 
consolidating and detailing our risk 
register, at Group and local levels, to 
ensure the adequacy and prioritization 
of the actions taken. Additional effort 
was made to reinforce the management 
of third-party risks, using more stringent 
criteria to assess new solutions 
supporting the digitalization of our 
environment. 

• Global Security Operations Center 
expansion: We continued to increase 
the visibility of the corporate Security 
Operations Center, further expanding 
monitoring deeper into all critical 
networks and gaining additional 
visibility. Additionally, we accelerated 
the integration of Guatemala into the 
regional solution, which will continue in 
2022. 

• Development of a global vulnerability 
management program: We are 
scanning our global environment 
monthly to monitor the remediation 
of vulnerabilities across the region. 
The regional solution now covers all 
operations except Guatemala, where 
the migration will happen in Q1 2022. 
Preventative evaluation of risks and 
reinforcement of our infrastructure was 
made to address the multiple zero-day 
vulnerabilities or vulnerabilities used in 
attacks reported publicly. 

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Group Performance
In 2021, total revenue for the Group 
was $4,617 million and gross profit was 
$3,316 million, a margin of 71.8%. 2021 
figures also include additional revenue 
from the Guatemala operations since 
their consolidation from November 12, 
2021.

Operating expenses represented 36.3% 
of revenue, a slight increase compared 
with the 36.1% in 2020 as a result of 
increased sales and marketing costs 
to support robust customer growth, 
as compared with 2020 when strict 
lockdowns significantly curtailed 
commercial activity.

Operating profit was up 47.5% to $659 
million, a 14.3% margin, affected by 
strong operational performance and 
by the consolidation of our operations 
in Guatemala. Depreciation was 
also higher last year due to network 
modernization activities of older 
infrastructure. 

Net financial expenses were $507 
million, a decrease of $104 million 
compared with last year. The decrease 
was mainly due to lower debt levels, 
following repayment activity over the 
last year. 

The revaluation of our previously held 
interest in Guatemala generated a gain 
of $670 million in 2021.

Profit before taxes was $732 million, 
reflecting the higher operating profit, 
lower interest expense and the effect of 
the revaluation gain described above, 
partially offset by other non-operating 
expenses of $50 million mainly related 
to foreign exchange losses.

The net tax charge was $189 million, 
leaving a net profit from continuing 
operations of $543 million for the year. 

As a result, our net profit for the year, 
after discontinued operations, was $542 
million. The share of losses of non-
controlling interests was $48 million, 
reflecting our partners' share of net 
results in our subsidiaries in Colombia 
and Panama.

The net profit for the year attributable 
to Millicom owners was $590 million, an 
earnings per share of $5.84.

Share Capital
At December 31, 2021, Millicom had 
101.7 million issued and paid-up 
common shares of par value $1.50 
each, of which 1,538,256 were held 
by the Company as treasury shares 
(2020: 526,134). During the year, the 
Company acquired 1,369,284 shares 
through its share repurchase program. 
It issued approximately 434,000 
shares to management and employees 
under the share-based plans, and 
issued approximately 25,000 shares 
to Directors as part of their annual 
remuneration.

Distribution to Shareholders and 
Proposed Distributions
Our shareholders-approved the 
proposal from the Board not to pay a 
dividend in 2021. No dividend was paid 
in 2020. 

On July 29, 2021, the Group announced 
the launch of a share repurchase 
program of up to the lower of SEK 870 
million (approximately $100 million) in 
aggregate purchase price, or 5 million 
Swedish Depositary Receipts. The 
purpose of the repurchase program is 
to reduce Millicom's share capital, or 
to use the repurchased shares to meet 
obligations arising under Millicom´s 
employee-share-based incentive 
programs. Under this repurchase 
program, Millicom repurchased 
1,369,284 shares in 2021, for a total 
amount of approximately $50 million, 
paid in cash. On December 17, 2021, 
the Group announced the conclusion 
of this share repurchase program as it 
works towards a rights offering planned 
for Q1 2022 to fund the Guatemala 
transaction. 

Financial Risk Management 
Objectives and Policies
Millicom’s financial risk management 
policies and objectives, together with 
a description of the various risks and 
hedging activities undertaken by the 
Group, are set out in Section D, financial 
risk management, of the consolidated 
financial statements.

Internal controls and risk management 
on the preparation of the consolidated 
financial statements are covered in Our 
Governance section starting on page 
63.

Non-Financial Information
Non-financial information—such as 
environmental, social, and governance 
—are integrated throughout this report 
and in our Disclaimers section starting 
on page 113.

Management and Employees 
In recent years, the Group has 
developed many key functions and 
improved support to local operations, 
including in the areas of procurement, 
network development, marketing, IT, 
HR, compliance and finance. 

At December 31, 2021, the Group’s 
headcount from continuing operations 
reached approximately 21,000 as of 
December 31, 2021 and 2020.

Outlook1
In 2022, we plan to accelerate 
expansion of our fixed network to reach 
one million additional homes, of which 
over half are expected to be deployed 
using fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) 
technology. We expect the cost of this 
accelerated network deployment will 
be more than offset by a moderation 
of our investments in our mobile 
networks, as we are now in the final 
stages of significant modernization 
and expansion projects undertaken 
over the past 24 months. Over the 
next three years, we aim to grow 
operating cash flow by approximately 
10% per year on average, and we are 
targeting cumulative equity free cash 
flow generation after leases and after 
spectrum of between $800 million and 
$1.0 billion.

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Risks and Uncertainty Factors
The Group operates in an industry and 
markets that are characterized by rapid 
change and are subject to macro-
economic, competitive and political 
uncertainty. These conditions create 
opportunities as well as a degree of risk. 
Many of the inherent underlying risks 
in these markets—including regulatory 
change (such as tariff controls and 
taxation), currency fluctuations 
and underlying macroeconomic 
conditions—affect the level of 
disposable income as well as consumers’ 
attitudes and demand for our products 
and services.

Subsequent Events
On January 27, 2022, our principal 
subsidiary in Guatemala, Comcel, 
completed the issuance of a new 
10-year $900 million Bond with a 
coupon of 5.125%. Proceeds from 
this bond as well as cash were used 
to repay a significant portion of the 

bridge financing that was used to fund 
the acquisition of the remaining 45% 
equity interest in our Tigo Guatemala 
operations. As of February 8, 2022, 
a balance of $450 million remained 
unpaid under the initial $2.15 billion 
bridge loan agreement.

On January 13, 2022, we completed 
the issuance of a new 5-year 
sustainability bond raising SEK 2.25 
billion (approximately $252 million) 
at a fully swapped rate of SOFR plus 
3.496%. Proceeds will be used to fund 
investments in accordance with the 
Company's sustainability framework. 
This bond has been fully hedged against 
foreign exchange fluctuations.

In January 2022, Colombia Movil 
S.A. repaid a $100 million syndicated 
loan, which was initially due in 2024. 
Cross currency swaps used to hedge 
the previous interest and principal on 
the previous loan for $50 million were 
terminated. The outstanding amount of 
$50 million remains fully swapped. 

In January 2022, Millicom received 
$11 million from Etisalat as earn-out 
income related to the purchase of Zantel 
in 2015. This settlement was considered 
as an adjusting event and recorded 
in 'other operating income' in the 
statement of income. 

On February 28, 2022, the extraordinary 
general meeting of shareholders of 
Millicom resolved to authorize the 
Board of Directors of Millicom to 
increase the authorized share capital 
of the Company from $199,999,800 
divided into 133,333,200 shares, with 
a par value of $1.50 per share, to 
$300,000,000 divided into 200,000,000 
shares, with a par value of $1.50 per 
share. 

José Antonio Ríos García
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Luxembourg, March 1, 2022

1Our outlook includes references to non-GAAP measures which are further defined and described in the Group’s Annual Report.

Management Responsibility Statement
We, Mauricio Ramos, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, and Tim Pennington, Chief Financial Officer, confirm to the 
best of our knowledge that these 2021 consolidated financial statements—which have been prepared in accordance with the 
International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union—give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, 
financial position and profit or loss of the Millicom Group and the undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a whole. We 
also confirm to the best of our knowledge that the Directors’ report includes a fair review of the development and performance of 
the business; the position of the Millicom Group; and the undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a whole, together with 
a description of the principal risks and uncertainties that the Group faces.

Mauricio Ramos
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer

Tim Pennington
Chief Financial Officer

Luxembourg, March 1, 2022

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Forward-Looking Statements
Statements included herein that are not historical facts, including without limitation statements concerning future strategy, plans, 
objectives, expectations and intentions, projected financial results, liquidity, growth, and prospects are forward-looking statements. 
Such forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties and are subject to change at any time. In the event 
such risks or uncertainties materialize, Millicom’s results could be materially adversely affected. In particular, there is uncertainty 
about the spread of the COVID-19 virus and the impact it may have on Millicom's operations, the demand for Millicom's products 
and services, global supply chains and economic activity in general. The risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the 
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A further list and description of risks, 
uncertainties and other matters can 
be found in Millicom’s Registration 
Statement on Form 20-F, including 
those risks outlined in “Item 3. Key 
Information—D. Risk Factors,” and in 
Millicom’s subsequent U.S. Securities 
and Exchange Commission filings, all 
of which are available at www.sec.
gov. To the extent COVID-19 adversely 
affects Millicom's business and financial 
results, it may also have the effect of 
heightening many of the risks described 
in Millicom's filings.

All forward-looking statements 
attributable to us or any person acting 
on our behalf are expressly qualified 
in their entirety by this cautionary 
statement. Readers are cautioned not to 
place undue reliance on these forward-
looking statements that speak only as 
of the date hereof. Except to the extent 
otherwise required by applicable law, 
we do not undertake any obligation 
to update or revise forward-looking 
statements, whether as a result of new 
information, future events or otherwise.

• Global economic conditions and 

• The success of our business and 

foreign exchange rate fluctuations as 
well as local economic conditions in 
the markets we serve

operating and financing initiatives 
and strategies, including partnerships 
and capital expenditure plans

• Potential disruption due to diseases, 
pandemics, political events, piracy 
or acts by terrorists, including the 
impact of the COVID-19 outbreak 
and the ongoing efforts throughout 
the world to contain it

• Telecommunications usage levels, 

including traffic and customer growth

• Competitive forces, including pricing 
pressures, the ability to connect to 
other operators’ networks and our 
ability to retain market share in the 
face of competition from existing 
and new market entrants as well as 
industry consolidation

• Legal or regulatory developments and 
changes, or changes in governmental 
policy, including with respect to 
the availability of spectrum and 
licenses, the level of tariffs, laws 
and regulations that require the 
provision of services to customers 
without charging or the ability to 
disconnect such services during the 
COVID-19 pandemic, tax matters, the 
terms of interconnection, customer 
access, and international settlement 
arrangements

• Adverse legal or regulatory disputes or 

proceedings

• The level and timing of the growth 
and profitability of new initiatives, 
start-up costs associated with 
entering new markets, the successful 
deployment of new systems and 
applications to support new initiatives

• Relationships with key suppliers, 
and costs of handsets and other 
equipment

• Our ability to successfully pursue 

acquisitions, investments or merger 
opportunities, integrate any acquired 
businesses in a timely and cost-
effective manner, and achieve 
the expected benefits of such 
transactions

• The availability, terms and use of 

capital, the impact of regulatory and 
competitive developments on capital 
outlays, and the ability to achieve 
cost savings and realize productivity 
improvements

• Technological development and 

evolving industry standards, including 
challenges in meeting customer 
demand for new technology and 
the cost of upgrading existing 
infrastructure

• The capacity to upstream cash 

generated in operations through 
dividends, royalties, management 
fees and repayment of shareholder 
loans

• Other factors or trends affecting 

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Non-IFRS Measures 
This report contains financial measures 
not prepared in accordance with IFRS. 
These measures are referred to as “non-
IFRS” measures and include non-IFRS 
service revenue, non-IFRS EBITDA and 
non-IFRS Capex, among others defined 
below. Annual growth rates for these 
non-IFRS measures are often expressed 
in organic constant currency terms to 
exclude the effect of changes in foreign 
exchange rates and the adoption of new 
accounting standards and are pro forma 
for material changes in perimeter due to 
acquisitions and divestitures. The non-
IFRS financial measures are presented in 
this report, as Millicom’s management 
believes they provide investors with 
additional information for the analysis 
of Millicom’s results of operations, 
particularly in evaluating performance 
from one period to another. Millicom’s 
management uses non-IFRS financial 
measures to make operating 
decisions, as they facilitate additional 
internal comparisons of Millicom’s 
performance to historical results and 
to competitors' results; and shares 
these non-IFRS financial measures 
with investors as a supplement to 
Millicom’s reported results in order to 
provide additional insight into Millicom’s 
operating performance. Millicom’s 
Remuneration Committee uses certain 
non-IFRS measures when assessing 
the performance and compensation 
of employees, including Millicom’s 
executive directors.

The non-IFRS financial measures 
used by Millicom may be calculated 
differently from, and therefore may 
not be comparable to, similarly titled 
measures used by other companies. 
Refer to the section “Non-IFRS Financial 
Measure Descriptions” for 

additional information. In addition, 
these non-IFRS measures should 
not be considered in isolation as a 
substitute for, or as superior to, financial 
measures calculated in accordance 
with IFRS. Millicom’s financial results 
calculated in accordance with IFRS 
and reconciliations to those financial 
statements should be carefully 
evaluated.

Alternative Performance Measure 
description
Service revenue is revenue related to 
the provision of ongoing services such 
as monthly subscription fees, airtime 
and data usage fees, interconnection 
fees, roaming fees, mobile finance 
service commissions and fees from other 
telecommunications services such as 
data services, short message services, 
installation fees and other value-added 
services, excluding telephone and 
equipment sales.  

EBITDA is operating profit excluding 
impairment losses, depreciation and 
amortization and gains/losses on fixed 
asset disposals. In respect to the LATAM 
or Africa segments, this information 
is available after the allocation of 
corporate costs and inter-company 
eliminations. 

EBITDA after leases (EBITDAaL) 
represents EBITDA excluding lease 
interest and principal repayments. 

EBITDA margin represents EBITDA in 
relation to revenue.

Proportionate EBITDA is the sum of the 
EBITDA in every country where Millicom 
operates, including its Guatemala and 
Honduras joint ventures, pro rata for 
Millicom’s ownership stake in each 
country. 

Organic growth represents year-on-year 
growth excluding the impact of changes 
in FX rates, perimeter and accounting. 
Changes in perimeter are the result of 
acquisitions and divestitures. Results 
from divested assets are immediately 
removed from both periods, whereas the 
results from acquired assets are included 
in both periods at the beginning 
(January 1) of the first full calendar year 
of ownership.

Net debt is debt and financial liabilities 
less cash and pledge and time deposits.

Net financial obligations is net debt plus 
lease liabilities.

Proportionate financial obligations is the 
sum of the net financial obligations in 
every country where Millicom operates, 
including its Guatemala and Honduras 
joint ventures, pro rata for Millicom’s 
ownership stake in each country. 

Leverage is the ratio of net financial 
obligations over LTM (last 12 months) 
EBITDA, pro forma for acquisitions 
made during the last 12 months.

Leverage after leases is the ratio of net 
debt over LTM EBITDA after leases, pro 
forma for acquisitions made during the 
last 12 months. 

Proportionate leverage is the ratio of 
proportionate net financial obligations 
over LTM proportionate EBITDA, pro 
forma for acquisitions made during the 
last 12 months.

Proportionate leverage after leases is 
the ratio of proportionate net debt over 
LTM  EBITDA after leases, pro forma 
for acquisitions made during the last 12 
months. 

Capex is balance sheet capital 
expenditure excluding spectrum and 
license costs and lease capitalizations. 

Cash capex represents the cash spent in 
relation to capital expenditure, excluding 
spectrum and licenses costs. 

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flow, underlying net debt, underlying 
leverage, etc., include Guatemala and 
Honduras as if fully consolidated.

Average revenue per user per month 
(ARPU) for our mobile customers is (x) 
the total mobile and mobile financial 
services revenue (excluding revenue 
earned from tower rentals, call center, 
data and mobile virtual network 
operator, visitor roaming, national 
third parties roaming and mobile 
telephone equipment sales revenue) for 
the period, divided by (y) the average 
number of mobile subscribers for the 
period, divided by (z) the number of 
months in the period. We define ARPU 
for our home customers in our Latin 
America segment as (x) the total home 
revenue (excluding equipment sales, TV 
advertising and equipment rental) for 
the period, divided by (y) the average 
number of customer relationships for 
the period, divided by (z) the number 
of months in the period. ARPU is not 
subject to a standard industry definition 
and our definition of ARPU may be 
different to other industry participants.

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Operating cash flow (OCF) is EBITDA 
less Capex. 

Operating free cash flow (OFCF) is OCF 
less changes in working capital and 
other non-cash items and taxes paid. 

Equity free cash flow (EFCF) is OFCF less 
finance charges paid (net), less advances 
for dividends to non-controlling 
interests, plus dividends received from 
joint ventures. 

Equity free cash flow after leases 
(EFCFaL) is EFCF, less lease principal 
repayments.

Operating profit after tax displays the 
profit generated from the operations of 
the Company after statutory taxes. 

Return on invested capital (ROIC) is 
used to assess the Group’s efficiency at 
allocating the capital under its control 
and is defined as operating profit after 
tax, including Guatemala and Honduras 
as if fully consolidated, divided by the 
average invested capital during the 
period. 

Average invested capital is the capital 
invested in the company operation 
throughout the year and is calculated 
with the average of opening and closing 
balances of the total assets minus 
current liabilities (excluding debt, joint 
ventures, accrued interests, deferred and 
current tax, cash as well as investments 
and non-controlling interests), less 
assets and liabilities held for sale.

Underlying measures, such as 
underlying service revenue, underlying 
EBITDA, underlying equity free cash 

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Non-IFRS reconciliations

Reconciliation from Reported Growth to Organic Growth for the Latam segment

Latam Segment

 ($ millions)

A- Current period

B- Prior year period

C- Reported growth (A/B)

D- Accounting change impact

E- Change in Perimeter impact

F- FX impact

G- Other

H- Organic Growth (C-D-E-F-G)

Revenue

Service Revenue

EBITDA

OCF

FY 2021

FY 2020

FY 2021

FY 2020

FY 2021

FY 2020

FY 2021

FY 2020

6,220

5,843

6.4%

—

—%

(0.3)%

(0.1)

6.9%

5,843

5,964

(2.0)%

—

3.9%

(3.8)%

—%

(2.1)%

5,716

5,377

6.3%

—

—%

(0.3)%

(0.1)%

6.7%

5,377

5,514

(2.5)%

—

4.0%

(3.9)%

(0.1)%

(2.5)%

2,498

2,360

5.9%

—

—%

(0.2)%

(0.6)%

6.7%

2,360

2,418

1,387

1,418

(2.4)%

(2.2)%

—

3.8%

(3.5)%

1.0%

(3.7)%

—

—%

(0.4)%

(1.4)%

(0.5)%

1,418

1,416

0.2%

—

5.6%

(6.0)%

2.1%

(1.4)%

 Reconciliation from Reported Growth to Organic Growth for the Africa segment
Africa Segment

Revenue

Service Revenue

EBITDA

 ($ millions)

A- Current period

B- Prior year period

C- Reported growth (A/B)

D- Accounting change impact

E- Change in Perimeter impact

F- FX impact

G- Other

H- Organic Growth (C-D-E-F-G)

FY 2021

FY 2020

FY 2021

FY 2020

FY 2021

FY 2020

357

366

(2.7)%

—

—%

(0.1)%

0.1

(2.7)%

366

382

(4.0)%

—

—%

(0.5)%

0.2%

(3.7)%

357

366

(2.7)%

—

—%

(0.1)%

0.1%

(2.7)%

366

382

111

125

(4.0)%

(11.0)%

—

—%

(0.5)%

0.2%

(3.7)%

—

—%

(0.3)%

(1.8)%

(9.0)%

125

117

6.9%

30.7%

—%

(31.0)%

5.0%

2.1%

 Reconciliation from Reported Growth to Organic Growth for the main Latam markets
Service Revenue ($ millions)

FY 2020

FY 2021

Organic

FX

Guatemala

Colombia

Paraguay

Honduras

Bolivia

Panama

El Salvador

Nicaragua, Costa Rica & Eliminations

1,365

1,319

1,273

1,258

526

548

612

608

398

342

513

516

575

567

348

328

Latam

5,716

5,377

7.3%

6.2%

2.7%

3.8%

6.3%

7.3%

14.4%

—

6.7%

(0.1)%

(1.2)%

(0.1)%

2.6%

—

—

—

N/A

(0.3)%

Accounting

Perimeter

Other

Reported

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

N/A

—

—

—

— (0.1)%

— (0.2)%

— (0.2)%

—

—

—

N/A

—%

—

—

—

N/A

(0.1)%

7.2%

4.8%

2.4%

6.2%

6.3%

7.3%

14.4%

N/A

6.3%

EBITDA ($ millions)

FY 2021

FY 2020

Organic

FX

Accounting

Perimeter

Other

Reported

Guatemala

Colombia

Paraguay

Honduras

Bolivia

Panama

El Salvador

Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Corp 
Costs & Eliminations

857

441

242

259

249

281

162

6

778

457

252

247

232

256

137

—

Latam

2,498

2,360

10.3%

(2.4)%

(3.8)%

2.6%

7.4%

9.6%

18.7%

N/A

6.7%

(0.1)%

(1.2)%

(0.5)%

2.5%

—

—

—

N/A

(0.2)%

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

N/A

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

N/A

—%

—

0.1%

0.3%

(0.1)%

—

—

—

N/A

(0.6)%

10.2%

(3.5)%

(4.0)%

5.0%

7.4%

9.6%

18.7%

N/A

5.9%

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Reconciliations

ARPU reconciliations

Latam Segment - Mobile ARPU Reconciliation

Mobile service revenue ($m)

Mobile Service revenue ($m) from non Tigo customers ($m) *

Mobile Service revenue ($m) from Tigo customers (A)

Mobile customers - end of period (000)

Mobile customers - average (000) (B) **

Mobile ARPU (USD/Month) (A/B/number of months)

*Refers to  production services, MVNO, DVNO, equipment rental revenue, call center revenue, national roaming, equipment sales,

visitor roaming, tower rental, DVNE, and other non-customer driven revenue.

**Average of the last five quarters.

Latam Segment - Home  ARPU Reconciliation

Home service revenue ($m)

Home service revenue ($m) from non Tigo customers ($m) *

Home service revenue ($m) from Tigo customers (A)

Customer Relationships - end of period (000) **

Customer Relationships - average (000)  (B) ***

Home ARPU (USD/Month) (A/B/number of months)

118 

2021

2020

3,372

(31)

3,341

44,881

43,292

6.4

3,220

(36)

3,185

41,734

39,658

6.7

2021

2020

1,655

(35)

1,620

4,893

4,757

28.4

1,509

(33)

1,477

4,545

4,405

27.9

*TV advertising, production services, equipment rental revenue, call center revenue, equipment sales and other non customer driven revenue.

**Represented by homes connected all technologies (HFC + Other Technologies + DTH & Wimax RGUs).

***Average of the last five quarters.

Reconciliation Net financial obligations to EBITDA to Proportionate net financial obligations to EBITDA as of December 31, 2021 and 
December 31, 2020. 

Debt Information - 31 December 2021

Financial obligations

EBITDA

Proforma

$ millions

Millicom Group (IFRS)

Plus: Guatemala

Plus: Honduras

Less: Corporate Costs

Underlying Millicom Group (Non-IFRS)

Less: 50% Minority Stake in Colombia

Less: 33% Minority Stake in Honduras

Less: 20% Minority Stake in Panama

Less: 1.5% Minority Stake in Tanzania

Gross

Cash

Net

Adjustments*

EBITDA

Leverage

8,911

930

7,981

1,639

747

2,385

3.34x

340

—

9,251

545

113

195

6

39

—

969

105

13

20

—

301

—

8,282

440

100

174

5

747

259

29

2,615

220

86

56

2

—

—

—

2,615

3.17x

Proportionate Millicom Group (Non-IFRS)

8,392

831

7,562

2,251

2,251

3.36x

*Related to Guatemala acquisition completed on November 12, 2021

Net Underlying Financial obligations of Millicom Group (Non-IFRS) includes $1,228 of leases, as of December 31, 2021.

31 December 2020

$ millions

Millicom Group (IFRS)

Plus: Guatemala

Plus: Honduras

Less: Corporate Costs

Underlying Millicom Group (Non-IFRS)

Less: 50% Minority Stake in Colombia

Less: 45% Minority Stake in Guatemala

Less: 33% Minority Stake in Honduras

Less: 20% Minority Stake in Panama

Less: 1.5% Minority Stake in Tanzania

Proportionate Millicom Group (Non-IFRS)

Financial obligations

Gross

Cash

Net

EBITDA

Leverage

6,711

642

400

—

7,753

565

289

133

195

6

6,565

875

187

60

—

1,122

106

85

20

17

—

894

3.90x

2.67x

5,837

455

339

—

6,631

459

204

113

178

6

1,495

778

247

(33)

2,487

228

350

82

51

2

5,670

1,773

3.20x

Net Underlying Financial obligations of Millicom Group (Non-IFRS) includes $1,312  of leases, as of December 31, 2020.

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Reconciliations

Foreign Exchange rates used to support FX impact calculations in the above Organic Growth reconciliations

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Bolivia

Colombia

Costa Rica

Guatemala

Honduras

Nicaragua

Paraguay

Ghana

Tanzania

BOB

COP

CRC

GTQ

HNL

NIO

PYG

GHS

TZS

CAPEX Reconciliation

Capex Reconciliation

Consolidated:

Additions to property, plant and equipment

Additions to licenses and other intangibles

Of which spectrum and license costs

Total consolidated additions

Of which capital expenditures related to corporate offices

Latin America Segment

Additions to property, plant and equipment

Additions to licenses and other intangibles

Of which spectrum and license costs

Latin America Segment total additions (Underlying)

Capex excluding spectrum and license costs

Africa Segment

Additions to property, plant and equipment

Additions to licenses and other intangibles

Of which spectrum and license costs

Africa Segment total additions

Capex excluding spectrum and license costs

Underlying 

Latam capex excluding spectrum and license cost

Africa capex excluding spectrum and license cost

Capital expenditures related to corporate offices

Underlying capex excluding spectrum and license costs

Average FX rate (vs. USD)

End of period FX rate (vs. USD)

2021

2020

YoY

2021

2020

YoY

6.91

3,756

625

7.74

24.12

35.17

6,790

5.94

2,313

6.91

3,695

590

7.73

24.65

34.34

6,758

5.75

2,312

—

(1.6)%

(5.6)%

(0.1)%

2.2%

(2.4)%

(0.5)%

(3.2)%

—%

6.91

3,981

645

7.72

24.43

35.52

6,886

6.18

2,305

6.91

3,433

617

7.79

24.20

34.82

6,900

5.87

2,319

—

(13.8)%

(4.3)%

1.0%

(1.0)%

(2.0)%

0.2%

(5.1)%

0.6%

FY 2021

FY 2020

787

164

29

951

10

649

520

421

1,169

7

FY 2021

FY 2020

949

212

50

1,161

1,111

816

629

504

1,445

941

FY 2021

FY 2020

41

—

—

41

41

FY 2021

FY 2020

1,111

41

10

1,162

41

—

—

41

41

941

41

7

989

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Disclaimers and Non-IFRS 
Reconciliations

Operating Free Cash Flow Reconciliation

Cash Flow Data

Net cash provided by operating activities

Purchase of property, plant and equipment

Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment

Purchase of intangible assets and licenses

Proceeds from sale of intangible assets

Net purchase/proceeds for property, plant and equipment and intangible assets

(Less) Proceeds from sale of towers part of tower sale and leaseback transactions

(Less) Purchase of spectrum and licenses

(Less) Finance charges paid, net

Operating free cash flow

Equity Free Cash Flow Reconciliation

Cash Flow Data

Net cash provided by operating activities

Purchase of property, plant and equipment

Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment

Purchase of intangible assets

Purchase of spectrum and licenses

Finance charges paid, net

Operating free cash flow

Interest (paid), net

Free cash flow

Dividends received from joint ventures (Guatemala and Honduras)

Dividends paid to non-controlling interests

Equity free cash flow

Lease Principal Repayments

Equity free cash flow after leases

OCF (EBITDA- Capex) Reconciliation

Latam OCF Underlying

Latam EBITDA

(-) Capex (Ex. Spectrum)

Latam OCF

Africa OCF

Africa EBITDA

(-) Capex (Ex. Spectrum)

Africa OCF

Corporate OCF

Corporate EBITDA

(-) Capex (Ex. Spectrum)

Corporate OCF

Underlying OCF

Underlying EBITDA

(-) Capex (Ex. Spectrum)

Underlying OCF

120 

FY 2021

FY 2020

956

(740)

11

(135)

—

(865)

—

37

491

619

821

(622)

9

(202)

—

(815)

—

101

551

657

FY 2021

FY 2020

956

(740)

11

(135)

37

491

619

(491)

128

13

(6)

135

(137)

(2)

821

(622)

9

(202)

101

551

657

(551)

106

71

(5)

172

(116)

56

FY 2021

FY 2020

2,498

1,111

1,387

2,360

941

1,418

FY 2021

FY 2020

111

41

70

125

41

84

FY 2021

FY 2020

6

10

(4)

2

7

(5)

FY 2021

FY 2020

2,615

1,162

1,453

2,487

989

1,497

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Reconciliations

Guatemala and Honduras Financial Information (unaudited)

Until 2015, Millicom group results included Guatemala and Honduras on a 100% consolidation basis. Since 2016, Honduras has 
been treated as joint ventures and has been consolidated using the equity method. Also since 2016 and until November 12, 2021, 
Guatemala was a joint venture and has been consolidated using the equity method.

To aid investors in tracking the evolution of the Company’s performance over time, we provide the following indicative unaudited 
financial statement data for the Millicom group as if our Guatemala and Honduras joint ventures had been fully consolidated.

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Income statement data FY 2021

($millions)  

Revenue 

Cost of sales

Gross profit

Operating expenses

EBITDA

EBITDA margin

Depreciation & amortization

Share of net profit in joint ventures

Other operating income (expenses), net

Operating profit

Net financial expenses

Revaluation of previously held interests

Other non-operating income (expenses), net

Gains (losses) from associates

Profit (loss) before tax

Net tax credit (charge)

Profit (loss) for the period

Non-controlling interests

Profit (loss) from discontinued operations

Net profit (loss) for the period

Millicom (IFRS)

Guatemala and 
Honduras JVs*

Eliminations

Underlying (non-
IFRS)

4,617

(1,302)

3,316

(1,677)

1,639

35.5%

(1,196)

210

6

659

(507)

670

(50)

(39)

732

(189)

543

48

—

590

1,955

(433)

1,522

(545)

977

50.0%

(403)

—

—

574

(76)

—

(1)

—

498

(119)

379

(169)

—

210

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

(210)

—

(210)

—

—

—

—

(210)

—

(210)

—

—

(210)

6,572

(1,735)

4,837

(2,222)

2,615

39.8%

(1,599)

—

6

1,023

(583)

670

(51)

(39)

1,020

(308)

712

(121)

—

590

* Millicom began consolidating our Guatemala operation as from November 12, 2021. 

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Reconciliations

Balance Sheet data FY 2021

($millions)

Assets

Intangible assets, net

Property, plant and equipment, net

Right of Use Assets

Investments in joint ventures and associates

Other non-current assets

Total non-current assets

Inventories, net

Trade receivables, net

Other current assets

Restricted cash

Cash and cash equivalents

Total current assets

Assets held for sale

Total assets

Equity and liabilities 

Equity attributable to owners of the Company

Non-controlling interests

Total equity 

Debt and financing

Other non-current liabilities

Total non-current liabilities 

Debt and financing

Other current liabilities

Total current liabilities 

Liabilities directly associated with assets held for sale

Total liabilities 

Total equity and liabilities 

Millicom IFRS

Honduras JV

Underlying (non-
IFRS)

122 

7,721

3,198

1,008

618

307

12,852

63

405

719

203

895

2,286

0

15,139

2,583

157

2,740

6,900

1,014

7,914

2,011

2,474

4,485

—

12,399

15,139

478

312

53

(596)

(5)

241

4

35

11

13

39

102

—

343

(43)

(148)

(190)

267

71

338

73

123

196

—

534

343

8,199

3,510

1,061

22

302

13,094

68

440

730

216

934

2,388

0

15,482

2,541

9

2,550

7,166

1,085

8,252

2,084

2,596

4,681

—

12,932

15,482

Cash Flow Data FY 2021

($millions)

Profit (loss) before taxes from continuing operations

Profit (loss) for the period from discontinued operations

Profit (loss) before taxes

Net cash provided by operating activities (incl. discontinued ops)

Net cash used in investing activities (incl. discontinued ops)

Net cash from (used by) financing activities (incl. discontinued ops)

Exchange impact on cash and cash equivalents, net

Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the period

Effect of cash in disposal group held for sale

Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the period

Millicom IFRS

Guatemala and 
Honduras JVs*

Underlying 
(non-IFRS)

732

—

731

956

(2,703)

1,777

(10)

20

875

—

895

288

—

288

794

(543)

(459)

—

(208)

247

—

39

1,020

—

1,019

1,749

(3,246)

1,318

(9)

(188)

1,122

—

934

* Millicom began consolidating our Guatemala operation as from November 12, 2021.

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INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Audited Consolidated Financial Statements of Millicom International Cellular S.A. at 
December 31, 2021 and 2020 and for the Years Ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019

Independent auditor’s report ................................................................................................................124

Consolidated statement of income for the years ended  
December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 .................................................................................................... 130

Consolidated statement of comprehensive income for the years ended  
December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 .................................................................................................... 131

Consolidated statement of financial position at December 31, 2021 and 2020 ..................... 132

Consolidated statement of cash flows for the years ended  
December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 .................................................................................................... 134

Consolidated statement of changes in equity for the years ended  
December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 .................................................................................................... 136

Notes to the audited consolidated financial statements ..................................................................... 138

 
 
 
124 

Independent auditor’s report

To the Shareholders of
Millicom International Cellular S.A.
2, rue du Fort Bourbon
L-1249 Luxembourg

Report on the audit of the consolidated financial statements

Opinion

We have audited the consolidated financial statements of Millicom International Cellular S.A. (“the Group”) 
included on page 130 to page 214, which comprise the consolidated statement of financial position as at 
December 31, 2021, the consolidated statement of income, the consolidated statement of comprehensive 
income, the consolidated statement of cash flows and the consolidated statement of changes in equity for the 
year then ended, and a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.

In our opinion, the accompanying consolidated financial statements give a true and fair view of the consolidated 
financial position of Millicom International Cellular S.A. as at December 31, 2021, and of its consolidated 
financial performance and consolidated cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with International 
Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) as adopted by the European Union. 

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with EU Regulation N° 537/2014, the Law of 23 July 2016 on the audit 
profession (the “Law of 23 July 2016”) and with International Standards on Auditing (“ISAs”) as adopted for 
Luxembourg by the “Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier” (“CSSF”). Our responsibilities under the 
EU Regulation Nº 537/2014, the Law of 23 July 2016 and ISAs are further described in the “Responsibilities of 
the “réviseur d’entreprises agréé” for the audit of the consolidated financial statements” section of our report. 
We are also independent of the Group in accordance with the International Ethics Standards Board for 
Accountants’ Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants (“IESBA Code”) as adopted for Luxembourg by the 
CSSF together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the consolidated financial 
statements, and have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities under those ethical requirements. We believe that 
the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Key audit matters 

Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of 
the consolidated financial statements of the current period. These matters were addressed in the context of the 
audit of the consolidated financial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not 
provide a separate opinion on these matters.

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1. Revenue recognition

Risk Identified 

The Group’s revenue consists of mobile and data telephony services, corporate solutions, fixed-line broadband, 
fixed-line telephone, cable TV and mobile financial services to retail and business customers. Revenue from 
these services is considered a significant risk due to the complexity of the Group’s systems and processes used 
to record revenue and the risks associated with recognition and measurement of revenue, arising from the 
diversity and constant evolution of tariff plans, marketing offers, and discounts provided to customers. This 
required an increased extent of audit effort, including the need for us to involve professionals with expertise in 
information technology (IT), to identify, test, and evaluate the Group's systems, software applications, and 
automated controls.

Our answer 

Our audit procedures over revenue included, among others:

◦ We assessed the overall IT control environment and the IT controls in place, assisted by our information 

technology professionals.

◦ We evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of controls around access rights, system 
development, program changes and IT dependent business controls to establish that changes to the 
system were appropriately authorized, developed, and implemented including those over: set-up of 
customer accounts, pricing data, segregation of duties and the linkage to usage data that drives revenue 
recognition.

◦ We tested the end-to-end reconciliation from the billing systems to the general ledger.
◦ We tested journal entries processed between the billing systems and general ledger. 
◦ We obtained a sample of customer contracts, including modifications to the contracts, and compared 

customer contract terms to the revenue systems.

◦ We assessed the adequacy of the Group’s disclosures included in Note B.1.1. in respect to the accounting 

policies on revenue recognition.

