South Korea's LGU+ joins GSMA's Open Gateway, hoping to expand services overseas

Telecommunications giant LG U+ (LGU+) has agreed to share its application programming interface (API) with the GSM Association, an international mobile communications industry group.
The GSMA has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Linux, a US non-profit organization that promotes the spread of the Linux operating system, to participate in the Open Gateway initiative in 2023.
In collaboration with the ISP Foundation, the company announced the Open Gateway Initiative. To date, 60 companies that provide access to 74% of the world's mobile networks have made their APIs public.
Specifically, they have distributed APIs for device location information, personal authentication, payment, etc. By participating in the open gateway, LGU+ will be able to secure a common API between telecommunications carriers,
In particular, there are many participants from Southeast Asia and the Middle East, where cross-border mobile communication services are very active. For this reason, LGU+ has become a platform for overseas service expansion.
Prior to this, LGU+ partnered with a Korean mobile communications company in August to conduct joint research into the development of a public open API.
With the aim of establishing the standard, the project is working in collaboration with the Korea Communications Technology Association (TTA), the organization that sets standards.