Millicom International Cellular S.A.

société anonyme

Registered office: 2, rue du Fort Bourbon, L-1249 Luxembourg

R.C.S. Luxembourg: B 40.630

CONSOLIDATED ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

as at 28 February 2022

STATUTS COORDONNES À la date du 24 février 2022

"CHAPTER I. FORM, NAME, REGISTERED OFFICE, OBJECT, DURATION

Article 1. Form, Name.

There is hereby established among the subscribers and all those who may become owners of the shares hereafter created the Company in the form of a public limited liability company (société anonyme) which will be governed by the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ("Luxembourg"), notably the Luxembourg law of 10 August 1915 on commercial companies, as amended (the "Law"), article 1832 of the Luxembourg Civil Code, as amended, and the present articles of association (the "Articles").

The Company will exist under the name of "MILLICOM INTERNATIONAL CELLULAR S.A.".

Article 2. Registered Office.

The Company will have its registered office in Luxembourg-City.

The registered office of the Company may be transferred to any other place within Luxembourg by a resolution of the board of directors of the Company (the "Board", its members being the "Director(s)").

In the event the Board determine that extraordinary political, economic or social developments have occurred or are imminent that would interfere with the normal activities of the Company at its registered office or with the ease of communications with such office or between such office and persons abroad, the registered office may be temporarily transferred abroad until the complete cessation of the abnormal circumstances. Such temporary measures will have no effect on the nationality of the Company, which, notwithstanding the temporary transfer of the registered office, will remain a Luxembourg company. Such temporary measures will be taken and notified to any interested parties by one of the bodies or persons entrusted with the daily management of the Company.

Article 3. Purposes.

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The Company's purpose is to engage in all transactions pertaining directly or indirectly to the acquisition and holding of participating interests, in any form whatsoever, in any Luxembourg or foreign business enterprise, including but not limited to, the administration, management, control and development of any such enterprise.

The Company may, in connection with the foregoing purposes, (i) acquire or sell by way of subscription, purchase, exchange or in any other manner any equity or debt securities or other financial instruments representing ownership rights, claims or assets issued by, or offered or sold to, any public or private issuer, (ii) issue any debt instruments exercise any rights attached to the foregoing securities or financial instruments, and (iii) grant any type of direct or indirect assistance, in any form, to or for the benefit of subsidiaries, affiliates or other companies in which it holds a participation directly or indirectly, including but not limited to loans, guarantees, credit facilities, technical assistance.

In a general fashion the Company may carry out any commercial, industrial or financial operation and engage in such other activities as the Company deems necessary, advisable, convenient, incidental to, or not inconsistent with, the accomplishment and development of the foregoing.

Article 4. Duration.

The Company is formed for an unlimited duration.

CHAPTER II.- CAPITAL, SHARES.

Article 5. Corporate Capital.

The Company has an authorised capital of one hundred and ninety-ninemillion nine hundred and ninety-ninethousand, eight hundredthree hundred millionUnited States Dollars (USD 199,999,800300,000,000.-)divided into one hundred and thirty-threemillion, three hundred and thirty three thousand two hundredtwo hundred million(200,000,000133,333,200) shares with a par value of one dollar fifty cents (USD 1.50). The Company has an issued capital of one hundred and fifty-twomillion, six hundred and eight thousand, eight hundred and twenty-fivedollars and fifty cents (United states Dollars) (USD 152,608,825.50) represented by one hundred and one million, seven hundred and thirty-ninethousand. two hundred and seventeen (101,739,217) shares with a par value of one dollar and fifty cents (USD 1.50) each, fully paid-in.

The authorized capital of the Company may be increased or reduced by a resolution of the shareholders of the Company (the "Shareholder(s)") adopted in the manner required by the Law for amendment of these Articles.