 2. Uncertain tax positions

Risk Identified 

The Group’s operations are subject to income taxes in various jurisdictions resulting in different subjective and 
complex interpretation of local tax laws as uncertainty prevails in the emerging market economies in which 
Millicom is operating. In addition, the global tax environment worldwide continues to evolve and becomes more 
complex. Management exercises judgment in assessing the level of provision required for taxation when such 
taxes are based on the interpretation of complex tax laws. The future actual outcome of the decisions 
concerning these tax exposures may result in materially higher or lower amounts than the accrual included in 
the accompanying consolidated financial statements.

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Our answer

Our procedures included, amongst others:

• We obtained an understanding of and evaluating the design and testing the operating effectiveness of the 

Group’s controls relating to uncertain tax positions.

• We  tested  controls  over  management’s  identification  of  uncertain  tax  positions  and  its  application  of  the 
recognition  and  measurement  principles,  including  management’s  review  of  the  inputs  and  calculations  of 
uncertain tax positions.

• We  evaluated  the  assumptions  the  Group  used  to  develop  its  uncertain  tax  positions  and  related 

unrecognized income tax benefit amounts by jurisdiction.

• We compared the estimated liabilities for unrecognized tax positions to similar positions in prior periods and 
assessed management’s consideration of current tax treatments and litigation and trends in similar positions 
challenged by tax authorities.

• We  assessed  the  historical  accuracy  of  management’s  estimates  of  its  unrecognized  tax  positions  by 

comparing the estimates with the resolution of those positions.

• We  involved  our  tax  professionals  to  assist  us  in  evaluating  the  application  of  relevant  tax  laws  and  the 

Group’s interpretation of such laws in its recognition determination

• We  tested  the  completeness  and  accuracy  of  the  underlying  data  used  by  the  Group  to  calculate  its 

uncertain tax positions.

• We  evaluated  the  adequacy  of  the  Group’s  disclosures  included  in  Note  G.3.2.  in  relation  to  these  tax 

matters.

3. Impairment testing of Goodwill

Risk Identified 

Under EU-IFRSs, the Group is required to annually test the amount of goodwill for impairment. This annual impairment 
test was significant to our audit because the balance of USD 4,884 million as of December 31, 2021 is material to the 
consolidated financial statements. In addition, the Group’s assessment process includes significant judgments and is 
based on assumptions derived from the Group’s business plans, which are affected by expected future market or 
economic conditions. The impairment testing involved complex auditor judgment due to the significant assumptions 
used to determine the recoverable values of each of the Group’s cash-generating units.

Our answer

Our audit procedures included, amongst others:

• We obtained an understanding of and evaluating the design and testing the operating effectiveness of the Group’s 

controls over its impairment testing.

• We  tested  controls  over  management’s  evaluation  of  the  significant  assumptions  used  in  the  discounted  cash 

flows to develop the recoverable values of each of the Group’s cash-generating units.

• We inspected the business plans and evaluating the methodology used.
• We  involved  our  valuation  specialists  to  assist  with  our  audit  procedures  to  test  the  discounted  cash  flows  and 
management’s  valuation  methodologies  and  assumptions  discussed  above  which  were  used  to  determine  the 
recoverable values of the Group’s cash-generating units.

• We  asked  our  valuation  specialists  to  assist  us  in  assessing  whether  the  underlying  assumptions  used  by 

management were consistent with publicly available information and external market data.

• We assessed the completeness and accuracy of the underlying data through our inspection of and comparison to 

historical information.

• We evaluated the adequacy of the Group’s disclosures included in Note E.1.5. in relation to goodwill.

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4. Accounting for business combination

Risk Identified 

The Group acquired control over the remaining 45% equity interests in its former joint venture in Guatemala 
(“Tigo Guatemala”) as of November 12, 2021. Since this date, the Group fully consolidates Tigo Guatemala. The 
acquisition was accounted for under the method of purchase accounting. Millicom is currently determining the 
fair values of Tigo Guatemala’s identifiable assets and liabilities, and the purchase accounting is still provisional 
as of December 31, 2021.

Auditing the Company’s accounting for its acquisition of Tigo Guatemala was complex due to the overall 
significance of the acquisition and the estimation uncertainty in determining the provisional values and the 
related disclosures to be included in the consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2021. For 
instance, the Company estimated the provisional values based on the current carrying values of intangibles as 
identified at the date of the deconsolidation of Tigo Guatemala and the commencement of the accounting for the 
investment under the equity method in a prior year.

Our answer

Our audit procedures included, amongst others:

• We evaluated the design and testing the operating effectiveness of the Group’s controls over its accounting 

for business combinations.

• We  tested  controls  over  management’s  evaluation  of  the  purchase  contract  for  terms  and  conditions  that 
would impact the accounting for the acquisition, controls over the determination of the provisional values to 
be included as of December 31, 2021 and controls over the disclosures related to the acquisition.

• We inspected the purchase contract and evaluating the terms and conditions and management’s accounting 

for such terms and conditions in its purchase accounting.

• We tested the underlying data used by the Group to determine the provisional values based on the current 
carrying  values  of  intangibles  as  identified  at  the  date  of  the  deconsolidation  of  Tigo  Guatemala  and  the 
commencement of the accounting for the investment under the equity method in a prior year.

• We evaluated the adequacy of the related disclosures in Note A.1.2 to the consolidated financial statements.

Other information

The Board of Directors is responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information 
included in the consolidated management report on page 111 and the accompanying corporate governance 
statement on pages 63 to 110 but does not include the consolidated financial statements and our report of 
“réviseur d’entreprises agréé” thereon.

Our opinion on the consolidated financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not 
express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the consolidated financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other 
information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the 
consolidated financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially 
misstated. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this 
other information, we are required to report this fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.

Responsibilities of the Board of Directors and of those charged with governance for the consolidated 
financial statements

The Board of Directors is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of the consolidated financial 
statements in accordance with IFRS as adopted by the European Union, and for such internal control as the 
Board of Directors determines is necessary to enable the preparation of consolidated financial statements that 
are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

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The Board of Directors is also responsible for presenting and marking up the consolidated financial statements 
in compliance with the requirements set out in the Delegated Regulation 2019/815 on European Single 
Electronic Format, as amended (“ESEF Regulation”).

In preparing the consolidated financial statements, the Board of Directors is responsible for assessing the 
Group’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and 
using the going concern basis of accounting unless management either intends to liquidate the Group or to 
cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so. 

Those charged with governance are responsible for overseeing the Group’s financial reporting process.

Responsibilities of the “réviseur d’entreprises agréé” for the audit of the consolidated financial 
statements 

The objectives of our audit are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial 
statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue a report 
of the “réviseur d’entreprises agréé” that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of 
assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with EU Regulation N° 537/2014, the 
Law of 23 July 2016 and with the ISAs as adopted for Luxembourg by the CSSF will always detect a material 
misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, 
individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users 
taken on the basis of these consolidated financial statements.

As part of an audit in accordance with EU Regulation N° 537/2014, the Law of 23 July 2016 and with ISAs as 
adopted for
Luxembourg by the CSSF, we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticism throughout 
the audit. We also: 

•

Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due 
to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence 
that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material 
misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, 
forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.

•

•

• Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are 
appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of 
the Group’s internal control. 
Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates 
and related disclosures made by the management.
Conclude on the appropriateness of management’s use of the going concern basis of accounting and, 
based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions 
that may cast significant doubt on the Group’s ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a 
material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our report of the “réviseur d’entreprises 
agréé” to the related disclosures in the consolidated financial statements or, if such disclosures are 
inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date 
of our report of the “réviseur d’entreprises agréé”. However, future events or conditions may cause the 
Group to cease to continue as a going concern. 
Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the consolidated financial statements, including 
the disclosures, and whether the consolidated financial statements represent the underlying transactions 
and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation. 
Assess whether the consolidated financial statements have been prepared, in all material respects, in 
compliance with the requirements laid down in the ESEF Regulation.

•

•

• Obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence regarding the consolidated financial information of the entities 
or business activities within the Group to express an opinion on the consolidated financial statements. We 
are responsible for the direction, supervision and performance of the Group audit. We remain solely 
responsible for our audit opinion.

We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and 
timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we 
identify during our audit. 

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We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethical 
requirements regarding independence and communicate to them all relationships and other matters that may 
reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, related safeguards. 
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethical 
requirements regarding independence and communicate to them all relationships and other matters that may 
From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those matters that were of 
reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, related safeguards. 
most significance in the audit of the consolidated financial statements of the current period and are therefore 
From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those matters that were of 
the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our report unless law or regulation precludes public 
most significance in the audit of the consolidated financial statements of the current period and are therefore 
disclosure about the matter.
the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our report unless law or regulation precludes public 
Report on other legal and regulatory requirements
disclosure about the matter.

We have been appointed as “réviseur d’entreprises agréé” by the General Meeting of the Shareholders on May 
Report on other legal and regulatory requirements
04, 2021 and the duration of our uninterrupted engagement, including previous renewals and reappointments, is 
10 years.
We have been appointed as “réviseur d’entreprises agréé” by the General Meeting of the Shareholders on May 
04, 2021 and the duration of our uninterrupted engagement, including previous renewals and reappointments, is 
The consolidated management report on page 111 is consistent with the consolidated financial statements and 
10 years.
has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements. 
The consolidated management report on page 111 is consistent with the consolidated financial statements and 
The accompanying corporate governance statement on pages 63 to 110 is the responsibility of the Board of 
has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements. 
Directors. The information required by article 68ter paragraph (1) letters c) and d) of the law of 19 December 
2002 on the commercial and companies register and on the accounting records and annual accounts of 
The accompanying corporate governance statement on pages 63 to 110 is the responsibility of the Board of 
undertakings, as amended, is consistent with the consolidated financial statements and has been prepared in 
Directors. The information required by article 68ter paragraph (1) letters c) and d) of the law of 19 December 
accordance with applicable legal requirements.
2002 on the commercial and companies register and on the accounting records and annual accounts of 
undertakings, as amended, is consistent with the consolidated financial statements and has been prepared in 
We have checked the compliance of the consolidated financial statements of the Group as at December 31, 
accordance with applicable legal requirements.
2021 with relevant statutory requirements set out in the ESEF Regulation that are applicable to the financial 
statements. For the Group, it relates to:
We have checked the compliance of the consolidated financial statements of the Group as at December 31, 
2021 with relevant statutory requirements set out in the ESEF Regulation that are applicable to the financial 
•
statements. For the Group, it relates to:
•
•
•
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements of the Group as at December 31, 2021, identified as 
ar2021mic, have been prepared, in all material respects, in compliance with the requirements laid down in the 
ESEF Regulation.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements of the Group as at December 31, 2021, identified as 
ar2021mic, have been prepared, in all material respects, in compliance with the requirements laid down in the 
We confirm that the audit opinion is consistent with the additional report to the audit committee or equivalent.
ESEF Regulation.

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The XBRL markup of the consolidated financial statements using the core taxonomy and the common rules
on markups specified in the ESEF Regulation.
Financial statements prepared in valid xHTML format;
The XBRL markup of the consolidated financial statements using the core taxonomy and the common rules
on markups specified in the ESEF Regulation.

We confirm that the prohibited non-audit services referred to in EU Regulation No 537/2014 were not provided 
We confirm that the audit opinion is consistent with the additional report to the audit committee or equivalent.
and that we remained independent of the Group in conducting the audit.
We confirm that the prohibited non-audit services referred to in EU Regulation No 537/2014 were not provided 
Other matter
and that we remained independent of the Group in conducting the audit.

The corporate governance statement includes the information required by article 68ter paragraph (1) of the law 
Other matter
of 19 December 2002 on the commercial and companies register and on the accounting records and annual 
accounts of undertakings, as amended.
The corporate governance statement includes the information required by article 68ter paragraph (1) of the law 
of 19 December 2002 on the commercial and companies register and on the accounting records and annual 
accounts of undertakings, as amended.

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Millicom 2021 Annual ReportConsolidated financial statements for the years ended
December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019  

130 

Consolidated statement of income for the years ended December 31, 2021, 
2020 and 2019  

Notes

2021(i)

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

Revenue ....................................................................................................................

Cost of sales ..............................................................................................................

Gross profit     .............................................................................................................

Operating expenses   .................................................................................................

B.1.

B.2.

B.2.

Depreciation      ............................................................................................................

E.2.2., E.3.

Amortization   ............................................................................................................

E.1.3.

Share of profit in joint ventures       ..............................................................................

Other operating income (expenses), net   ................................................................

Operating profit .....................................................................................................

A.2.

B.2.

B.3.

Interest and other financial expenses    .....................................................................

C.3.3., E.3.

Interest and other financial income    ........................................................................

Revaluation of previously held interests in Guatemala   ..........................................

C.3.1.

A.1.2.

Other non-operating (expenses) income, net      ........................................................

B.5., C.7.3.

Profit (loss) from other joint ventures and associates, net     .....................................

A.3.

Profit (loss) before taxes from continuing operations      .....................................

Tax (charge) credit, net   ............................................................................................

B.6.

Profit (loss) from continuing operations    ............................................................

Profit (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax     ............................................

E.4.2.

Net profit (loss) for the period     .............................................................................

Attributable to:

Owners of the Company    ..........................................................................................

Non-controlling interests    ........................................................................................
Earnings (loss) per common share for profit (loss) attributable to the owners 
of the Company

A.1.4.

Basic and diluted (US$ per common share) (ii)

— from continuing operations   ...............................................................................

— from discontinued operations   ............................................................................

— Total   ....................................................................................................................

B.7.

4,617

(1,302)

3,316

(1,677)

(878)

(318)

210

6

659

(531)

23

670

(50)

(39)

732

(189)

543

—

542

590

(48)

5.84

—

5.84

4,171

(1,171)

3,000

(1,505)

(890)

(318)

171

(12)

446

(624)

13

—

(106)

(1)

(271)

(102)

(373)

(12)

(385)

(344)

(41)

(3.28)

(0.12)

(3.40)

4,336

(1,201)

3,135

(1,604)

(825)

(275)

179

(34)

575

(564)

20

—

227

(40)

218

(120)

97

57

154

149

5

0.92

0.56

1.48

 (i)

Tigo Guatemala is fully consolidated since the acquisition of the remaining 45% shareholding on November 12, 2021. See note A.1.2. for further details. 
As a result, numbers might not be directly comparable with previous years' figures.

(ii) 

 There are no dilutive potential ordinary shares.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements. 

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131 

Consolidated statement of comprehensive income for the years ended 
December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019  

2021 (i)

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

Net profit (loss) for the year     ................................................................................................................

542

(385)

154

Other comprehensive income (to be reclassified to statement of income in subsequent 
periods), net of tax:

Exchange differences on translating foreign operations  ..................................................................

Change in value of cash flow hedges, net of tax effects  ....................................................................

Other comprehensive income (not to be reclassified to the statement of income in 
subsequent periods), net of tax:

Remeasurements of post-employment benefit obligations, net of tax effects    ................................

Total comprehensive income (loss) for the period .......................................................................

Attributable to:

Owners of the Company   .....................................................................................................................

Non-controlling interests  ....................................................................................................................

Total comprehensive income for the period arises from:

Continuing operations   ........................................................................................................................

Discontinued operations    ....................................................................................................................

(52)

18

1

509

565

(57)

509

—

(19)

(1)

(2)

(407)

(360)

(48)

(395)

(12)

(4)

(16)

—

133

131

3

76

57

(i)

Tigo Guatemala is fully consolidated since the acquisition of the remaining 45% shareholding on November 12, 2021. See note A.1.2. for further details. 
As a result, numbers might not be directly comparable with previous years' figures.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements. 

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132 

Consolidated statement of financial position at December 31, 2021 and 2020 

Notes

December 31, 
2021(i)

December 31, 
2020

(US$ millions)

ASSETS

NON-CURRENT ASSETS

Intangible assets, net     .....................................................................................................................

Property, plant and equipment, net   ..............................................................................................

Right of use assets      ..........................................................................................................................

Investments in joint ventures   ........................................................................................................

Investments in associates     ..............................................................................................................

Contract costs, net  ..........................................................................................................................

Deferred tax assets     .........................................................................................................................

Derivative financial instruments      ....................................................................................................

Amounts due from non-controlling interests, associates and joint ventures    .............................

Other non-current assets  ...............................................................................................................

E.1.

E.2.

E.3.

A.2.

A.3.

F.5.

B.6.

D.1.2.

G.5.

7,721

3,198

1,008

596

22

8

180

21

24

74

3,403

2,755

895

2,642

24

5

197

27

90

77

TOTAL NON-CURRENT ASSETS     ...................................................................................................

12,852

10,114

CURRENT ASSETS

Inventories   ......................................................................................................................................

Trade receivables, net  ....................................................................................................................

Contract assets, net    ........................................................................................................................

Amounts due from non-controlling interests, associates and joint ventures    .............................

F.2.

F.1.

F.5.

G.5.

Prepayments and accrued income    ................................................................................................

Current income tax assets  ..............................................................................................................

Supplier advances for capital expenditure   ...................................................................................

Equity investments  .........................................................................................................................

C.7.3.

Other current assets    .......................................................................................................................

Restricted cash   ...............................................................................................................................

Cash and cash equivalents    .............................................................................................................

TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS   .............................................................................................................

C.5.

C.5.

Assets held for sale    .........................................................................................................................

E.4.2.

TOTAL ASSETS    ..............................................................................................................................

63

405

69

42

168

104

35

—

302

203

895

37

351

31

206

149

96

21

160

181

199

875

2,286

—

15,139

2,307

1

12,422

(i)

The assets and liabilities of Tigo Guatemala are fully consolidated since the acquisition of the remaining 45% shareholding on November 12, 2021. See 
note A.1.2. for further details. As a result, numbers might not be directly comparable with previous years' figures.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.  

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133 

Consolidated statement of financial position at December 31, 2021 and 2020 

Notes

December 31, 
2021 (i)

December 31, 
2020 

(US$ millions)

EQUITY AND LIABILITIES

EQUITY

Share capital and premium   ......................................................................................................

C.1. 

Treasury shares    .........................................................................................................................

Other reserves     ...........................................................................................................................

C.1. 

Retained profits      ........................................................................................................................

Net profit (loss) for the year attributable to equity holders   ....................................................

Equity attributable to owners of the Company  ..................................................................

Non-controlling interests   .........................................................................................................

A.1.4.

TOTAL EQUITY  .........................................................................................................................

LIABILITIES

NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES

Debt and financing   ...................................................................................................................

Lease liabilities    ..........................................................................................................................

C.3.

C.4.

Derivative financial instruments   ..............................................................................................

D.1.2.

Amounts due to non-controlling interests, associates and joint ventures   ............................

Payables and accruals for capital expenditure    ........................................................................

Provisions and other non-current liabilities   ............................................................................

Deferred tax liabilities   ...............................................................................................................

G.5.

E.1.

F.4.2.

B.6.

628

(60)

(594)

2,019

590

2,583

157

2,740

5,904

996

1

—

435

364

214

630

(30)

(562)

2,365

(344)

2,059

215

2,274

5,578

897

14

29

485

328

209

TOTAL NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES    .......................................................................................

7,914

7,540

CURRENT LIABILITIES

Debt and financing   ...................................................................................................................

Lease liabilities    ..........................................................................................................................

Put option liability   ....................................................................................................................

Derivative financial instruments   ..............................................................................................

Payables and accruals for capital expenditure    ........................................................................

Other trade payables      ................................................................................................................

C.3.

C.4.

C.7.4.

D.1.2.

Amounts due to non-controlling interests, associates and joint ventures   ............................

G.5.

Accrued interest and other expenses    ......................................................................................

Current income tax liabilities   ...................................................................................................

Contract liabilities    .....................................................................................................................

Provisions and other current liabilities   ....................................................................................

TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES     ................................................................................................

F.5.

F.4.1.

Liabilities directly associated with assets held for sale      ...........................................................

E.4.2.

TOTAL LIABILITIES   ..................................................................................................................

TOTAL EQUITY AND LIABILITIES    ...........................................................................................

1,840

171

290

—

452

347

74

539

128

97

546

4,485

—

12,399

15,139

113

123

262

1

345

334

311

445

71

90

511

2,608

—

10,148

12,422

(i)

The assets and liabilities of Tigo Guatemala are fully consolidated since the acquisition of the remaining 45% shareholding on November 12, 2021. See 
note A.1.2. for further details. As a result, numbers might not be directly comparable with previous years' figures.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements. 

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December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019  

134 

Consolidated statement of cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2021, 
2020 and 2019  

Notes

2021(i)

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

Cash flows from operating activities (including discontinued operations)

Profit (loss) before taxes from continuing operations     .......................................................

Profit (loss) before taxes from discontinued operations   ....................................................

E.4.2.

Profit (loss) before taxes   .......................................................................................................

Adjustments to reconcile to net cash:

Interest expense on leases     ..................................................................................................

Interest expense on debt and other financing    ...................................................................

Interest and other financial income    ....................................................................................

Adjustments for non-cash items:

Depreciation and amortization   ..........................................................................................

Share of net profit in joint ventures    ....................................................................................

A.2.

(Gain) loss on disposal and impairment of assets, net      ...................................................... B.2., E.4.2.

Share-based compensation      ...............................................................................................

C.1. 

732

—

731

131

400

(23)

1,196

(210)

(6)

17

Revaluation of previously held interest in Guatemala    .......................................................

A.1.2.

(670)

Loss from other joint ventures and associates, net   ............................................................

Other non-cash non-operating (income) expenses, net     ...................................................

A.3.

B.5.

Changes in working capital:   .............................................................................................

Decrease (increase) in trade receivables, prepayments and other current assets, net   .....

Decrease (increase) in inventories   ......................................................................................

Increase (decrease) in trade and other payables, net    .........................................................

Increase (decrease) in contract assets, liabilities and costs, net   .........................................

Total changes in working capital    ....................................................................................

Interest paid on leases    .........................................................................................................

Interest paid on debt and other financing    .........................................................................

Interest received     .................................................................................................................

Taxes paid    ............................................................................................................................

Net cash provided by operating activities     .........................................................................

Cash flows from (used in) investing activities (including discontinued operations):

39

50

(93)

9

6

(5)

(81)

(140)

(355)

4

(127)

956

Acquisition of subsidiaries, joint ventures and associates, net of cash acquired     .............

A.1.

(2,000)

Financing exit from the Ghana joint venture   .....................................................................

A.2.2.

Net proceeds from disposal of subsidiaries and associates, net of cash disposed     ...........

Purchase of intangible assets and licenses    ........................................................................

Purchase of property, plant and equipment      .....................................................................

E.1.4.

E.2.3.

Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment    .....................................................

E.3.

Proceeds from disposal of equity investments, net of costs     ..............................................

Dividends and dividend advances received from joint ventures        ....................................

Transfer to pledge deposits    .................................................................................................

A.2.2.

C.5.3.

Cash (used in) provided by other investing activities, net     ...............................................

D.1.2.

(37)

30

(135)

(740)

11

163

13

(33)

26

(271)

(12)

(283)

156

468

(13)

1,208

(171)

20

24

—

1

106

(43)

(6)

40

8

(2)

(151)

(411)

11

(142)

821

10

—

10

(202)

(622)

9

197

71

—

32

218

59

276

157

408

(20)

1,111

(179)

(40)

30

—

40

(227)

(119)

11

(61)

(2)

(172)

(141)

(344)

15

(114)

801

(1,014)

—

111

(171)

(736)

24

25

237

—

20

Net cash used in investing activities    ...................................................................................

(2,703)

(495)

(1,502)

Cash flows from financing activities (including discontinued operations):

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135 

Notes

2021(i)

Proceeds from debt and other financing   ...........................................................................

Repayment of debt and other financing   ............................................................................

Loan repayment from (advanced to) joint venture   ............................................................

Lease capital repayment  ......................................................................................................

C.6.

C.6.

G.5.

C.6.

Advances and dividends paid to non-controlling interests

A.1./A.2.

Share repurchase program   ..................................................................................................

Dividends paid to owners of the Company      ........................................................................

C.2.

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities    ..........................................................

Exchange impact on cash and cash equivalents, net     .........................................................

Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents     .....................................................

Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year     ...................................................

Effect of cash in disposal group held for sale   .....................................................................

E.4.2.

Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year    .............................................................

3,113

(1,335)

193

(137)

(6)

(50)

—

1,777

(10)

20

875

—

895

2020

1,470

2019

2,900

(1,744)

(1,157)

(193)

(116)

(5)

(10)

0

(598)

(17)

(289)

1,164

0

875

—

(107)

(13)

—

(268)

1,355

(8)

645

528

(9)

1,164

(i) The cash flows of Tigo Guatemala are fully consolidated since the acquisition of the remaining 45% shareholding on November 12, 2021. See note A.1.2. 

for further details. As a result, numbers might not be directly comparable with previous years' figures. 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements. 

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136 

Consolidated statement of changes in equity for the years ended December 31, 
2021, 2020 and 2019  

Number 
of 
shares 
(000’s)

Number of 
shares held 
by the Group 
(000’s)

Share 
capital
(i)

Share 
premium 
(i)

Treasury 
shares

Retained 
profits(ii)

Other 
reserves 
(iii)

Total

Non- 
controlling 
interests

Total 
equity

(US$ millions)

Balance on January 1, 2019      ... 101,739

(914)

153

482

(81)

2,525

(538)

2,542

251

2,792

Total comprehensive income 
for the period    ............................

Dividends (iv)  .............................

Dividends to non controlling 
interests   .....................................

Purchase of treasury shares 
(vii) .............................................

Share based compensation (v)     .

Issuance of shares under 
share-based payment schemes 

Effect of restructuring in 
Tanzania (vi)     ..............................

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

Balance on December 31, 
2019     .......................................... 101,739

Total comprehensive income 
for the year   ................................

Dividends (iv)  .............................

Dividends to non controlling 
interest   .......................................

Purchase of treasury shares    ......

Share based compensation (v)     .

Issuance of shares under 
share-based payment schemes 

—

—

—

—

—

—

Balance on December 31, 
2020     .......................................... 101,739

Total comprehensive income 
for the year   ................................

Dividends (iv)  .............................

Dividends to non controlling 
interests   .....................................

Purchase of treasury shares(vii) 

Share based compensation(v)   ..

Issuance of shares under 
share-based payment schemes 

Change in scope of 
consolidation (viii)  .....................

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

Balance on December 31, 
2021     .......................................... 101,739

—

—

—

(132)

—

465

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

(2)

—

—

—

—

(12)

—

41

—

149

(267)

(19)

—

131

(267)

—

4

—

(12)

(27)

—

—

29

(25)

—

(8)

29

1

9

(18)

3

—

(1)

—

1

—

18

133

(267)

(1)

(8)

30

1

—

(581)

153

480

(51)

2,372

(544)

2,409

271

2,680

—

—

—

(467)

—

521

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

(2)

—

—

—

(19)

—

(344)

—

—

3

—

(15)

—

—

—

24

(360)

—

—

(16)

24

40

(11)

(26)

1

(48)

—

(8)

—

—

—

(407)

—

(8)

(16)

24

1

(526)

153

478

(30)

2,020

(562)

2,059

215

2,274

—

—

—

(1,471)

459

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

(2)

—

—

—

—

(56)

—

26

—

590

—

—

2

—

2

(5)

(25)

—

—

—

18

(25)

—

565

—

—

(54)

18

1

(5)

(57)

—

(3)

—

1

—

—

509

—

(3)

(54)

19

1

(5)

(1,538)

153

476

(60)

2,609

(594)

2,583

157

2,740

(i)

(ii)

Share capital and share premium – see note C.1. 

Retained profits – includes profit for the year attributable to equity holders, of which $486 million (2020: $310 million; 2019: $306 million) are not 
distributable to equity holders. 

(iii) Other reserves – see note C.1. 

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Consolidated financial statements for the years ended
December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019  

(iv) Dividends – see note C.2. 

(v)

Share-based compensation – see note C.1. 

(vi)

Effect of the restructuring in Tanzania A.1.2.

(vii) During the year ended December 31, 2021, Millicom repurchased 1,369,284 shares (2020: 350,000 shares), for a total amount of $50 million (2020: 10 
million, 2019: nil) and withheld approximately 102,000 shares  (2020: 117,000)  for settlement of tax obligations on behalf of employees under share-
based compensation plans.

(viii) Cloud  2  Nube  S.A.  was  a  subsidiary  owned  by  the  Group  at  55%  and  already  fully  consolidated  as  Millicom  had  control  over  it.  As  a  result,  in 
accordance with IFRS 10, the acquisition of the remaining 45% in Cloud 2 Nube S.A. has been  treated as an equity transaction and non-controlling 
interests amounting to less than $1 million were transferred to the Group's equity against a purchase consideration of $5 million.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements. 

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Millicom 2021 Annual ReportNotes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019

Introduction 

Corporate Information 

138 

Millicom International Cellular S.A. (the “Company” or “MIC S.A.”), a Luxembourg Société Anonyme, and its subsidiaries, joint 
ventures and associates (the “Group” or “Millicom”) is an international telecommunications and media group providing digital 
lifestyle services in emerging markets, through mobile and fixed telephony, cable, broadband, Pay-TV in Latin America (Latam) and 
Africa. 

The Company’s shares are traded as Swedish Depositary Receipts on the Stockholm stock exchange under the symbol TIGO_SDB 
(formerly MIC SDB) and, since January 9, 2019, on the Nasdaq Stock Market in the U.S. under the ticker symbol TIGO. The Company 
has its registered office at 2, Rue du Fort Bourbon, L-1249 Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and is registered with the 
Luxembourg Register of Commerce under the number RCS B 40 630. 

On November 14, 2019, Millicom's historical principal shareholder, Kinnevik AB, distributed its entire (approximately 37%  of 
Millicom's outstanding shares) shareholding in Millicom to its own shareholders through a share redemption plan. Since that date, 
Kinnevik is no longer a related party or shareholder in Millicom.

On February 25, 2022, the Board of Directors authorized these consolidated financial statements for issuance. 

Business activities 

Millicom operates its mobile businesses in Latin America (Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama 
and Paraguay), and in Africa (Tanzania). 

Millicom operates various cable and fixed line businesses in Latin America (Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, 
Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Paraguay). Millicom also provides direct to home satellite service in most of its Latam countries. 

On November 12, 2021, Millicom announced that it has closed the previously-announced agreement to acquire the remaining 45% 
equity interest in its joint venture business in Guatemala (collectively, "Tigo Guatemala"). As a result, Millicom owns 100% equity 
interest in Tigo Guatemala and fully consolidates it since that date. As a result, the statements of income, cash flows and financial 
position in these consolidated financial statements might not be directly comparable with previous years' figures. 

When preparing and disclosing its segment information, the Group includes Honduras and Guatemala in the Latin America (Latam) 
segment figures as if they are fully consolidated by the Group, as this reflects the way management reviews and uses internally 
reported information to make decisions (see note B.3. Segmental information). The Tigo Guatemala acquisition has no impact on the 
way we present our Latin America segment because it included our Guatemala joint venture as if it was already fully consolidated.

Millicom also provides Mobile Financial Services (MFS) and holds small minority investments in other businesses such as micro-
insurance (Milvik). 

COVID-19 - Qualitative and quantitative assessment on business activities, financial situation and economic 
performance

Impact on our markets and business 

During 2021, economic activity recovered in our markets as most countries eased the lockdowns implemented at the beginning of 
the pandemic, and remittances from the U.S. to Central America sustained double-digit growth year-on-year. Meanwhile, 
vaccination rates were  above 50% in Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Panama and were below 30% in Guatemala. Some 
countries experienced spikes in the number of COVID cases during the last semester, but governments generally refrained from 
imposing strict lockdowns, choosing instead to use curfews or voluntary quarantine programs, which had a negligible effect on 
commercial activity.

As of December 31, 2021, and for the year ended December 31, 2021, management did not identify any significant adverse 
accounting effects as a result of the pandemic. 

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019

IFRS Consolidated Financial Statements 

Basis of preparation 

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the IASB 
(IFRS). They are also compliant with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union. This is in 
accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1606/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of July 19, 2002, on the application of 
international accounting standards for listed companies domiciled in the European Union. 

The financial statements have been prepared on an historical cost basis, except for certain items including derivative financial 
instruments (measured at fair value) and financial instruments that contain obligations to purchase own equity instruments 
(measured at the present value of the redemption price). 

This section contains the Group’s significant accounting policies that relate to the financial statements as a whole. Significant 
accounting policies specific to one note are included within that note. Accounting policies relating to non-material items are not 
included in these financial statements. 

Consolidation 

The consolidated financial statements of the Group comprise the financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries as of 
December 31 of each year. The financial statements of the subsidiaries are prepared for the same reporting year as the Company, 
using consistent accounting policies. 

All intra-group balances, transactions, income and expenses, and profits and losses resulting from intra-group transactions are 
eliminated. 

Foreign currency 

Financial information in these financial statements are shown in the US dollar presentation currency of the Group and rounded to 
the nearest million (US$ million) except where otherwise indicated. The financial statements of each of the Group’s entities are 
measured using the currency of the primary economic environment in which each entity operates (the functional currency). The 
functional currency of each subsidiary, joint venture and associate reflects the economic substance of the underlying events and 
circumstances of these entities. Except for El Salvador where the functional currency is US dollar, the functional currency in other 
countries is the local currency. 

The results and financial position of all Group entities (none of which operate in an economy with a hyperinflationary environment) 
with functional currency other than the US dollar presentation currency are translated into the presentation currency as follows: 

(i) Assets and liabilities are translated at the closing rate on the date of the statement of financial position;

(ii)

Income and expenses are translated at average exchange rates (unless this average is not a reasonable approximation of the
cumulative effect of the rates prevailing on the transaction dates, in which case income and expenses are translated at the 
dates of the transactions); and 

(iii) All resulting exchange differences are recognized as a separate component of equity (currency translation reserve), in the

caption “Other reserves”. 

On consolidation, exchange differences arising from the translation of net investments in foreign operations, and of borrowings and 
other currency instruments designated as hedges of such investments, are recorded in equity. When the Group disposes of or loses 
control or significant influence over a foreign operation, exchange differences that were recorded in equity are recognized in the 
consolidated statement of income as part of gain or loss on sale or loss of control and/or significant influence. 

Goodwill and fair value adjustments arising on acquisition of a foreign operation are treated as assets and liabilities of the foreign 
operation and translated at the closing rate. 

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14 0 

The following table presents functional currency translation rates for the Group’s locations to the US dollar on December 31, 2021, 
2020 and 2019 and the average rates for the years ended  December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019. 

Exchange Rates to the 
US Dollar

Functional Currency

2021 Year-
end Rate

2020 Year-
end Rate

Change %

2021 
Average 
Rate

2020 
Average 
Rate

Change %

2019 
Average 
Rate

Bolivia   ........................ Boliviano (BOB)
Colombia   ................... Peso (COP)
Costa Rica  ................... Costa Rican Colon (CRC)

El Salvador   ................. US dollar
Ghana   ......................... Cedi (GHS)
Guatemala    ................. Quetzal (GTQ)
Honduras    ................... Lempira (HNL)
Luxembourg     .............. Euro (EUR)
Nicaragua   ................... Cordoba (NIO)
Panama    ...................... Balboa (B/.) (i)
Paraguay      .................... Guarani (PYG)
Sweden     ...................... Krona (SEK)
Tanzania    ..................... Shilling (TZS)
United Kingdom    ........ Pound (GBP)

6.91 

3,981 

645 

n/a

6.18 

7.72 

24.43 

0.88 

35.52 

n/a

6,886 

9.05 

2,305 

0.74 

6.91 

3,433 

617 

n/a

5.87 

7.79 

24.20 

0.82 

34.82 

n/a

6,900 

8.23 

2,319 

0.73 

 — %

 (13.8) %

 (4.3) %

n/a

 (5.1) %

 1.0 %

 (1.0) %

 (6.9) %

 (2.0) %

n/a

 0.2 %

 (9.1) %

 0.6 %

 (1.0) %

6.91 

3,756 

625 

n/a

5.94 

7.74 

24.12 

0.85 

35.17 

n/a

6,790 

8.59 

2,313 

0.73 

6.91 

3,695 

590 

n/a

5.75 

7.73 

24.65 

0.87 

34.34 

n/a

6,758 

9.16 

2,312 

0.77 

 — %

 (1.6) %

 (5.6) %

n/a

 (3.2) %

 (0.1) %

 2.2 %

 3.4 %

 (2.4) %

n/a

 (0.5) %

 6.6 %

 — %

 6.2 %

6.91 

3,296 

588 

n/a

5.33 

7.71 

24.59 

0.89 

33.12 

n/a

6,232 

9.43 

2,304 

0.78 

(i) the balboa is tied to the United States dollar at an exchange rate of 1:1. 

New and amended IFRS accounting standards 

The following new or amended standards have been adopted by the Group and did not have any significant impact on the Group’s 
accounting policies or disclosures and did not require retrospective adjustments.

•

•

Amendment to IFRS 16, 'Leases' - COVID 19 Rent Concessions - effective for annual periods starting on June 1, 2020. While the 
Group has implemented this amendment already in 2020, the IASB (in March 2021) extended its initial application beyond June
30, 2021, by one additional year.

