Sitting on the shores of Songshan Lake in Dongguan, Huawei’s 300-acre Ox Horn Campus opened in 2018 and is divided into 12 zones modelled after European towns and cities including Budapest, Prague, Oxford and Burgundy. With lifelike European architecture, iconic landmarks and lakeside lawns, the site blends leisure with function. While employees can enjoy an impressive array of facilities including restaurants, libraries, hotels, an art gallery and even an on-campus tram system, the immersive facility unexpectedly houses the company’s most intensive research programmes.

Alan Fan (pictured), head of Huawei’s intellectual property rights department, told MWL: “At our core, we are an innovation company. Our sustained investment in R&D, protected and propelled by a robust IPR framework, is what fuels our progress.”

The tour moved between several of the village clusters, with research teams spread across multiple buildings that combine offices, labs, meeting halls and research units. The Ox Horn campus brings together teams working across computing, AI, optical networks, wireless systems and intelligent driving.

The company’s R&D efforts span foundational mathematical logic, algorithm theory, core signal-processing frameworks and applied domains such as advanced wireless communications, optical networking and systems integration. Within wireless research, Huawei pointed to advanced work in areas such as massive MIMO and AI-assisted radio resource management, all aimed at improving spectrum efficiency and network coverage.

AI and computing form a major pillar of the vendor’s innovation. Huawei continues to invest heavily in its computing platforms, with research covering model training, inference efficiency and distributed computing architectures. These efforts underpin the company’s wider push into AI across networks, cloud infrastructure, devices and automotive platforms.

According to Fan, the company’s intense research focus is what “drives us toward our goal to build a fully connected, intelligent world and deliver greater value for customers and society”.

Innovation in action
During the visit, Huawei pointed to a number of industrial deployments born from its innovation efforts. One example is its work with Tianjin Port in China, where the company’s Smart Port Solution, integrating technology including intelligent twins, autonomous driving, 5G, cloud computing and IoT, created a centralised autonomous system connecting the various port functions. “We created a next-generation ‘intelligent port brain’,” noted Yang Rong, General Manager of Tianjin Port Second Container Terminal Co, adding it optimised loading plans, equipment management and dispatch services. Huawei claims the port houses “the largest driverless fleet seen to date, comprised of 76 vehicles”.

Meanwhile, at the Yimin open-pit mine in Inner Mongolia, a fleet of 100 autonomous electric mining trucks powered by Huawei’s 5G-Advanced network entered large-scale operation earlier this year. Operating under extreme conditions, the vehicles are supported by speeds of 500 Mb/s uplink and low latency to enable continuous, coordinated fleet operation, real-time 8K video transmission and remote truck control.

Separately, Huawei’s Pangu AI models, slated for copying rival AI models earlier this year, now support more than 400 scenarios across over 30 industries. In intelligent driving, vehicles powered by its advanced driving system travelled more than 1.4 billion kilometres with assisted driving activated in 2024.

R&D ambitions
Indeed, Huawei’s latest R&D numbers reflects the scale ambition of its ambitions. In 2024, Huawei invested CNY179.7 billion ($25.5 billion), or 20.8 per cent of total revenue, while cumulative R&D investment over the past decade has now surpassed CNY1.2 trillion. More than 113,000 employees, or 54.1 per cent of the workforce, are engaged in R&D roles.

The company also remains one of the world’s largest patent holders, with more than 150,000 active granted patents globally. At its Innovation and Intellectual Property Forum in Beijing last month, the company revealed it raked in $630 million in patent licensing revenue.

Huawei’s research push continues despite ongoing pressure from US export controls, which have limited its access to advanced manufacturing tools and partners.

Chief legal officer Liuping Song acknowledged the impact during a media roundtable, noting the company’s chip production “has been affected” and that its process technology will “remain behind the industry” for some time.

He stressed the company is prioritising end-to-end capability over any single component, arguing that customers ultimately care about the performance of the entire computing cluster rather than individual chips, adding Huawei’s strengths in connectivity can offset manufacturing constraints.

Looking ahead, Fan said the company expects its patent revenue to rise in 2026, pointing to increased “recognition in the industry of our technologies”, including Wi-Fi, 5G, audio and video.

The post Inside Ox Horn: Huawei’s futuristic China tech hub appeared first on Mobile World Live.

During the conference, Mr. Xu Hui, vice president of Huawei’s Wireless 5G-A Domain, delivered a keynote speech on Mobile AI application advancement and correspondent strategies for cellular network evolution. He stated that the development of Mobile AI has gone beyond public imagination, and there will be agents for people, vehicles, and embodied AI to reshape everyone’s life, catalyzing an intelligent revolution across all industries. Meanwhile, the wireless network will evolve towards agent-centric, building a dynamic, layered channel to bring modal-level assurance for AI applications.

Mobile AI Developments Beyond Imagination, Demanding Connectivity Upgrade

By 2035, the network will be able to accommodate approximately 900 billion intelligent agents for 9 billion people. This means a hundred-fold increase in communications network capacity.

——HUAWEI <Intelligent World 2035>

Personal Agent: In the consumer market, the public has seen a rapid growth of AI-native terminals from Flagship smartphones to more affordable models since 2024. During this period, AI wearables such as smart glasses, earphones, and watches have emerged one after another. The AI applications on these devices have quickly evolved into personal intelligent agents, unlocking individual potential, transforming them from simple tools into intelligent companions. Beyond voice commands, multimodal interactions such as video chat have been commercialized. These advancements demand faster connectivity and a shift from downlink-centric networks to networks with balanced uplink and downlink capacity.

