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 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a South Korean telecom company, said Thursday it released a virtual reality (VR) series on the International Space Station, its first project with a global alliance of telecom operators and VR developers. “Space Explorers: The ISS Experience” follows the daily activities of the astronauts all in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom giant LG Uplus Corp. said Thursday it opened a seven-story product showroom in southern Seoul by partnering with local popular establishments as part of its broader efforts to capture young customers. The seven-story building, including its underground floor, in the posh southern district of Gangnam houses [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean mobile carrier, said Sunday it is joining forces with Google to jointly develop 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) technology. Under the partnership, LG Uplus will work with Google Cloud, which will provide its artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, to develop new [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean mobile carrier, said Friday it plans to roll out its 5G-powered autonomous robot next year. The robot — which is being developed in partnership with autonomous mobility firm Unmanned Solution — has recently demonstrated its abilities at local refiner Hyundai Oilbank Co.’s [...]