What's LRA V30? What's ACG V30? - LG V30 Questions & Answers

OK, perusing the LG website there are two strange 998 models showing up that are NOT connected to any carriers. Says "for LRA" and "for ACG". But for carrier-branded models, they don't share that format -- those just have "model name | carrier name". (See screenshot$ below.)
The LRA is for US998, I assume open market for North America. The ACG is AS998, for what, Asia?
These two are listed last in the V30 models and I cannot find out what LRA or ACG means, but there's also LG G6 models with those designations -- as well as other LG phones with those designations.
I ASSUME it has something to do with the open market phones, but I don't know what LRA or ACG stands for.
And it has NOTHING to do with color, as the "LRA" model is silver, like the U.S. Cellular Silver model. (The B&H US998 does come in silver.)
So, has nothing to do with carrier or color, so what else is there? I assume these are the open market phones that will receive bootloader unlock? But I never heard of an Asian open market phone.
LRA
https://www.lg.com/us/products/wtb?modelId=MD05892777
ACG
http://www.lg.com/us/cell-phones/lg-AS998-ACG-lg-v30
Here's a screenshot comparing the silver U.S. Cellular model to the "LRA" and "ACG" model. You can clearly see it does not have the same carrier designation and strangely is also listed sort of in the color, but yet has nothing to do with color.
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Here's several carrier models and the LRA and ACG models listed together:

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Here's what i found
LRA
http://www.verizon.com/about/news/v...advanced-wireless-services-to-rural-customers
ACG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Carrier_Group

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Interesting. MyLgphones.com says that the KDZ for the AS998 is live on LG Bridge.

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Mystogan said:
Here's what i found
LRA
http://www.verizon.com/about/news/v...advanced-wireless-services-to-rural-customers
ACG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Carrier_Group
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OK, so these are regional CDMA/LTE carriers who often partner with Verizon for roaming. They are not MVNOs, but smaller, rural standalone carriers with their own spectrum.
I know about these, so that's good news.
They often get the same model phone Verizon gets but sometimes under different model name. For instance the U.S.Moto Maxx XT1250 = Verizon Droid Turbo XT1254. Same bands, same FCC ID, everything. You could run it on Verizon with a Verizon LTE SIM card. And had easily unlocked bootloader. It was basically the dev version of the Droid Turbo.
Probably won't be so lucky here, LG probably has them locked down also.