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LG Uplus Recognized with the 'Most Significant Development Commercial LTE Network' Award
[June 26, 2014]

LG Uplus Recognized with the 'Most Significant Development Commercial LTE Network' Award


(ENP Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ENP Newswire - 26 June 2014 Release date- 25062014 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, together with LG Uplus, the leading South Korean leading mobile operator, were presented with the award for 'Most Significant Development Commercial LTE Network' by international industry judges at Informa's LTE World Summit.



Working with Huawei in one of the most advanced and competitive regions of the world, LG Uplus completed nation-wide coverage in record time, significantly increasing their market share and LTE subscriber base. The award acknowledges the rapid commercial deployment, innovative advances and rich service success of LG Uplus.

LG Uplus and Huawei won the award for 'Most Significant Development Commercial LTE Network' LG Uplus successfully established 100% LTE nationwide network coverage in just nine months, and in August 2012, then commercialized the world's first VoLTE to provide vivid quality voice services to its customers. Today, LG Uplus has over 7.5 million subscribers, of which 3.9 million now use the operator's pioneering VoLTE service. LG Uplus is also the first operator to launch a LTE-A commercial network in Korea. With Huawei, the carrier launched the world's first DL 3CC Carrier Aggregation network with 300Mbps peak throughput and has completed UL 2CC Carrier aggregation lab testing based on both 800MHz and 2600MHz bands.


The high speed LG Uplus network has also experienced considerable success from the carrierd on commercial network in Korea. With knowledgeccess is being realized with added services such as Cloud-base C-games (Full HD gaming), U+ Navi LTE (3D Navigation), and U+ Sharelive (Video SNS). On April 2 of this year, LG Uplus released a no-limit data billing plan inspiring new levels of mobile HDTV experience excellence.

Mr. Park Song Chu, Vice President of NW Technology Division at LG Uplus, said: 'We are greatly honored and hope the award of 'Most Significant Development Commercial LTE Network' provides inspiration for the market to push for success that can be enjoyed with leading technology innovation worldwide. LG Uplus will continue innovating with Huawei to maintain LTE-A market leadership in South Korea.' (c) 2014 Electronic News Publishing -

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