Amendments to IFRS 9, IAS 39, IFRS 7, IFRS 4 and IFRS 16 - Interest Rate Benchmark Reform - Phase 2 - effective for annual 
periods starting on January 1, 2021. The amendments provide temporary reliefs which address the financial reporting effects
when an interbank offered  rate (IBOR) is replaced with an alternative nearly risk-free interest rate.

Main reliefs provided by the Phase 2 amendments relate to: 

•

•

Changes to contractual cash flows: That is, when changing the basis for determining contractual cash flows for 
financial assets and liabilities required by the reform this will not result in an immediate gain or loss in the income
statement but in an update of the effective interest rate (or an update in the discount rate to remeasure the lease 
liability as a result of the IBOR reform), and;

Hedge accounting: That is, allowing hedge relationships that are directly affected by the reform to continue, though
additional ineffectiveness might need to be recorded. 

The Group has inventoried financial assets or liabilities (including lease liabilities), as well as hedging instruments, with IBOR 
features and concluded that it was not significantly exposed to this reform.

The following changes to standards not yet effective are not expected to materially affect the Group:

•

Amendments effective for annual periods starting on January 1, 2022:

•

•

•

•

IFRS 3 'Business Combinations' - Reference to Conceptual Framework.

IAS 16 'Property, Plant and Equipment' - Proceeds before intended use.

IAS 37 'Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets' - Cost of fulfilling a contract.

Annual improvements to IFRS Standards 2018-2020, affecting IFRS 1, IFRS 9, IFRS 16 and IAS 41.

•

Amendments effective for annual periods starting on January 1, 2023:

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141 

•

•

•

•

Amendments to IAS 1, 'Presentation of Financial Statements' :  These amendments clarify that liabilities are  classified
as either current or non-current, depending on the rights that exist at the end of the reporting period. The 
amendments also clarify what IAS 1 means when it refers to the ‘settlement’ of a liability.  The IASB also issued 
'Disclosure of Accounting Policies' with amendments that are intended to help preparers in deciding which 
accounting policies to disclose in their financial statements (not yet endorsed by the EU).

IFRS 17,  ‘Insurance contracts’

Amendments to IFRS 17,  ‘Insurance contracts’(not yet endorsed by the EU).

IAS 8, 'Accounting Policies, Changes in Accounting Estimates and Errors' - Definition of accounting estimates  (not yet
endorsed by the EU).

The following changes to standards are effective for annual periods starting on January 1, 2023 (not yet endorsed by the EU) and their 
potential impact on the Group consolidated financial statements is currently being assessed by Management:

•

Amendments to IAS 12, 'Income Taxes: Deferred tax related to Assets and liabilities arising from a Single Transaction' -
These amendments clarify that the initial recognition exception does not apply to the initial recognition of leases and 
decommissioning obligations. These amendments apply prospectively to transactions that occur on or after the 
beginning of the earliest comparative period presented. In addition, an entity should apply the amendments for the 
first time by recognising deferred tax for all temporary differences related to leases and decommissioning obligations 
at the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented.

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For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019

Judgments and critical estimates 

142 

The preparation of IFRS financial statements requires management to use judgment in applying accounting policies. It also requires 
the use of certain critical accounting estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and 
disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenue and 
expenses during the reporting period. These estimates are based on management's best knowledge of current events, actions and 
best estimates as of a specified date, and actual results may ultimately differ from these estimates. Areas involving a higher degree of 
judgment or complexity, or areas where assumptions and estimates are significant to the financial statements are disclosed in each 
note and are summarized below: 

Judgments 

Management apply judgment in accounting treatment and accounting policies in preparation of these financial statements. In 
particular, a significant level of judgment is applied regarding the following items: 

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

Acquisitions – measurement at fair value of existing and newly identified assets, including the measurement of property,
plant and equipment and intangible assets (e.g. particularly the customer lists being sensitive to significant assumptions as
disclosed in note A.1.2.), liabilities, contingent liabilities and remaining goodwill; the assessment of useful lives (see notes 
A.1.2., E.1.1., E.1.5., E.2.1.);

Impairment testing – key assumptions related to future business performance, perpetual growth rates and discount rates
(see notes E.1.2., E.1.6., E.2.2.);

 Revenue recognition – whether or not the Group acts as principal or as an agent, when there is one or several
performance obligations and the determination of stand-alone selling prices (see note B.1.1.); 

Contingent liabilities – whether or not a provision should be recorded for any potential liabilities (see note G.3.);

Leases – In determining the lease term, including the assessment of whether the exercise of extension or termination
options is reasonably certain and the corresponding impact on the selected lease term (see note E.3.); 

Control – whether Millicom, through voting rights and potential voting rights attached to shares held, or by way of
shareholders’ agreements or other factors, has the ability to direct the relevant activities of the subsidiaries it consolidates,
or jointly direct the relevant activities of its joint ventures (see notes A.1., A.2.); 

Discontinued operations and assets held for sale – definition, classification and presentation (see notes A.4., E.4.1.) as
well as measurement of potential provisions related to indemnities;

Deferred tax assets – recognition based on likely timing and level of future taxable profits together with future tax
planning strategies (see notes B.6.3.and G.3.2.); 

Defined benefit obligations – key assumptions related to life expectancies, salary increases and leaving rates, mainly
related to UNE Colombia (see note B.4.3.). 

Estimates 

Estimates are based on historical experience and other factors, including reasonable expectations of future events, including the 
effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. These factors are reviewed in preparation of the financial statements although, due to inherent 
uncertainties in the evaluation process, actual results may differ from original estimates. Estimates are subject to change as new 
information becomes available and may significantly affect future operating results. Significant estimates have been applied in 
respect of the following items: 

•

•

•

•

•

•

Accounting for property, plant and equipment, and intangible assets in determining fair values at acquisition dates, 
particularly for assets acquired in business combinations and sale and leaseback transactions (see notes A.1.and E.2.1.);

Useful lives of property, plant and equipment and intangible assets (see notes E.1.1., E.2.1.);

Provisions, in particular provisions for asset retirement obligations, legal and tax risks (see note F.4.);

Tax liabilities, in particular in respect of uncertainty over income tax treatments (see note F.4.);

Revenue recognition (see note B.1.1.);

Impairment testing including weighted average cost of capital ("WACC"), EBITDA margins, Capex intensity and long term
growth rates (see note E.1.6.); 

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For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019

143 

•

•

•

For leases, estimates in determining the incremental borrowing rate for discounting the lease payments in case interest
rate implicit in the lease cannot be determined (see note E.3. ); 

Estimates for defined benefit obligations (see note B.4.2.);

Accounting for share-based compensation in particular estimates of forfeitures and future performance criteria (see notes
B.4.1., B.4.3.). 

A. The Millicom Group

The Group comprises a number of holding companies, operating subsidiaries and joint ventures with various combinations of 
mobile, fixed-line telephony, cable and wireless Pay TV,  Broadband Internet and Mobile Financial Services (MFS) businesses. The 
Group also holds other small minority investments in other businesses such as micro-insurance (Milvik). 

A.1. Subsidiaries

Subsidiaries are all entities which Millicom controls. Millicom controls an entity when it is exposed to, or has rights to variable returns 
from its investment in the entity, and has the ability to affect those returns through its power over the subsidiary. Millicom has 
power over an entity when it has existing rights that give it the current ability to direct the relevant activities, i.e. the activities that 
significantly affect the entity’s returns. Generally, control accompanies a shareholding of more than half of the voting rights 
although certain other factors (including contractual arrangements with other shareholders, voting and potential voting rights) are 
considered when assessing whether Millicom controls an entity. For example, although Millicom holds less than 50 % of the shares in 
its Colombian businesses, it holds more than 50 % of shares with voting rights. The contrary may also be true (e.g. Honduras where 
we own 66.7% of the shares but there is a super majority requirement at the board for decisions about the relevant activities of the 
operation). Our main subsidiaries are as follows: 

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For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019

144 

Entity

Latin America

Country

Activity

Telemovil El Salvador S.A. de C.V. ................................. El Salvador

Mobile, MFS, Cable, DTH

Millicom Cable Costa Rica S.A.  ...................................... Costa Rica

Cable, DTH

Telefonica Celular de Bolivia S.A.      ................................. Bolivia

Mobile, DTH, MFS, Cable

Telefonica Celular del Paraguay S.A.    ............................ Paraguay

Mobile, MFS, Cable, Pay-TV

Cable Onda S.A (i).       ........................................................ Panama

Cable, Pay-TV, Internet, DTH, 
Fixed-line

 Grupo de Comunicaciones Digitales, S.A.  (formerly 
Telefonica Moviles Panama, S.A.)(ii)     .............................

Panama

Mobile

December 
31, 2021 
% holding

December 
31, 2020 
% holding

December 
31, 2019 
% holding

In %

100

100

100

100

80

80

In %

100

100

100

100

80

80

In %

100

100

100

100

80

80

Telefonia Celular de Nicaragua S.A. (ii)    ........................ Nicaragua

Mobile

100

100

100

Colombia Móvil S.A. E.S.P. (iii)     ...................................... Colombia

UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones S.A.(iii)   ......................... Colombia

Edatel S.A. E.S.P. (iii)     ...................................................... Colombia

Mobile
Fixed-line, Internet, Pay-TV, 
Mobile
Fixed-line, Internet, Pay-TV, Cable 50-1 share 50-1 share 50-1 share

50-1 share 50-1 share 50-1 share

50-1 share 50-1 share 50-1 share

Comunicaciones Celulares S.A. (iv) (v)    ......................... Guatemala

Mobile, MFS

Navega.com S.A. (iv) (v)    ................................................ Guatemala

Cable, DTH

Africa

MIC Tanzania Public Limited Company     ....................... Tanzania

Mobile, MFS

Zanzibar Telecom Limited    ............................................ Tanzania

Mobile, MFS

Unallocated

Millicom International Operations S.A.    ........................ Luxembourg Holding Company

Millicom International Operations B.V.     ........................ Netherlands

Holding Company

Millicom LIH S.A.    ........................................................... Luxembourg Holding Company

MIC Latin America B.V.    .................................................. Netherlands

Holding Company

Millicom Africa B.V.     ....................................................... Netherlands

Holding Company

Millicom Holding B.V.   ................................................... Netherlands

Holding Company

Millicom International Services LLC   ............................. USA

Services Company

Millicom Services UK Ltd   .............................................. UK

Services Company

Millicom Spain S.L.    ........................................................ Spain

Holding Company

100

100

98.5

98.5

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

55

55

98.5

98.5

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

55

55

98.5

98.5

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

(i)

Acquisition completed on December 13, 2018. Cable Onda S.A. is fully consolidated as Millicom has the majority of voting shares to direct the relevant 
activities. See note A.1.2.. 

(ii)  Companies acquired during 2019. See note A.1.2.. 

(iii)  Fully consolidated as Millicom has the majority of voting shares to direct the relevant activities. 

(iv) Acquisition completed on November 12, 2021(see Note A.1.2.). Millicom now owns 100% equity interest in Tigo Guatemala compared to 55% before the 

transaction. While Millicom owned more than 50% of the shares in these entities and had the right to nominate a majority of the directors of each of 
these entities, key decisions over the relevant activities were taken by a super majority vote. This effectively gave either shareholder the ability to veto 
any decision and therefore neither shareholder had sole control over the entity. Therefore, the operations of these joint ventures were accounted for 
under the equity method. See note A.2.1.. 

(v)

Tigo Guatemala is made up of the 2 entities in the table above, but also by the following less material entities: Comunicaciones Corporativas S.A. 
(“COMCORP”), Servicios Innovadores de Comunicación y Entretenimiento S.A. (“SICESA”), Distribuidora de Comunicaciones de Occidente S.A. 
(“COOCSA”), Distribuidora de Comunicaciones de Oriente S.A. (“COORSA”), Distribuidora Internacional de Comunicaciones S.A. (“INTERNACOM”), 
Servicios Especializados en Telecomunicaciones S.A. (“SESTEL”), Distribuidora Central de Comunicaciones, S.A. (“COCENSA”) and Cloud 2 Nube S.A. 
("C2N").

A.1.1. Accounting for subsidiaries and non-controlling interests 

Subsidiaries are fully consolidated from the date on which control is transferred to Millicom. If facts and circumstances indicate that 
there are changes to one or more of the elements of control, a reassessment is performed to determine if control still exists. 
Subsidiaries are de-consolidated from the date that control ceases. Transactions with non-controlling interests are accounted for as 

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transactions with equity owners of the Group. Gains or losses on disposals of non-controlling interests are recorded in equity. For 
purchases from non-controlling interests, the difference between any consideration paid and the relevant share acquired of the 
carrying value of net assets of the subsidiary is also recorded in equity. 

A.1.2. Acquisition of subsidiaries and changes in non-controlling interests in subsidiaries 

Scope changes 2021

On November 12, 2021, Millicom announced that it has closed the previously-announced agreement to acquire the remaining 45% 
equity interest in its joint venture business in Guatemala (collectively, "Tigo Guatemala") from its local partner for $2.2 billion in cash. 
The acquisition has been financed through a bridge facility (see note C.3).

Millicom is currently determining the fair value of Tigo Guatemala identifiable assets and liabilities, however, this purchase 
accounting is still provisional at December 31, 2021, particularly in respect of the evaluation of the tangible, intangible assets, right 
of use assets and lease liabilities. For the purpose of the valuation of the intangible assets (excluding goodwill), the provisional 
numbers are based on the current carrying values of intangibles as identified at the date of the deconsolidation of Tigo Guatemala 
and the commencement of the accounting for the investment under the equity method. Out of these intangibles (excluding 
goodwill), the brand is currently recorded at $848 million and is expected to have an indefinite useful live (see note E.1).

At acquisition date - November 12, 2021

Provisional fair values 
(100%) ($ millions)

Intangible assets (excluding goodwill)    .........................................................

1,294

Property, plant and equipment    ....................................................................

Right of use assets    .........................................................................................

Other non-current assets   ...............................................................................

Current assets (excluding cash)    ....................................................................

Trade receivables    ...........................................................................................

Cash and cash equivalents     ............................................................................

547

189

5

245

42

199

Total assets acquired    ..................................................................................

2,521

Lease liabilities    ...............................................................................................

Other debt and financing  ..............................................................................

Other liabilities   ...............................................................................................

Total liabilities assumed  .............................................................................

Fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed, net - A   ...............

Purchase consideration (45%) - B  ..................................................................

Implied fair value (100% of business) - C     ......................................................

Carrying value of our investment in joint venture at acquisition date - D    ..

Goodwill arising on change of control - B+D-A=E    ..................................

Revaluation of previously held interests - C-B-D=F (i)    ..................................

Total provisional goodwill - E+F=G    ...........................................................

205

417

280

901

1,620

2,195

4,877

2,013

2,588

670

3,258

(i)

The acquisition has been determined as a business combination achieved in stages, requiring Millicom to remeasure its 55% previously held equity 
investment in Tigo Guatemala at its acquisition date fair value ($2,683 million); the resulting gain has been recognized in the statement of income 
under the line "Revaluation of previously held interests" and is included in the goodwill calculation (see above).

The goodwill is attributable to the workforce and the high profitability of Tigo Guatemala. It is currently not expected to be tax 
deductible. From November 12, 2021 to December 31, 2021, Tigo Guatemala contributed $223 million of revenue and a net profit of 
$43 million to the Group. If Tigo Guatemala had been acquired on January 1, 2021 incremental revenue for the year 2021 would have 
been $1.38 billion and incremental net profit for the same period of $147 million. Acquisition related costs included in the statement 
of income under operating expenses were immaterial.

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019

Scope changes 2020

There were no material acquisitions in 2020.

Scope changes 2019 

1. Telefónica CAM Acquisitions

On February 20, 2019, MIC S.A., Telefónica Centroamérica and Telefónica, S.A. entered into 3 separate share purchase agreements 
(the “Telefónica CAM Acquisitions”) pursuant to which, subject to the terms and conditions contained therein, Millicom agreed to 
purchase 100% of the shares of Telefónica Móviles Panamá, S.A., a company incorporated under the laws of Panama, from Telefónica 
Centroamérica (the “Panama Acquisition”), 100% of the shares of Telefónica de Costa Rica TC, S.A., a company incorporated under 
the laws of Costa Rica, from Telefónica (the “Costa Rica Acquisition”) and 100% of the shares of Telefonía Celular de Nicaragua, S.A., a 
company  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  Nicaragua,  from  Telefónica  Centroamérica  (the  “Nicaragua  Acquisition”).  While  Millicom 
completed  both  acquisitions  in  Nicaragua  and  Panama,  it  announced  on  May  2,  2020  that  it  had  terminated  the  Share  Purchase 
Agreement in relation to the Costa Rica Acquisition (see note G.3.1.). The aggregate purchase price for the Telefónica Panama and 
Nicaragua Acquisitions was $1.08 billion, which has been subject to purchase price adjustments - see below. 

Acquisition  related  costs  for  Nicaragua  and  Panama  acquisitions  included  in  the  statement  of  income  under  operating  expenses 
were approximately $16 million for the year 2019.

The impact of the finalization of Nicaragua and Panama's purchase accounting on the 2019 Group statement of income is immaterial 
and, therefore, no adjustments were made on comparative figures in that respect.

Further details of Nicaragua and Panama acquisitions are provided below.

a) Nicaragua Acquisition

This transaction closed on May 16, 2019 after receipt of the necessary approvals and, since that date, Millicom holds all voting rights 
into Telefonía Celular de Nicaragua, S.A. ("Nicaragua") and controls it. On the same day, Millicom paid an original cash consideration 
of $437 million, which was adjusted to $430 million as of December 31, 2019 and finally adjusted to $426 million in 2020. For the 
purchase accounting, Millicom determined the final fair values of Nicaragua's identifiable assets and liabilities based on transaction 
and relative fair values. The purchase accounting was finalized by May 16, 2020 and has not materially changed since December 31, 
2019, with the exception of the final price adjustment. 

The  goodwill  is  currently  not  tax  deductible,  and  is  attributable  to  expected  synergies  and  convergence  with  our  legacy  fixed 
business in the country, as well as to the fair value of the assembled work force. For convenience purposes, the acquisition date was 
set on May 1, 2019 as there were no material transactions from this date to May 16, 2019. From May 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019, 
Nicaragua contributed $144 million of revenue and a net profit of $5 million to the Group. If the acquisition had occurred on January 
1, 2019 incremental revenue for the Group for the twelve-month period ended December 31, 2019 would have been $219 million 
and incremental net loss for that period would have been $16 million, including amortization of assets not previously recognized of 
$12 million (net of tax). 

Key assumptions used in fixed assets valuation

The following valuation methods and key estimates were used for the valuation of the main classes of fixed assets:

Major class of assets

Spectrum

Customer lists

Valuation method
Market approach - 
Market comparable 
transactions
Income approach - 
Multi-Period
Excess Earnings 
Method

Land and buildings

Market approach

Core network

Cost approach

Key assumption 1

Key assumption 2

Key assumption 3

Discount rate : 14%

Terminal growth rate: 
2.5%

Estimated duration: 14 
years

Discount rate: 14-15%

Economic useful life 
(range): 10-30 years

Economic useful life 
(range): 5-27 years

Monthly Churn rate: 
From 1.2% for B2B to 
2.9% for B2C

Price per square meter: 
from $2 to $57
Remaining useful life 
(minimum) :  1.7 
years

EBITDA margin: ~ 36% 
to 41%

N/A

N/A

b) Panama Acquisition

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This transaction closed on August 29, 2019 after receipt of the necessary approvals and, since that date, Cable Onda, which is 80% 
owned  by  Millicom,  holds  all  voting  rights  in  Grupo  de  Comunicaciones  Digitales,  S.A.,  formerly  Telefónica  Móviles  Panamá,  S.A. 
("Panama") and controls it. On the same day, Cable Onda paid an original cash consideration of $594 million to acquire 100% of the 
shares of Panama, finally adjusted to $587 million during Q3 2020. No non-controlling interests are recognized at acquisition date as 
Cable Onda acquired 100% of the shares of Panama. However, non-controlling interests are recognized on Panama's results from the 
date of acquisition.

For the purchase accounting, Millicom determined the fair value of Panama's identifiable assets and liabilities based on transaction 
and relative fair values. During 2020, the Group completed the policy alignment and evaluation in respect of the right-of-use assets 
and lease liabilities, the property plant and equipment, as well as their related effect on the final valuation of the other fixed assets. 

The goodwill is currently not tax deductible and is attributable to expected synergies and convergence with Cable Onda, as well as 
to the fair value of the assembled work force. For convenience purposes, the acquisition date was set on September 1, 2019. From 
September 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019, Panama contributed $80 million of revenue and a net profit of $6 million to the Group. If 
Panama had been acquired on January 1, 2019 incremental revenue for the Group for the twelve-month period ended December 31, 
2019 would have been $158 million and incremental net profit for that period would have been $1 million, including amortization of 
assets not previously recognized of $3 million (net of tax). 

As mentioned above, the impact of the finalization of Panama's purchase accounting on the 2019 Group statement of income was 
immaterial and, therefore, no adjustments were made on comparative figures in that respect.

Key assumptions used in fixed assets valuation

The following valuation methods and key estimates were used for the valuation of the main classes of fixed assets:

Major class of assets

Valuation method

Key assumption 1

Key assumption 2

Key assumption 3

Customer lists

Income approach - 
Multi-Period
Excess Earnings 
Method

Discount rate: 
9.8-10.8%

Monthly Churn rate: 
~3.8% in average

EBITDA margin: ~ 
41.5%

Property, plant and equipment

Cost approach

Economic useful life 
(range): 3-27 years

Remaining useful life 
(minimum): 3-27 years

N/A

2. Tanzania restructuring

In October 2019, with the view of listing the shares of MIC Tanzania Public Limited Company ('MIC Tanzania') on the local stock 
exchange (see note H.), Millicom completed the restructuring of its investments in different operations in the country. Mainly, MIC 
Tanzania acquired all the shares of Zantel, which was partially held by the Government of Zanzibar (15%). In exchange of the 
contribution of its 15% shares in Zantel to MIC Tanzania, the Government of Zanzibar received 1.5% of newly issued shares in MIC 
Tanzania. This restructuring did not result in the Group losing control in Zantel nor MIC Tanzania, and has therefore been recognized 
as an equity transaction. As a consequence, the Group owners’ equity decreased by a net amount of $18 million as a result of the 
derecognition of the 15% non-controlling interests in Zantel and the recognition of 1.5% non-controlling interests in MIC Tanzania.

3. Others

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Group also completed minor additional acquisitions and scope changes.

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A.1.3. Disposal of subsidiaries and decreases in non-controlling interests of subsidiaries 

Chad

On June 26, 2019, the Group completed the disposal of its operations in Chad for a cash consideration of $110 million. In August 
2020, the Group and the buyer of our operations in Chad agreed on a final price adjustment of $8 million in favor of the buyer. This 
price adjustment had been disbursed in September 2020 and recorded under the results from discontinued operations in the 
Group's statement of income. In accordance with Group practices, the Chad operation had been classified as assets held for sale and 
discontinued operations as from June 5, 2019 and comparative periods restated. On June 26, 2019, Chad was deconsolidated and a 
gain on disposal of $77 million was recognized (see also note E.4.).

Rwanda 

On December 19, 2017, Millicom announced that it had signed an agreement for the sale of its Rwanda operations to subsidiaries of 
Bharti Airtel Limited for a final cash consideration of $51 million, including a deferred cash payment for an amount of $18 million, 
which has been finally settled in January 2020. The sale was completed on January 31, 2018. On that day, Millicom's operations in 
Rwanda have been deconsolidated and no material loss on disposal was recognized. However, a loss of $32 million was recognized 
in 2019 corresponding to the recycling of foreign currency exchange losses accumulated in equity since the creation of the local 
operation. This loss had been recognized under ‘Profit (loss) for the 2019 year from discontinued operations, net of tax’.  

Other disposals 

For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, Millicom did not dispose of any other significant investments. 

A.1.4. Summarized financial information relating to significant subsidiaries with non-controlling interests 

At December 31, 2021 and 2020, Millicom’s subsidiaries with material non-controlling interests were the Group’s operations in 
Colombia and Panama. 

Statement of Financial Position – non-controlling interests 

Colombia

Panama

Others

Total

December 31,

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

83

74

—

157

133

81

1

215

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Profit (loss) attributable to non-controlling interests 

Colombia

Panama

Others

Total

149 

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

(40)

(7)

(1)

(48)

(23)

(18)

—

(41)

11

(6)

—

5

The summarized financial information for material non-controlling interests in our operations in Colombia and Panama is provided 
below. This information is based on amounts before inter-company eliminations. 

Colombia 

Revenue

Total operating expenses

Operating profit

Net (loss) for the year

50% non-controlling interest in net (loss)

Total assets (excluding goodwill)

Total liabilities

Net assets

50% non-controlling interest in net assets

Consolidation adjustments

Total non-controlling interest

Dividends and advances paid to non-controlling interest

Net cash from operating activities

Net cash from (used in) investing activities

Net cash from (used in) financing activities

Exchange impact on cash and cash equivalents, net

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

1,414

(509)

100

(80)

(40)

2,336

2,158

178

89

(6)

83

(5)

272

(295)

30

(10)

(2)

1,346

(470)

129

(46)

(23)

2,589

2,303

286

143

(10)

133

(4)

370

(311)

(47)

(15)

(3)

1,532

(543)

164

23

11

2,256

1,891

365

183

(13)

170

(12)

363

(260)

(67)

0

36

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Panama

Revenue

Total operating expenses

Operating profit

Net (loss) for the year

20% non-controlling interest in net (loss)

Total assets (excluding Millicom's goodwill in Cable Onda)

Total liabilities

Net assets

20% non-controlling interest in net assets

Total non-controlling interest

Net cash from operating activities

Net cash from (used in) investing activities

Net cash from (used in) financing activities

Net increase in cash and cash equivalents

15 0 

2021

2020 

2019 (i)

(US$ millions)

633

(207)

7

(37)

(7)

1,717

1,347

371

74

74

179

(118)

(43)

17

585

(197)

(60)

(89)

(18)

1,734

1,327

407

81

81

193

(100)

(69)

24

475

(148)

(15)

(31)

(6)

1,905

1,411

494

99

99

167

(693)

580

54

(i) 

In 2019, Cable Onda acquired Telefónica Panama for  $587 million (note A.1.2.), financed by issuing a $600 million Senior Notes due 2030 (note C.3.1.)
The 2019 figures include the full year results and cash flows of Cable Onda, as well as 4 months of Telefónica Panama which was consolidated from 
September 1, 2019. 

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A.2. Joint ventures

151 

Joint ventures are businesses over which Millicom exercises joint control as decisions over the relevant activities of each, such as the 
ability to upstream cash from the joint ventures, require unanimous consent of shareholders. Millicom determines the existence of 
joint control by reference to joint venture agreements, articles of association, structures and voting protocols of the board of 
directors of those ventures. 

At December 31, 2021, the equity accounted net assets of our joint venture in Honduras totaled $406 million (December 31, 2020: 
Honduras: $422 million; Guatemala: $2,649 million). These net assets do not necessarily represent statutory reserves available for 
distribution as these include consolidation adjustments (such as goodwill and identified assets and assumed liabilities recognized as 
part of the purchase accounting). Out of these reserves, $3 million (December 31, 2020: $153 million) represent statutory reserves 
that are unavailable to be distributed to the Group. During the year ended December 31, 2021, Millicom's joint venture in Honduras 
did not pay any dividend or dividend advances to the Company while Guatemala paid $13 million during the period from January 1, 
2021 until November 12, 2021 (December 31, 2020: Honduras: $24 million; Guatemala: $47 million).

Our main joint ventures are as follows: 

Entity

Telefonica Celular S.A. (i)

Navega S.A. de CV (i)

Comunicaciones Celulares S.A. (ii)

Navega.com S.A. (ii)

Bharti Airtel Ghana Holdings B.V. (iii)

Country

Activity

Honduras

Honduras

Guatemala

Guatemala

Ghana

Mobile, MFS

Cable

Mobile, MFS

Cable, DTH

Mobile, MFS

December 31, 
2021  % 
holding

December 31, 
2020 % 
holding 

66.7

66.7

na

na

50

66.7

66.7

55

55

50

(i) Millicom owns more than 50% of the shares in these entities and has the right to nominate a majority of the directors of each of these entities. However, 
key decisions over the relevant activities must be taken by a super majority vote. This effectively gives either shareholder the ability to veto any decision 
and therefore neither shareholder has sole control over the entity. Therefore, the operations of these joint ventures are accounted for under the equity 
method.

(ii) On November 12, 2021 Millicom signed and closed an agreement to acquire the remaining 45% equity interest in its joint venture business in 

Guatemala (collectively, "Tigo Guatemala"). As a result, Millicom owns 100% equity interest in Tigo Guatemala and fully consolidates it since that date. 
Until November 12, 2021,  Millicom owned more than 50% of the shares in these entities and had the right to nominate a majority of the directors of 
each of these entities. However, key decisions over the relevant activities were taken by a super majority vote. This effectively gave either shareholder 
the ability to veto any decision and therefore neither shareholder had sole control over the entity. Therefore, the operations of these joint ventures were
accounted for under the equity method prior to the acquisition. 

(iii) On October 13, 2021, Millicom, along with its joint venture partner Bharti Airtel Limited, closed the disposal of AirtelTigo Ghana to the Government of 

Ghana (a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel Limited). Millicom still owns 50% of Bharti Airtel Ghana Holdings B.V.

The carrying values of Millicom’s investments in joint ventures were as follows: 

Carrying value of investments in joint ventures at December 31 

Honduras operations (i)

Guatemala operations (i)

AirtelTigo Ghana operations

Total

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

596

—

—

596

610

2,031

—

2,642

(i)

Includes all the companies under the Honduras and Guatemala groups (for Guatemala, until acquisition date - See Note A.2.1.). 

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The table below summarizes the movements for the year in respect of the Group’s joint ventures carrying values: 

152 

Opening balance at January 1, 2020

Disposal of the Group's investment in Navega to Celtel (iii)

Results for the year

Dividends declared during the year

Currency exchange differences

Closing balance at December 31, 2020

Capital increase

Results for the year

Utilization of past recognized losses

Dividends declared during the year

Currency exchange differences

Change in consolidation scope

Closing balance at December 31, 2021

Guatemala(i) Honduras (i)

Ghana(ii)

(US$ millions)

2,089 

— 

144 

(199) 

(3)

2,031 

— 

183 

— 

(201) 

— 

(2,013) 

— 

708 

(83)

27 

(55)

13 

610 

— 

27 

— 

(34)

(7) 

— 

596 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

38 

(38) 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(i)

Share of profit is recognized under ‘Share of profit joint ventures’ in the statement of income for the year ended December 31, 2021 for Honduras and 
for the period from January 1, 2021 until November 12, 2021 for Guatemala (see note A.1.2.)

 (ii)

Share of profit (loss) is recognized under ‘Income (loss) from other joint ventures and associates, net’ in the statement of income. 

(iii)  See note G.5.

(iv) On October 13, 2021, Millicom, along with its joint venture partner Bharti Airtel Limited, closed the disposal of AirtelTigo Ghana to the Government of 
Ghana. As part of the closing conditions, each partner committed and paid $37.5 million for the reimbursement of certain local bank facilities which has 
been provided for during the first-nine months in the statement of income under the line "Profit (loss) from other joint ventures and associates, net

At December 31, 2021 and 2020 the Group had not incurred obligations, nor made payments on behalf of the Honduras or Ghana 
operations. 

A.2.1. Accounting for joint ventures 

Joint ventures are accounted for using the equity method of accounting and are initially recognized at cost (calculated at fair value if 
it was a subsidiary of the Group before becoming a joint venture). The Group’s investments in joint ventures include goodwill (net of 
any accumulated impairment loss) on acquisition. 

The Group’s share of post-acquisition profits or losses of joint ventures is recognized in the consolidated statement of income and its 
share of post-acquisition movements in reserves is recognized in reserves. Cumulative post-acquisition movements are adjusted 
against the carrying amount of the investments. When the Group’s share of losses in a joint venture equals or exceeds its interest in 
the joint venture, including any other unsecured receivables, the Group does not recognize further losses, unless the Group has 
incurred obligations or made payments on behalf of the joint ventures. 

Gains on transactions between the Group and its joint ventures are eliminated to the extent of the Group’s interest in the joint 
ventures. Losses are also eliminated unless the transaction provides evidence of an impairment of the asset transferred. Accounting 
policies of joint ventures have been changed where necessary to ensure consistency with the policies adopted by the Group. 
Dilution gains and losses arising in investments in joint ventures are recognized in the statement of income. 

After application of the equity method, including recognizing the joint ventures’ losses, the Group applies IFRS 9 to determine 
whether it is necessary to recognize any additional impairment loss with respect to its net investment in the joint venture. 

A.2.2. Material joint ventures – Guatemala, Honduras and Ghana operations 

Summarized financial information for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 of the Guatemala (until acquisition), 
Honduras and Ghana (until disposal) operations is as follows. This information is based on amounts before inter-company 
eliminations. 

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Honduras 

153 

Revenue   ..............................................................................................................................................

Depreciation and amortization    ..........................................................................................................

Operating profit    ................................................................................................................................

Financial income (expenses), net    .......................................................................................................

Profit before taxes     ............................................................................................................................

Charge for taxes, net      ...........................................................................................................................

Profit for the year    ..............................................................................................................................

Net profit for the year attributable to Millicom  ............................................................................

Dividends and advances paid to Millicom  .........................................................................................

Total non-current assets (excluding goodwill)   ..................................................................................

Total non-current liabilities   .................................................................................................................

Total current assets   .............................................................................................................................

Total current liabilities       ........................................................................................................................

Total net assets    ....................................................................................................................................

Group's share in %  ...............................................................................................................................

Group's share in USD millions   .............................................................................................................

Goodwill and consolidation adjustments     ..........................................................................................

Carrying value of investment in joint venture   ...................................................................................

Cash and cash equivalents  ..................................................................................................................

Debt and financing – non-current   ......................................................................................................

Debt and financing – current  ..............................................................................................................

Net cash from operating activities       .....................................................................................................

Net cash from (used in) investing activities    .......................................................................................

Net cash from (used in) financing activities    .......................................................................................

Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents    .................................................................

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

589 

(124) 

99 

(34) 

62 

(22) 

40 

27 

— 

473 

362 

176 

305 

(18) 

 66.7 %

(12) 

608 

596 

39 

267 

73 

166 

(89) 

(98) 

(21)

552 

(132) 

77 

(24) 

58 

(19) 

39 

27 

24 

461 

533 

300 

236 

(8) 

 66.7 %

(5) 

615 

610 

60 

390 

10 

151 

(145) 

14 

20

594 

(132) 

102 

(37) 

60 

(21) 

39 

27 

28 

516 

469 

312 

183 

176 

 66.7 %

117 

591 

708 

40 

384 

39 

169 

(77) 

(77) 

15 

Honduras financing

On September 19, 2019, Telefónica Celular, S.A. de C.V. entered into a new credit agreement with Banco Industrial S.A. and Banco 
Pais S.A for an amount up to $185 million,  in tranches of $100 million, $60 million and $25 million. The Loan Agreement has a 10-
year maturity and an interest rate of LIBOR plus 3.80% per annum, subject to a floor of minimum 5.25%. The new credit agreement 
has been used to consolidate the portion of a syndicated $250 million facility with Scotiabank dated March 27, 2015, and $90 million 
credit agreement with Banco Industrial S.A. dated March 20, 2018.

On September 19, 2019,  Navega S.A. de C.V., entered into a new facility agreement with Banco Industrial S.A. for an amount of  
$20 million and a duration of 10 years. The new agreement bears an annual interest of LIBOR plus 3.80% , subject to a floor of 5.25%. 
and will be used to refinance the portion corresponding to it as borrower under the $250 million facility with Scotiabank dated 
March 27, 2015.

On June 1, 2020, Telefónica Celular, S.A. de C.V. executed a $32 million bank loan agreement in equivalent amount in local currency 
for a 10-year term. 

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Guatemala 

15 4 

Revenue   ..............................................................................................................................................

1,379 

1,503 

1,434 

2021(ii)

2020 (i)

2019

(US$ millions)

Depreciation and amortization    ..........................................................................................................

Operating profit    ................................................................................................................................

Financial income (expenses), net (i)     ...................................................................................................

Profit before taxes     ............................................................................................................................

Charge for taxes, net      ...........................................................................................................................

Profit for the year    ..............................................................................................................................

Net profit for the year attributable to Millicom  ............................................................................

Dividends and advances paid to Millicom  .........................................................................................

Total non-current assets (excluding goodwill)   ..................................................................................

Total non-current liabilities   .................................................................................................................

Total current assets   .............................................................................................................................

Total current liabilities       ........................................................................................................................

Total net assets    ....................................................................................................................................

Group's share in %  ...............................................................................................................................

Group's share in USD millions   .............................................................................................................
Goodwill and consolidation adjustments     ..........................................................................................
Carrying value of investment in joint venture   ...................................................................................

Cash and cash equivalents  ..................................................................................................................

Debt and financing – non-current   ......................................................................................................

Debt and financing – current  ..............................................................................................................

Net cash from operating activities       .....................................................................................................

