LG Electronics and LG Uplus Hold 6G Tech Festa: "Seizing Leadership in Future Communication Technologies"

Exchanging R&D Achievements and Discussing Directions of 6G Core Technologies

LG Electronics and LG Uplus announced on the 18th that they exchanged core technologies of 6G (6th generation mobile communication), the foundational technology for future businesses such as autonomous driving, mobility, and smart factories, and discussed its direction together with experts.

At the 6G Tech Festa held the previous day at LG Science Park, policy officials including Jung Chang-rim, Policy Officer of the Ministry of Science and ICT, attended along with academic experts such as Cho Dong-ho and Hong Sung-chul, current and former directors of the LG-KAIST 6G Research Center and KAIST professors; Jang Kyung-hee, Chair of the 6G Forum Executive Committee and professor at Inha University; and Kim Dong-gu, Chair of the Open RAN Industry Alliance (ORIA) and professor at Yonsei University. Partner companies including Nokia, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Keysight Technologies, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, National Instruments, InnoWireless, and Samji Electronics also participated.

The keynote speeches were delivered by Hong In-ki, President of the Korea Institute of Communications and Information Sciences and professor at Kyung Hee University, and Baek Yong-soon, Director of the 3D Communication Research Center at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, introducing the status of 6G networks and frequencies as well as the development direction of 6G mobile communication technology. Following this, LG Electronics Research Fellow Jung Jae-hoon and LG Uplus Network (NW) Advanced Development Manager Lee Sang-heon presented the visions of both companies in the 6G technology domain and the major research and development achievements and current status to date.

LG Electronics, together with LG Uplus, hosted the LG 6G Tech Festa at LG Science Park in Magok, Seoul, inviting domestic and international experts and partners to exchange R&D achievements in the 6G communication field. Kim Byung-hoon, Vice President and CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of LG Electronics, delivered a welcome speech to the attendees.

At this event, LG Electronics exhibited various core 6G technologies including ▲Terahertz (THz) transceiver modules that succeeded in wireless transmission over 500m outdoors in urban areas ▲Full Duplex communication, a single resource bidirectional simultaneous data transmission technology ▲Dynamic Spectrum Sharing, which flexibly utilizes frequency channels depending on signal interference conditions.

LG Uplus showcased various core element technologies to activate the open radio access network ‘Open RAN’ and ‘passive RIS (Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface)’ that efficiently expands frequency coverage. They also introduced next-generation network foundational technologies such as urban air mobility (UAM) airspace quality measurement solutions and research and development status on satellite network optimization using quantum computers.

Both companies expect that this exchange, which builds a broad R&D ecosystem and discusses direction from the stage of fundamental technology development, will lead to competitiveness in future businesses to be unveiled in line with the full-scale advent of the 6G era.

Kim Byung-hoon, Vice President of LG Electronics, said, “Since 6G is one of the core technologies for future businesses, we will continue to cooperate with various research and development partners and strengthen our technological leadership.” Kwon Jun-hyuk, Vice President of LG Uplus, stated, “6G is expected to become an essential infrastructure that can provide new values such as artificial intelligence, computing, and sensing to customers without location constraints, beyond the limits of mobile communication. We will strive to differentiate customer experience in the upcoming 6G era.”

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