LG U+

Retail Asia13/02/2019

LG U+’s plan to acquire cable TV company CJ Hello could be finalized as early as this week. Progress with the deal has been slow since Korea’s smallest mobile carrier first began considering the acquisition early last year. Industry sources said Monday that the deal is mostly finalized and, with a board meeting scheduled on […]

Retail Asia28/12/2018

LG U+ said Wednesday that it has demonstrated 10 times faster download times compared to 4G LTE on its 5G network. While 4G LTE offers 133.43 megabits per second download speeds on average, according to data from the Ministry of Science and ICT, LG U+ said it realized 1.33 gigabits per second on its 5G […]

Retail Asia21/12/2018

LG U+ CEO and Vice Chairman Ha Hyun-hwoi has made it clear that the carrier does not think there are any security threats related to its use of Huawei equipment in its 5G infrastructure. Ha made the statement during a year-end press briefing on Wednesday in Yongsan District, central Seoul, rebuffing claims by some lawmakers […]

Retail Asia19/12/2018

LG U+ has successfully tested a 5G-powered self-driving vehicle on an expressway for the first time. The mobile carrier announced Tuesday that a self-driving car developed by Hanyang University successfully drove on LG U+’s 5G network for 25 minutes across seven kilometers (4.35 miles) of busy city roads including the Gangbyeon Expressway and Olympic Expressway. […]

Retail Asia16/01/2017

South Korea’s LG U+ has deployed the nation’s first carrier-grade virtual routing system using technology from Juniper Networks, as part of efforts to prepare its network for the 5G evolution. LG U+ is deploying Juniper Networks’ Ethernet switches and its vMX virtual router for the upgrade project. The operator selected Juniper due to its prior […]

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LG U+ expected to acquire CJ Hello this week

LG U+ says it can download things 10 times faster on 5G

LG U+ CEO says Huawei gear is not a risk

LG U+ 5G pass self-drive test on expressway

LG U+ deploys Korea’s first NFV routing system