Net cash from (used in) investing activities    .......................................................................................

Net cash from (used in) financing activities    .......................................................................................

Exchange impact on cash and cash equivalents, net   ........................................................................

Net increase in cash and cash equivalents     ....................................................................................

(282) 

462 

(40) 

432 

(99) 

333 

183 

13 

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

611 

(192) 

(406) 

1 

13 

(323) 

452 

(95) 

347 

(83) 

264 

144 

47 

2,195 

751 

742 

523 

1,662 

 55 %

914 
1,117 
2,031 

188 

619 

24 

598 

(289) 

(308) 

(2) 

(1)

(313)

429 

(66)

356 

(79)

277 

152 

209 

2,517 

1,216 

717 

251 

1,767 

 55 %

972 
1,117 
2,089 

189 

1,152 

21 

588 

(205)

(412)

1 

(28)

(i)

(ii) 

In 2020, Financial expenses include a $18 million charge related to early redemption of bonds - see below.

 Information for the statement of income and cash flows is for the period from January 1 to November 12, 2021. No information is disclosed on 
statement of financial position items as these are now fully consolidated in the Group numbers.

Guatemala financing

In 2014, Intertrust SPV (Cayman) Limited, acting as trustee of the Comcel Trust, a trust established and consolidated by Comcel for 
the purposes of the transaction, issued $800 million 6.875% Senior Notes to refinance existing local and MIC S.A. corporate debt. The 
bond was issued at 98.233% of the principal and had an effective interest rate of 7.168%. The bond was guaranteed by Comcel and 
listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. 

On November 18, 2020, the $800 million aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 6.875% Senior Notes due 2024 was early 
redeemed at a redemption price equal to 102.292% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid 
interest of $16 million, resulting in an aggregate amount of $834 million. The redemption premium ($18 million)  and additional 
interest ($7 million), as well as the remaining unamortized deferred costs of $8 million were recorded as financial expenses during 
the year. This early redemption was financed through local financing in local currency as well as by shareholder loans (see note G.5.).

The impact on the Group's statement of income was a $18 million expense (at 55% ownership) reported on the line "Share of profit 
in joint ventures". 

On October 5, 2020, Comcel executed a credit agreement with Banco Industrial for GTQ 1,697 million (approximately $218 million 
using the exchange rate as of December 31, 2020) for a 5 year term to refinance other credit agreements with Banco Industrial and 
to finance and refinance working capital, capital expenditures and general corporate purposes.  

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019

AirtelTigo Ghana 

Our joint venture in Ghana has been disposed of during the year. The only material effect for this year's statement of income is the 
loss recognized on the exit financing which is further explain in note A.2.. Therefore, the 2021 financial information is not disclosed in 
the table below. 

2020

2019

Revenue    .............................................................................................................................................

Depreciation and amortization     .........................................................................................................

Operating loss    ..................................................................................................................................

Financial income (expenses), net   ......................................................................................................

Loss before taxes  ..............................................................................................................................

Charge for taxes, net    ..........................................................................................................................

Loss for the period      ...........................................................................................................................

Net loss for the period attributable to Millicom   ..........................................................................

Total non-current assets (excluding goodwill)   .................................................................................

Total non-current liabilities   ...............................................................................................................

Total current assets    ............................................................................................................................

Total current liabilities    .......................................................................................................................

Total net assets  ...................................................................................................................................

Group's share in %    .............................................................................................................................

Group's share in USD millions............................................................................................................

Goodwill and consolidation adjustments   .........................................................................................

Unrecognised losses    ..........................................................................................................................

Carrying value of investment in joint venture    ..................................................................................

Cash and cash equivalents   ................................................................................................................

Debt and financing – non-current   .....................................................................................................

Debt and financing – current     ............................................................................................................

Net cash from operating activities    ....................................................................................................

Net cash from (used in) investing activities   ......................................................................................

Net cash from (used in) financing activities    ......................................................................................

Net increase in cash and cash equivalents      ...................................................................................

132 

(42) 

(30)

(41) 

(85)

— 

(85)

0 

204 

289 

41 

218 

(263) 

 50 %

(132) 

89 

(42) 

— 

1 

289 

40 

(8) 

— 

4 

(4)

142 

(69) 

(72)

(77) 

(123)

— 

(123)

(40) 

168 

245 

42 

187 

(223)

 50 %

(111)

90 

(22) 

0 

5 

245 

27 

(5) 

— 

(6) 

(11)

A.2.3. Impairment of investment in joint ventures 

While no impairment triggers were identified for the Group’s investments in joint ventures in 2021, according to its policy, 
management have completed an impairment test for its joint ventures in Honduras. 

The Group’s investments in Honduras operations was tested for impairment by assessing the recoverable amount (using a value in 
use model based on discounted cash flows) against the carrying amount. The cash flow projections used were extracted from 
financial budgets approved by management and reviewed by the Board (refer to note E.1.6. for further details on impairment 
testing). Cash flows beyond this period have been extrapolated using a perpetual growth rate of 1% (2020: 1%). Discount rate used 
in determining recoverable amount was 8.9% (2020: 9.0%). 

For the year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, and as a result of the impairment testing described above, management 
concluded that none of the Group’s investments in joint ventures should be impaired. 

Sensitivity analysis was performed on key assumptions within the impairment tests. The sensitivity analysis determined that 
sufficient headroom exists from realistic changes to the assumptions that would not impact the overall results of the testing.  

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For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019

156 

A.3. Investments in associates

 Millicom has significant influence over immaterial associates as shown below: 

Entity

Africa

Country

Activity(ies)

% holding

% holding

December 31, 
2021

December 31, 
2020

West Indian Ocean Cable Company Limited (WIOCC)    .

Republic of
Mauritius

Telecommunication carriers’ carrier

 9.1 

 9.1 

Latin America

MKC Brilliant Holding GmbH (LIH)

Germany

Online marketplace, retail and services

 35.0 

 35.0 

Unallocated

Milvik AB   ......................................................................... Sweden

Other

 9.7 

 9.7 

At December 31, 2021 and 2020, the carrying value of Millicom’s main associates was as follows: 

Carrying value of investments in associates at December 31 

Milvik AB   .........................................................................................................................................................................

West Indian Ocean Cable Company Limited (WIOCC)   ..................................................................................................

Total

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

8 

14 

22 

10 

14 

24 

A.3.1. Accounting for investments in associates 

The Group accounts for associates in the same way as it accounts for joint ventures. 

A.3.2. Impairment of interests in associates 

MKC Brilliant Holding GmbH (LIH) 

Millicom’s 35.0% investment in LIH had been fully impaired in two stages (by $40 million in 2016 and $48 million in 2017) as a result 
of the annual impairment test conducted back then. The impairment test performed in 2021 confirmed this conclusion.  

A.4. Discontinued operations
A.4.1. Classification of discontinued operations 

Discontinued operations are those which have identifiable operations and cash flows (for both operating and management 
purposes) and represent a major line of business or geographic area which has been disposed of, or are held for sale. Revenue and 
expenses associated with discontinued operations are presented retrospectively in a separate line in the consolidated statement of 
income.  

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A.4.2. Millicom’s discontinued operations 

157 

In accordance with IFRS 5 and as further explained in Note A.1.3. , the Group’s businesses in Chad and Rwanda had been classified as 
discontinued operations. For further details, refer to note E.4. 

B. Performance
B.1. Revenue

Millicom’s revenue comprises sale of services from its mobile business (including Mobile Financial Services - MFS) and its cable and 
other fixed services, as well as related devices and equipment. Recurring revenue consists of monthly subscription fees, airtime and 
data usage fees, interconnection fees, roaming fees, TV services, B2B contracts, MFS commissions and fees from other 
telecommunications services such as data services, short message services and other value added services. 

Revenue from continuing operations by 

Mobile     ..................................................................................................................................................

Cable and other fixed services   ............................................................................................................

Other    ....................................................................................................................................................

Service revenue    .................................................................................................................................

Telephone and equipment   .................................................................................................................

Total revenue    .....................................................................................................................................

Revenue from continuing operations by country or operation (i)

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

2,347 

1,947 

60 

4,354 

263 

4,617 

2,116 

1,803 

52 

3,971 

201 

4,171 

2,150 

1,928 

51 

4,130 

206 

4,336 

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

Colombia     .............................................................................................................................................

1,414 

1,346 

1,532 

Paraguay   ..............................................................................................................................................

Bolivia     ..................................................................................................................................................

El Salvador   ...........................................................................................................................................

Tanzania  ...............................................................................................................................................

Nicaragua.............................................................................................................................................

Costa Rica    ............................................................................................................................................

Panama    ................................................................................................................................................

Guatemala (ii)    ......................................................................................................................................

Other operations      .................................................................................................................................

Eliminations   .........................................................................................................................................

Total  .........................................................................................................................................................

555 

623 

445 

357 

238 

141 

632 

223 

2 

(13) 

4,617 

544 

584 

389 

366 

220 

140 

585 

— 

3 

(5)

610 

639 

386 

382 

157 

153 

475 

— 

4 

(3)

4,171 

4,336 

(i)

(ii) 

The revenue figures above are shown after intercompany eliminations. 

Tigo Guatemala is fully consolidated since the acquisition of the remaining 45% shareholding on November 12, 2021. See note A.1.2. for further 
details. 

B.1.1. Accounting for revenue 

Revenue recognition 

Revenue is recognized at an amount that reflects the consideration to which the Group expects to be entitled in exchange for 
transferring goods or services to a customer. 

The Group applies the following practical expedients foreseen in IFRS 15:

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15 8 

•

•

•

•

No adjustment to the transaction price for the means of a financing component whenever the period between the transfer
of a promised good or service to a customer and the associated payment is one year or less; when the period is more than 
one year the financing component is adjusted, if material.

Disclosure in the Group Financial Statements the transaction price allocated to unsatisfied performance obligations only 
for contracts that have an original expected duration of more than one year (e.g. unsatisfied performance obligations for
contracts that have an original duration of one year or less are not disclosed).

Application of the practical expedient not to disclose the price allocated to unsatisfied performance obligations, if the
consideration from a customer corresponds to the value of the entity’s performance obligation to the customer (i.e, if 
billing corresponds to accounting revenue).

Application of the practical expedient to recognize the incremental costs of obtaining a contract as an expense when
incurred if the amortization period of the asset that otherwise would have been recognized is one year or less.

Post-paid connection fees are derived from the payment of a non-refundable / one-time fee charged to customer to connect to the 
network (e.g. connection / installation fee). Usually, it does not represent a distinct good or service, and therefore does not give rise 
to a separate performance obligation and revenue is recognized over the minimum contract duration. However, if the fee is paid by 
a customer to get the right to receive goods or services without having to pay this fee again over his tenure with the Group (e.g. the 
customer can readily extend his contract without having to pay the same fee again), it is accounted for as a material right and 
revenue should be recognized over the customer retention period. 

Post-paid mobile / cable subscription fees are recognized over the relevant enforceable/subscribed service period (recurring 
monthly access fees that do not vary based on usage). The service provision is usually considered as a series of distinct services that 
have the same pattern of transfer to the customer. Remaining unrecognized subscription fees, which are not refunded to the 
customers, are fully recognized once the customer has been disconnected. 

Prepaid scratch / SIM cards are services where customers purchase a specified amount of airtime or other credit in advance. Revenue 
is recognized as the credit is used. Unused credit is carried in the statement of financial position as a contract liability. Upon 
expiration of the validity period, the portion of the contract liability relating to the expiring credit is recognized as revenue, since 
there is no longer an obligation to provide those services. 

Telephone and equipment sales are recognized as revenue once the customer obtains control of the good. That criteria is fulfilled 
when the customer has the ability to direct the use and obtain substantially all of the remaining benefits from that good. 

Revenue from provision of Mobile Financial Services (MFS) is recognized once the primary service has been provided to the 
customer. 

Customer premise equipment (CPE) are provided to customers as a prerequisite to receive the subscribed Home services and shall 
be returned at the end of the contract duration. Since CPEs provided over the contract term do not provide benefit to the customer 
on their own, they do not give rise to separate performance obligations and therefore are accounted for as part of the service 
provided to the customers. 

Bundled offers are considered arrangements with multiple deliverables or elements, which can lead to the identification of separate 
performance obligations. Revenue is recognized in accordance with the transfer of goods or services to customers in an amount that 
reflects the relative standalone selling price of the performance obligation (e.g. sale of telecom services, revenue over time + sale of 
handset, revenue at a point in time). 

Principal-Agent, some arrangements involve two or more unrelated parties that contribute to providing a specified good or service 
to a customer. In these instances, the Group determines whether it has promised to provide the specified good or service itself (as a 
principal) or to arrange for those specified goods or services to be provided by another party (as an agent). For example, 
performance obligations relating to services provided by third-party content providers (i.e., mobile Value Added Services or “VAS”) 
or service providers (i.e., wholesale international traffic) where the Group neither controls a right to the provider’s service nor 
controls the underlying service itself are presented net because the Group is acting as an agent. The Group generally acts as a 
principal for other types of services where the Group is the primary obligor of the arrangement. In cases the Group determines that it 
acts as a principal, revenue is recognized in the gross amount, whereas in cases the Group acts as an agent revenue is recognized in 
the net amount. 

Revenue from the sale of cables, fiber, wavelength or capacity contracts, when part of the ordinary activities of the operation, is 
recognized as recurring revenue. Revenue is recognized when the cable, fiber, wavelength or capacity has been delivered to the 
customer, based on the amount expected to be received from the customer. 

Revenue from operating lease of tower space is recognized over the period of the underlying lease contracts. Finance leases revenue 
is apportioned between lease of tower space and interest income. 

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159 

Significant judgments 

The determination of the standalone selling price for contracts that involve more than one performance obligation may require 
significant judgment, such as when the selling price of a good or service is not readily observable.

The Group determines the standalone selling price of each performance obligation in the contract in accordance to the prices that 
the Group would apply when selling the same services and/or telephone and equipment included in the obligation to a similar 
customer on a standalone basis. When standalone selling price of services and/or telephone and equipment are not directly 
observable, the Group maximizes the use of external input and uses the expected cost plus margin approach to estimate the 
standalone selling price. 

B.2. Expenses

The cost of sales and operating expenses incurred by the Group can be summarized as follows: 

Cost of sales 

Direct costs of services sold    ...............................................................................................................

Cost of telephone, equipment and other accessories      ......................................................................

Bad debt and obsolescence costs  ......................................................................................................

(938) 

(278) 

(86)

(847) 

(216) 

(108) 

(878) 

(230) 

(93) 

Cost of sales    .......................................................................................................................................

(1,302) 

(1,171)

(1,201) 

Operating expenses, net 

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

Marketing expenses   ............................................................................................................................

Site and network maintenance costs   .................................................................................................

Employee related costs (B.4.)  ..............................................................................................................

External and other services   .................................................................................................................

Rentals and leases     ...............................................................................................................................

Other operating expenses   ..................................................................................................................

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

(495) 

(254) 

(503) 

(177) 

— 

(248) 

(396) 

(234) 

(477) 

(174) 

(1) 

(225) 

(402) 

(245) 

(496) 

(204) 

(1) 

(257)

Operating expenses, net     ..................................................................................................................

(1,677) 

(1,505)

(1,604) 

The other operating income and expenses incurred by the Group can be summarized as follows: 

Other operating income (expenses), net 

Notes

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

Income from tower deal transactions    .....................................................................

Impairment of intangible assets and property, plant and equipment    ..................
Gain (loss) on disposals of intangible assets and property, plant and 
equipment  ...............................................................................................................

E.3.

E.1., E.2.

Impairment of AirtelTigo's receivable   .....................................................................

G.5.

Reverse earn-out in respect of Zantel's acquisition (i)  ............................................

Gain (loss) on disposal of equity investments   ........................................................

C.7.3.

Other income (expenses) (ii)   ...................................................................................

Other operating income (expenses), net   ............................................................

— 

(5) 

6 

11 

(15) 

10 

6 

— 

— 

— 

(45)

— 

25 

9 

(12)

5 

(8) 

— 

— 

— 

(32) 

1 

(34)

(i)

In January 2022, Millicom received $11 million from Etisalat as earn-out income related to the purchase of Zantel in 2015. This settlement was 
considered as an adjusting event and recorded in 'other operating income' in the statement of income. 

(ii)   Other income (expenses) can be mainly attributed to social obligations spectrum liability derecognition in Paraguay of $4 million and reversal provision 
related to Ghana of $4 million. 

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B.2.1. Accounting for cost of sales and operating expenses 

Cost of sales 

Cost of sales is recorded on an accrual basis. 

Incremental costs of obtaining a contract 

16 0 

Incremental costs of obtaining a contract, including dealer commissions, are capitalized as Contract Costs in the statement of 
financial position and amortized in operating expenses over the expected benefit period, which is based on the average duration of 
contracts with customer (see practical expedient in note B.1.1.).

B.3. Segmental information

Management determines operating and reportable segments based on information used by the chief operating decision maker 
(CODM) to make strategic and operational decisions from both a business and geographic perspective. The Group’s risks and rates of 
return are predominantly affected by operating in different geographical regions. The Group has businesses in two main regions: 
Latin America ("Latam") and Africa. The Latam figures below include Guatemala and Honduras as if they were fully consolidated by 
the Group, over all periods presented, as this reflects the way management reviews and uses internally reported information to 
make decisions about operating matters and to provide increased transparency to investors on those operations. See also note A.1.2. 
on Guatemala's acquisition on November 12, 2021. This acquisition has no impact on the way we present our Latin America segment 
as it already included Guatemala as if fully consolidated. Finally, even prior to its formal disposal in October 2021, our Africa segment 
did not include our joint venture in Ghana because our management did not consider it a strategic part of our Group (See also note 
A.2.).

Revenue, operating profit (loss), EBITDA and other segment information for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, 
were as follows: 

Latin America

Africa

Unallocated

Guatemala and 
Honduras (vii) 
(viii)

Eliminations 
and  
Transfers

Total

(US$ millions)

Year ended December 31, 2021

Mobile revenue    ............................................

Cable and other fixed services revenue  ......

Other revenue      ..............................................

Service revenue (i)      .......................................
Telephone and equipment  and other 
revenue (i)     ....................................................

Revenue       ......................................................

Operating profit (loss)     ...............................

Add back:

3,372 

2,275 

70 

5,716 

503 

6,220 

1,001 

Depreciation and amortization     ...................

1,504 

Share of profit in joint ventures    ...................

Other operating income (expenses), net      ....

EBITDA (ii)   ...................................................

EBITDA from discontinued operations      .......

EBITDA incl discontinued operations    .....

Capital expenditure (iii)  ...............................

Changes in working capital and others (iv) 

Taxes paid     ....................................................

Operating free cash flow (v)      .....................

Total Assets (vi)  ...........................................

Total Liabilities     ...........................................

— 

(8)

2,498 

— 

2,498 

(1,015) 

(200)

(241)

1,041 

14,400 

8,333 

347 

9 

— 

357 

— 

357 

29 

83 

— 

(1)

111 

— 

111 

(42)

33 

(20)

81 

870 

937 

36

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(7)

12 

— 

2 

6 

— 

6 

(7)

116 

(9)

106 

6,401 

5,081 

(1,372) 

(334)

(8)

(1,715) 

(240)

(1,955) 

(574)

(403)

— 

— 

(977)

— 

(977)

238 

(13)

143 

(609)

(6,430) 

(1,761) 

— 

(2)

(2)

(4)

— 

(4)

210 

— 

(210) 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

—

2,347 

1,947 

60 

4,354 

263 

4,617

659

1,196 

(210)

(6) 

1,639 

— 

1,639 

(827) 

(65) 

(127) 

619 

(103)

(191)

15,139

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161 

Latin America

Africa

Unallocated

Guatemala 
and 
Honduras(vii)

Eliminations 
and  
Transfers

Total

(US$ millions)

Year ended December 31, 2020

Mobile revenue       ................................................

Cable and other fixed services revenue     ..........

Other revenue      ..................................................

Service revenue (i)    ............................................

Telephone and equipment revenue (i)     ...........

Revenue     ...........................................................

Operating profit (loss)   ...................................

Add back:

3,220 

2,097 

60 

5,377 

466 

5,843 

803 

Depreciation and amortization       .......................

1,561 

Share of profit in joint ventures    .......................

Other operating income (expenses), net    ........

EBITDA (ii)      .......................................................

EBITDA from discontinued operations   ...........

EBITDA incl discontinued operations      .........

Capital expenditure (iii)     ...................................

Changes in working capital and others (iv)   .....

Taxes paid       ........................................................

Operating free cash flow (v)       .........................

Total Assets (vi)     ...............................................

Total Liabilities   ................................................

— 

(5)

2,360 

— 

2,360 

(926)

61 

(260)

1,234 

13,418 

8,878 

357 

8 

1 

366 

— 

366 

36 

89 

— 

— 

125 

(4)

121 

(42)

11 

(10)

80 

926 

959 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(32)

11 

— 

23 

2 

— 

2 

(4)

(7)

(2)

(11)

4,052 

3,342 

(1,461) 

(302) 

(6)

(1,769) 

(266) 

(2,035) 

(536)

(453) 

— 

(3)

(992)

— 

(992)

258 

(43)

131 

(645)

— 

(1)

(2)

(4)

— 

(4)

175 

— 

(171) 

(4)

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

2,116 

1,803 

52 

3,971 

201 

4,171

446

1,208 

(171)

12 

1,495 

(4) 

1,491 

(714) 

22 

(142) 

657 

(5,116)

(2,044)

(859)

(987)

12,422

10,148

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019

162 

Latin America

Africa

Unallocated

Guatemala 
and 
Honduras(vii)

Eliminations 
and  
Transfers

Total

(US$ millions)

Year ended December 31, 2019

Mobile revenue .................................................

Cable and other fixed services revenue    ...........

Other revenue   ...................................................

Service revenue (i)     ............................................

Telephone and equipment revenue (i)   ............

Total Revenue     .................................................

Operating profit (loss) ....................................

Add back:

3,258 

2,197 

60 

5,514 

449 

5,964 

980 

Depreciation and amortization  ........................

1,435 

Share of profit in joint ventures    .......................

Other operating income (expenses), net   .........

EBITDA (ii)     ........................................................

EBITDA from discontinued operations   ............

EBITDA incl discontinued operations      ..........

Capital expenditure (iii)     ....................................

Changes in working capital and others (iv)   .....

Taxes paid      .........................................................

Operating free cash flow (v)  ..........................

Total Assets (vi)     ...............................................

Total Liabilities   ................................................

— 

2 

2,418 

— 

2,418 

(1,040) 

(86)

(225)

1,067 

13,859 

8,413 

372 

9 

1 

382 

— 

382 

19 

99 

— 

(2)

117 

(3)

114 

(58)

14 

(10)

59 

936 

909 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(64)

9 

— 

42 

(13)

— 

(13)

(9)

(52)

(8)

(82)

3,715 

3,977 

(1,480) 

(277) 

(9)

(1,766) 

(243) 

(2,010) 

(540)

(444) 

— 

(8)

(992)

— 

(992)

261 

(18)

129 

(619)

(5,465) 

(2,119) 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

179 

— 

(179) 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

2,150 

1,928 

51 

4,130 

206 

4,336 

575 

1,100 

(179)

34 

1,530 

(3) 

1,527 

(846) 

(143) 

(114) 

425 

(150)

(965)

12,895

10,215

(i)

Service revenue is Group revenue related to the provision of ongoing services such as monthly subscription fees, airtime and data usage fees, 
interconnection fees, roaming fees, mobile finance service commissions, installation fees and fees from other telecommunications services such as 
data services, SMS and other value-added services excluding telephone and equipment sales. Revenues from other sources comprises rental, sub-lease 
rental income and other non-recurring  revenues. The Group derives revenue  from the transfer of goods and services over time and at a point in time. 
Refer to the table below. 

(ii)  EBITDA is operating profit excluding impairment losses, depreciation and amortization and gains/losses on the disposal of fixed assets. EBITDA is used 

by the management to monitor the segmental performance and for capital management. 

(iii)  Cash spent for capex excluding spectrum and licenses of $37 million (2020: $101 million; 2019: $59 million) and cash received on tower deals of nil 

(2020: nil ; 2019: $22 million). 

(iv) Changes in working capital and others include changes in working capital as stated in the cash flow statement, as well as share-based payments 

expense and non-cash bonuses. 

(v) Operating Free Cash Flow is EBITDA less cash capex (excluding spectrum and license costs) less change in working capital, other non-cash items (share-

based payment expense and non-cash bonuses) and taxes paid. 

(vi)

Segment assets include goodwill and other intangible assets. 

(vii) 

Including eliminations for Guatemala and Honduras as reported in the Latam segment. 

(viii)  Our operations in Guatemala are fully consolidated since the acquisition of the remaining 45% shareholding on November 12, 2021. See note A.1.2. for 
further details. As a result, from the acquisition date of November 12, 2021, Guatemala's statement of income and cash flow figures are no longer 
deducted to reconcile to the total consolidated balances.

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Revenue from contracts with customers from continuing operations: 

163 

Twelve months ended 
December 31, 2021

Twelve months ended 
December 31, 2020

Twelve months ended 
December 31, 2019

$ millions

Timing of revenue 
recognition

Latin 

America Africa

Total 
Group

Latin 

America Africa

Total 
Group

Latin 
America

Africa

Total 
Group

Mobile   ........................................ Over time

1,963 

233 

2,196 

1,728 

Mobile Financial Services .......... Point in time

37 

114 

150 

31 

Cable and other fixed services     .. Over time

1,938 

9 

1,947 

1,794 

Other    .......................................... Over time

60 

— 

60 

51 

239 

118 

8 

1 

1,967 

149 

1,803 

52 

1,747 

31 

1,919 

51 

261 

112 

9 

1 

2,007 

143 

1,928 

52 

Service Revenue

3,998 

357 

  4,354 

3,604 

366 

3,971 

3,748 

382 

4,130 

Telephone and equipment    ....... Point in time

263 

— 

263 

201 

— 

201 

206 

— 

206 

Revenue from contracts with 
customers

B.4. People

Number of permanent employees 

4,261 

357 

  4,617 

3,805 

366 

4,171 

3,954 

382 

4,336 

Continuing operations (i)    ....................................................................................................................

19,749 

Joint ventures (ii)    ................................................................................................................................

Discontinued operations    ....................................................................................................................

938 

— 

Total   ....................................................................................................................................................

20,687 

16,955 

4,464 

— 

21,419 

17,687 

4,688 

— 

22,375 

2021

2020

2019

(i)

Emtelco headcount are excluded from this disclosure and any internal reporting because their costs are classified as direct costs and not employee 
related costs. Includes Guatemala for 2021.

(ii) 

Includes only Honduras for 2021 and also Guatemala and Ghana for 2020 and 2019. 

Notes

2021

2020

2019

Wages and salaries   ...................................................................................................

Social security    ..........................................................................................................

Share based compensation  .....................................................................................

Pension and other long-term benefit costs  ............................................................

B.4.1.

B.4.2.

Other employees related costs      ...............................................................................

(US$ millions)

(383) 

(356) 

(71)

(17)

(6)

(27)

(66)

(24)

(4)

(27)

Total  .........................................................................................................................

(503)

(477)

(358) 

(68) 

(27) 

(4) 

(39) 

(496) 

B.4.1. Share-based compensation 

1. Equity-settled

Millicom shares granted to management and key employees includes share-based compensation in the form of long-term share 
incentive plans. Since 2016, Millicom has two types of annual plans, a performance share plan (PSP) and a deferred share plan (DSP). 
The different plans are further detailed below. 

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Cost of share-based compensation 

2017 incentive plans

2018 incentive plans

2019 incentive plans

2020 incentive plans

2021 incentive plans

Total share based compensation

16 4 

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

— 

— 

3 

(3)

(17) 

(17)

— 

(2)

(8)

(13)

— 

(24)

(7) 

(8)

(14)

— 

— 

(27) 

Deferred share plan (unchanged since 2014, except for vesting schedule) 

As from the 2019 plan, shares vest at a rate of 30% on January 1 of each of year one and two, and the remaining 40% on 1 January of 
year three. Vesting is conditional upon the participant remaining employed with Millicom at each vesting date. The cost of this long-
term incentive plan, which is not conditional on performance conditions, is calculated as follows: 

Fair value (share price) of Millicom’s shares at grant date x number of shares expected to vest. 

Performance share plan (for plans issued from 2018) 

Shares granted under this performance share plan vest at the end of the three-year period, subject to performance conditions, 25% 
based on Relative Total Shareholder Return (“Relative TSR”), 25% based on the achievement of the Service Revenue target measured 
on a 3-year CAGRs from year one to year three of the plan (“Service Revenue”) and 50% based on the achievement of the Operating 
Free Cash Flow (“Operating Free Cash Flow”) target measured on a 3-year CAGRs from year one to year three of the plan. From 2020 
onwards, the Operating Free Cash Flow target has been redefined to consider payments made in respect of leases. As a result, the 
target is since then the Operating Free Cash Flow after Leases ("OFCFaL"). 

For the performance share plans, and in order to calculate the fair value of the TSR portion of those plans, it is necessary to make a 
number of assumptions which are set out below. The assumptions have been set based on an analysis of historical data as at grant 
date. 

Performance share plan (for plans issued from 2021)

Shares granted under this performance share plan generally follow the same rules as for previous performance share plans. 
However, and to reflect the need for retention and to align more with U.S. practice, Millicom have added time vested Restricted 
Stock Units (“RSU’s”) as a component of the LTI 2021 representing 35% of the award. The RSU’s will vest at the end of three years 
depending on satisfactory service condition. The Relative TSR, which account for 20% of the award, will be measured over the 10 
trading days before / after December 31 of the last year of the corresponding three-year measurement period. The Service Revenue 
(15%) and Operating Cash Flow after Leases ("OCFaL") (30%) performance conditions will not be measured based on a CAGR 
anymore but on the actual cumulative achievement against the 3-year cumulative targets to better reflect the performance over the 
three-year period rather than simply the end point as is the case with a CAGR target. 

For the performance share plans, and in order to calculate the fair value of the TSR portion of those plans, it is necessary to make a 
number of assumptions which are set out below. The assumptions have been set based on an analysis of historical data as at grant 
date.  

Assumptions and fair value of the shares under the TSR portion(s)

Risk-free  
rate %

Dividend 
yield %

Share price 
volatility(i) %

Award term 
(years)

Share fair 
value (in US$)

Performance share plan 2021 (Relative TSR)...............................

Performance share plan 2020 (Relative TSR)...............................

Performance share plan 2019 (Relative TSR)...............................

Performance share plan 2018 (Relative TSR)...............................

 0.29 

 0.61 

 (0.24) 

 (0.39) 

 1.28 

 1.47 

 3.01 

 3.21 

 46.28 

 24.54 

 26.58 

 30.27 

2.82 

2.93 

2.93 

2.93 

52.99 

55.66 

49.79 

57.70 

(i)

Historical volatility retained was determined on the basis of a three-year historic average. 

The cost of the long-term incentive plans which are conditional on market conditions is calculated as follows: 

Fair value (market value) of shares at grant date (as calculated above) x number of shares expected to vest. 

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The cost of these plans is recognized, together with a corresponding increase in equity (share compensation reserve), over the 
period in which the performance and/or employment conditions are fulfilled, ending on the date on which the relevant employees 
become fully entitled to the award. Adjustments are made to the expense recorded for forfeitures, mainly due to management and 
employees leaving Millicom. Non-market performance conditions are not taken into account when determining the grant date fair 
value of awards, but the likelihood of the conditions being met is assessed as part of the Group’s best estimate of the number of 
equity instruments that will ultimately vest. 

No expense is recognized for awards that do not ultimately vest, except for awards where vesting is conditional upon a market 
condition (such as the Relative TSR). These are treated as vested, regardless of whether or not the market conditions are satisfied, 
provided that all other performance conditions are satisfied. Where the terms of an equity-settled award are modified, as a minimum 
an expense is recognized as if the terms had not been modified. In addition, an expense is recognized for any modification that 
increases the total fair value of the share based payment arrangement, or is otherwise beneficial to the employee as measured at the 
date of modification. 

Plan awards and shares expected to vest 

Initial shares granted

Additional shares granted(i)

Revision for forfeitures

Revision for cancellations

Total before issuances

Shares issued in 2018

Shares issued in 2019

Shares issued in 2020

Shares issued in 2021

Performance conditions not met

Shares still expected to vest
Estimated cost over the vesting period (US$ 
millions)

2021 plans

2020 plans

2019 plans

2018 plans

PSP

DSP

PSP

DSP

PSP

DSP

PSP

DSP

(number of shares)

451,363 

536,890 

341,897 

370,131 

257,601 

297,856 

237,196 

262,317 

— 

5,824 

— 

5,928 

— 

43,115 

— 

3,290 

(17,469) 

(11,790) 

(264,137) 

(26,815) 

(204,649) 

(31,553) 

(78,903) 

(38,167) 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(4,728) 

— 

433,894 

530,924 

77,760 

349,244 

52,952 

309,418 

153,565 

227,440 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(1,121) 

(5,760) 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(97) 

(18,747)

(150) 

(24,294) 

(3,109) 

(54,971) 

(3,571) 

(17) 

(96,629) 

(304) 

(35,125)

(113,653) 

— 

— 

— 

(87,141) 

(103,725) 

(118,597) 

— 

(46,330) 

432,773 

525,164 

77,760 

232,020 

52,785 

101,354 

16 

19 

4 

15 

3 

18 

— 

12 

— 

— 

14 

(i) Additional shares granted represent grants made for new joiners and/or as per CEO contractual arrangements. 

2. Cash-settled

In 2021, and in the light of the impact on future LTI awards as a consequence of the impact of COVID-19 on our business, the Board 
awarded a one-time Retention Plan to a selected group of executives, including the CEO and CFO. The plan is based on Market Stock 
Units (“MSU”) and is a performance-based scheme where the outcome is dependent on the share price at the time of vesting. The 
number of MSUs granted to each participant is determined on the basis of a share price at inception of $43.09 for Tranche 2022 and 
$47.00 for Tranche 2023 (targets consider that Millicom share price at grant date - $39.17 - will appreciate 10% for Tranche 2022 and 
20% for tranche 2 from the grant price). At the vesting date, the value of the MSU will be determined by the 30-trading day average 
share price ending on June 30, 2022 for Tranche 2022, and the 30-trading day average share price ending on June 30, 2023 for 
Tranche 2023. For each Tranche, the payment will be made in cash 12 months after those dates, provided the participant is still 
employed (subject to limited allowances for good leavers). For every participant, payment is capped at 150% of their Target MSU 
Award Value set up for each Tranche. Participants of the Retention Plan were required to forfeit their awards under the LTI plans 
2019 and 2020 in respect of the Financial targets (Service Revenue and Operating Cash flow growths), provided that the TSR 
component will continue to be active for these schemes.

The MSU is a cash-settled share-based payment plan and Millicom will measure the services acquired over the relevant service 
period and the liability incurred at the fair value of the liability. Until the liability is settled, Millicom is required to remeasure the fair 
value of the liability at the end of each reporting period and at the date of settlement, with any changes in value recognised the 
statement of income. 

As of December 31, 2021, the fair value of the liability was determined by using Millicom's share price (using a Black-Scholes model 
would not result in material differences) and amounts to $3 million (the expense for the year is for the same amount).

B.4.2. Pension and other long-term employee benefit plans 

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Pension plans 

The pension plans apply to employees who meet certain criteria (including years of service, age and participation in collective 
agreements). 

Pension and other similar employee related obligations can result from either defined contribution plans or defined benefit plans. A 
defined contribution plan is a pension plan under which the Group pays fixed contributions into a separate entity. No further 
payment obligations exist once the contributions have been paid. The contributions are recognized as employee benefit expenses 
when they are due. Prepaid contributions are recognized as assets to the extent that a cash refund or a reduction in future payments 
is available. 

Defined benefit pension plans define an amount of pension benefit that an employee will receive on retirement, usually dependent 
on one or more factors such as age, years of service and compensation. The liability recognized in the statement of financial position 
in respect of the defined benefit pension plan is the present value of the defined benefit obligation at the statement of financial 
position date less the fair value of plan assets, together with adjustments for unrecognized actuarial gains or losses and past service 
costs. The defined benefit obligation is calculated annually by independent actuaries. The present value of the defined benefit 
obligation is determined by discounting the estimated future cash outflows, using an appropriate discount rate based on maturities 
of the related pension liability. 

Re-measurement of net defined benefit liabilities are recognized in other comprehensive income and not reclassified to the 
statement of income in subsequent years. 

Past service costs are recognized in the statement of income on the earlier of the date of the plan amendment or curtailment, and 
the date that the Group recognizes related restructuring costs. 

Net interest is calculated by applying the discount rate to the net defined benefit asset/liability. 

Long-service plans 

Long-service plans apply for Colombian subsidiary UNE employees with more than five years of service whereby additional bonuses 
are paid to employees that reach each incremental length of service milestone (from five to 40 years). 

Termination plans 

In addition, UNE has a number of employee defined benefit plans. The level of benefits provided under the plans depends on 
collective employment agreements and Colombian labor regulations. There are no defined assets related to the plans, and UNE 
make payments to settle obligations under the plans out of available cash balances. 

