LG Uplus enters strategic partnership with Vodafone

South Korea’s LG Uplus has announced a new strategic partnership with Vodafone Group for the South Korean market.

The agreement, the first strategic partnership between LG Uplus and a global operator, will involve collaboration on both enterprise and consumer operations.

Vodafone will provide best practices and draw on its global reach to support LG Uplus across all areas of its business, including network strategy and development, as well as customer experience management.

The two operators will also cooperate to jointly offer unified communications and enterprise services to multinational companies with a presence in South Korea. LG Uplus will meanwhile join Vodafone’s global partner market network.

“ Vodafone is one of the world’s leading telecommunications companies and close cooperation will enable us to streamline and improve our existing business performance and pioneer new areas.  “Vodafone is the ideal partner to help our drive to become world-class,” LG Uplus CEO Youngsoo Kwon said.

“Our new partnership will enable LG Uplus to benefit from Vodafone expertise and experience, in addition to access to our global enterprise products and services,” Vodafone partner markets CEO Diego Massidda added.

“I am delighted that LG Uplus has joined our Partner Market network and I look forward to building on our relationship in the coming years.”