LG CNS announced on the 14th that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with KDDI, one of Japan’s three major telecommunications operators, to establish a cooperative framework for AI transformation (AX) and digital transformation (DX) projects in the Asia-Pacific region.

The two companies will jointly identify new business opportunities in the fields of AI, smart cities, telecommunications, and integrated system operation management by combining LG CNS’s AX and DX capabilities with KDDI’s telecommunications infrastructure and global network.

In the AI field, the companies will seek to develop customized services for local enterprises in KDDI’s Asia-Pacific business based on LG CNS’s agentic AI platform “AgenticWorks.” They are also reviewing cooperation on work automation based on physical AI, in which LG CNS’s robotics transformation (RX) platform “PhysicalWorks” is used to provide integrated robot management services to manufacturing, logistics, and retail clients.

The companies will also explore cooperation in Southeast Asian smart city projects, where modernization initiatives for key urban hubs have recently been active. They plan to enter local markets with a business model that combines LG CNS’s smart city solutions and project execution experience—such as urban integrated control systems and intelligent transportation systems—with KDDI’s telecommunications infrastructure technologies.

They will further review cooperation opportunities in telecommunications and integrated system operation management by sharing each company’s technologies and expertise. A working-level consultative body has been formed, and the companies are concretizing new businesses with Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, and China as priority target markets.

“The collaboration between KDDI and LG CNS aims to create a new industrial foundation that merges AI, telecommunications, and data,” said Kentaro Matsuura, Deputy General Manager of KDDI’s Business Growth Division. “Going forward, we will seek cooperation with a wide range of partners in the Asia-Pacific region to build a digital ecosystem that supports corporate and social infrastructure,” he added.

“This agreement is expected to enable the two companies to combine their capabilities and create new business opportunities in the Asia-Pacific market,” said LG CNS Executive Vice President Park Sang-kyun, Head of the Telecommunications/Distribution/Services Division. “Together with KDDI, we will deliver tangible results in global AX projects,” he said.

Meanwhile, LG CNS has recently been expanding its overseas and AX businesses. The Indonesia AI data center, which it won as the first Korean company, is scheduled for completion in the second half of the year. KDDI is also placing AI at the center of its growth strategy and expanding its non-telecommunications businesses.

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