At December 31, 2021, the defined benefit obligation liability amounted to $42 million (2020: $59 million) and payments expected in 
the plans in future years totals $81 million (2020: $95 million). The average duration of the defined benefit obligation at December 
31, 2021 is 5 years (2020: 6 years). The termination plans apply to employees that joined UNE prior to December 30, 1996. The level 
of payments depends on the number of years in which the employee has worked before retirement or termination of their contract 
with UNE. 

Except for the UNE pension plan described above, there are no other significant defined benefits plans in the Group. 

B.4.3. Directors and executive management

The remuneration of the members of the Board of Directors comprises an annual fee and shares. Director remuneration is proposed 
by the Nomination Committee and approved by the shareholders at their Annual General Meeting (AGM). 

Remuneration charge for the Board (gross of withholding tax) 

Chairperson      .........................................................................................................................................

Other members of the Board      ..............................................................................................................

Total (i)    ................................................................................................................................................

Shares beneficially owned by the Directors

2021

2020

2019

(US$ ’000)

300 

1,188 

1,488 

300 

1,338 

1,638 

366 

1,557 

1,923 

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Chairperson   ....................................................................................................................................................................

Other members of the Board   .........................................................................................................................................

Total (i)   ...........................................................................................................................................................................

167 

2021

2020

(number of shares)

18,634 

61,022 

79,656 

13,427 

52,593 

66,020 

(i)

Cash compensation is denominated in USD. Share based compensation based on the market value of Millicom shares on the corresponding AGM date 
(2021: in total 24,737 shares; 2020: in total 32,358 shares; 2019: in total 19,483 shares-includes 2,876 additional shares that were awarded for the 
period from the 9 January 2019 date of listing on the Nasdaq Stock Market in the US and the date of the 2019 AGM). Net remuneration comprised 73% 
in shares and 27% in cash (SEK) (2020: 71% in shares and 29% in cash; 2019: 73% in shares and 27% in cash). 

The remuneration of executive management of Millicom comprises an annual base salary, an annual bonus, share based 
compensation, social security contributions, pension contributions and other benefits. Bonus and share based compensation plans 
(see note B.4.1.) are based on actual and future performance. Share based compensation is granted once a year by the 
Compensation Committee of the Board. 

If the employment of Millicom’s senior executives is terminated, severance of up to 12 months’ salary is potentially payable. 

The annual base salary and other benefits of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the Executive Vice Presidents (Executive team) are 
proposed by the Compensation Committee and approved by the Board. 

Remuneration charge for the Executive Team 

CEO

CFO

(US$ ’000)

Executive 
Team (5 
members)

2021

Base salary  ...........................................................................................................................................

Bonus    ...................................................................................................................................................

Pension      ................................................................................................................................................

Other benefits     .....................................................................................................................................

MSU (v)   .................................................................................................................................................

Total before share based compensation    .......................................................................................

Share based compensation(i)(ii) in respect of 2021 LTIP (iv)   .............................................................

1,185 

2,164 

284 

88 

    991 

4,712 

7,914 

Total   ....................................................................................................................................................

12,626 

708 

969 

106 

46 

198 

2,027 

1,652 

3,679 

2,783 

2,718 

652 

791 

   545 

7,489 

5,383 

12,872 

Executive 
Team (9 
members) (iii)

CEO

CFO

(US$ ’000)

2020

Base salary  ...........................................................................................................................................

Bonus    ...................................................................................................................................................

Pension      ................................................................................................................................................

Other benefits     .....................................................................................................................................

Total before share based compensation    .......................................................................................

Share based compensation(i)(ii) in respect of 2020 LTIP (iv)   .............................................................

Total   ....................................................................................................................................................

1,173 

1,301 

285 

82 

2,841 

7,114 

9,955 

670 

509 

100 

38 

1,317 

1,834 

3,151 

2,612 

1,837 

663 

303 

5,414 

3,796 

9,210 

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Executive 
team  
(9 members)

CEO

CFO

(US$ ’000)

2019

Base salary  ...........................................................................................................................................

Bonus    ...................................................................................................................................................

Pension      ................................................................................................................................................

Other benefits     .....................................................................................................................................

Termination benefits     ...........................................................................................................................

Total before share based compensation    .......................................................................................

Share based compensation(i)(ii) in respect of 2019 LTIP (iv)   .............................................................

Total   ....................................................................................................................................................

1,167 

1,428 

279 

50 

— 

2,924 

5,625 

8,549 

654 

626 

98 

260 

— 

1,639 

1,576 

3,215 

3,498 

2,098 

798 

1,521 

863 

8,779 

5,965 

14,743 

(i)
(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

(v)

See note B.4.1. 
Share awards of 196,904 and 211,578 were granted in 2021 under the 2019 LTIPs to the CEO, and Executive Team (2020: 153,894 and 135,269, 
respectively; 2019: 102,122 and 135,480, respectively). 
'Other Executives' includes compensation paid in 2020 to Rachel Samren former Chief External Affairs Officer (departure August 31, 2020) and to HL 
Rogers former Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer (departure January 1, 2020). Additionally other Benefits' for 'Other Executives' include medical 
and dental insurance for Daniel Loria, former CHRO.

Calculated based on the closing Millicom share price on the Nasdaq in the US at the grant date.

Represents the amount earned in 2021.

Share ownership and unvested share awards granted from Company equity plans to the Executive team 

2021

Share ownership (vested from equity plans and otherwise acquired)      .............................................

Share awards not vested   .....................................................................................................................

2020

Share ownership (vested from equity plans and otherwise acquired)      .............................................

Share awards not vested   .....................................................................................................................

B.5. Other non-operating (expenses) income, net

CEO

Executive 
team

Total

(number of shares)

232,562 

278,666 

194,432 

325,250 

221,407 

295,568 

169,725 

297,317 

453,969 

574,234 

364,157 

622,567 

Non-operating items mainly comprise changes in fair value of derivatives and the impact of foreign exchange fluctuations on the 
results of the Group. 

December 31

Note

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

Change in fair value of derivatives     ............................................................. C.7.2.

Change in fair value in investment in Jumia (i)    .........................................

Change in fair value in investment in HT (ii)   .............................................. C.7.3.

Change in value of call option asset and put option liability      ................... C.7.4.

Exchange gains (losses), net    .......................................................................

Other non-operating income (expenses), net    ...........................................

Total

3 

— 

18 

(31)

(43)

3 

(50)

(11)

(18)

(16)

5 

(69)

3 

(106)

0 

(38)

312 

(25) 

(32) 

10 

227 

(i) In June 2020, Millicom disposed of its entire stake in Jumia for a total net consideration of $29 million, triggering a net gain on disposal of $15 million 
recorded in the statement of income under ‘other operating income (expenses), net’. The changes in fair value prior to the disposal were shown under "Other 
non-operating (expenses) income, net" .

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(ii)  In  June  2021,  Millicom  disposed  of  its  entire  stake  in  HT  for  a  total  net  consideration  of $163  million,  triggering  a  net  loss  on  disposal  of  $15  million 
recorded in the statement of income under ‘other operating income (expenses), net’. The changes in fair value prior to the disposal were shown under "Other 
non-operating (expenses) income, net" 

Foreign exchange gains and losses 

Transactions denominated in a currency other than the functional currency are translated into the functional currency using 
exchange rates prevailing at the transaction dates. Foreign exchange gains and losses resulting from the settlement of such 
transactions, and on translation of monetary assets and liabilities denominated in currencies other than the functional currency at 
year-end exchange rates, are recognized in the consolidated statement of income, except when deferred in equity as qualifying cash 
flow hedges. 

B.6. Taxation

B.6.1. Income tax expense 

Tax mainly comprises income taxes of subsidiaries and withholding taxes on intra-group dividends and royalties for use of Millicom 
trademarks and brands. Millicom operations are in jurisdictions with income tax rates of 10% to 35% levied on either revenue or 
profit before income tax (2020: 10% to 35%; 2019: 10% to 35%). Income tax relating to items recognized directly in equity is 
recognized in equity and not in the consolidated statement of income. 

Income tax charge 

Income tax (charge) credit

Withholding tax    ...................................................................................................................................

Other income tax relating to the current year    ...................................................................................

Adjustments in respect of prior years     ................................................................................................

Total

Deferred tax (charge) credit

Origination and reversal of temporary differences    ...........................................................................

Effect of change in tax rates   ................................................................................................................

Tax income (expense) before valuation allowances  ..........................................................................

Effect of valuation allowances     ............................................................................................................

Total

Adjustments in respect of prior years     ................................................................................................

Tax (charge) credit on continuing operations    ...................................................................................

Tax (charge) credit on discontinuing operations   ...............................................................................

Total tax (charge) credit     ...................................................................................................................

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

(56)

(112) 

(18)

(186)

73 

29 

102 

(87)

15 

(18)

(3)

(189) 

— 

(189)

(83)

(65)

(29)

(177)

99 

(5)

94 

(19)

75 

— 

75

(102) 

(2) 

(104)

(56) 

(88) 

(7) 

(151) 

58 

(8)

50 

(9) 

41 

(10) 

31 

(120) 

(2) 

(122)

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For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019

170 

Reconciliation between the tax expense and tax at the weighted average statutory tax rate is as follows: 

Income tax calculation 

2021

Total

2020

2019

Continuing 
operations

Discontinued 
operations

Total

Continuing 
operations

Discontinued 
operations

Total

Profit before tax    ...............................................................

732 

Tax at the weighted average statutory rate      ...................

(154)

Effect of:

Items taxed at a different rate   .........................................

Change in tax rates on deferred tax balances    ................

Expenditure not deductible and income not taxable    ....

Unrelieved withholding tax .............................................

Accounting for associates and joint ventures     ................

Movement in deferred tax on unremitted earnings     ......

9 

29 

79 

(55)

41 

(15)

Unrecognized deferred tax assets ...................................

(144)

Recognition of previously unrecognized deferred tax 
assets    ................................................................................

Adjustments in respect of prior years    .............................

57 

(36)

Total tax (charge) credit   ................................................

(189)

Weighted average statutory tax rate  ..............................

 21.0 %

Effective tax rate     ..............................................................

 25.8 %

(271)

82 

1 

(5)

(106)

(83) 

42 

15 

(27) 

8 

(29) 

(102)

 30.3 %

 -37.5 %

B.6.2. Current tax assets and liabilities 

(US$ millions)

(11)    (282)

3 

85 

— 

— 

1 

(5) 

(3)    (109)

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(2)

(83) 

42 

15 

(27) 

8 

(31) 

218 

(37) 

(1)

(8)

(37) 

(56) 

36 

9 

(20) 

11 

(17) 

59 

277 

(11) 

(48) 

— 

— 

9 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(1) 

(8) 

(28) 

(56) 

36 

9 

(20) 

11 

(17) 

(2)

(104) 

(120)

(2)   

(122)

 30.1 %

 -36.8 %

 17.0 %

 55.0 %

 17.3 %

 44.0 %

Current tax assets and liabilities for current and prior periods are measured at the amount expected to be recovered from or paid to 
the taxation authorities. The tax rate and tax laws used to compute the amount are those enacted or substantively enacted by the 
statement of financial position date. 

B.6.3. Deferred tax 

Deferred tax is calculated using the liability method on temporary differences at the statement of financial position date between 
the tax base of assets and liabilities and their carrying amount for financial reporting purposes. 

Deferred tax liabilities are recognized for all taxable temporary differences, except where the deferred tax liability arises from the 
initial recognition of goodwill or of an asset or liability in a transaction that is not a business combination and, at the time of the 
transaction, affects neither accounting, nor taxable profit or loss. 

Deferred tax assets are recognized for all temporary differences including unused tax credits and tax losses, to the extent that it is 
probable that taxable profit will be available against which the deductible temporary differences can be utilized, except where the 
deferred tax assets relate to deductible temporary differences from initial recognition of an asset or liability in a transaction that is 
not a business combination, and, at the time of the transaction, affects neither accounting, nor taxable profit or loss. It is probable 
that taxable profit will be available when there are sufficient taxable temporary differences relating to the same tax authority and the 
same taxable entity which are expected to reverse in the same period as the expected reversal of the deductible temporary 
difference. 

The carrying amount of deferred tax assets is reviewed at each statement of financial position date and reduced to the extent that it 
is no longer probable that sufficient taxable profit will be available to utilize them. Unrecognized deferred tax assets are reassessed 
at each statement of financial position date and are recognized to the extent it is probable that future taxable profit will enable the 
asset to be recovered. 

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured at the tax rate expected to apply in the year when the assets are realized or liabilities 
settled, based on tax rates and tax laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted at the statement of financial position date. 

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For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019

171 

Deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities are offset where legally enforceable set off rights exist and the deferred taxes relate to 
the same taxable entity and the same taxation authority. 

Deferred tax 

Fixed assets

Unused tax 
losses

Unremitted 
earnings

Other

Offset

Total

(US$ millions)

Balance at December 31, 2019   .....................

Deferred tax assets     ...........................................

Deferred tax liabilities   .......................................

Balance at December 31, 2019   .....................

(Charge)/credit to income statement    ..............

Change in scope    ...............................................

Exchange differences     .......................................

Balance at December 31, 2020   .....................

Deferred tax assets     ...........................................

Deferred tax liabilities   .......................................

Balance at December 31, 2020   .....................

Change in scope    ...............................................

(Charge)/credit to income statement (i)    ..........

Charge to Other Comprehensive Income ........

Exchange differences     .......................................

Balance at Balance at 31 December 2021   ...

Deferred tax assets     ...........................................

Deferred tax liabilities   .......................................

Balance at December 31, 2021   .....................

(223)

84 

(307)

(223)

81 

— 

— 

(142)

97 

(239)

(142)

(9)

23 

— 

(2)

(130)

97 

(227)

(130)

34 

34 

— 

34

150 

— 

3 

187

187 

— 

187

— 

(27)

— 

(4)

156

156 

— 

156

(25)

— 

(25)

(25)

15 

— 

(1)

(11)

— 

(11)

(11)

— 

(15)

— 

— 

(26)

— 

(26)

(26)

129 

134 

(5)

129

(171) 

— 

(4)

(46)

102 

(148) 

(46)

3 

16 

(1)

(6)

(34)

162 

(196) 

(34)

— 

(52)

52 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(189) 

189 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(235) 

235 

— 

(85) 

200 

(285) 

(85) 

75 

— 

(2) 

(12) 

197 

(209) 

(12) 

(6) 

(3) 

(1) 

(12) 

(34) 

180 

(214) 

(34) 

(i) The movement in the deferred tax balance includes the net effect of the derecognition and recognition of certain deferred tax assets in Colombia (a net 
negative  movement of $30 million).

Deferred tax assets have not been recognized in respect of the following deductible temporary differences: 

Fixed assets

Unused tax 
losses

Other

Total

(US$ millions)

At December 31, 2021    .............................................................................................

At December 31, 2020    .............................................................................................

117 

57 

4,856 

4,668 

103 

218 

5,076 

4,943 

Unrecognized tax losses carryforward related to continuing operations expire as follows: 

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

Expiry:

Within one year  ...................................................................................................................................

Within one to five years   ......................................................................................................................

After five years     .....................................................................................................................................

No expiry       .............................................................................................................................................

Total   ....................................................................................................................................................

1 

2 

1,232 

3,621 

4,856 

3 

3 

1,089 

3,573 

4,668 

1 

2 

493 

4,209 

4,705 

With effect from 2017, Luxembourg tax losses incurred may be carried forward for a maximum of 17 years. Losses incurred before 
2017 may be carried forward without limitation of time. 

At December 31, 2021, Millicom had $725 million of unremitted earnings of Millicom operating subsidiaries for which no deferred 
tax liabilities were recognized (2020: $621 million; 2019: $697 million). Except for intragroup dividends to be paid out of 2021 profits 

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019

172 

in 2022 for which deferred tax of $26 million (2020: $11 million; 2019 $26 million) has been provided, it is anticipated that intra-
group dividends paid in future periods will be made out of profits of future periods. 

B.7. Earnings per share

Basic earnings (loss) per share are calculated by dividing net profit for the year attributable to equity holders of the Company by the 
weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding during each year. 

Diluted earnings (loss) per share are calculated by dividing the net profit for the year attributable to equity holders of the Company 
by the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding during each year, plus the weighted average number of dilutive 
potential shares. 

Net profit/(loss) used in the earnings (loss) per share computation 

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

Basic and Diluted

Net profit (loss) attributable to equity holders from continuing operations      ...................................

Net profit (loss) attributable to equity holders from discontinued operations    ...............................
Net profit/(loss)  attributable to all equity holders to determine the basic profit (loss)  per 
share    ...................................................................................................................................................

591 

— 

590 

(332) 

(12)

(344)

93 

57 

149

Weighted average number of shares in the earnings (loss) per share computation 

Weighted average number of ordinary shares (excluding treasury shares) for basic earnings 
(loss) per share .....................................................................................................................................

Potential incremental shares    ..............................................................................................................
Weighted average number of ordinary shares (excluding treasury shares) adjusted for 
the effect of dilution

2021

2020

2019

(thousands of shares)

101,129 

101,172 

101,144 

— 

— 

— 

101,129 

101,172 

101,144 

C. Capital structure and financing

C.1. Share capital, share premium and reserves

Common shares are classified as equity. Incremental costs directly attributable to the issue of new shares are shown in equity as a 
deduction from the proceeds. 

Where any Group company purchases the Company’s share capital, the consideration paid, including any directly attributable 
incremental costs, is shown under Treasury shares and deducted from equity attributable to the Company’s equity holders until the 
shares are canceled, reissued or disposed of. Where such shares are subsequently sold or reissued, any consideration received, net of 
any directly attributable incremental costs and the related income tax effects is included in equity attributable to the Company’s 
equity holders. 

Share capital, share premium 

Authorized and registered share capital (number of shares)      .............................................................................

133,333,200 

133,333,200 

Subscribed and fully paid up share capital (number of shares)  ..........................................................................

101,739,217 

101,739,217 

Par value per share ................................................................................................................................................

Share capital (US$ millions)      ..................................................................................................................................

Share premium (US$ millions)  ..............................................................................................................................

Total (US$ millions)    ............................................................................................................................................

1.50 

153 

476 

628 

1.50 

153 

478 

630 

2021 (i)

2020

(i) On  December  13,  2021,  Millicom's  Board  of  Directors  proposed  to  increase  the  authorized  share  capital  of  the  Company  to $300  million  divided  into 
200,000,000 shares with a par value of $1.50 each, through an extraordinary general meeting ("EGM"). The proposal has been ratified at the EGM which took 
place on February 28, 2022. 

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Other equity reserves 

173 

Equity settled 
transaction 
reserve

Hedge 
reserve

Currency 
translation 
reserve

Pension 
obligation 
reserve

Total

Legal reserve

(US$ millions)

As of January 1, 2019    .....................................

Share based compensation     ..............................

Issuance of shares – 2015, 2016, 2017 LTIPs     ....
Remeasurements of post-employment 
benefit obligations     ...........................................

Cash flow hedge reserve movement    ...............

Currency translation movement     ......................

Effect of restructuring in Tanzania    ...................

As of December 31, 2019    ...............................

Share based compensation     ..............................

Issuance of shares –2016, 2017, 2018 LTIPs    .....
Remeasurements of post-employment 
benefit obligations     ...........................................

Cash flow hedge reserve movement    ...............
Currency translation reserved recycled to 
statement of income    ........................................

Currency translation movement     ......................

As of December 31, 2020    ...............................

Share based compensation     ..............................

Issuance of shares –2017, 2018, 2019 LTIPs    .....
Remeasurements of post-employment 
benefit obligations     ...........................................

Cash flow hedge reserve movement    ...............

Currency translation movement     ......................

As of December 31, 2021    ...............................

16 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

16 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

16 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

16 

47 

29 

(25)

— 

— 

— 

— 

52 

24 

(26)

— 

— 

— 

— 

50 

18 

(25)

— 

— 

— 

43 

(1)

— 

— 

— 

(16)

— 

— 

(18)

— 

— 

— 

(1)

— 

— 

(19)

— 

— 

— 

14 

1 

(3)

(599)

— 

— 

— 

— 

(2)

9 

(593)

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(12)

(605)

— 

— 

— 

— 

(41)

(646)

(3)

— 

— 

0 

— 

— 

— 

(2)

— 

— 

(2)

— 

— 

— 

(4)

— 

— 

1 

— 

— 

(3)

(538)

29 

(25) 

0 

(16) 

(2) 

9 

(544)

24 

(26) 

(2)

(1) 

— 

(12) 

(562)

18 

(25) 

1 

14 

(41) 

(594)

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For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019

C.1.1. Legal reserve 

174 

If Millicom International Cellular S.A. reports an annual net profit on a non-consolidated basis, Luxembourg law requires 
appropriation of an amount equal to at least 5% of the annual net profit to a legal reserve until such reserve equals 10% of the issued 
share capital. This reserve is not available for dividend distribution. No appropriation was required in 2020 or 2021 as the 10% 
minimum level was reached in 2011 and maintained each subsequent year. 

C.1.2. Equity settled transaction reserve 

The cost of LTIPs is recognized as an increase in the equity-settled transaction reserve over the period in which the performance 
and/or service conditions are rendered. When shares under the LTIPs vest and are issued the corresponding reserve is transferred to 
share premium. 

C.1.3. Hedge reserve 

The effective portions of changes in value of cash flow hedges are recorded in the hedge reserve (see note C.1. ). 

C.1.4. Currency translation reserve 

In the financial statements, the relevant captions in the statements of financial position of subsidiaries without US dollar functional 
currencies are translated to US dollars using the closing exchange rate. Statements of income or statement of income captions 
(including those of joint ventures and associates) are translated to US dollars at monthly average exchange rates during the year. 
The currency translation reserve includes foreign exchange gains and losses arising from these translations. When the Group 
disposes of or loses control or significant influence over a foreign operation, exchange differences that were recorded in equity are 
recognized in the consolidated statement of income as part of gain or loss on sale or loss of control and/or significant influence.  

C.2. Dividend distributions

On May 4, 2021 and on June 25, 2020, as a result of the uncertainties triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and Group's shareholders 
consciousness to protect the Group's liquidity, the shareholders decided not to proceed to the payment of a dividend related to 
2020 and 2019 profits, respectively.

On May 2, 2019, a dividend distribution of $2.64 per share from Millicom’s retained profits at December 31, 2018, was approved by 
the shareholders at the AGM and paid in equal portions in May and November 2019. 

The ability of the Company to make dividend payments is subject to, among other things, the terms of indebtedness, legal 
restrictions and the ability to repatriate funds from Millicom’s various operations. At December 31, 2021, $486 million (December 31, 
2020: $310 million; December 31, 2019: $306 million) of Millicom’s retained profits represent statutory reserves that are unavailable 
to be distributed to owners of the Company. 

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C.3. Debt and financing

Debt and financing by type (i) 

175 

Note

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

Debt and financing due after more than one year

Bonds     ...................................................................................................................................................

Banks   ....................................................................................................................................................

Other financing (ii)      ..............................................................................................................................

Total non-current financing  ................................................................................................................

Less: portion payable within one year  ................................................................................................

Total non-current financing due after more than one year   ........................................................

Debt and financing due within one year

Bonds     ...................................................................................................................................................

Banks   ....................................................................................................................................................

Total current debt and financing  ....................................................................................................

Add: portion of non-current debt payable within one year  ..............................................................

Total   ....................................................................................................................................................

Total debt and financing    ..................................................................................................................

See note D.1.1 for further details on maturity profile of the Group debt and financing. 

C.3.1.

C.3.2.

C.3.1.

C.3.2.

4,030 

1,851 

36 

5,916 

(12)

5,904 

61 

1,768 

1,828 

12 

1,840 

7,744 

4,253 

1,337 

41 

5,631 

(54)

5,578 

44 

15 

59 

54 

113 

5,691 

In July 2018, the Company issued a COP144,054.5 million /$50 million bilateral facility with IIC (Inter-American Development Bank) for a USD indexed 
to COP Note. The note bears interest at 9.450% p.a.. This COP Note is used as net investment hedge of the net assets of our operations in Colombia. 

(i)

(ii) 

Debt and financing by location 

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

Millicom International Cellular S.A. (Luxembourg)   ............................................................................................................

4,020 

2,504 

Guatemala (i)  ...................................................................................................................................................................

Colombia   .........................................................................................................................................................................

Paraguay   .........................................................................................................................................................................

Bolivia    ..............................................................................................................................................................................

Panama     ...........................................................................................................................................................................

Tanzania  ..........................................................................................................................................................................

Costa Rica    ........................................................................................................................................................................

El Salvador  .......................................................................................................................................................................

605 

802 

751 

310 

846 

189 

121 

100 

— 

803 

738 

337 

869 

203 

119 

118 

Total debt and financing   .............................................................................................................................................

7,744 

5,691 

(i) 

Tigo Guatemala is fully consolidated since the acquisition of the remaining 45% shareholding on November 12, 2021. See note A.1.2. for further details. 

Debt and financings are initially recognized at fair value, net of directly attributable transaction costs. They are subsequently 
measured at amortized cost using the effective interest rate method or at fair value. Amortized cost is calculated by taking into 
account any discount or premium on acquisition and any fees or costs that are an integral part of the effective interest rate. Any 
difference between the initial amount and the maturity amount is recognized in the consolidated statement of income over the 
period of the borrowing. Borrowings are classified as current liabilities, unless the Group has an unconditional right to defer 
settlement of the liability for at least 12 months from the statement of financial position date. 

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C.3.1. Bond financing 

Bond financing 

SEK Variable Rate Notes    ................................

USD 4.500% Senior Notes    .............................

USD 6.625% Senior Notes    .............................

USD 6.250% Senior Notes    .............................

USD 5.125% Senior Notes    .............................

USD 5.875% Senior Notes    .............................

PYG 8.750% Notes (tranche A)  ......................

PYG 9.250% Notes (tranche B)     ......................

PYG 10.000% Notes (tranche C)   ....................

PYG 9.250% Notes (tranche D)   ......................

PYG 10.000% Notes (tranche E)    ....................

PYG 9.250% Notes (tranche F)   ......................

PYG 10.000% Notes (tranche G)     ....................

PYG 6.000% Notes (tranche H)  ......................

PYG 6.700% Notes (tranche I)    .......................

PYG 7.500% Notes (tranche J)     .......................

BOB 5.800% Notes     .........................................

BOB 4.850% Notes     .........................................

BOB 3.950% Notes     .........................................

BOB 4.600% Notes     .........................................

BOB 4.300% Notes     .........................................

BOB 4.300% Notes     .........................................

BOB 4.700% Notes     .........................................

BOB 5.300% Notes     .........................................

BOB 5.000% Notes     .........................................

UNE Bond 2 (tranches A and B)   .....................

UNE Bond 3 (tranche A)   .................................

UNE Bond 3 (tranche B)   .................................

UNE Bond 3 (tranche C)   .................................

UNE Bond 6.600%  ..........................................

UNE Bond 4 (tranche A)   .................................

UNE Bond 4 (tranche B)   .................................

UNE Bond 4 (tranche C)   .................................

USD 4.500% Senior Notes    .............................

Cable Onda Bonds 5.750%   ............................

Total bond financing   ..................................

(i)

STIBOR – Swedish Interbank Offered Rate. 

Luxembourg

(1) SEK Notes 

Note

Country

Maturity

1  Luxembourg

2  Luxembourg

3  Luxembourg

4  Luxembourg

5  Luxembourg

6  Paraguay

6  Paraguay

6  Paraguay

6  Paraguay

6  Paraguay

6  Paraguay

6  Paraguay

6  Paraguay

6  Paraguay

6  Paraguay

6  Paraguay

7  Bolivia

7  Bolivia

7  Bolivia

7  Bolivia

7  Bolivia

7  Bolivia

7  Bolivia

7  Bolivia

7  Bolivia

8  Colombia

8  Colombia

8  Colombia

8  Colombia

8  Colombia

8  Colombia

8  Colombia

8  Colombia

9  Panama

9  Panama

2024

2031

2026

2029

2028

2027

2024

2026

2029

2026

2029

2027

2030

2026

2028

2031

2026

2023

2024

2024

2029

2022

2024

2026

2026

2023

2024

2026

2036

2030

2028

2031

2036

2030

2025

Interest Rate 
%

STIBOR (i) + 
2.350%

 4.500 %

 6.625 %

 6.250 %

 5.125 %

 5.875 %

 8.750 %

 9.250 %

 10.000 %

 9.250 %

 10.000 %

 9.250 %

 10.000 %

 6.000 %

 6.700 %

 7.500 %

 5.800 %

 4.850 %

 3.950 %

 4.600 %

 4.300 %

 4.300 %

 4.700 %

 5.300 %

 5.000 %

CPI + 4.76%

 9.350 %

CPI + 4.15%

CPI + 4.89%

 6.600 %

 5.560 %

CPI + 2.61

CPI + 3.18

 4.500 %

 5.750 %

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

220 

777 

147 

670 

445 

556 

17 

7 

9 

1 

4 

2 

3 

14 

21 

23 

50 

28 

21 

40 

17 

11 

25 

9 

54 

38 

40 

64 

32 

38 

29 

71 

21 

241 

494 

495 

743 

493 

558 

17 

7 

9 

1 

4 

2 

3 

— 

— 

— 

50 

42 

29 

40 

19 

20 

28 

11 

61 

44 

47 

74 

37 

44 

— 

— 

— 

587 

— 

4,090 

586 

99 

4,297 

In May 2019, MIC S.A. completed its offering of  a  SEK 2 billion floating rate senior unsecured sustainability bond due 2024. The bond 
carries  a  floating  coupon  of  3-month  Stibor+235bps  which  we  swapped  with  various  banks  to  hedge  its  interest  rate  exposure, 

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pursuant to which it will effectively pay fixed-rate coupons in US dollars between 4.990% and 4.880% (see D.1.2.). The bond has been 
listed and commenced trading on the Nasdaq Stockholm sustainable bond list on June 12, 2019. Millicom is using the net proceeds 
of the bond in accordance with the Sustainability Bond Framework which includes both environmental and social investments such 
as in energy efficiencies, and the expansion of its fixed and mobile networks. Costs of issuance of  $2.4 million is amortized over the 
five year life of the bond (the effective interest rate is 2.600%)

(2)

(2031) USD 4.500% Senior Notes 

On October 19, 2020, MIC S.A. issued $500 million aggregate principal amount of 4.500% Senior Notes due 2031. The Notes bear 
interest  at  4.500%  p.a.,  payable  semiannually  in  arrears  on  each  interest  payment  date.  Proceeds  were  used  to  early  redeem  MIC 
S.A.'s  $500 million 6.000% Senior Notes due 2025. Costs of issuance of $5.5 million is amortized over the eleven-year life of the notes 
(the effective interest rate is 4.800%). 

On  September  22,  2021,  Millicom  announced  the  early  participation  exchange  results  from  its  offer  dated  September  8,  2021; 
$302.1 million of the 6.625% Notes due 2026 were exchanged for $307.5 million of the 4.5% Notes due 2031 (at 101.812% exchange 
ratio).  The  gain  of  $15  million,  derived  from  applying  the  "modification  accounting"  under  IFRS  9  to  this  exchange,  has  been 
recorded  under  "Interest  and  other  financial  income"  in  the  statement  of  income  during  the  year  ended  December  31,  2021. 
Transaction costs attributable to this exchange amount to approximately $4 million and are amortized over the remaining life of the 
Notes due 2031.

(3)

(2026) USD 6.625% Senior Notes 

In October 2018, MIC S.A. issued $500 million aggregate principal amount of 6.625% Senior Notes due 2026. The Notes bear interest 
at  6.625%  p.a.,  payable  semiannually  in  arrears  on  each  interest  payment  date.  Proceeds  were  used  to  finance  Cable  Onda’s 
acquisition. Costs of issuance of $6 million were amortized over the eight-year life of the notes (the effective interest rate is 6.750%). 

As aforementioned, $302.1 million of the 6.625% Notes due 2026 were exchanged during 2021 for $307.5 million of newly issued 
4.5% Notes due 2031.

On February 22, 2021, Millicom redeemed 10% of the principal outstanding of its Notes due 2026, 2028 and 2029 at a price of 103%. 
This redemption followed Millicom’s announcement dated February 11, 2021. Total consideration of approximately $180 million was 
funded from cash, consistent with the Company's decision to prioritize debt reduction. The redemption premium of $5 million and 
the accelerated amortization of the upfront costs of $3 million, have been recorded in the line "Interest and other financial expenses" 
in the statement of income during the year ended December 31, 2021.

(4) 

(2029) USD 6.250% Senior Notes 

In March 2019, MIC S.A. issued $750 million of  6.250% notes due 2029. The notes bear interest at 6.250% p.a., payable semi-annually 
in arrears on March 25 and September 25 of each year, starting on September 25, 2019. The net proceeds were used to finance, in 
part, the completed Telefónica CAM Acquisitions (see note A.1.2.). Costs of issuance of  $8.2 million are amortized over the ten-year 
life of the notes (the effective interest rate is 6.360%). 

On February 22, 2021, Millicom redeemed 10% of the principal outstanding of its Notes due 2026, 2028 and 2029 at a price of 103%. 
See above.

(5)

(2028) USD 5.125% Senior Notes 

In September 2017, MIC S.A. issued a $500 million, ten-year bond due January 2028, with an interest rate of 5.125%. Costs of issuance 
of $7 million are amortized over the ten year life of the notes (effective interest rate is 5.240%). 

On February 22, 2021, Millicom redeemed 10% of the principal outstanding of its Notes due 2026, 2028 and 2029 at a price of 103%. 
See above.

Paraguay

(6)

(2027) USD 5.875% Senior Notes and (2024-2031) PYG Notes 

In  April  2019,  Telefónica  Celular  del  Paraguay  S.A.E.  (Telecel)  issued  $300  million  5.875%  senior  notes  due  2027.  The  notes  bear 
interest at 5.875% p.a., payable semi-annually in arrears on April 15 and October 15 of each year, starting on October 15, 2019. The 
net proceeds were used to finance the repurchase of the Telecel 6.750% 2022 notes. Costs of issuance of $4 million are amortized 
over  the  eight-year  life  of  the  notes  (the  effective  interest  rate  is  6.000%).  On  January  28,  2020,  Telecel  issued  at  a  premium 
$250  million  of  5.875%  Senior  Notes  due  2027  (the  "New  Notes"),  representing  an  additional  issuance  from  the  Senior  Notes 
described above. The New Notes are treated as a single class with the initial notes, and were priced at 106.375% for an implied yield 
to maturity of 4.817%. The corresponding $15 million premium received is  amortized over the Senior Notes maturity.

In May 2020, Telefónica Celular del Paraguay, S.A.E.. completed the acquisition of another Millicom subsidiary in Paraguay - Mobile 
Cash Paraguay S.A , and further on June 30, 2020,  the acquisition of Servicios y Productos Multimedios S.A.. Effective as of those 

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dates, these new entities now form part of the borrower's group for the purposes of the $550 million 5.875% Senior Notes due 2027 
issued  by  Telefónica  Celular  del  Paraguay,  S.A.E..  In  addition,  as  of  July  7,  2020  Servicios  y  Productos  Multimedios  S.A.  became 
guarantor of the 5.875% Notes due 2027. 

Between June 2019 and February 2020, Telecel registered and completed the issuance of a bond program for PYG 300,000 million 
(approximately $43 million using December 31, 2021 exchange rate) program on the Paraguayan stock market, launched in different 
series from 5 years to 10 years. 

On  October  1,  2021,  Telecel    issued  another  PYG  400,000  million  bond  (approximately  $58  million  using  December  31,  2021 
exchange rate) in three series with fixed interest rates between 6% to 7.5% and a repayment period from 5 to 10 years.

Bolivia

(7) BOB Notes 

In November 2015,  Telefónica Celular de Bolivia S.A. issued a BOB 696 million (approximately $100 million) of notes in two series, 
series A for BOB 104.4 million (approximately $15 million), with a fixed annual interest rate of 4.050%, maturing in August 2020 and 
series B for BOB 591.6 million (approximately $85 million) with a fixed annual interest rate of 4.850%, maturing in August 2023. The 
bond has coupon with interest payable semi-annually in arrears in March and September during the first two years, thereafter each 
February and August. The effective interest rate is 4.840%. These bonds are listed on the Bolivia Stock Exchange.

In August 2016, Telefónica Celular de Bolivia S.A. issued a new bond for a total amount of BOB 522 million consisting of two tranches 
(approximately $50 million and $25 million, respectively). Tranche A  and B bear fixed interest at 3.950% and 4.300%, and will mature 
in June 2024 and June 2029, respectively. These bonds are listed on the Bolivia Stock Exchange.

In October 2017, Telefónica Celular de Bolivia S.A placed approximately $80 million of local currency bonds in three tranches, which 
will  mature  in  2022,  2024  and  2026  with  a 4.300%  ,  4.700%  and  5.300%  respectively.  These  bonds  are  listed  on  the  Bolivia  Stock 
Exchange.

In July 2019 Telefónica Celular de Bolivia S.A issued two bonds one for  BOB 420 million (approximately $61 million) with a 5.000% 
coupon maturing on August 2026 and  another one for BOB 280 million (approximately $40 million) with a 4.600% coupon maturing 
on August 2024. Interest payments is semiannual and both bonds are listed on the Bolivia Stock Exchange.