The Board is authorized and empowered to:

  1. realize any increase of the issued capital within the limits of the authorized capital in one or several successive tranches, by issuing of new shares, against payment in cash or in kind, by conversion of claims, integration of distributable reserves or premium reserves, or in any other manner;
  2. determine the place and date of the issue or the successive issues, the issue price, the terms and conditions of the subscription of and paying up on the new shares; and
  3. remove or limit the preferential subscription right of the Shareholders in case of issue of shares against payment in cash to a maximum of new shares representing 5% of the then outstanding shares (including shares held in treasury by the Company itself).

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This authorization is valid for a period of 5 (five) years from 4 May 2018 until 4 May 2023, and it may be renewed by an extraordinary general meeting of the Shareholders for those shares of the authorized corporate capital which up to then will not have been issued by the Board.

Following each increase of the corporate capital realized and duly stated in the form provided for by the Law, the first paragraph of this article 5 will be modified so as to reflect the actual increase; such modification will be recorded in authentic form by the Board or by any person duly authorized and empowered by it for this purpose.

Article 6. Shares.

The shares will be in the form of registered shares.

The Company's shares may be held in electronic format in accordance with the requirements of the stock exchanges on which the Company's shares may be listed from time to time or may be represented by physical share certificates.

Every holder of shares shall be entitled, without payment, to receive one registered certificate for all such shares or to receive several certificates for one or more of such shares upon payment for every certificate after the first of such reasonable out-of-pocket expenses as the Board may from time to time determine. A registered holder who has transferred part of the shares comprised in his registered holding shall be entitled to a certificate for the balance without charge.

Share certificates shall be signed by two Directors. But such signatures may be either manual, or printed, or by facsimile. The Company may issue temporary share certificates in such form as the Board may from time to time determine.

Shares of the Company shall be registered in the register of the Shareholders which shall be kept by the Company or by one or more persons designated therefor by the Company; such register shall contain the name of each holder, his residence or elected domicile and the number of shares held by him. Every transfer and devolution of a share shall be entered in the register of the Shareholders.

The shares shall be freely transferable.

Transfer of shares shall be effected by delivering the certificate or certificates representing the same to the Company along with an instrument of transfer satisfactory to the Company or by written declaration of transfer inscribed in the register of the Shareholders, dated and signed by the transferor, or by persons holding suitable powers of attorney to act therefor.

Every Shareholder must provide the Company with an address to which all notices and announcements from the Company may be sent. Such address will also be entered in the register of the Shareholders.

In the event that such Shareholder does not provide such an address, the Company may permit a notice to this effect to be entered in the register of the Shareholders and the Shareholder's address will be deemed to be at the registered office of the Company, or such other address as may be so entered by the Company from time to time, until another address shall be provided to the Company by such Shareholder. The Shareholder may, at any time, change his address as entered in the register of the Shareholders by means of a written notification to the Company at its registered office or at such other address as may be set by the Company from time to time and notice thereof given to the Shareholders.

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The Company will recognise only one holder of a share of the Company. In the event of joint ownership, the Company may suspend the exercise of any right deriving from the relevant share until one person shall have been designated to represent the joint owners vis-a-vis the Company.

If any shareholder can prove to the satisfaction of the Company that his share certificate has been mislaid, lost, stolen or destroyed, then, at his request, a duplicate certificate may be issued under such conditions as the Company may determine subject to applicable provisions of the Law.

Mutilated share certificates may be exchanged for new ones on the request of any shareholder. The mutilated certificates shall be delivered to the Company and shall be annulled immediately.

The Company may repurchase its shares of common stock using a method approved by the Board of the Company in accordance with the Law and the rules of the stock exchange(s) on which the Company's common stock may be listed from time to time.

As required by the Luxembourg law on transparency obligations of 11 January 2008 (the "Transparency Law"), any person who acquires or disposes of shares in the Company's capital must notify the Company's Board of the proportion of shares held by the relevant person as a result of the acquisition or disposal, where that proportion reaches, exceeds or falls below the thresholds referred to in the Transparency Law. As per the Transparency Law, the above also applies to the mere entitlement to acquire or to dispose of, or to exercise, voting rights in any of the cases referred to in the Transparency Law. As per this article, the requirements of the Transparency Law also apply where the mentioned proportion reaches, exceeds or falls below a threshold of 5%. The penalties provided for in article 28 of the Transparency Law apply to any breach of the above mentioned obligation, including with respect to the 5% threshold.

