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Ericsson, LG Uplus Begin 5G, IoT Partnership

Ericsson and LG Uplus signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of IoT and 5G technologies, Ericsson said in a news release Monday. The agreement will run until 2020, Ericsson said, and covers the areas of IoT infrastructure and narrow-band LTE, software-defined networking and network functions virtualization, readying the core 5G network, global content delivery networks and advanced IoT technologies. The companies will share research and testing results and "work together to prepare a roadmap for long-term network development," Ericsson said.