In December 2020, Telefónica Celular de Bolivia S.A. issued BOB 345 million (approximately $50 million) senior notes due 2026.

Colombia

(8) UNE Bonds 

In May 2011, UNE issued a COP300 billion (approximately $126 million) bond consisting of two equal tranches with five and twelve-
year maturities. Interest rates are variable and depend on the tranche. Tranche A had variable interest, based on CPI, in Colombian 
peso and paid in Colombian peso. Tranche B bears variable interest, based on CPI, in Colombian peso and paid in Colombian peso. 
UNE applied the proceeds to finance its investment plan. Tranche A matured in October 2016 and tranche B will mature in October 
2023. 

In  May  2016,  UNE  issued  a  COP540  billion  bond  (approximately  $176  million)  consisting  of  three  tranches  (approximately  $52 
million,  $83  million  and  $41  million  respectively).  Interest  rates  are  either  fixed  or  variable  depending  on  the  tranche.  Tranche  A 
bears fixed interest at 9.350%, while tranche B and C bear variable interest, based on CPI, (respective margins of CPI + 4.150% and 
CPI  +  4.890%),  in  Colombian  peso.  UNE  applied  the  proceeds  to  finance  its  investment  plan  and  repay  one  bond  (COP150  billion 
tranche). Tranches A, B and C will mature in May 2024, May 2026 and May 2036, respectively. 

In March 2020, UNE  issued local bonds for an amount of COP 150 billion (approximately $44 million) to repay an existing bond for 
the same value, with a 6.600% fixed rate for 10 years.

On February 16, 2021, UNE issued under the approved local bond program, a COP 485,680 million bond (approximately $138 million 
using the transaction date exchange rate) with 3 maturities; Series 7 years at 5.56% fixed rate, Series 10 years at CPI plus 2.61% and 
Series 15 years at CPI plus 3.18% margin. With the aim to improve UNE’s natural hedge against local currency, the bond proceeds 
were used on March 26, 2021 to partially repay 50% of the $300 million syndicated loan of Colombia Movil S.A. (originally due in 
December 2024).

Panama

(9) Cable Onda Bonds 

In  August  2015,  Cable  Onda  issued  local  bonds  in  Panama  for  a  total  amount  of  $185  million.  These  bonds  were  listed  on  the 
Panama Stock Exchange and borne a fixed annual interest of 5.750% and were initially due in August 2025. In December 2020, Cable 
Onda early repaid $85 million on these bonds, at par. The remaining $100 million were early repaid in 2021.

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In  November  2019,  Cable  Onda  issued $600  million  aggregate  principal  amount  of 4.500%  senior  notes  due  2030  payable  in  U.S. 
dollars, registered with the Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores de Panamá and listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and 
on the Panamá Stock Exchange. The Notes bear interest from November 1, 2019 at a rate of 4.500% per annum, payable on January 
30, 2020 for the first payment and thereafter semiannually in arrears on each interest payment date. The proceeds were used to fund 
the Panama Acquisition and to  refinance  certain local financing. Costs of issuance  of  $16  million, which include an original issue 
discount (OID) is amortized over the ten-year life of the notes (the effective interest rate is 4.690%). 

C.3.2. Bank and Development Financial Institution financing 

Note

Country

Maturity range

Interest rate 

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

Fixed rate loans

PYG Long-term loans    .......................................

1 Paraguay

USD - Long-term loans   .....................................

2 Panama

BOB Long-term loans .......................................

3 Bolivia

GTQ Long-term loans   .......................................

9 Guatemala

Variable rate loans

USD Long-term loans    .......................................

4 Costa Rica

USD Long-term loans    .......................................

4 Costa Rica

CRC Long-term loans      .......................................

4 Costa Rica

USD Long-term loans    .......................................

5 Tanzania

TZS Long-term loans   ........................................

5 Tanzania

COP Long-term loans    .......................................

6 Colombia

USD Long-term loans    .......................................

6 Colombia

2022-2026

2022-2026

2022-2026

2025-2027

2023

2026

2026

2022-2025

2022-2025

2025-2031

2024

USD Credit Facility / Senior Unsecured Term 
Loan Facility    ......................................................

USD Credit Facility / Senior Unsecured Term 
Loan Facility    ......................................................

7 El Salvador

2021-2023

7 El Salvador

USD Long-term loans (i)    ...................................

8 Luxembourg

USD Bridge Loan   ..............................................

8 Luxembourg

USD DNB Bilateral  .............................................
Total Bank and Development Financial 
Institution financing    ......................................

8 Luxembourg

2026

2025

2022

2026

Fixed

Fixed

Fixed

Fixed

Variable

Variable

Variable

Variable

Variable

Variable

Variable

Variable

Variable

Variable

Variable

Variable

94 

259 

54 

605 

— 

33 

88 

150 

38 

322 

148 

— 

99 

(4) 

1,632 

99 

137 

185 

37 

na

119 

— 

162 

41 

262 

296 

118 

— 

(5) 

— 

— 

3,618 

1,353 

(i)

Relates to the amortized costs of the undrawn RCF that the Company entered into in October 2020 - see point 8 below. 

1.

Paraguay

In October 2015, Telefónica Celular del Paraguay S.A.E. entered into a five -year loan facility with Banco Itau for PGY 257,700 million 
(approximately $40 million) which bears a fixed annual interest rate. The final maturity of the loan was on September 10,  2020.

In  July  2018,  Telefónica  Celular  del  Paraguay  S.A.E.  executed  a  seven-year  loan  with  Regional  Bank  for  PYG    115,000  million 
(approximately $18 million) with a final maturity in 2025.

In January 2019, Telefónica Celular del Paraguay S.A.E. obtained a seven-year loan from BBVA Bank for PYG 177,000 million which is 
due on November, 26, 2025. 

In September 2019, Telefónica Celular del Paraguay S.A.E. executed an amended and restated agreement with Banco Continental 
S.A.E.C.A.,  to consolidate three existing loans, for a PYG 370,000 million (approximately $57 million). The new loan has a maturity of 
7 years. 

In January 2020, Telecel refinanced its previous loan with Banco Itaú and obtained a new long-term loan from Banco Itaú Paraguay 
S.A., for Gs. 154.6 billion (approximately $24 million) , amortizing semi-annually and maturing on December 27, 2024. This loan was
refinanced with a new loan obtained with Banco GNB on December 2021.

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In December 2020, Telecel executed a credit agreement with Banco Continental S.A.E.C.A  for PYG 200,000 million (approximately 
$29 million using the exchange rate as of December 31, 2020) with a duration of 2.5 years. Main aim is to refinance outstanding bank 
loans with maturities from 2021 to 2025.

2.

Panama

In  August  2019,    Cable  Onda    S.A    entered  into two  credit  agreements,  one  with  Banco  Nacional  de  Panama  S.A  ,  for $75  million 
which  bears  a  fixed  interest  and  has  a  5  year  duration  and  another  one  with  the  Bank  of  Nova  Scotia  (Sucursal  Panama)  for $75 
million with a fixed interest and a five year duration to finance and refinance working capital and capital expenditures. In October 
2020 and September 2021, the $75 million credit agreement with Banco Nacional de Panama S.A. has been early repaid. 

In  December  2020,  Cable  Onda  S.A.  executed  a  credit  agreement  with  Bank  of  Nova  Scotia  with  a  60  month  duration  for  
$110 million  divided into 2  tranches. Tranche A ($85 million) was disbursed on  December  2020 to partially recall the  Local  Bond 
($85 million) and Tranche B ($25 million) was disbursed on March 1, 2021.

On August 31, 2021,  Cable Onda executed an agreement with Bank of Scotia for $75 million at a fixed rate. The facility was used to 
repay Cable Onda's remaining balance under the 5.75% local bond, which was initially due on September 3, 2025.

3.

Bolivia

In June 2018, Telefónica Celular de Bolivia S.A.. entered into a two tranche loan agreement with Banco BISA S.A  for  BOB 69.6 million 
(approximately $10 million) each, with a fixed interest rate. The loans have a term of 7 years. 

In November 2019, they executed a new loan with Banco de Crédito de Bolivia S.A for Bs. 78 million (approximately $11 million), with 
semiannual payments and a fixed interest rate. The loan has a term of 4 years. 

In  October  2021,  Tigo  Bolivia  signed  additional  credit  facilities  for  a  total  amount  of  approximately $26  million  with  a  repayment 
period between 2.5 and 5 years and fixed interest rate of 5.5% per annum.

4.

Costa Rica 

In April 2018, Millicom Cable Costa Rica S.A. entered into a $150 million variable rate  syndicated loan with Citibank as agent. In June 
2020, Millicom Cable Costa Rica S.A partially repaid an amount of $30 million of this loan.

On October 25, 2021, Millicom Cable Costa Rica S.A. repaid the remaining $120 million under this syndicated loan which was initially 
due on 2023. This was executed with the proceeds of a new syndicated loan entered into by the Company and Millicom Cable Costa 
Rica as co-borrowers for an amount of  $125 million. The latter has 2 tranches, a USD $33 million tranche with a LIBOR+ margin and a 
local currency tranche at TBP+margin  for an amount equivalent to $92 million. Cross currency swaps used to hedge the interest and 
principal on the previous loan were terminated on the same date (see note D.1.2.).

5.

Tanzania

On June 2019, MIC Tanzania Public Limited Company entered into a syndicated loan facility agreement with the Standard Bank of 
South  Africa  acting  as  an  agent  and  a  consortium  of  banks  acting  as  the  original  lenders,  for  $174.75  million  (tranche  A)  and 
TZS103,000 million (tranche B - approximately $45 million) which bears variable interests: for Tranche A Libor plus a margin and for 
Trance B T-Bill rate plus a margin. The facility agreement has an all asset debenture securing the whole amount, as well as a pledge 
over the shares of the immediate holding company of the borrower. The Facility was amended and restated in December 2019 and 
maturity was extended to 66 months and 100% of the USD portion and TZS 34 billion (approximately $15 million) were disbursed. In 
January  2020,  TZS  35  billion  (approximately  $15  million)  were  disbursed  and  the  last  tranche  of  TZS  34  billion  (approximately 
$15 million) was disbursed in February 2020. 

6.

Colombia

On  December  14,  2021,  UNE  EPM  Telecomunicaciones  S.A.  entered  into  an  ESG  Linked  agreement  with  Bancolombia  for  a  COP 
450,000 million (approximately $111 million at the December 31, 2021 exchange rate) loan with a variable rate  and a maturity of 7 
years. 

On December 20, 2019, our operation in Colombia executed an amendment to the $300 million loan between Colombia Móvil S.A. 
E.S.P. as borrower and UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones S.A., as guarantor with a consortium of banks to extend the maturity for 5 years 
(now due on December 20, 2024) and lower the applicable margin. On March 26, 2021, $150 million were paid. See also note I. for 
further details on repayments subsequent to year-end. 

On  September  and  November  2020,  Colombia  executed  4  new  cross  currency  swaps  of  $25  million  each  with  Bancolombia,  JP 
Morgan  and  BBVA  to  complete $100  million  and  hedge  the  exposure  of  a  portion  of  the $300  million  syndicated  loan,  fixing  the 
exchange rate on average to USD/COP 3.682 and interest rate of 5.35%. See note I for further details. 

7.

El Salvador

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On  June  3,  2016,  Telemóvil  El  Salvador,  S.A.  de  C.V.  executed  a $30  million  credit  facility  with  Citibank  N.A.,  for  general  corporate 
purposes, bearing variable interest rate per annum. The facility was guaranteed by MICSA and was repaid in July 2021. 

In March 2018, Telemóvil El Salvador executed a $100 million credit facility with DNB at a variable rate facility with DNB and Nordea 
with a 5-year bullet repayment.The facility is guaranteed by MICSA. On December 26, 2021, Telemovil El Salvador S.A. executed a 
new credit agreement for $100 million, which bears a variable  interest,  to refinance the $100 million loan agreement with DNB and 
Nordea, which was entirely repaid on December 29, 2021. The agreement is guaranteed by Millicom. 

In June 2020, Telemóvil El Salvador. S.A de C.V repaid in its entirety $150 million of the principal under a credit agreement dated 
January 2018 entered into with the Bank of Nova Scotia, as lender, and the Company as guarantor.

On December 26, 2021, Telemovil El Salvador S.A. executed a new credit agreement for $100 million with a 5 year maturity, which 
bears  a  variable  interest    to  refinance  the  $100  million  loan  agreement  dated  March  23,  2018  with  DNB  and  Nordea,  which  was 
entirely repaid on December 29, 2021. The credit agreement is guaranteed by Millicom. 

8.

Luxembourg

In March 2020, MICSA drew down $400 million  from the $600  million  revolving  credit  facility  it  entered  into  in  January 2017  (the 
"RCF").  $337  million  was  disbursed  in  March  2020  and  the  remaining $63  million  in  April  2020.  The  draw  down  had  an  initial six-
month term and Millicom had the option to extend up to January 2022 (the maturity date of the RCF). The RCF was fully repaid on 
June 29, 2020.

In October 2020, MICSA. entered into a 5 year, $600 million ESG-linked revolving credit facility (the "Facility") with a syndicate of 11 
commercial banks. This facility will be used to refinance the above existing multi-currency revolving credit facility which was due to 
expire in 2022 and for general corporate purposes.

On November 10, 2021, Millicom executed a Bridge Loan Agreement of $2.15 billion with a consortium of banks. The proceeds were 
used for the acquisition of Tigo Guatemala's remaining 45% shareholding (see note A.1.2.). The Bridge Loan bears a variable interest 
rate with a step up every three months and has a maturity period of 6 months, extendable for an additional 6 months. The initial 
costs of issuance amounted to $28 million and are being amortized based on the six-month expected timing of refinancing of this 
Bridge Loan. [On December 29, 2021, Millicom partially repaid $500 million of this Bridge loan, partially with Millicom's own cash and 
partially with proceeds from the $100 million bilateral loan with DNB bank, executed on December 20, 2021, with a variable interest 
rate and a 5-year maturity.]1 For further reference, see note I.

9. Guatemala 

In October 2020, Comcel and Navega executed several credit agreements with Banco Industrial, Banco G&T Continental, Banco de 
America Central and Banco Agromercantil for a total amount of GTQ 3,223 million (approximately $420 million using the exchange 
rate as of December 31, 2021) for  5 and 7 year term to refinance other credit agreements to finance and refinance working capital, 
capital expenditures and general corporate purposes.

On December 9, 2021, the Guatemalan operations entered into the following loan agreements:

•

•

a GTQ 950 million loan with Banco Industrial (approximately $123 million as at December 31, 2021) which bears a fixed
interest  and matures in October 2025.

two loans for a total of GTQ 500 million with Banco G&T Continental S.A. (approximately $65 million as at December 31, 
2021) which bear a fixed interest rate and mature in December 2026.

Right of set-off and derecognition 

Financial assets and financial liabilities are offset and the net amount is reported in the consolidated statement of financial position if 
there is a currently enforceable legal right to offset the recognized amounts and an intention to settle on a net basis, or to realize the 
assets and settle the liabilities simultaneously. 

A financial asset (or a part of a financial asset or part of a group of similar financial assets) is derecognized when: 

•

•

Rights to receive cash flows from the asset have expired; or

Rights to receive cash flows from the asset or obligations to pay the received cash flows in full without material delay have been
transferred to a third party under a “pass-through” arrangement; and the Group has either transferred substantially all the risks 
and rewards of the asset or the control of the asset. 

When rights to receive cash flows from an asset have been transferred or a pass-through arrangement concluded, an evaluation is 
made if and to what extent the risks and rewards of ownership have been retained. When the Group has neither transferred nor 
retained substantially all of the risks and rewards of the asset, nor transferred control of the asset, the asset is recognized to the 

1 Note to EY: this is inconsistent with the disclosure above in the 20-F. To be confirmed.

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extent of the Group’s continuing involvement in the asset. In that case, the Group also recognizes an associated liability. The 
transferred asset and the associated liability are measured on a basis that reflects the rights and obligations that the Group has 
retained. Continuing involvement that takes the form of a guarantee over the transferred asset is measured at the lower of the 
original carrying amount of the asset and the maximum amount of consideration that the Group could be required to repay. 

A financial liability is derecognized when the obligation under the liability is discharged or canceled, or expires. When an existing 
financial liability is replaced by another from the same lender on substantially different terms, or the terms of an existing liability are 
substantially modified, such an exchange or modification is treated as the derecognition of the original liability and the recognition 
of a new liability. The difference in the respective carrying amounts is recognized in the statement of income. 

C.3.3. Interest and other financial expenses 

The Group’s interest and other financial expenses comprised the following: 

December 31

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

Interest expense on bonds and bank financing     ................................................................................

Interest expense on leases    ..................................................................................................................

Early redemption charges    ...................................................................................................................

Others   ..................................................................................................................................................

Total interest and other financial expenses   ......................................................................................

(345) 

(131) 

(5)

(50)

(531)

(386) 

(156) 

(15)

(67)

(624)

(348) 

(157) 

(10) 

(47) 

(564) 

C.3.4. Guarantees and pledged assets 

Guarantees 

Financial guarantee contracts issued by the Group are those contracts that require a payment to be made to reimburse the holder 
for a loss it incurs because the specified debtor fails to make payment when due in accordance with the terms of a debt instrument. 
Financial  guarantee  contracts  are  recognized  initially  as  a  liability  at  fair  value,  adjusted  for  transaction  costs  that  are  directly 
attributable  to  the  issuance  of  the  guarantee.  Subsequently,  the  liability  is  measured  at  the  higher  of  the  best  estimate  of  the 
expenditure  required  to  settle  the  present  obligation  at  the  reporting  date  and  the  amount  recognized,  less  cumulative 
amortization. 

Liabilities to which guarantees are related are recorded in the consolidated statement of financial position under Debt and financing, 
and  liabilities  covered  by  supplier  guarantees  are  recorded  under  Trade  payables  or  Debt  and  financing,  depending  on  the 
underlying terms and conditions. 

Maturity of guarantees 

Bank and financing guarantees (i)

Supplier guarantees

Terms

As at December 31, 
2021

As at December 31, 
2020

As at December 31, 
2021

As at December 31, 
2020

Outstanding and Maximum exposure

Outstanding and Maximum exposure

0-1 year    ................................................

1-3 years       ..............................................

3-5 years       ..............................................

Total  ....................................................

71 

6 

223 

300 

59 

227 

— 

287 

82 

— 

— 

82 

82 

— 

— 

82 

(i) If non-payment by the obligor, the guarantee ensures payment of outstanding amounts by the Group's guarantor. 

Pledged assets 

As at December 31, 2021, the Group’s share of total debt and financing secured by either pledged assets, pledged deposits issued to 
cover  letters  of  credit,  or  guarantees  issued  was  $300  million  (December  31,  2020:  $287  million).  At  December  31,  2021  and 
December  31,  2020  there  were  no  assets  pledged  by  the  Group  over  these  debts  and  financings.  The  remainder  represented 
primarily guarantees issued by Millicom S.A. to guarantee financings raised by other Group operating entities. 

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In addition to the above, on June 4, 2019, MIC Tanzania Public Limited Company entered into a loan facility agreement which was 
further amended and restated on December 12, 2019, with the Standard Bank of South Africa acting as an agent and a consortium of 
banks acting as the original lenders. The facility agreement, maturing in 2025, has an all asset debenture securing the whole amount, 
as well as a pledge over the shares of the immediate holding company of the borrower. 

C.3.5. Covenants 

Millicom’s financing facilities are subject to a number of covenants including net leverage ratio, debt service coverage ratios, or debt 
to earnings ratios, among others. In addition, certain of its financings contain restrictions on sale of businesses or significant assets 
within the businesses. At December 31, 2021, there were no breaches of financial covenants. 

C.4. Lease liabilities

At December 31, 2021, lease liabilities are presented in the statement of financial position as follows:

December 31, 
2021

December 31, 
2020

(US$ millions)

Current    ............................................................................................................................................................

Non-Current   ....................................................................................................................................................

Total Lease liabilities   ....................................................................................................................................

171 

996 

1,167 

123 

897 

1,021 

As permitted under IFRS 16, Millicom has elected not to recognize a lease liability for short term leases (leases with an expected term 
of 12 months or less) or for leases of low value assets. Payments associated with short-term leases of equipment and vehicles and all 
leases of low-value assets are rather recognized on a straight-line basis as an expense in the statement of income. Short-term leases 
are leases with a lease term of 12 months or less. Low-value assets comprise IT equipment and small items of office furniture. In 
addition, certain variable lease payments are not permitted to be recognized as lease liabilities and are expensed as incurred. 

The expenses relating to payments not included in the measurement of the lease liability are disclosed in operating expenses (note 
B.3.) and are as follows:

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

Expense relating to short-term leases (included in cost of sales and operating 
expenses)   ......................................................................................................................................

0 

(1) 

The total cash outflow for leases in 2021 was $277 million  (2020:  $267 million). Lease liabilities split by maturity and future cash 
outflows are disclosed in note D.5..

At December 31, 2021, the Group has not committed to any material leases which had not yet commenced and has no material lease 
contracts with variable lease payments. 

The Group's leasing activities and how these are accounted for

The Group leases various lands, sites, towers (including those related to towers sold and leased back), offices, warehouses, retail 
stores, equipment and cars. Rental contracts are typically made for fixed periods but may have extension options as described 
below. Lease terms are negotiated on an individual basis and contain a wide range of different terms and conditions. The lease 
agreements do not impose any covenants, but leased assets may not be used as security for borrowing purposes.

Leases are recognized as a right-of-use asset and a corresponding liability at the date at which the leased asset is available for use by 
the Group. Each lease payment is allocated between the reduction of the liability and finance cost. The finance cost is charged to the 
statement  of  income  over  the  lease  period  so  as  to  produce  a  constant  periodic  rate  of  interest  on  the  remaining  balance  of  the 
liability  for  each  period.  The  right-of-use  asset  is  depreciated  over  the  shorter  of  the  asset's  useful  life  and  the  lease  term  on  a 
straight-line basis.

Assets and liabilities arising from a lease are initially measured on a present value basis. Lease liabilities include the net present value 
of the following lease payments:

•

fixed payments (including in-substance fixed payments), less any lease incentives receivable

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•

•

•

•

variable lease payment that are based on an index or a rate

amounts expected to be payable by the lessee under residual value guarantees

the exercise price of a purchase option if the lessee is reasonably certain to exercise that option, and

payments of penalties for terminating the lease, if the lease term reflects the lessee exercising that option.

The lease payments are discounted using the interest rate implicit in the lease. As it is generally impracticable to determine that rate, 
the Group uses the lessee’s incremental borrowing rate, being the rate that the lessee would have to pay to borrow the funds 
necessary to obtain an asset of similar value in a similar economic environment with similar terms and conditions. The incremental 
borrowing rate applied can have a significant impact on the net present value of the lease liability recognized under IFRS 16. 

The Group determines the incremental borrowing rate by country and by considering the risk-free rate, the country risk, the industry 
risk, the credit risk and the currency risk, as well as the lease and payment terms and dates.

The Group is also exposed to potential future increases in variable lease payments based on an index or rate, which are not included 
in the lease liability until they take effect. When adjustments to lease payments based on an index or rate take effect, the lease 
liability is adjusted against the right-of-use asset by discounting the revised lease payments using either the initial discount rate or a 
revised discount rate. The initial discount rate is used if future lease payments are reflecting market or index rates or if they are in 
substance fixed. The discount rate is revised, if a change in floating interest rates occurs. The Group reassesses the variable payment 
only when there is a change in cash flows resulting from a change in the reference index or rate and not at each reporting date.

According to IFRS 16, lease  term  is defined as the non-cancellable period for which a lessee has the right to use an underlying asset, 
together with both: (a) periods covered by an option to extend the lease if the lessee is reasonably certain to exercise that option; 
and (b) periods covered by an option to terminate if the lessee is reasonably certain not to exercise that option. The  assessment of 
such options is performed at the commencement of a lease. As part of the assessment, Millicom introduced the 'time horizon 
concept': the reasonable term under which the company expects to use a leased asset considering economic incentives, 
management decisions, business plans and the fast-paced industry Millicom operates in. The assessment must be focused on the 
economic incentives for Millicom to exercise (or not) an option to early terminate/extend a contract. The Group has decided to work 
on the basis the lessor will generally accept a renewal/not early terminate a contract, as there is an economic incentive to maintain 
the contractual relationship.

Millicom considered the specialized nature of most of its assets under lease, the low likelihood the lessor can find a third party to 
substitute Millicom as a lessee and past practice to conclude that, the lease term can go beyond the notice period when there is 
more than an insignificant penalty for the lessor not to renew the lease. This analysis requires judgment and has a significant impact 
on the lease liability recognized under IFRS 16.

Under IFRS 16, the accounting for sale and leaseback transactions has changed as the underlying sale transaction needs to be first 
analyzed using the guidance of IFRS 15. The seller/lessee recognizes a right-of-use asset in the amount of the proportional original 
carrying amount that relates to the right of use retained. Accordingly, only the proportional amount of gain or loss from the sale 
must be recognized. The impact from sale and leaseback transactions was not material for Millicom Group as of the date of initial 
application.

Finally, the Group has taken the additional following decisions when adopting the standard:

•

•

Non-lease components are capitalized (IFRS16.15)

Intangible assets are out of IFRS 16 scope (IFRS16.4)

C.5. Cash and deposits

C.5.1. Cash and cash equivalents 

Cash and cash equivalents in USD   .................................................................................................................................

Cash and cash equivalents in other currencies     .............................................................................................................

Total cash and cash equivalents .................................................................................................................................

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

526 

369 

895 

619 

256 

875 

Cash and cash equivalents include cash in hand, deposits held at call with banks and other short-term highly liquid investments with 
original maturities of three months or less. 

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Cash deposits with banks with maturities of more than three months that generally earn interest at market rates are classified as time 
deposits. 

C.5.2. Restricted cash 

Mobile Financial Services  ...............................................................................................................................................

Others   ..............................................................................................................................................................................

Restricted cash   ..............................................................................................................................................................

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

197 

7 

203 

192 

7 

199 

Cash held with banks related to MFS which is restricted in use due to local regulations is denoted as restricted cash. The increase is in 
line with the current increase in digital transactions due to the pandemic. 

C.5.3. Pledged deposits 

Pledged deposits represent contracted cash deposits with banks that are held as security for debts at corporate or operational entity 
level. Millicom is unable to access these funds until either the relevant debt is repaid or alternative security is arranged with the 
lender. 

At December 31, 2021, there were $35 million  pledged deposits (2020: nil). 

C.6. Net financial obligations

Net financial obligations 

Total debt and financing    ................................................................................................................................................

Lease liabilities    ................................................................................................................................................................

Gross financial obligations    .........................................................................................................................................

Less:

Cash and cash equivalents     .............................................................................................................................................

Pledged deposits    ............................................................................................................................................................

Time deposits related to bank borrowings    ...................................................................................................................

Net financial obligations at the end of the year   .......................................................................................................

Add (less) derivatives related to debt (note D.1.2.)   .......................................................................................................

Net financial obligations including derivatives related to debt   ............................................................................

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

7,744 

1,167 

8,911 

(895) 

(35)

— 

7,981 

(20)

7,961 

5,691 

1,021 

6,711 

(875)

— 

— 

5,837 

(12)

5,825 

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Net financial obligations as at January 1, 2020   ...........................

Cash flows    ...........................................................................................

Recognition / Remeasurement    ..........................................................

Interest accretion   ................................................................................

Foreign exchange movements    ..........................................................

Transfers   ..............................................................................................

Other non-cash movements     ..............................................................

Net financial obligations as at December 31, 2020  .....................

Cash flows    ...........................................................................................

Scope changes    ....................................................................................

Recognition / Remeasurement    ..........................................................

Interest accretion   ................................................................................

Foreign exchange movements    ..........................................................

Transfers   ..............................................................................................

Other non-cash movements     ..............................................................

Net financial obligations as at December 31, 2021  .....................

Assets
Cash and cash 
equivalents

1,164 

(272) 

— 

— 

(17)

— 

— 

875 

(169) 

199 

— 

— 

(10)

— 

— 

895 

Liabilities from financing 
activities

Other

Bond and bank 
debt and financing

Lease 
liabilities

Total

2 

(2)

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

31 

4 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

35 

5,972 

(274) 

1,096 

(116) 

5,902 

(117) 

— 

16 

(10)

(3)

(10)

5,691 

1,779 

413 

— 

20 

(108) 

(15)

(36)

68 

1 

(34) 

6 

— 

1,021 

(137) 

204 

123 

— 

(44) 

1 

— 

68 

17 

(26) 

3 

(10) 

5,837 

1,780 

414 

123 

20 

(142) 

(14) 

(36) 

7,744 

1,167 

7,981 

C.7. Financial instruments

i) Equity and debt instruments 

Classification 

The Group classifies its financial assets in the following measurement categories: 

•

•

those to be measured subsequently at fair value either through Other Comprehensive Income (OCI), or through profit or loss,
and 

those to be measured at amortized cost.

The classification depends on the Group’s business model for managing the financial assets and the contractual terms of the cash 
flows.  

For assets measured at fair value, gains and losses will either be recorded in profit or loss or OCI. For investments in equity 
instruments that are not held for trading, this will depend on whether the Group has made an irrevocable election at the time of 
initial recognition to account for the equity investment at fair value through other comprehensive income (FVOCI). 

The Group reclassifies debt investments when and only when its business model for managing those assets changes. 

Measurement 

At initial recognition, the Group measures a financial asset at its fair value plus, in the case of a financial asset not at fair value 
through profit or loss (FVPL), transaction costs that are directly attributable to the acquisition of the financial asset. Transaction costs 
of financial assets carried at FVPL are expensed in profit or loss. 

Financial assets with embedded derivatives are considered in their entirety when determining whether their cash flows are solely 
payment of principal and interest.  

Debt instruments 

Subsequent measurement of debt instruments depends on the Group’s business model for managing the asset and the cash flow 
characteristics of the asset. There are three measurement categories into which the group classifies its debt instruments:  

•

Amortized cost: Assets that are held for collection of contractual cash flows where those cash flows represent solely payments 
of principal and interest are measured at amortized cost. Interest income from these financial assets is included in finance 
income using the effective interest rate method. Any gain or loss arising on derecognition is recognized directly in profit or loss

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and presented in other gains / (losses), together with foreign exchange gains and losses. Impairment losses are presented as a 
separate line item in the consolidated statement of income. 

FVOCI: Assets that are held for collection of contractual cash flows and for selling the financial assets, where the assets’ cash 
flows represent solely payments of principal and interest, are measured at FVOCI. Movements in the carrying amount are taken
through OCI, except for the recognition of impairment gains or losses, interest revenue and foreign exchange gains and losses 
which are recognized in profit or loss. When the financial asset is derecognised, the cumulative gain or loss previously 
recognized in OCI is reclassified from equity to profit or loss and recognized in ‘Other non-operating (expenses) income, net’. 
Interest income from these financial assets is included in finance income using the effective interest rate method. Foreign 
exchange gains and losses and impairment expenses are presented as ‘Other non-operating (expenses) income, net’ in the 
consolidated statement of income. 

FVPL: Assets that do not meet the criteria for amortized cost or FVOCI are measured at FVPL. A gain or loss on a debt investment
that is subsequently measured at FVPL is recognized in profit or loss and presented net within ‘Other non-operating (expenses) 
income, net’ in the period in which it arises. 

•

•

Equity instruments 

The Group subsequently measures all equity investments at fair value. The Group does not hold equity instruments for trading. 
Where the Group’s management has elected to present fair value gains and losses on equity investments in OCI, there is no 
subsequent reclassification of fair value gains and losses to profit or loss following the derecognition of the investment. Purchases 
and sales of equity instruments are recognized as of their settlement date. Dividends from such investments continue to be 
recognized in profit or loss as other income when the Group’s right to receive payments is established. 

Otherwise, changes in the fair value of financial assets at FVPL are recognized in ‘Other non-operating (expenses) income, net’ in the 
consolidated statement of income as applicable. Impairment losses (and reversal of impairment losses) on equity investments 
measured at FVOCI are not reported separately from other changes in fair value. 

Impairment 

The Group assesses on a forward looking basis the expected credit losses associated with its financial assets carried at amortized cost 
and FVOCI. The impairment methodology applied depends on whether there has been a significant increase in credit risk. 

For trade receivables, the Group applies the simplified approach permitted by IFRS 9, which requires expected lifetime losses to be 
recognized from initial recognition of the trade receivables.  

The provision is recognized in the consolidated statement of income within Cost of sales. 

ii) Derivative financial instruments and hedging activities 

Derivatives are initially recognized at fair value on the date a derivative contract is entered into and are subsequently re-measured at 
fair value at each subsequent closing date. The method of recognizing the resulting gain or loss depends on whether the derivative 
is designated as a hedging instrument and, if so, the nature of the item being hedged. The Group designates certain derivatives as 
either: 

a) Hedges of the fair value of recognized assets or liabilities or a firm commitment (fair value hedge); or

b) Hedges of a particular risk associated with a recognized asset or liability or a highly probable forecast transaction (cash flow

hedge). 

For transactions designated and qualifying for hedge accounting, at the inception of the transaction, the Group documents the 
relationship between hedging instruments and hedged items, as well as its risk management objectives and strategy for 
undertaking various hedging transactions. This is done in reference to the Group Treasury  Policy as last updated and approved by 
the Audit Committee in late 2020. The Group also documents its assessment, both at hedge inception and on an ongoing basis 
(quarterly), of whether the derivatives that are used in hedging transactions are highly effective in offsetting changes in fair values or 
cash flows of hedged items. 

The full fair value of a hedging instrument is classified as a non-current asset or liability when the period to maturity of the hedged 
item is more than 12 months and as a current asset or liability when the remaining maturity of the hedged item is less than 12 
months. Trading derivatives are classified as a current asset or liability when the remaining period to maturity of the hedged item is 
less than 12 months. 

The change in fair value of hedging instruments that are designed and qualify as fair value hedges is recognized in the statement of 
income as finance costs or income. The change in fair value of the hedged item attributable to the risk hedged is recorded as part of 
the carrying value of the hedged item and is also recognized in the statement of income as finance costs or income. 

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The effective portion of changes in the fair value of derivatives that are designated and qualify as cash flow hedges is recognized in 
other comprehensive income. Gains or loss relating to any ineffective portion is recognized immediately in the statement of income 
within Other non-operating (expenses) income, net. Amounts accumulated in equity are reclassified to the statement of income in 
the periods when the hedged item affects profit or loss. 

When a hedging instrument expires or is sold, or when a hedge no longer meets the criteria for hedge accounting, any cumulative 
gain or loss existing in equity at that time is recycled to the statement of income within Other non-operating (expenses) income, net. 

When a forecast transaction is no longer expected to occur, the cumulative gain or loss that was reported in equity is immediately 
transferred to the statement of income within Other non-operating (expenses) income, net. 

C.7.1. Fair value measurement hierarchy 

Millicom uses the following fair value measurement hierarchy: 

Level 1 – Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. 

Level 2 – Inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly (that is, 
as prices) or indirectly (that is, derived from prices). 

Level 3 – Inputs for the asset or liability that are not based on observable market data (that is, unobservable inputs). 

The Group enters into derivative financial instruments with various counterparties, principally financial institutions with investment 
grade ratings. Interest rate swaps and foreign exchange forward contracts are valued using valuation techniques, which employ the 
use of markets observable data. The most frequently applied valuation techniques include forward pricing and swap models using 
present value calculations. The models incorporate various inputs including the credit quality of counterparties, foreign exchange 
spot and forward rates, yield curves of the respective currencies, interest rate curves and forward curves. 

C.7.2. Fair value of financial instruments 

The fair value of Millicom’s financial instruments are shown at amounts at which the instruments could be exchanged in a current 
transaction between willing parties, other than in a forced or liquidation sale. The fair value of all financial assets and all financial 
liabilities, except debt and financing approximate their carrying value largely due to the short-term maturities of these instruments. 
The fair values of all debt and financing have been estimated by the Group, based on discounted future cash flows at market interest 
rates.

Fair values of financial instruments at December 31, 

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Carrying value

Fair value

Note

2021

2020

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

Financial assets

Derivative financial instruments    ......................................................

Other non-current assets   .................................................................

Trade receivables, net  .......................................................................
Amounts due from non-controlling interests, associates and 
joint venture partners .......................................................................

Prepayments and accrued income     ..................................................

Supplier advances for capital expenditures       ....................................

Call option (ii)      ...................................................................................

Equity Investments  ...........................................................................

Other current assets    .........................................................................

Restricted cash    ..................................................................................

Cash and cash equivalents     ...............................................................

Total financial assets    ......................................................................

Current    ..............................................................................................

Non-current     ......................................................................................

Financial liabilities

G.5.

C.7.4.

C.7.3.

C.5.2.

C.5.1.

21 

74 

405 

65 

168 

35 

— 

— 

302 

203 

895 

24 

77 

351 

296 

149 

21 

3 

160 

181 

199 

875 

21 

74 

405 

65 

168 

35 

— 

— 

302 

203 

895 

24 

77 

351 

296 

149 

21 

3 

160 

181 

199 

875 

2,169 

2,051 

119 

2,337 

2,143 

194 

2,169 

2,051 

119 

2,337 

2,143 

194 

Debt and financing (i)   .......................................................................