CHAPTER III.- BOARD, STATUTORY AUDITORS.

Article 7. Board.

The Company will be administered by a Board composed of at least 6 (six) members. Members of the Board need not be shareholders of the Company. The Directors, and the chairman of the Board (the "Chairman"), will be elected by the general meeting of shareholders ("General Meeting"), which will determine their number, for a period not exceeding 6 (six) years, and they will hold office until their successors are elected. Where a legal person is appointed as a director (the "Legal Entity"), the Legal Entity must designate a natural person as permanent representative (représentant permanent) who will represent the Legal Entity as a member of the Board in accordance with article 441-3 of the Law. In the event of a vacancy on the Board, the remaining Directors may meet and may elect by majority vote a director to fill such vacancy until the next General Meeting.

In proposing persons to be elected as Directors at the General Meeting, the Company shall comply with the nomination committee rules of the Swedish Code of Corporate Governance, so long as such compliance does not conflict with applicable mandatory law or regulation or the mandatory rules of any stock exchange on which the Company's shares are listed.

In the event that the Company does not comply with the nomination committee rules of the Swedish Code of Corporate Governance and a committee of the Board is established to propose persons to be elected as Directors at the General Meeting, any Shareholder holding at least 20% of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company, excluding treasury shares, shall have the right to designate:

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  1. one of the then-serving Directors to be a member of such committee, so long as such designation and the Director so designated meet the requirements of any applicable mandatory law or regulation or the mandatory rules of any stock exchange on which the Company's shares are listed, and
  2. one person, who may or may not be a Director, to attend any meeting of such committee as an observer, without the right to vote at such meeting, so long as such attendance does not conflict with applicable mandatory law or regulation or the mandatory rules of any stock exchange on which the Company's shares are listed.

Any designation made pursuant to the provisions of the immediately preceding paragraph shall lapse upon such designating Shareholder holding less than 20% of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company, excluding treasury shares.

Article 8. Meetings of the Board.

The Board may choose a secretary, who need not be a director, and who shall be responsible for keeping minutes of the meetings of the Board and of the resolutions passed at the General Meeting.

The Board will meet upon call by the Chairman. A meeting of the board must be convened if any two Directors so require.

The Chairman shall preside at all meetings of the Board of the Company, except that in his absence the Board may elect by a simple majority of the Directors present another Director or a duly qualified third party as Chairman of the relevant meeting.

Except in cases of urgency or with the prior consent of all those entitled to attend, at least 3 (three) days' written notice of board meetings shall be given. Any such notice shall specify the time and place of the meeting and the nature of the business to be transacted. No such written notice is required if all the members of the Board are present ore represented during the meeting and if they state to have been duly informed, and to have had full knowledge of the agenda of the meeting. The written notice may be waived by the consent in writings, whether in original, by telefax, or e- mail to which an electronic signature (which is valid under the Law) is affixed, of each member of the Board. Separate written notice shall not be required for meetings that are held at times and places determined in a schedule previously adopted by resolution of the Board.

Every Board meeting shall be held in Luxembourg or at such other place as the Board may from time to time determine.

Any member of the Board may act at any meeting of the Board by appointing in writing, whether in original, by telefax, or e-mail to which an electronic signature (which is valid under the Law) is affixed, another Director as his or her proxy.

A quorum of the Board shall be the presence of 4 (four) of the Directors holding office. Decisions will be taken by the affirmative votes of a simple majority of the Directors present or represented.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, a resolution of the Board may also be passed in writing, in case of urgency or where other exceptional circumstances so require. Such resolution shall be unanimously approved by the Directors and shall consist of one or several documents containing the resolutions either (i) signed manually or electronically by means of an electronic signature which is valid under Luxembourg law or (ii) agreed upon via a consent in writing by e-mail to which an

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