LG U Plus plans to create a 5G business promotion team, a dedicated organization, in order to fully implement 5G. LG U Plus is the first company to organize a dedicated organization while the competitiveness of 5G mobile telecommunication companies is being ignited.

According to the mobile carrier industry on November 21, LG U Plus plans to reorganize its regular organization in early December and have a dedicated 5G organization under the directorship of Vice President Kwon Young-soo. Currently, LG U Plus has a `5G Strategic Officer` as one of its network headquarters. This organization was newly established through reorganization last August. We have upgraded the team level organization to the "responsible" organization and strengthened the authority of the department.

The 5G department of the company to be organized this time is to increase the size of the organization by upgrading the organization in charge to the headquarters level business promotion team. We will collaborate with the head of the network and report directly to the president. Vice president Kwon said that he will take charge of 5G construction.

Previously, LG U Plus was aggressively leading the LTE deployment when Vice Chairman Lee Sang-cheol was in charge of 4G LTE deployment. As a result of the company`s strong strategy, LG U Plus has proven its ability to build LTE nationwide first, even though it is the third-largest operator. LG U Plus plans to take the same strategy as 4G LTE. Actually, the vice-chairman of the committee is said to have shown great interest in the recent meeting of the executive committee to collect the status of 5G construction and report on the competition situation. In particular, it should be noted that SK Telecom and KT, which are rivals, should closely monitor the situation.

"The Korean mobile carrier market is as important as the global technology flow and market demand," said LG U +`s internal stakeholders. "Competition is a very important decision factor." In order to build 5G faster than competitors, decision- It will be done. The expert said, "There are many things that need to be done quickly and quickly, such as the 5G band frequency auction is being implemented from next year." If the project team takes charge of establishing the 5G building plan and managing the progress and action plan will come out.”

Meanwhile, SK Telecom and KT are planning to implement 5G as `enterprise-wide` rather than a separate organization. SK Telecom said, "Currently, we are operating a unit-level task force (TF)." Instead of putting 5G in a specific organization, it will lead the 5G build up by integrating enterprise-wide capabilities such as network headquarters, "He said. KT also said, "We established the 5G Research Center in July 2015 and are dedicated to the development of 5G-related technology. We are currently implementing the 5G pilot service implementation plan and implementation plan all over the company."

By Kang Eun Seong esther@


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