C.3.

7,744 

5,691 

7,817 

5,572 

Trade payables   ..................................................................................

Payables and accruals for capital expenditure   ................................

Derivative financial instruments    ......................................................

Put option liability   ............................................................................
Amounts due to non-controlling interests, associates and joint 
venture partners    ...............................................................................
Accrued interest and other expenses     ..............................................

Other liabilities ..................................................................................

Total financial liabilities   ................................................................

Current    ..............................................................................................

Non-current     ......................................................................................

C.7.4.

G.5.

(i)

Fair values are measured with reference to Level 1 (for listed bonds) or level 2.

(ii)  Measured with reference to Level 3, using a Monte Carlo option pricing model. 

347 

452 

1 

290 

74 

539 

812 

10,259 

3,856 

6,403 

334 

345 

16 

262 

339 

445 

885 

8,317 

2,145 

6,173 

347 

452 

1 

290 

74 

539 

812 

10,332 

3,856 

6,476 

334 

345 

16 

262 

339 

445 

885 

8,198 

2,145 

6,054 

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C.7.3. Equity investments

As at December 31, 2021 and 2020, Millicom has the following investments in equity instruments:

Investment in HT   .............................................................................................................................................................

Equity investment - total  ..............................................................................................................................................

Helios Towers plc (“HT”)

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

— 

— 

160 

160 

In October 2019, Helios Towers plc (a company inserted as the holding company of HTA just prior to IPO) completed its IPO on the 
London Stock Exchange at a price of GBP 1.15 per share valuing the company at enterprise value of approximately $2.0 billion and a 
market capitalization of $1.45 billion. 

As part of the listing process, on October 17, 2019, Millicom first was diluted as HT management exercised their IPO option rights 
(~4%). This event triggered the recognition of a non-cash dilution loss of $3 million recorded under ‘Income/(loss) from other joint 
ventures and associates’.

On the same day, Millicom resigned from its board of directors seats, which resulted in the loss of the Group's significant influence 
over HT. As a result, as from that date, Millicom derecognized its investment in associate in HT and recognized it as a financial asset 
at fair value under IFRS 9. The derecognition of the investment in associate and recognition of the equity investment in HT at a fair 
value of $292 million triggered the recognition of a net non-cash gain of $208 million recorded under ‘Other non-operating income 
(expense), net’ in the Group's statement of income. Fair value was determined using the IPO reference share price of GBP1.15.

As a result of the IPO and the subsequent exercise of the overallotment option, Millicom disposed of a portion of its ownership (in 
total ~20%) yielding $57 million in gross proceeds and $25 million in net proceeds after fees and Millicom's share in tax escrow of 
$30 million which has been deducted in full from the gain given the high level of uncertainties used in assessing the potential tax 
liability. These disposals triggered a loss of $32 million, as a result of the tax escrow and transaction fees, and are recorded under 
‘Other operating income (expenses), net’.

During 2020, Millicom disposed of a total of 85 million shares that it owned in HT for a total net consideration of GBP 130 million 
($169  million),  triggering  a  total  net  gain  on  disposal  of  $6  million  recorded  in  the  statement  of  income  under  ‘Other  operating 
income (expenses), net’. 

In June 2021, Millicom disposed of its remaining 76 million shares it owned in HT for a total net consideration of GBP 115 million  
($163  million),  triggering  a  net  loss  on  disposal  of  $15  million,  recorded  under  ‘other  operating  income  (expenses),  net’.  In  total, 
starting June 2020, Millicom sold 162 million shares it held in HT, yielding total proceeds of GBP 244 million ($383 million). Following 
these disposals, Millicom has no remaining ownership in HT. At December 31, 2020, Millicom owned a remaining shareholding of 
7.6% in HT, valued at $160 million (level 1) at the December 31, 2020 share price (£1.53). The changes in fair value were shown under 
'Other non-operating (expenses) income, net' (see note B.5.).

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Cable Onda call and put options 

191 

As part of the acquisition of Cable Onda, the shareholders agreed on certain put and call options as follows - as amended 
subsequent to the acquisition of Telefónica Panama:  

The 'Transaction Price' call and put options are conditional to the occurrence of certain events, such as change of control of Millicom 
or at any time if Millicom's non-controlling partners’ shareholdings fall below 10%, and become exercisable on the date of the 
Telefónica Panama closing (August 29, 2019) and extending until June 13, 2022. These put and call options are exercisable at the 
purchase price in the Cable Onda transaction (enterprise value of $1.46 billion), plus interest at 5% per annum (put) and at 10% per 
annum (call), respectively. From June 14, 2022, up to July 14, 2022, both options will be unconditional. 

In addition, the parties agreed on 'Unconditional' call and put options to acquire the remaining 20% non-controlling interest in 
Cable Onda becoming exercisable at any time from July 15, 2022, both, at fair market value.

Millicom determined that the 'Transaction Price' put option could be exercised as a result of events falling outside of Millicom's 
control, and therefore that it met the criteria under IAS 32 for recognition as a liability and a corresponding equity decrease. The put 
option liability would be payable in Millicom's shares or in cash at the discretion of the partner. Therefore, Millicom recorded a 
liability for the put option at acquisition completion date of $239 million representing the present value of the redemption amount. 
As of December 31, 2021, the value of the 'Transaction Price' put option is lower than the 'Unconditional' put option's value, and 
therefore the Group recognized the put option liability at the higher of both valuations at $290 million (December 31, 2020: $262 
million).  

At December 31, 2021, the 'Transaction Price' call option has been valued at $0.3 million (December 31, 2020: $3 million) using a 
Monte Carlo simulation model. At December 31, 2021, the 'Unconditional' call option will be exercisable at fair market value and has 
therefore no value as at December 31, 2021 (December 31, 2020: nil).

The changes in value of the call option asset and put option liability are recorded in the Group's statement of income (see note B.5.).

D. Financial risk management

Exposure to interest rate, foreign currency, non-repatriation, liquidity, capital management and credit risks arise in the normal course 
of Millicom’s business. Each year Group Treasury revisits and presents to the Audit committee updated Group Treasury policy. The 
Group analyzes each of these financial risks individually as well as on an interconnected basis and defines and implements strategies 
to manage the economic impact on the Group’s performance in line with its policy. This policy was last reviewed in late 2021. As part 
of the annual review of the above mentioned risks, the Group agrees to a strategy over the use of derivatives and natural hedging 
instruments ranging from raising debt in local currency (where the Company targets to reach 40% of debt in local currency over the 
medium term) to maintain a combination of up to 75/25% mix between fixed and floating rate debt or agreeing to cover up to six 
months forward of operating costs and capex denominated in non-functional currencies through a rolling and layering strategy. 
Millicom’s risk management strategies may include the use of derivatives to the extent a market would exist in the jurisdictions 
where the Group operates. Millicom’s policy prohibits the use of such derivatives in the context of speculative trading. 

Accounting policies for derivatives is further detailed in note C.7. On December 31, 2021 and 2020 fair value of derivatives held by 
the Group can be summarized as follows: 

Derivatives

Cash flow hedge derivatives      ..........................................................................................................................................

Net derivative asset (liability)  .....................................................................................................................................

20 

20 

12 

12 

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

D.1. Interest rate risk

Debt and financing issued at floating interest rates expose the Group to cash flow interest rate risk. Debt and financing issued at 
fixed rates expose the Group to fair value interest rate risk. The Group’s exposure to risk of changes in market interest rates relate to 
both of the above. To manage this risk, the Group’s policy is to maintain a combination of fixed and floating rate debt with target 
that more than 75% of the debt be at fixed rate. The Group actively monitors borrowings against this target. The target mix between 
fixed and floating rate debt is reviewed periodically. The purpose of Millicom’s policy is to achieve an optimal balance between cost 
of funding and volatility of financial results, while considering market conditions as well as our overall business strategy. At 

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December 31, 2021, approximately 64% of the Group’s borrowings are at a fixed rate of interest or for which variable rates have been 
swapped for fixed rates with interest rate swaps (2020: 84%). 

D.1.1. Fixed and floating rate debt

Financing at December 31, 2021 

1 year

1–2 years

2–3 years

3–4 years

4–5 years

>5 years

Total

Amounts due within:

(US$ millions)

91 

1,750 

1,840 

151 

55 

206 

460 

26 

487 

662 

181 

843 

372 

386 

758 

3,219 

391 

3,610 

4,956 

2,789 

7,744 

 1.93 %

 5.97 %

 5.47 %

 5.86 %

 5.11 %

 5.34 %

 5.55 %

Fixed rate financing   ...............

Floating rate financing     ..........

Total    ......................................
Weighted average nominal 
interest rate    ...........................

Financing at December 31, 2020 

Amounts due within:

1 year

1–2 years

2–3 years

3–4 years

4–5 years

>5 years

Total

80 

33 

113 

90 

17 

107 

(US$ millions)

268 

171 

439 

561 

250 

811 

269 

197 

467 

3,498 

256 

3,755 

4,766 

926 

5,691 

 4.65 %

 4.95 %

 5.76 %

 4.15 %

 5.09 %

 5.21 %

 4.90 %

Fixed rate financing   ...............

Floating rate financing     ..........

Total    ......................................
Weighted average nominal 
interest rate    ...........................

A 100 basis point fall or rise in market interest rates for all currencies in which the Group had borrowings at December 31, 2021 
would increase or reduce profit before tax from continuing operations for the year by approximately $28 million (2020: $9 million). 

D.1.2. Interest rate swap contracts 

From time to time, Millicom enters into currency and interest rate swap contracts to manage its exposure to fluctuations in interest 
rates and currency fluctuations in accordance with its Financial Risk Management policy. Details of these arrangements are provided 
below. 

MIC S.A. entered into swap contracts in order to hedge the foreign currency and interest rate risks in relation to the SEK 2 billion 
(approximately $208 million  using the May 15, 2019) senior unsecured sustainability bond issued in May 2019 (note C.3.1.). These 
swaps are accounted for as cash flow hedges as the timing and amounts of the cash flows under the swap agreements match the 
cash flows under the SEK bond. Their maturity date is May 2024. The hedging relationship is highly effective and related fluctuations 
are recorded through other comprehensive income. At December 31, 2021, the fair values of the swaps amount to an asset of $6 
million. (December 31, 2020: a liability of $23 million). 

Through our operations in Colombia, El Salvador and Costa Rica, we entered into several swap agreements in order to hedge foreign 
currency and interest rate risks on certain long-term debts. These swaps are accounted for as cash flow hedges and related fair value 
changes are recorded through other comprehensive income. As of December 31, 2021, the fair value of the swaps from our 
operations in El Salvador amount to a liability of $1 million (December 31, 2020: a liability of $3 million) and the fair value of the 
swaps from our operations in Colombia amounts to an asset of $15 million (December 31, 2020: a liability of $7 million). The swaps 
previously contracted through our operations in Costa Rica have been settled as a result of the redemption of the USD syndicated 
loan (see note C.3.2.) resulting in a loss of $1.6 million recorded under "Other non-operating (expenses) income, net" (December 31, 
2020: liability of $5 million and an asset of $1 million).

Interest rate and currency swaps are measured with reference to Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy. 

There are no other derivative financial instruments with a significant fair value at December 31, 2021.

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The Group is exposed to foreign exchange risk arising from various currency exposures in the countries in which it operates. Foreign 
exchange risk arises from future commercial transactions, recognized assets and liabilities and net investments in foreign operations. 

Millicom seeks to reduce its foreign currency exposure through a policy of matching, as far as possible, assets and liabilities 
denominated in foreign currencies, or entering into agreements that limit the risk of exposure to currency fluctuations against the 
US dollar reporting currency. In some cases, Millicom may also borrow in US dollars where it is either commercially more 
advantageous for joint ventures and subsidiaries to incur debt obligations in US dollars or where US dollar denominated borrowing 
is the only funding source available to a joint venture or subsidiary. In these circumstances, Millicom accepts the remaining currency 
risk associated with financing its joint ventures and subsidiaries, principally because of the relatively high cost of forward cover, 
when available, in the currencies in which the Group operates. 

D.2.1. Debt denominated in US dollars and other currencies 

Debt denomination at December 31 

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

Debt denominated in US dollars  ....................................................................................................................................

4,827 

3,384 

Debt denominated in currencies of the following countries

Guatemala (ii)   ..................................................................................................................................................................

Colombia   .........................................................................................................................................................................

Tanzania  ..........................................................................................................................................................................

Bolivia    ..............................................................................................................................................................................

Paraguay   .........................................................................................................................................................................

El Salvador(i)     ...................................................................................................................................................................

Panama(i)     ........................................................................................................................................................................

Luxembourg (COP denominated)      .................................................................................................................................

Costa Rica    ........................................................................................................................................................................

Total debt denominated in other currencies   ............................................................................................................

Total debt     ......................................................................................................................................................................

605 

699 

38 

310 

195 

99 

846 

36 

88 

na

614 

40 

337 

180 

118 

869 

41 

107 

2,917 

7,744 

2,307 

5,691 

(i) El Salvador's official unit of currency is the U.S. dollar, while Panama uses the U.S. dollar as legal tender. Our local debt in both countries is therefore 
denominated in U.S. dollars but presented as local currency (LCY).

(ii)Tigo Guatemala is fully consolidated since the acquisition of the remaining 45% shareholding on November 12, 2021. See note A.1.2. for further details. 

At December 31, 2021, if the US dollar had weakened/strengthened by 10% against the other functional currencies of our operations 
and all other variables held constant, then profit before tax from continuing operations would have increased/decreased by $38 
million (2020: $45 million). This increase/decrease in profit before tax would have mainly been as a result of the conversion of the 
USD-denominated net debts in our operations with functional currencies other than the US dollar. 

D.2.2. Foreign currency swaps 

See note D.1.2. Interest rate swap contracts. 

D.3. Non-repatriation risk

Most of Millicom’s operating subsidiaries and joint ventures generate most of the revenue of the Group and in the currency of the 
countries in which they operate. Millicom is therefore dependent on the ability of its subsidiaries and joint venture operations to 
transfer funds to the Company. 

Although foreign exchange controls exist in some of the countries in which Millicom Group companies operate, none of these 
controls currently significantly restrict the ability of these operations to pay interest, dividends, technical service fees, royalties or 
repay loans by exporting cash, instruments of credit or securities in foreign currencies. However, existing foreign exchange controls 
may be strengthened in countries where the Group operates, or foreign exchange controls may be introduced in countries where 

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the Group operates that do not currently impose such restrictions. If such events were to occur, the Company’s ability to receive 
funds from the operations could be subsequently restricted, which would impact the Company’s ability to make payments on its 
interest and loans and, or pay dividends to its shareholders. As a policy, all operations which do not face restrictions to deposit funds 
offshore and in hard currencies should do so for the surplus cash generated on a weekly basis. The Company and its subsidiaries 
make use of notional and physical cash pooling arrangements in hard currencies to the extent permitted. 

In addition, in some countries it may be difficult to convert large amounts of local currency into foreign currency because of limited 
foreign exchange markets. The practical effects of this may be time delays in accumulating significant amounts of foreign currency 
and exchange risk, which could have an adverse effect on the Group. This is a relatively rare case for the countries in which the 
Group operates. 

Lastly, repatriation most often results in taxation, which is evidenced in the amount of taxes paid by the Group relative to the 
Corporate Income Tax reported in its statement of income. 

D.4. Credit and counterparty risk

Financial instruments that subject the Group to credit risk include cash and cash equivalents, pledged deposits, letters of credit, 
trade receivables, amounts due from joint venture partners and associates, supplier advances and other current assets and 
derivatives. Counterparties to agreements relating to the Group’s cash and cash equivalents, pledged deposits and letters of credit 
are significant financial institutions with investment grade ratings. Management does not believe there are significant risks of non-
performance by these counterparties and maintain a diversified portfolio of banking partners. Allocation of deposits across banks 
are managed such that the Group’s counterparty risk with a given bank stays within limits which have been set, based on each 
bank’s credit rating. 

A large portion of revenue of the Group is comprised of prepaid products and services. For postpaid customers, the Group follows 
risk control procedures to assess the credit quality of the customer, taking into account its financial position, past experience and 
other factors. Accounts receivable also comprise balances due from other telecom operators. Credit risk of other telecom operators 
is limited due to the regulatory nature of the telecom industry, in which licenses are normally only issued to credit-worthy 
companies. The Group maintains a provision for expected credit losses of trade receivables based on its historical credit loss 
experience. 

As the Group has a large number of internationally dispersed customers, there is generally no significant concentration of credit risk 
with respect to trade receivables, except for certain B2B customers (mainly governments). See note F.1. 

D.5. Liquidity risk

Liquidity risk is the risk that an entity will encounter difficulty in meeting obligations associated with financial liabilities. The Group 
has significant indebtedness but also has significant cash balances. Millicom evaluates its ability to meet its obligations on an 
ongoing basis using a recurring liquidity planning tool. This tool considers the operating net cash flows generated from its 
operations and the future cash needs for borrowing, interest payments, dividend payments and capital and operating expenditures 
required in maintaining and developing its operating businesses. 

The Group manages its liquidity risk through use of bank overdrafts, bank loans, bonds, vendor financing, Export Credit Agencies 
and Development Finance Institutions (DFI) loans. Millicom believes that there is sufficient liquidity available in the markets to meet 
ongoing liquidity needs. Additionally, Millicom is able to arrange offshore funding. Millicom has a diversified financing portfolio with 
commercial banks representing about 41% of its gross financing (2020: 20%), bonds 46% (2020: 64%), Development Finance 
Institutions 0% (2020: 1%) and leases 13% (2020: 15%). 

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Maturity profile of net financial liabilities at December 31, 2021

195 

Less than 1 
year

1 to 5 years

>5yrs

Total

Total debt and financing   .........................................................................................

Lease liability   ............................................................................................................

Cash and equivalents    ...............................................................................................

Pledged deposits   .....................................................................................................

Refundable deposit

Derivative financial instruments    .............................................................................

(1,840) 

(171) 

895 

35 

— 

— 

Net cash (debt) including derivatives related to debt   ......................................

(1,082) 

Future interest commitments related to debt and financing   ................................

Future interest commitments related to leases   .....................................................

Trade payables (excluding accruals)    .......................................................................

Other financial liabilities (including accruals)    .........................................................

Put option liability

Trade receivables    .....................................................................................................

Other financial assets  ...............................................................................................

(340) 

(144) 

(624) 

(1,141) 

(290) 

405 

344 

(US$ millions)

(2,294)   

(591) 

(3,610) 

(404) 

— 

— 

— 

20 

(2,865) 

(1,086) 

(380) 

— 

— 

— 

— 

98 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(4,014) 

(98)

(179) 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(7,744) 

(1,167) 

895 

35 

— 

20 

(7,961) 

(1,524) 

(704)

(624) 

(1,141) 

(290) 

405 

442 

Net financial liabilities   ..........................................................................................

(2,871) 

(4,234) 

(4,291) 

(11,396) 

Maturity profile of net financial liabilities at December 31, 2020 

Total debt and financing   .........................................................................................

Lease liability   ............................................................................................................

Cash and equivalents    ...............................................................................................

Pledged deposits (related to back borrowings)   .....................................................

Refundable deposit  .................................................................................................

Derivative financial instruments    .............................................................................

Net cash (debt) including derivatives related to debt

Future interest commitments related to debt and financing   ................................

Future interest commitments related to leases

Trade payables (excluding accruals)

Other financial liabilities (including accruals)

Put option liability

Trade receivables

Other financial assets  ...............................................................................................

Net financial liabilities   ..........................................................................................

D.6. Capital management

Less than 1 
year

1 to 5 years

>5yrs

Total

(113) 

(123) 

875 

— 

— 

— 

639 

(311) 

(146) 

(576) 

(1,185) 

(262) 

351 

568 

(922) 

(US$ millions)

(1,824) 

(525) 

(3,755) 

(373) 

— 

— 

— 

12 

(2,336) 

(1,069) 

(410) 

— 

(29)

— 

— 

167 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(4,128) 

(104) 

(203) 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(5,691) 

(1,021) 

875 

— 

— 

12 

(5,825) 

(1,484) 

(759) 

(576) 

(1,214) 

(262) 

351 

735 

(3,676) 

(4,435) 

(9,034) 

The primary objective of the Group’s capital management is to ensure a strong credit rating and solid capital ratios in order to 
support its business and maximize shareholder value. 

The Group manages its capital structure with reference to local economic conditions and imposed restrictions such as debt 
covenants. To maintain or adjust its capital structure, the Group may make dividend payments to shareholders, return capital to 
shareholders through share repurchases or issue new shares. At December 31, 2021, Millicom was rated at one notch below 

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investment grade by the independent rating agencies Moody’s (Ba1 stable) and Fitch (BB+ stable). The Group primarily monitors 
capital using net financial obligations to EBITDA. 

The Group reviews its gearing ratio (net financial obligations divided by total capital plus net financial obligations) periodically. Net 
financial obligations includes interest bearing debt and lease liabilities, less cash and cash equivalents (included restricted cash) and 
pledged and time deposits related to bank borrowings. Capital represents equity attributable to the equity holders of the parent. 

Net financial obligations to EBITDA 

Net financial obligations  ......................................................................................................................

EBITDA    .................................................................................................................................................

Net financial obligations to EBITDA (i)    ...............................................................................................

C.6.

B.3.

7,981 

1,639 

4.87 

5,837 

1,495 

3.90 

(i) The ratio is above 3.0x on an IFRS basis. However, according to the terms of the indenture, this ratio is calculated differently, resulting in a ratio below 

3.0x  for covenant purposes. Also, the ratio in 2021 is artificially high as the full debt of Tigo Guatemala has been consolidated from the acquisition date 
on November 12, 2021, while the Group consolidated only 1.5 months of Tigo Guatemala's EBITDA.

Note

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

Gearing ratio 

Net financial obligations   .....................................................................................................................

Equity attributable to Owners of the Company    .................................................................................

C.6.

C.1.

Net financial obligations and equity    ..................................................................................................

Gearing ratio    ........................................................................................................................................

7,981 

2,583 

10,564 

0.76 

5,837 

2,059 

7,896 

0.74 

Note

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

E. Long-term assets

E.1. Intangible assets

Millicom’s intangible assets mainly consist of goodwill arising from acquisitions, customer lists acquired through acquisitions, 
licenses and rights to operate and use spectrum. 

E.1.1. Accounting for intangible assets 

Intangible assets acquired in business acquisitions are initially measured at fair value at the date of acquisition, and those which are 
acquired separately are measured at cost. Internally generated intangible assets, excluding capitalized development costs, are not 
capitalized but expensed to the statement of income in the expense category consistent with the function of the intangible assets. 
Subsequently intangible assets are carried at cost, less any accumulated amortization and any accumulated impairment losses. 

Intangible assets with finite useful lives are amortized over their estimated useful economic lives using the straight-line method and 
assessed for impairment whenever there is an indication that the intangible asset may be impaired. The amortization period and the 
amortization method for intangible assets with finite useful lives are reviewed at least at each financial year end. Changes in 
expected useful lives or the expected beneficial use of the assets are accounted for by changing the amortization period or method, 
as appropriate, and treated as changes in accounting estimates. 

Amortization expense on intangible assets with finite lives is recognized in the consolidated statement of income in the expense 
category consistent with the function of the intangible assets. 

Goodwill 

Goodwill represents the excess of cost of an acquisition over the Group’s share in the fair value of identifiable assets less liabilities 
and contingent liabilities of the acquired subsidiary, at the date of the acquisition. If the fair value or the cost of the acquisition can 
only be determined provisionally, then goodwill is initially accounted for using provisional values. Within 12 months of the 
acquisition date, any adjustments to the provisional values are recognized. This is done when the fair values and the cost of the 

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acquisition have been finally determined. Adjustments to provisional fair values are made as if the adjusted fair values had been 
recognized from the acquisition date. Goodwill on acquisition of subsidiaries is included in intangible assets, net. Goodwill on 
acquisition of joint ventures or associates is included in investments in joint ventures and associates. Following initial recognition, 
goodwill is measured at cost, less any accumulated impairment losses. Gains or losses on the disposal of an entity include the 
carrying amount of goodwill relating to the entity sold. 

Where goodwill forms part of a cash-generating unit (or group of cash-generating units) and part of the operation within that unit is 
disposed of, the goodwill associated with the operation disposed of is included in the carrying amount of the operation when 
determining the gain or loss on disposal. Goodwill disposed of in this manner is measured, based on the relative values of the 
operation disposed and the portion of the cash-generating unit retained. 

Licenses 

Licenses are recorded at either historical cost or, if acquired in a business combination, at fair value at the date of acquisition. Cost 
includes cost of acquisition and other costs directly related to acquisition and retention of licenses over the license period. These 
costs may include  up-front and deferred payments as well as estimates related to fulfillment of terms and conditions related to the 
licenses such as service or coverage obligations, especially when there is a clear objective evidence that the cost of fulfilling these 
obligations will be significantly onerous for the Group. 

Licenses have a finite useful life and are carried at cost less accumulated amortization and any accumulated impairment losses. 
Amortization is calculated using the straight-line method to allocate the cost of the licenses over their estimated useful lives. 

The terms of licenses, which have been awarded for various periods, are subject to periodic review for, among other things, rate 
setting, frequency allocation and technical standards. Licenses are initially measured at cost and are amortized from the date the 
network is available for use on a straight-line basis over the license period. Licenses held, subject to certain conditions, are usually 
renewable and generally non-exclusive. When estimating useful lives of licenses, renewal periods are included only if there is 
evidence to support renewal by the Group without significant cost. 

Trademarks and customer lists 

Trademarks and customer lists are recognized as intangible assets only when acquired or gained in a business combination. Their 
cost represents fair value at the date of acquisition. Trademarks and customer lists have indefinite or finite useful lives. Trademarks 
and customer lists used by the Group for its own activities are unlikely to generate largely independent cash inflows and therefore 
are tested for impairment annually together with other assets at each cash-generating unit level. Finite useful life trademarks are 
carried at cost, less accumulated amortization. Amortization is calculated using the straight-line method to allocate the cost of the 
trademarks and customer lists over their estimated useful lives. The estimated useful lives for trademarks and customer lists are 
based on specific characteristics of the market in which they exist. Trademarks and customer lists are included in Intangible assets, 
net. 

Estimated useful lives are: 

Estimated useful lives

Trademarks    .................................................................................................................................................................................................

Customer lists     .............................................................................................................................................................................................

Years

1 to 15

4 to 20

Programming and content rights 

Programming and content master rights which are purchased or acquired in business combinations which meet certain criteria are 
recorded at cost as intangible assets. The rights must be exclusive, related to specific assets which are sufficiently developed, and 
probable to bring future economic benefits and have validity for more than one year. Cost includes consideration paid or payable 
and other costs directly related to the acquisition of the rights, and are recognized at the earlier of payment or commencement of 
the broadcasting period to which the rights relate. 

Programming and content rights capitalized as intangible assets have a finite useful life and are carried at cost, less accumulated 
amortization and any accumulated impairment losses. Amortization is calculated using the straight-line method to allocate the cost 
of the rights over their estimated useful lives. 

Non-exclusive and programming and content rights for periods less than one year are expensed over the period of the rights. 

Indefeasible rights of use 

There is no universally-accepted definition of an indefeasible rights of use (IRU). These agreements come in many forms. However, 
the key characteristics of a typical arrangement include: 

•

The right to use specified network infrastructure or capacity;

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•

•

•

•

For a specified term (often the majority of the useful life of the relevant assets);

Legal title is not transferred;

A number of associated service agreements including operations and maintenance (O&M) and co-location agreements. These
are typically for the same term as the IRU; and 

Any payments are usually made in advance.

IRUs are accounted for either as a lease, or service contract based on the substance of the underlying agreement. 

IRU arrangements will qualify as a lease if, and when: 

•

•

•

•

The purchaser has an exclusive right for a specified period and has the ability to resell (or sublet) the capacity; and

The capacity is physically limited and defined; and

The purchaser bears all costs related to the capacity (directly or not) including costs of operation, administration and
maintenance; and 

The purchaser bears the risk of obsolescence during the contract term.

If all of these criteria are not met, the IRU is treated as a service contract. 

An IRU of network infrastructure (cables or fiber) is accounted for as a right of use asset (see E.3.), while capacity IRU (wavelength) is 
accounted for as an intangible asset. 

The costs of an IRU recognized as service contract is recognized as prepayment and amortized in the statement of income as 
incurred over the duration of the contract. 

E.1.2. Impairment of non-financial assets 

At each reporting date Millicom assesses whether there is an indication that a non-financial asset may be impaired. If any such 
indication exists, or when annual impairment testing for a non-financial asset is required, an estimate of the asset’s recoverable 
amount is made. The recoverable amount is determined based on the higher of its fair value less cost to sell, and its value in use, for 
individual assets, unless the asset does not generate cash inflows that are largely independent of those from other assets or groups 
of assets. 

Where the carrying amount of an asset exceeds its recoverable amount, the asset is considered impaired and is written down to its 
recoverable amount. Where no comparable market information is available, the fair value, less cost to sell, is determined based on 
the estimated future cash flows discounted to their present value using a discount rate that reflects current market conditions for 
the time value of money and risks specific to the asset. The foregoing analysis also evaluates the appropriateness of the expected 
useful lives of the assets. Impairment losses related to assets of continuing operations are recognized in the consolidated statement 
of income in expense categories consistent with the function of the impaired asset. 

At each reporting date an assessment is made as to whether there is any indication that previously recognized impairment losses 
may no longer exist or may have decreased. If such indication exists, the recoverable amount is estimated. Other than for goodwill, a 
previously recognized impairment loss is reversed if there has been a change in the estimate used to determine the asset’s 
recoverable amount since the last impairment loss was recognized. If so, the carrying amount of the asset is increased to its 
recoverable amount. The increased amount cannot exceed the carrying amount that would have been determined, net of 
depreciation, had no impairment loss been recognized for the asset in prior years. Such reversal is recognized in profit or loss. 

After such a reversal, the depreciation charge is adjusted in future periods to allocate the asset’s revised carrying amount, less any 
residual value, on a systematic basis over its remaining useful life. 

E.1.3. Movements in intangible assets 

In December 2019, Tigo Colombia participated in an auction launched by the Ministerio de Tecnologias de la Informacion y las 
Comunicaciones (MINTIC), and acquired licenses granting the right to use a total of 40 MHz in the 700 MHz band. The 20-year license 
will expire in 2040. As a result of this auction,Tigo Colombia has strengthened its spectrum position, which also includes 55 MHz in 
the 1900 band and 30 MHz of AWS. Tigo Colombia  agreed to a total notional consideration of COP 2.45 billion (equivalent to 
approximately $615 million using the December 31, 2021 exchange rate), of which approximately 55% is payable in cash and 45% in 
coverage obligations to be met by 2025.  

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An initial payment of approximately $33 million was made in 2020, with the remainder payable in 12 annual installments beginning 
in 2026 and ending in 2037. The 55% cash portion bears interest at the Colombia-10 years Treasury Bond rate. In April and May 2020, 
local management received permission to operate  40 Mhz in the 700 MHz band and accounted for the spectrum as an Intangible 
asset at an amount of $388 million corresponding to the net present value of the future payments, plus other costs directly 
attributable to this acquisition. The related future interest commitments will be recognized as interest expense over the next 17 
years. The remaining 45% consideration due as coverage obligations are currently being estimated and will be recognized in the 
statement of financial position as incurred.

Movements in intangible assets in 2021 

Goodwill

Licenses

Customer 
Lists

IRUs

Trademark Other (i)

Total

(US$ millions)

Opening balance, net    ....................................

Change in scope (see note A.1.2.)      ....................

1,659 

3,257 

Additions     ..........................................................

Amortization charge   .........................................

Impairment     ......................................................

Disposals, net   ...................................................

Transfers     ...........................................................

Exchange rate movements    ..............................

Closing balance, net    ...........................................

Cost or valuation    ..............................................

Accumulated amortization and impairment    ..

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(32)

4,884 

4,884 

— 

870 

319 

29 

(82)

— 

— 

— 

(67)

1,070 

1,728 

(658) 

Net     ....................................................................

4,884 

1,070 

423 

91 

— 

(56)

— 

— 

— 

(1)

456 

1,251 

(795) 

456 

86 

6 

— 

(14)

— 

— 

2 

(5)

75 

210 

(135) 

75 

77 

848 

— 

(67)

— 

— 

1 

— 

858 

1,189 

(331)

858 

289 

25 

135 

(100) 

(1)

(1)

46 

(15)

379 

1,059 

(681) 

379 

3,403 

4,546 

164 

(320) 

(1)

(1)

49 

(121) 

7,721 

10,322 

(2,600)

7,721 

Movements in intangible assets in 2020 

Goodwill

Licenses

Customer 
Lists

IRUs

Trademark Other (i)

Total

(US$ millions)

Opening balance, net       ....................................

1,684 

Additions    ..........................................................

Amortization charge     .........................................

Impairment      .......................................................

Disposals, net  ....................................................

Transfers  ............................................................

Transfer to/from held for sale     ...........................

Exchange rate movements      ..............................

Closing balance, net   .......................................

Cost or valuation   ..............................................

Accumulated amortization and impairment     ..

Net      ....................................................................

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(26)

1,659 

1,659 

— 

1,659 

468 

421 

(71)

— 

— 

3 

— 

49 

870 

1,305 

(435) 

870 

470 

— 

(44)

— 

— 

— 

— 

(3)

423 

630 

(207) 

423 

107 

— 

(13)

— 

14 

(18)

— 

(3)

86 

196 

(111) 

86 

183 

— 

(106)

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

77 

323 

(246)

77 

282 

99 

(84)

— 

— 

(1)

— 

(8)

289 

840 

(550) 

289 

3,195 

520 

(318) 

— 

13 

(16)

— 

10 

3,403 

4,953 

(1,550)

3,403 

(i)

Other includes mainly software costs 

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E.1.4. Cash used for the purchase of intangible assets 

Cash used for intangible asset additions 

Additions     ......................................................................

Change in accruals and payables for intangibles      .......

Cash used for additions     .................................................

164 

(29)

135 

520 

(315) 

202 

202 

(32) 

171 

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

E.1.5. Goodwill and indefinite useful life trademarks

Allocation of Goodwill to cash generating units (CGUs)

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

Guatemala (see note A.1.2.)       ...........................................................................................................................................

3,258 

Panama (see note A.1.2.)  ................................................................................................................................................

El Salvador  .......................................................................................................................................................................

Costa Rica    ........................................................................................................................................................................

Paraguay   .........................................................................................................................................................................

Colombia   .........................................................................................................................................................................

Tanzania       .........................................................................................................................................................................

Nicaragua (see note A.1.2)  ..............................................................................................................................................

Bolivia    ..............................................................................................................................................................................

907 

194 

110 

47 

149 

12 

203 

3 

— 
907 

194 

115 

47 

173 

12 

207 

3 

Total     ....................................................................................................................................................................................

4,884 

1,659 

Allocation of indefinite useful life trademarks to cash generating units (CGUs)

Guatemala   .......................................................................................................................................................................

Tanzania       .........................................................................................................................................................................

Total     ....................................................................................................................................................................................

E.1.6. Impairment testing of goodwill and indefinite useful life trademarks 

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

848 

10 

858 

— 

10 

10 

Goodwill and indefinite useful life trademarks from CGUs are tested for impairment at least once a year and more frequently if events 
or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value may be impaired. Impairment losses on goodwill are not reversed. 

Goodwill arising on business combinations is allocated to each of the Group’s CGUs or groups of CGUs that are expected to benefit 
from the synergies of the combination, irrespective of whether other assets or liabilities of the Group are assigned to those units or 
groups of units. Each unit or group of units to which the goodwill is allocated: 

•

•

Represents the lowest level within the Group at which the goodwill is monitored for internal management purposes; and

Is not larger than an operating segment.

Impairment is determined by assessing the value-in-use and, if appropriate, the fair value less costs to sell of the CGU (or group of 
CGUs), to which goodwill relates. 

Impairment testing at December 31, 2021  

Goodwill and indefinite useful life trademarks were tested for impairment by assessing the recoverable amount against the carrying 
amount  of  the  CGU  based  on  discounted  cash  flows.  The  recoverable  amounts  are  based  on  value-in-use.  The  value-in-use  is 
determined based on the method of discounted cash flows. The cash flow projections used (operating profit margins, income tax, 

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working capital, capex and license renewal cost) are extracted from business plans approved by management and presented to the 
Board, covering a fifteen-year planning horizon. The Group uses a fifteen-year planning horizon to obtain a stable business outlook, 
in particular due to the long investment cycles in the industry and the long-term planned and expected investments in licenses and 
spectrum. Cash flows beyond this period are extrapolated using a perpetual growth rate. When value-in-use results are lower than 
the  carrying  values  of  the  CGUs,  management  determines  the  recoverable  amount  by  using  the  fair  value  less  cost  of  disposal 
(FVLCD) of the CGUs. FVLCD is usually determined by using recent offers received from third parties (Level 1).

For the year ended December 31, 2021, management concluded that no impairment should be recorded in the Group consolidated 
financial statements.

