Millicom International Cellular S.A. Market Visit to

NEW YORK and STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept. 8, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Millicom
International Cellular S.A. ("Millicom") (Nasdaq:MICC) (Stockholm:MIC) is today
and tomorrow hosting a visit to its Tanzanian operations for investors and
analysts. 

As part of this visit, management will give presentations on aspects of the
Group's strategy, reinforcing its clear commitment to growth through increasing
voice penetration, continued market share gains and product and service
innovation. The slides will be available at www.millicom.com to coincide with
the timing of each set of presentations in Tanzania, at approximately 08:15 and
10:15 CET on Wednesday and 09:30 CET on Thursday. 

Millicom International Cellular S.A. is a global telecommunications group with
mobile telephony operations in 14 countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa.
It also operates cable and broadband businesses in five countries in Central
America. The Group's mobile operations have a combined population under license
of approximately 266 million people. 

This press release may contain certain "forward-looking statements" with
respect to Millicom's expectations and plans, strategy, management's
objectives, future performance, costs, revenues, earnings and other trend
information. It is important to note that Millicom's actual results in the
future could differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking
statements depending on various important factors. Please refer to the
documents that Millicom has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
including Millicom's most recent annual report on Form 20-F, for a discussion
of certain of these factors. 

All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information
available to Millicom on the date hereof. All written or oral forward-looking
statements attributable to Millicom International Cellular S.A., any Millicom
International Cellular S.A. employees or representatives acting on Millicom's
behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the factors referred to
above. Millicom does not intend to update these forward-looking statements. 

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CONTACT:  Millicom International Cellular S.A., Luxembourg
          Francois-Xavier Roger, Chief Financial Officer
            +352 27 759 327
          Peregrine Riviere, Head of External Communications
            +352 691 750 098
          Emily Hunt, Investor Relations
            +44 7779 018 539
          http://www.millicom.com
Millicom International Cellular S.A. Market Visit to Tanzania
