Trilogy International Partners (“Trilogy”) was established in November 2005 by John Stanton, Theresa Gillespie, and Brad Horwitz, each of whom has more than two decades of experience in launching and leading cellular communications companies in the United States and throughout the world. Trilogy’s founders previously served as founders and/or senior executives of VoiceStream PCS (acquired by Deutsche Telekom in 2000 and known today in the U.S. as T-Mobile), Western Wireless Corporation (“WWC”) – a publicly-traded mobile cellular company that they led for over a decade – and its subsidiary, Western Wireless International (“WWI”), which owned and managed a portfolio comprised of wireless businesses in eleven developed and developing countries, including Austria, Ireland, Bolivia, Latvia, Croatia, Georgia, Haiti, Iceland, Slovenia, Ghana and the Ivory Coast. WWC was sold to ALLTEL Corporation, a U.S. regional landline and wireless company based in Little Rock, Arkansas, in August 2005.

Combining their own investment in Trilogy together with capital from a small group of investors with whom they have worked in the past, Mr. Stanton, Ms. Gillespie, and Mr. Horwitz reacquired the Bolivian and Haitian businesses that were previously owned and managed by WWI from ALLTEL in 2006. In 2007, Trilogy acquired a Dominican Republic wireless system, now known as Trilogy Dominicana, from Centennial Corporation. One year after closing this transaction, Trilogy Dominicana unveiled its new brand, Viva, with its existing CDMA network overlaid and expanded with a new GSM network. In June 2008, Trilogy acquired 26% of New Zealand Communications Limited, a greenfield mobile wireless operator in New Zealand, now known as Two Degrees Mobile Limited ("2degrees"). In July 2009, Trilogy increased its stake in the venture to 52%. 2degrees launched commercial service on its GSM network in August 2009.