Researchers of LG U+ test-operate 5G base station equipment the Korean telecom service provider has jointly developed in cooperation with Nokia.

Korean and foreign equipment maker officials experience a 5G live relay at LG U+’s experience center while participate in a session to explain a request for proposal for the procurement of 5G network equipment. (Photos: LG U+)

LG U+ is accelerating efforts to brace for the advent of 5G telecom networks. The 5G Implementation Team, inaugurated early this year, is ramping up partnerships with Korean and foreign businesses on the development of services, core technologies and network. 

The telecom service provider is stepping on the gas to promote collaboration with telecom service providers in Japan, China, the United States and Europe. LG U+ has agreed to collaborate in drone and intelligent CCTV businesses with KDDI Corp. of Japan while trying to cooperate on the IoT business with Verizon. LG U+ is also seeking to cooperate with bodies working on the advent of 5G telecom network. 

LG U+ plans to expand a partnership with Verizon on virtual reality and augmentation reality. The telecom service provider is seeking to concentrate on cooperation in 5G services with Vodafone and China Mobile. LG U+ visited a Beijing-based innovation center of China Mobile and agreed to shore up collaboration on the exploration of 5G services with the Chinese telecom service provider. 

LG U+ issued a request for proposals on the introduction of a 5G network in February.  LG U+ successfully demonstrated a transmission based on the Non-Standalone technology in cooperation with the global equipment maker Nokia and device chipset maker Qualcomm at the Nokia headquarters in Finland. The Non-Standalone technology was approved by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3PP) last December. 

During the demonstration, a dual connectivity technology designed to level up the transmission speed by combing 3.5GHz and 28GHz, the most possible frequency band for the introduction of 5G network services for the first time in Korea. 

LG U+ is accelerating preparations for the introduction of 5G services as the telecom service provider has designated the top six 5G services remotely-controlled drive, intelligent CCTV, 5G live telecasting, 8K VR, smart drone and 5G-based fixed wireless access, deemed to be the optimal 5G services with super speed, super delay and super connectivity. 

Of late, it has put into a commercial service the U+ Pro Baseball with revolutionary functions like position-by-position video, the replaying of scoring moments, and watching games with expanded TV screens that have been never seen before.