SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Sunday it signed a deal to export US$11.14 million worth of 5G solutions and content to Thailand’s top mobile carrier, Advanced Info Service (AIS). Under the deal, LG Uplus will provide AIS with augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Monday it has launched its first store that operates without the help of retail workers, joining other mobile carriers to offer services that minimize physical contact amid the coronavirus pandemic. LG Uplus’ new store in Seoul’s central ward of [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Major South Korean telecom operators KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. said Wednesday they invested a total of 26 billion won (US$23.1 million) for a minority stake in the homegrown app market ONE store, bolstering the smaller local rival to Google’s Play store. KT has invested 21 billion won [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Wednesday it shifted to a net loss in the fourth quarter last year due to increased marketing costs of new phones. Net loss stood at 224.7 billion won (US$201.7 million) in the October-December period last year, compared with a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Friday it will phase out its 2G services by the end of June, a move that would mark the complete termination of the country’s aging network. The carrier said it has applied to end its 2G operations with the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, demonstrated Thursday an autonomous vehicle that can park on its own, using its high-speed 5G network. In an online video demonstration, the carrier tested the self-driving vehicle, which traveled about five minutes on roads in western Seoul and managed to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Tuesday it will start testing millimeter wave (mmWave) 5G at a university campus under a government-led program as the country prepares to roll out the fastest version of the latest generation network. The mobile carrier said it has completed [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean mobile carrier, recently introduced a next-generation smart traffic information system at the Korea-World Chinese Entrepreneurs Business Week 2020 jointly hosted by South Gyeongsang Province, the city of Changwon, and the Korea Chinese Entrepreneurs Association. Named the Cooperative-Intelligent Transport System (C-ITS), the system [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, downplayed concerns Thursday over its use of network equipment by Huawei Technologies Co. amid U.S. pressure to sever ties with the Chinese company, citing the completion of equipment installation and a healthy backlog for maintenance. The United States has repeatedly [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s No. 3 mobile carrier, announced on Tuesday that it plans to launch testing of a real-time elderly fall detection service using radar sensors, with an aim of commercializing the service by next year. The service uses a special radar sensor that is installed indoors [...]