LG Uplus forms tie-up with Facebook

LG Uplus and global social networking giant Facebook signed an agreement Wednesday to cooperate further on developing mobile services, aiming to strengthen communication for customers.

In a press conference in downtown Seoul, LG Uplus said it will offer customers its smartphone and feature phone subscribers the use of the Facebook mobile application for free until April next year.

“We will enable our customers to use the social networking service without having them spend any of their data distributed accordingly to the monthly payment plan for the following six months,” said Kim Cheol-soo, executive vice president of convergence project team at LG Uplus.