Impairment testing at December 31, 2020  

For the year ended December 31, 2020, management concluded that no impairment should be recorded in the Group consolidated 
financial statements.

Key assumptions used in value in use calculations

The  process  of  preparing  the  cash  flow  projections  considers  the  current  market  condition  of  each  CGU,  analyzing  the 
macroeconomic,  competitive,  regulatory  and  technological  environments,  as  well  as  the  growth  opportunities  of  the  CGUs. 
Therefore,  a  growth  target  is  defined  for  each  CGU,  based  on  the  appropriate  allocation  of  operating  resources  and  the  capital 
investments required to achieve the target. The foregoing forecasts could differ from the results obtained through time; however, 
the  Company  prepares  its  estimates  based  on  the  current  situation  of  each  of  the  CGUs.  Relevance  of  budgets  used  for  the 
impairment  test  is  also  reviewed  annually,  with  management  performing  regressive  analysis  between  actual  figures  and  budget/
Long Range Plans (LRPs) used for previous year impairment test.

The cash flow projections for all CGUs is most sensitive to the following key assumptions: 

•

•

•

•

EBITDA margin is determined by dividing EBITDA by total revenues.

CAPEX intensity is determined by dividing CAPEX by total revenues.

Perpetual growth rate does not exceed the countries' GDP.

Weighted average cost of capital (“WACC”) is used to discount the projected cash flows.

 The most significant estimates used for the 2021 and 2020 impairment test are shown below:

CGU

Average EBITDA 
margin (%) (i)

Average CAPEX 
intensity (%) (i)

Perpetual growth 
rate (%)

WACC rate after tax 
(%)

2021

2020

2021

2020

2021

2020

2021

2020

Bolivia    .....................................

Colombia    ................................

Costa Rica    ...............................

El Salvador   ..............................

Nicaragua (see note A.1.2)   .....

Panamá (see note A.1.2)    ........

Paraguay    ................................

Guatemala   ..............................

Tanzania    .................................

42.7

36.1

35.5

39.3

45.9

47.0

42.6

54.7

38.0

39.2

35.7

32.9

35.4

45.6

48.2

44.3

53.2

39.5

16.6

17.4

15.1

12.9

16.0

17.2

15.4

12.3

12.5

16.8

17.7

17.8

14.0

15.9

17.5

15.6

12.4

11.7

1.0

2.0

2.0

1.0

3.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

2.0

2.0

1.0

3.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

11.6

8.9

11.1

14.7

12.5

7.0

8.3

8.4

11.5

8.3

12.1

13.8

13.8

7.6

8.4

8.6

13.2

13.8

(i) Average is computed over the period covered by the plan.

Sensitivity analysis to changes in assumptions

Management performed a sensitivity analysis on key assumptions within the test. The following maximum increases or decreases, 
expressed in percentage points, were considered for all CGUs: 

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019

Reasonable changes in key assumptions (%)

Financial variables

WACC rates      .......................

Perpetual growth rates     ....

Operating variables

EBITDA margin    .................

CAPEX intensity  ................

+/-1

+/-1

+/-2

+/-1

The sensitivity analysis shows a comfortable headroom between the recoverable amounts and the carrying values for all CGUs at 
December 31, 2021.

E.2. Property, plant and equipment

E.2.1. Accounting for property, plant and equipment 

Items of property, plant and equipment are stated at either historical cost less accumulated depreciation and accumulated 
impairment. Historical cost includes expenditure that is directly attributable to acquisition of items. The carrying amount of replaced 
parts is derecognized. 

Depreciation is calculated using the straight-line method over the shorter of the estimated useful life of the asset and the remaining 
life of the license associated with the assets, unless the renewal of the license is contractually possible. 

Estimated useful lives

Duration

Buildings    .................................................................................................... Up to 40 years

Networks (including civil works)    ............................................................... 5 to 15 years

Other  .......................................................................................................... 2 to 7 years

The carrying values of property, plant and equipment are reviewed for impairment when events or changes in circumstances 
indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable. The assets’ residual value and useful life is reviewed, and adjusted if 
appropriate, at each statement of financial position date. An asset’s carrying amount is written down immediately to its recoverable 
amount if its carrying amount is greater than its estimated recoverable amount. 

Construction in progress consists of the cost of assets, labor and other direct costs associated with property, plant and equipment 
being constructed by the Group, or purchased assets which have yet to be deployed. When the assets become operational, the 
related costs are transferred from construction in progress to the appropriate asset category and depreciation commences. 

Subsequent costs are included in the asset’s carrying amount or recognized as a separate asset, as appropriate, when it is probable 
that future economic benefits associated with the item will flow to the Group and the cost of the item can be measured reliably. 
Ongoing routine repairs and maintenance are charged to the statement of income in the financial period in which they are incurred. 

Costs of major inspections and overhauls are added to the carrying value of property, plant and equipment and the carrying amount 
of previous major inspections and overhauls is derecognised. 

Equipment installed on customer premises which is not sold to customers is capitalized and amortized over the customer contract 
period. 

A liability for the present value of the cost to remove an asset on both owned and leased sites (for example cell towers) and for 
assets installed on customer premises (for example set-top boxes), is recognized when a present obligation for the removal exists. 
The corresponding cost of the obligation is included in the cost of the asset and depreciated over the useful life of the asset, or lease 
period if shorter. 

Borrowing costs that are directly attributable to the acquisition or construction of a qualifying asset are capitalized as part of the cost 
of that asset when it is probable that such costs will contribute to future economic benefits for the Group and the costs can be 
measured reliably.

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E.2.2. Movements in tangible assets 

Movements in tangible assets in 2021 

203 

Network 
Equipment (ii)

Land and 
Buildings

Construction in 
Progress

Other(i)

Total

(US$ millions)

Opening balance, net    ...................................................

2,175 

Change in scope (see note A.1.2.)      ...................................

Additions     .........................................................................

Impairments/reversal of impairment, net     ......................

Disposals, net   ...................................................................

Depreciation charge   ........................................................

Asset retirement obligations   ...........................................

Transfers     ..........................................................................

Transfer from/(to) assets held for sale (see note E.4)   ......

Exchange rate movements    .............................................

Closing balance, net     .....................................................

Cost or valuation    .............................................................

Accumulated amortization and impairment    .................

Net at December 31, 2021     ............................................

Movements in tangible assets in 2020 

494 

30 

— 

(10)

(651)

31 

572 

— 

(115)

2,527 

8,373 

(5,846) 

2,527 

185 

9 

— 

— 

— 

(16)

1 

5 

— 

(10)

175 

333 

(158)

175 

308 

29 

752 

(3)

(4)

— 

— 

(646)

— 

(6)

429 

429 

— 

429 

87 

11 

4 

(1)

— 

(73)

— 

41 

— 

(2)

68 

390 

(322)

68 

2,755 

543 

787 

(4) 

(14) 

(739) 

32 

(28) 

— 

(133) 

3,198 

9,524 

(6,326) 

3,198 

Network 
equipment

Land and 
buildings

Construction in 
progress

Other(i)

Total

(US$ millions)

Opening balance, net    ...................................................

2,212 

Change in Scope   ..............................................................

Additions     .........................................................................

Impairments/reversal of impairment, net     ......................

Disposals, net   ...................................................................

Depreciation charge   ........................................................

Asset retirement obligations   ...........................................

Transfers     ..........................................................................
Transfers from/(to) assets held for sale  
(see note E.4.)    ...................................................................

Exchange rate movements    .............................................

Closing balance, net     .....................................................

Cost or valuation    .............................................................

Accumulated amortization and impairment    .................

Net at December 31, 2020     ............................................

— 

31 

— 

31 

(644)

17 

588 

1 

(62)

2,175 

6,423 

(4,248) 

2,175 

(i)

Other mainly includes office equipment and motor vehicles. 

206 

— 

— 

— 

(2)

(22)

2 

5 

1 

(5)

185 

329 

(144)

185 

355 

— 

606 

— 

(2)

— 

— 

(644)

— 

(8)

308 

308 

— 

308 

127 

2,899 

— 

11 

— 

(41)

(83)

— 

75 

— 

(2)

87 

407 

(320)

87 

— 

649 

— 

(13)

(749) 

19 

24 

3 

(77) 

2,755 

7,466 

(4,711) 

2,755 

Borrowing costs capitalized for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 were not significant. 

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E.2.3. Cash used for the purchase of tangible assets 

Cash used for property, plant and equipment additions 

20 4 

Additions   .............................................................................................................................................

Change in advances to suppliers  ........................................................................................................

Change in accruals and payables for property, plant and equipment   .............................................

Other    ....................................................................................................................................................

Cash used for additions   ....................................................................................................................

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

787 

(6) 

(40) 

(1)

740 

649 

(4)

(22)

(1)

622 

719 

1 

17 

(1) 

736 

E.3. Right of use assets

Right-of-use assets are measured at cost comprising the following: 

•

•

•

•

the amount of the initial measurement of lease liability

any lease payments made at or before the commencement date less any lease incentives received

any initial direct costs, and

restoration costs

Refer to note C.4. for further details on lease accounting policies. 

Movements in right of use assets in 2021 

Right-of-use assets

Opening balance, net

Change in scope (see note A.1.2.)    .................

Additions     .......................................................

Modifications  .................................................

Impairments   ..................................................

Disposals  ........................................................

Depreciation     ..................................................

Asset retirement obligations    ........................

Transfers     ........................................................

Exchange rate movements  ...........................

Closing balance, net

Cost of valuation       ...........................................

Accumulated depreciation and impairment 

Net at 31 December 2021

Land and 
buildings

Sites rental

Tower 
rental

(US$ millions)

Other 
network 
equipment

Capacity

Other

Total

147 

16 

37 

14 

(1)

(2)

(36) 

1 

— 

(9)

169 

254 

(85) 

169 

93 

107 

14 

8 

— 

(2)

(22)

— 

4 

(1)

201 

317 

(116) 

201 

607 

48 

53 

3 

— 

(2)

(81)

— 

(17)

(24)

587 

908 

(320) 

587 

31 

3 

— 

1 

— 

(1)

(4)

— 

(5)

— 

25 

40 

(14)

25 

14 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(1)

— 

(1)

— 

12 

17 

(5)

12 

2 

13 

1 

(1)

— 

— 

(2)

— 

— 

— 

13 

21 

(8)

13 

895 

187 

106 

25 

(1) 

(7) 

(145) 

— 

(18) 

(34) 

1,008 

1,557 

(549) 

1,008 

There have been no unusual significant events affecting lease liabilities (and right-of-use assets) during the year ended December 
31, 2021.

Movements in right of use assets in 2020 

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205 

Right-of-use assets

Land and 
buildings

Sites rental

Tower rental

Capacity

Other 
network 
equipment

Other

Total

(US$ millions)

Opening balance, net

Change in scope    .......................

Additions    ...................................

Modifications (i)   ........................

Impairments   ..............................

Disposals   ...................................

Depreciation   .............................

Asset retirement obligations   ....

Transfers     ....................................
Transfers to/from assets held 
for sale    .......................................

Exchange rate movements .......

Closing balance, net

Cost of valuation  .......................
Accumulated depreciation 
and impairment    ........................

Net at 31 December 2020

148 

— 

41 

9 

(1)

(10)

(38)

— 

— 

— 

(3)

147 

206 

(59)

147 

101 

— 

2 

10 

— 

(1)

(17)

1 

— 

— 

(2)

93 

127 

(34)

93 

729 

— 

23 

(27)

— 

— 

(88) 

— 

(2) 

— 

(27)

607 

839 

(232)

607 

15 

— 

1 

— 

— 

— 

(1)

— 

— 

— 

— 

14 

18 

(4)

14 

16 

— 

18 

(1)

— 

(1)

(8)

— 

5 

— 

— 

31 

42 

(12)

31 

3 

— 

1 

— 

— 

— 

(2)

(1)

1 

— 

— 

2 

6 

(3)

2 

1,012 

— 

86 

(8) 

(1) 

(12) 

(155) 

— 

4 

— 

(32) 

895 

1,238 

(343) 

895 

(i)

In early 2020, and following a change in regulation in Colombia, future lease payments for the use of certain public assets have been significantly 
decreased. This triggered a lease modification and a decrease of the related lease liabilities (and right-of-use assets) of approximately $45 million.

Tower Sale and Leaseback  

In 2018 and 2019, the Group announced agreements to sell and leaseback wireless communications towers in Paraguay, Colombia 
and El Salvador. Total gain on sale recognized in 2021 was nil (2020: nil, 2019:$5 million) and cash received from these sales in 2021 
was nil, (2020: nil, 2019: $22 million).

E.4. Assets held for sale

If Millicom decides to sell subsidiaries, investments in joint ventures or associates, or specific non-current assets in its businesses, 
these items qualify as assets held for sale if certain conditions are met and necessary regulatory approvals obtained. 

E.4.1. Classification of assets held for sale 

Non-current assets (or disposal groups) are classified as assets held for sale and stated at the lower of carrying amount and fair value 
less costs to sell if their carrying amount is expected to be recovered principally through sale, not through continuing use. Liabilities 
of disposal groups are classified as Liabilities directly associated with assets held for sale. 

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E.4.2. Millicom’s assets held for sale 

20 6 

The following table summarizes the nature of the assets and liabilities reported under assets held for sale and liabilities directly 
associated with assets held for sale as at December 31, 2021 and 2020: 

Assets and liabilities reclassified as held for sale ($ millions)

Towers Colombia (see note E.4.1.)     .................................................................................................................................

Towers El Salvador (see note E.4.1.)     ...............................................................................................................................

Towers Zantel    .................................................................................................................................................................

Total assets of held for sale    ........................................................................................................................................

Total liabilities directly associated with assets held for sale  .................................................................................

Net assets held for sale / book value      .........................................................................................................................

December 31,

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

1 

— 

— 

1 

— 

1 

In accordance with IFRS 5 and as further explained in Note A.1.3. , financial information relating to discontinued operations for the 
years ended  December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019 is set out below. Figures shown below are after intercompany eliminations. 

Results from discontinued operations 

December 31

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

Revenue   ...............................................................................................................................................

Cost of sales    .........................................................................................................................................

Operating expenses     ............................................................................................................................

Other expenses linked to the disposal of discontinued operations    .................................................

Depreciation and amortization    ..........................................................................................................

Other operating income (expenses), net     ...........................................................................................

Gain/(loss) on disposal of discontinued operations    ..........................................................................

Operating profit (loss)    ......................................................................................................................

Interest income (expense), net    ...........................................................................................................

Other non-operating (expenses) income, net ....................................................................................

Profit (loss) before taxes     ..................................................................................................................

Credit (charge) for taxes, net     ..............................................................................................................

Net profit/(loss) from discontinuing operations    ..........................................................................

Cash flows from discontinued operations 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

(4)

(9)

— 

— 

— 

(12)

— 

— 

(12)

— 

(12)

Cash from (used in) operating activities, net     .....................................................................................

Cash from (used in) investing activities, net     ......................................................................................

Cash from (used in) financing activities, net      ......................................................................................

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

— 

December 31

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

50 

(14) 

(2)

(10)

(11) 

— 

74 

88

(2) 

— 

86

(2) 

84

(8) 

5 

7 

F. Other assets and liabilities
F.1. Trade receivables

Millicom’s trade receivables mainly comprise interconnect receivables from other operators, postpaid mobile and residential cable 
subscribers, as well as B2B customers. The nominal value of receivables adjusted for impairment approximates the fair value of trade 
receivables. 

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Gross trade receivables   ..................................................................................................................................................

Less: provisions for expected credit losses    ....................................................................................................................

Trade receivables, net  ..................................................................................................................................................

Aging of trade receivables

207 

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

722 

(316) 

405 

649 

(298)

351 

Neither past 
due nor 
impaired

Past due (net of 
impairments)

30–90 days

>90 days

Total

(US$ millions)

2021:

Telecom operators     ...................................................................................................

Own customers    ........................................................................................................

Others      .......................................................................................................................

Total

2020:

Telecom operators     ...................................................................................................

Own customers    ........................................................................................................

Others      .......................................................................................................................

Total

18 

210 

58 

286 

15 

167 

34 

216 

3 

59 

12 

74 

7 

65 

19 

90 

4 

34 

8 

46 

3 

34 

8 

45 

25 

303 

77 

405 

25 

266 

60 

351 

Trade receivables are initially recognized at fair value and subsequently measured at amortized cost using the effective interest 
method, less provision for expected credit losses. The Group recognizes an allowance for expected credit losses (ECLs) applying a 
simplified approach in calculating the ECLs. Therefore, the Group does not track changes in credit risk, but instead recognizes a loss 
allowance based on lifetime of ECLs at each reporting date. The Group has established a provision matrix that is based on its 
historical credit loss experience, adjusted for forward-looking factors specific to the debtors and the economic environment. The 
provision for expected credit losses is recognized in the consolidated statement of income within Cost of sales. 

Loans and receivables are non-derivative financial assets with fixed or determinable payments that are not quoted in an active 
market. They are included in current assets, except for those maturing more than 12 months after the end of the reporting period. 
These are classified within non-current assets. Loans and receivables are carried at amortized cost using the effective interest 
method. Gains and losses are recognized in the statement of income when the loans and receivables are derecognized or impaired, 
as well as through the amortization process. 

F.2. Inventories

Inventories are stated at the lower of cost and net realizable value. Cost is determined using the first-in, first-out method. Net 
realizable value is the estimated selling price in the ordinary course of business, less applicable variable selling expenses. 

Inventories 

Telephone and equipment     ............................................................................................................................................

SIM cards   .........................................................................................................................................................................

IRUs    .................................................................................................................................................................................

Other  ...............................................................................................................................................................................

Inventory at December 31,  ..........................................................................................................................................

F.3. Trade payables

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

43 

5 

— 

15 

63 

23 

4 

— 

10 

37 

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Trade payables are initially recognized at fair value and subsequently measured at amortized cost using the effective interest 
method where the effect of the passage of time is material. 

From time to time, the Group enters into agreements to extend payment terms with various suppliers, and with factoring companies 
when such payments are discounted. The corresponding amount pending payment as of December 31, 2021, is recognized in Trade 
payables for an amount of $38 million (2020: $46 million). 

F.4. Current and non-current provisions and other liabilities

Provisions are recognized when the Group has a present obligation (legal or constructive) as a result of a past event, if it is probable 
that an outflow of resources embodying economic benefits will be required to settle the obligation and a reliable estimate can be 
made of the amount of the obligation. Where the Group expects some or all of a provision to be reimbursed, for example under an 
insurance contract, the reimbursement is recognized as a separate asset, but only when the reimbursement is virtually certain. 

The expense relating to any provision is presented in the statement of income net of any reimbursement. If the effect of the time 
value of money is material, provisions are discounted using a current pre-tax rate that reflects, where appropriate, risks specific to 
the liability. Where discounting is used, increases in the provision due to the passage of time are recognized as interest expenses. 

F.4.1. Current provisions and other liabilities 

Current 

Deferred revenue   ............................................................................................................................................................

Customer deposits ..........................................................................................................................................................

Current legal provisions    .................................................................................................................................................

Tax payables   ...................................................................................................................................................................

Customer and MFS distributor cash balances    ...............................................................................................................

Withholding tax on payments to third parties    ..............................................................................................................

Other current liabilities(i)    ...............................................................................................................................................

Total    ................................................................................................................................................................................

110 

15 

24 

88 

194 

11 

105 

546 

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

(i) Includes $25 million (2020: $44 million) of tax risk liabilities not related to income tax. 

F.4.2. Non-current provisions and other liabilities 

Non-current 

Non-current legal provisions   .........................................................................................................................................

Long-term portion of asset retirement obligations      ......................................................................................................

Long-term portion of deferred income on tower sale and leasebacks recognized under IAS 17   ..............................

Long-term employment obligations    .............................................................................................................................

Other non-current liabilities     ...........................................................................................................................................

Total    ................................................................................................................................................................................

22 

177 

46 

56 

63 

364 

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

78 

14 

22 

72 

186 

6 

133 

511 

30 

107 

57 

67 

67 

328 

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F.5. Assets and liabilities related to contract with customers

Contract assets, net 

Long-term portion   ...............................................................................................................................................................

Short-term portion ...............................................................................................................................................................

Less: provisions for expected credit losses      .........................................................................................................................

Total  .....................................................................................................................................................................................

18 

54 

(4)

69 

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

Contract liabilities 

Long-term portion   ...............................................................................................................................................................

Short-term portion ...............................................................................................................................................................

Total  .....................................................................................................................................................................................

2 

95 

97 

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

20 9 

6 

28 

(2) 

31 

2 

89 

90 

The Group recognized revenue for $86 million in 2021 (2020: $82 million) that was included in the contract liability balance at the 
beginning of the year.  

The transaction price allocated to the remaining performance obligations (unsatisfied or partially unsatisfied) as at December 31, 
2021 is $101 million ($96 million is expected to be recognized as revenue in the 2023 financial year and the remaining $6 million in 
the 2024 financial year or later) (i). 

(i)  This amount does not consider contracts that have an original expected duration of one year or less, neither contracts in which consideration from a 
customer corresponds to the value of the entity’s performance obligation to the customer (i.e. billing corresponds to accounting revenue). 

Contract costs, net (i) 

Net at January 1   .................................................................................................................................................................

Change in scope     ..................................................................................................................................................................

Contract costs capitalized     ...................................................................................................................................................

Amortization of contract costs    ............................................................................................................................................

Net at December 31     ...........................................................................................................................................................

5 

2 

2 

(1)

8 

(i)

Incremental costs of obtaining a contract are expensed when incurred if the amortization period of the asset that Millicom otherwise would have 
recognized is one year or less. 

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

G. Additional disclosure items
G.1. Fees to auditors

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

Audit fees   .............................................................................................................................................

Audit related fees     ................................................................................................................................

Tax fees   ................................................................................................................................................

Other fees  ............................................................................................................................................

Total   ....................................................................................................................................................

5.2 

1.4 

0.1 

0.4 

7.1 

5.8 

0.5 

0.1 

0.1 

6.4 

G.2. Capital and operational commitments

5 

— 

1 

(1) 

5 

6.8 

1.3 

0.1 

0.6 

8.8 

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Millicom has a number of capital and operational commitments to suppliers and service providers in the normal course of its 
business. These commitments are mainly contracts for acquiring network and other equipment, and leases for towers and other 
operational equipment. 

G.2.1. Capital commitments 

At December 31, 2021, the Company and its subsidiaries had fixed commitments to purchase network equipment, land and 
buildings, other fixed assets and intangible assets of $761 million of which $428 million are due within one year (December 31, 2020: 
$564 million of which $400 million were due within one year). The Group’s share of commitments from the joint ventures is, 
respectively $41 million and $41 million. (December 31, 2020: $69 million and $52 million, respectively). 

G.3. Contingent liabilities
G.3.1. Litigation and legal risks

The Company and its operations are contingently liable with respect to lawsuits, legal, regulatory, commercial and other legal risks 
that arise in the normal course of business. As of December 31, 2021, the total amount of claims brought against Millicom and its 
subsidiaries is $246 million (December 31, 2020: $288 million). The Group's share of the comparable exposure for joint ventures is 
$13 million (December 31, 2020: $14 million). 

As at December 31, 2021, $36 million has been provided by its subsidiaries for these risks in the consolidated statement of financial 
position (December 31, 2020: $45 million). The Group’s share of provisions made by the joint ventures was $1 million (December 31, 
2020: $3 million). While it is not possible to ascertain the ultimate legal and financial liability with respect to these claims and risks, 
the ultimate outcome is not anticipated to have a material effect on the Group’s financial position and operations. 

On May 25, 2020, as a result of the termination of the Costa Rica acquisition (see Note A.1.2.), Telefónica filed a complaint, followed 
by an amended complaint on August 3, 2020, against us in the Supreme Court of New York. The amended complaint asserts claims 
for breach of contract and alleges, among other things, that we were required to close the transaction because the closing 
conditions specified in the sale and purchase agreement for the acquisition had been satisfied. The complaint seeks, among other 
relief, a declaration of Telefónica’s rights, and unspecified damages, costs, and fees. We believe the complaint is without merit and 
that our position will ultimately be vindicated through the judicial process. 

Other 

At December 31, 2021, Millicom has various other less significant claims which are not disclosed separately in these consolidated 
financial statements because they are either not material or the related risk is remote. 

G.3.2. Tax related risks and uncertain tax position

The Group operates in developing countries where the tax systems, regulations and enforcement processes have varying stages of 
development creating uncertainty regarding the application of the tax law and interpretation of tax treatments. The Group is also 
subject to regular tax audits in the countries where it operates. When there is uncertainty over whether the taxation authority will 
accept a specific tax treatment under the local tax law, that tax treatment is therefore uncertain. The resolution of tax positions taken 
by the Group, through negotiations with relevant tax authorities or through litigation, can take several years to complete and, in 
some cases, it is difficult to predict the ultimate outcome. Therefore, judgment is required to determine liabilities for taxes. 

In assessing whether and how an uncertain tax treatment affects the determination of taxable profit (tax loss), tax bases, unused tax 
losses, unused tax credits and tax rates, the Group assumes that a taxation authority with the right to examine amounts reported to 
it will examine those amounts and have full knowledge of all relevant information when making those examinations. 

The Group has a process in place, and applies significant judgment, in identifying uncertainties over income tax treatments. 
Management considers whether or not it is probable that a taxation authority will accept an uncertain tax treatment. On that basis, 
the identified risks are split into three categories (i) remote risks (risk of outflow of tax payments are up to 20%), (ii) possible risks (risk 
of outflow of tax payments assessed from 21% to 49%) and probable risks (risk of outflow is more than 50%). The process is repeated 
every quarter by the Group. 

If the Group concludes that it is probable or certain that the taxation authority will accept the tax treatment, the risks are categorized 
either as possible or remote, and it determines the taxable profit (tax loss), tax bases, unused tax losses, unused tax credits or tax 
rates consistently with the tax treatment used or planned to be used in its income tax filings. The risks considered as possible are not 
provisioned but disclosed as tax contingencies in the Group consolidated financial statements while remote risks are neither 
provisioned nor disclosed. 

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If the Group concludes that it is probable that the taxation authority will not accept the Group’s interpretation of the uncertain tax 
treatment, the risks are categorized as probable, and are presented to reflect the effect of uncertainty in determining the related 
taxable profit (tax loss), tax bases, unused tax losses, unused tax credits or tax rates by generally using the most likely amount 
method – the single most likely amount in a range of possible outcomes. 

If an uncertain tax treatment affects both deferred tax and current tax, the Group makes consistent estimates and judgments for 
both. For example, an uncertain tax treatment may affect both taxable profits used to determine the current tax and tax bases used 
to determine deferred tax. 

If facts and circumstances change, the Group reassesses the judgments and estimates regarding the uncertain tax position taken. 

At December 31, 2021, the tax risks exposure of the Group's subsidiaries is estimated at $343 million, for which provisions of $69 
million have been recorded in tax liabilities; representing the probable amount of eventual claims and required payments related to 
those risks (2020: $339 million of which provisions of $77 million were recorded). The Groups' share of comparable tax exposure and 
provisions in its joint ventures amounts to $68 million (2020: $69 million) and $3 million (2020: $7 million), respectively. During 2021, 
due to tax audit closure in Tanzania, the Group has released tax risk contingencies amounting to $25 million which were considered 
as 'possible risks' and has also recorded the reversal of a $30 million provision for claims no longer deemed as 'probable risks'.

G.4. Non-cash investing and financing activities

Non-cash investing and financing activities from continuing operations 

Note

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

Investing activities

Acquisition of property, plant and equipment   .......................................................

Acquisition of lease right of use assets obtained in exchange of lease liabilities   .

Asset retirement obligations    ...................................................................................

E.2.2.

E.3.

E.2.2.

Financing activities

Share based compensation  .....................................................................................

B.4.1.

(47) 

106 

32 

17 

(27) 

92 

19 

24 

17 

100 

19 

27 

G.5. Related party balances and transactions

The Group’s significant related parties are: 

• Until November 14, 2019, date on which Millicom SDRs were paid out to the shareholders of Kinnevik (see 'Introduction' note),

Kinnevik AB (Kinnevik) was Millicom’s previous principal shareholder; 

• Helios Towers Africa Ltd (HTA), in which Millicom held a direct or indirect equity interest - until October 15, 2019, date on which

Millicom lost significant influence on HTA and started accounting for its investments at fair value under IFRS 9 (see note 
A.3.1.and C.7.3.).

•

EPM and subsidiaries (EPM), the non-controlling shareholder in our Colombian operations (see note A.1.4.);

• Miffin Associates Corp and subsidiaries (Miffin), our joint venture partner in Guatemala until November 12, 2021, date on which

Millicom signed and closed an agreement to acquire the remaining 45% equity interest in our joint venture business in 
Guatemala from Miffin (see note A.1.2.).

•

Cable Onda partners and subsidiaries, the non-controlling shareholders in our Panama operations (see note A.1.2.).

Kinnevik 

Until  November  14,  2019,  Kinnevik  was  Millicom's  principal  shareholder,  owning  approximately  37%  of  Millicom.  Kinnevik  is  a 
Swedish holding company with interests in the telecommunications, media, publishing, paper and financial services industries. 

During 2019, Kinnevik did not purchase any Millicom shares. There were no significant loans made by Millicom to or for the benefit 
of Kinnevik or Kinnevik controlled entities. 

During 2019, the Company purchased services from Kinnevik subsidiaries including fraud detection, procurement and professional 
services. Transactions and balances with Kinnevik Group companies are disclosed under 'Other' in the tables below. 

Helios Towers 

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Millicom sold its tower assets and leased back a portion of space on the towers in several African countries and contracted for 
related operation and management services with HTA. The Group has future lease commitments in respect of the tower companies 
(see note E.4.). As mentioned above, Helios Towers ceased to be a related party to the Group from October 15, 2019.

Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM)  

EPM is a state-owned, industrial and commercial enterprise, owned by the municipality of Medellin, and provides electricity, gas, 
water, sanitation, and telecommunications. EPM owns 50% of our operations in Colombia. 

Miffin Associates Corp (Miffin) 

The Group purchases and sells products and services from and to the Miffin Group. Transactions with Miffin represent recurring 
commercial operations such as purchase of handsets, and sale of airtime. As mentioned above, Miffin ceased to be a related party to 
the Group from November 12, 2021. 

Cable Onda Partners 

Our partners in Panama are the non-controlling shareholders of Cable Onda and own 20% of the company, and indirectly 20% of 
Grupo de Comunicaciones Digitales S.A. (formerly Telefónica Móviles Panamá, S.A.), which had been acquired by Cable Onda in 
August 2019. Additionally, they also hold interests in several entities which have purchasing and selling recurring commercial 
operations with Cable Onda (such as the sale of content costs, delivery of broadband services, etc.). Transactions and balances with 
Cable Onda Partners companies are disclosed under 'Other' in the tables below given their individual immateriality. 

Expenses from transactions with related parties

Purchases of goods and services from Miffin (i)  .................................................................................

Purchases of goods and services from EPM   .......................................................................................

Lease of towers and related services from HTA (ii)     ............................................................................

Other expenses    ...................................................................................................................................

Total   ....................................................................................................................................................

Income and gains from transactions with related parties

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

(165) 

(39)

— 

(18)

(221)

(216) 

(37)

— 

(57)

(310)

(214) 

(42) 

(146) 

(10) 

(412) 

2021

2020

2019

(US$ millions)

Sale of goods and services to Miffin (i)     ...............................................................................................

Sale of goods and services to EPM    .....................................................................................................

Other revenue    .....................................................................................................................................

Total   ....................................................................................................................................................

299 

14 

2 

314 

327 

15 

2 

343 

(i) Miffin entities are not considered as related parties since November 12, 2021.

(ii)  HTA ceased to be a related party on October 15, 2019. See note C.7.3. for further details.

As at December 31, the Company had the following balances with related parties: 

Liabilities

Payables to Guatemala joint venture (i)     ........................................................................................................................

Payables to Honduras joint venture (ii)    .........................................................................................................................

Payables to EPM  ..............................................................................................................................................................

Payables to Panama non-controlling interests    .............................................................................................................

Other accounts payable     .................................................................................................................................................

Total    ................................................................................................................................................................................

— 

69 

15 

1 

2 

87 

December 31

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

306 

13 

3 

322 

231 

103 

20 

1 

1 

356 

(i)

Since November 12, 2021, Tigo Guatemala is accounted for as a subsidiary and intercompany transactions are eliminated on consolidation (see note 
A.1.2. to our audited consolidated financial statements).

(ii)  Mainly advances for dividends expected  to be declared in 2022. 

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December 31

2021

2020

(US$ millions)

Assets

Receivables from EPM    ....................................................................................................................................................

Receivables from Guatemala joint venture (i)     ...............................................................................................................

Receivables from Honduras joint venture (ii)      ................................................................................................................

Receivables from Panama non-controlling interests  ....................................................................................................

Receivable from AirtelTigo Ghana     .................................................................................................................................

Other accounts receivable    .............................................................................................................................................
Total    ................................................................................................................................................................................

2 

— 

62 

1 

— 

5 

70 

3 

206 

84 

1 

— 

5 

299 

(i)  In 2021 and prior to the acquisition of the remaining 45% shareholding, our former joint venture in Guatemala repaid the entire $193 million Millicom 
shareholder loan granted in October 2020 and originally repayable by January 13, 2022, at the latest. As explained above, Tigo Guatemala is as a 
wholly owned subsidiary from November 12, 2021.

(ii) 

In November 2020, our operations in Honduras completed a shareholding restructuring whereby Telefónica Celular S.A. acquired the shares of Navega 
S.A. de C.V. from its existing shareholders. The sale consideration will be payable in several installments with a final settlement in November 2023. As of 
December 31, 2021, $24 million out of a total receivable of $53 million is due after more than one year and therefore disclosed in non-current assets. 
During 2021, our operations in Honduras repaid $30 million to Millicom.

H. Millicom’s operations in Tanzania

Tanzania divestiture

On April 19, 2021, Millicom agreed to sell its entire operations in Tanzania to a consortium led by Axian, a pan-African group that was 
part of the consortium that acquired Millicom’s operations in Senegal in 2018. The Group is still awaiting the necessary regulatory 
approvals in order to complete the disposal. 

IPO – Tanzania

The Tanzanian government implemented in 2016 legislation requiring telecommunications companies to list their shares on the Dar 
es Salaam Stock Exchange and offer 25% of their shares in a Tanzanian public offering. The Group reached an agreement with the 
Tanzanian government that such public offering must take place before 31 December 2025 at the latest.

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 
For the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019

I. Subsequent Events

Financing

On  January  27,  2022,  our  principal  subsidiary  in  Guatemala,  Comcel,  completed  the  issuance  of  a new  10-year  $900  million  Bond 
with a coupon of 5.125%. Proceeds from this bond as well as cash were used to repay a significant portion of the bridge financing 
that was used to fund the acquisition of the remaining 45% equity interest in our Tigo Guatemala operations. As of February 8, 2022, 
a balance of $450 million remained unpaid under the initial $2.15 billion bridge loan agreement.

On  January  13,  2022,  we  completed  the  issuance  of  a  new  5-year  sustainability  bond  raising  SEK  2.25  billion  (approximately 
$252 million) at a fully swapped rate of Secured Overnight Financing Rate plus 3.496%. Proceeds will be used to fund investments in 
accordance with the Company's sustainability framework. This bond has been fully hedged against foreign exchange fluctuations. 

In January 2022, Colombia Movil S.A. partially repaid  $100 million syndicated loan, which was initially due in 2024. Cross currency 
swaps  used  to  hedge  the  previous  interest  and  principal  on  the  previous  loan  for $50  million  were  terminated.  The  outstanding 
amount of $50 million remains fully swapped. 

Zantel's earn out

In January 2022, Millicom received $11 million from Etisalat as earn-out income related to the purchase of Zantel in 2015. This 
settlement was considered as an adjusting event and recorded in 'other operating income' in the statement of income. 

Share capital

On February 28, 2022, the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of Millicom resolved to authorize the Board of Directors of 
Millicom to increase the authorized share capital of the Company from $199,999,800 divided into 133,333,200 shares, with a par 
value of $1.50 per share, to $300,000,000 divided into 200,000,000 shares, with a par value of $1.50 per share. 

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HEADQUARTERS
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

José Antonio Ríos García
Chairman, Director

Pernille Erenbjerg
Deputy Chair, Director

Odilon Almeida
Director

Bruce Churchill
Director

Sonia Dulá
Director

Lars-Johan Jarnheimer
Director

Mercedes Johnson
Director

Mauricio Ramos
Director

James Thompson
Director

EXECUTIVE TEAM

Mauricio Ramos
Chief Executive Officer

Tim Pennington
Senior Executive Vice President,
Chief Financial Officer

Sheldon Bruha 
Executive Vice President, 
Incoming Chief Financial Officer

Esteban Iriarte
Executive Vice President,
Chief Operating Officer—Latam

Xavier Rocoplan
Executive Vice President,
Chief Technology and Information Officer

Karim Lesina
Executive Vice President, 
Chief External Affairs Officer

Salvador Escalón
Executive Vice President, 
Chief Legal and Compliance Officer

Susy Bobenrieth
Executive Vice President, 
Chief Human Resources Officer

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