Vehicle Agent: In travel scenarios, Vehicle agents are also elevating consumer experience. In intelligent cockpits, passengers could enjoy a variety of high-quality and content-rich entertainment enabled by AI agent assistants and built-in 5G connectivity. The driving experience itself is transformed by Level 2 and above autonomous driving systems. With continuous uploading and training of the road data, drivers could gradually move towards a “ZERO takeover” driving experience.

Embodied Agent: Embodied intelligence has become the new focal point of the AI industry. Agents are expected to unlock billions of robots and robo-dogs as “silicon labor” across all scenarios. In 2025 alone, humanoid robots have demonstrated capabilities in a wide range of scenarios including home, work, retail, and delivery. In November, the first real-world demo of 5G-A-powered embodied intelligence robots on an actual power grid have been released. According to CAICT (China Academy of Information and Communications Technology), robots will be deployed at scale in industrial scenarios where multi-agent cooperation is enabled by a shared cloud-based embodied foundation model. 5G-A-inside has become the new standard configuration, allowing robots to operate without remote controls. Moreover, 5G-A’s ultra-low latency transmission enables robots to utilize cloud-based foundation models in real time, which not only upgrades the model size from 10 to 273 billion parameters, but also extends battery endurance.

Mobile AI Catalyzing New 5G-A Service Models, Calling for Agent-Centric Solutions

The rise of Mobile AI applications is changing how 5G-A networks deliver services. Multimodal interactions have shifted the traffic patterns to continuous data pulses, which requires the network to be more flexible and responsive. The frequent use of agents has shifted the data flow model to become more uplink-centric. The increasing demand for data upload and real-time response necessitates larger uplink bandwidth and lower latency from 5G-A. In addition, think tank reports indicate that device density can exceed one million connections per square kilometer, while the rapid growth of the AI agents demands much higher concurrency and longer online durations.

In response to these changes, the telecom industry should collaborate to build an Agents over NR (AoNR) network. This network would support the agent-based services by providing versatile and ultra-uplink broadband. Furthermore, as an end-to-end solution, AoNR should function as a dynamic, layered channel, offering modal-level assurance to ensure each type of multimodal content can efficiently and reliably reach cloud-based foundation model in parallel.

Realizing these benefits calls for a joint effort. Xu stressed that a superior mobile AI experience will depend on collaboration between equipment vendors, carriers, and AI companies. “We need to work together to build an agent-centric ecosystem and incubate the AoNR network foundation,” Xu said. “Only in this way can we achieve mutual success in the mobile AI era.”

The post Mobile AI Leads 5G-A Towards Agent-Centric Evolution appeared first on Mobile World Live.

By connecting the unconnected, RuralCow helps narrow the digital divide between urban and rural communities, unlocks the latent demand for mobile communications in rural regions, and injects vital momentum into Nigeria’s drive toward digital inclusion.

Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation, with rural residents accounting for nearly half of its population—around 105 million people (World Bank, 2024). In rural areas, the absence of reliable grid power and fiber transmission infrastructure makes the cost of deploying traditional base stations far higher than in cities.

Moreover, according to Huawei’s insights, most villages with a population of fewer than 3,000 are characterized by dispersed settlements and low average revenue per user (ARPU), which result in a prolonged return on investment (ROI) period. These factors make it highly challenging for operators to build base stations.

To accelerate the development of rural communications infrastructure, Huawei has introduced the innovative RuralCow solution, enabling efficient mobile network rollout.

RuralCow combines a baseband unit, radio unit, and transmission equipment, and supports multiple frequency bands and radio access technologies.

Compared with traditional macro base stations, it cuts overall power consumption by about 85%, reduces equipment quantity by roughly 70%, and requires no heavy machinery for installation. Operating without fiber or microwave links, it can achieve non-line-of-sight transmission distances of about 30 kilometers, significantly enhancing coverage, while its intelligent remote operation and maintenance functions keep on-site visits to a minimum.

Live network deployment statistics show that for villages with populations between 1,000 and 3,000, RuralCow shortens the ROI period from 5–10 years to around 3 years, delivering efficient coverage and sustainable commercialization in underserved regions.

“We believe that everyone deserves the benefits of a modern connected life,” said Yahaya Ibrahim, Chief Technical Officer of MTN Nigeria. “Rapidly extending wireless coverage to remote rural areas and ensuring equal access to digital benefits is our shared mission.”

Fang Xiang, Vice President of Huawei Wireless Network Product Line, said, “As an industry leader in inclusive connectivity, Huawei is committed to bringing leading technology to rural areas to narrow the digital divide. RuralCow is an ultra-simple, green, and cost-effective solution to provide coverage to rural areas, an essential element of a healthy, sustainable business ecosystem. We will continue on our innovation-driven mission of “Connecting the Unconnected” to push for a digitally inclusive world.”

The post MTN Nigeria and Huawei Complete World’s First RuralCow Commercial Deployment, Accelerating Connectivity for the Unconnected appeared first on Mobile World Live.

He called on the ICT industry to lay the foundation for the Agentverse and share success in the mobile AI era by building versatile Agent over New Radio (AoNR) networks to ensure multidimensional agent experience; interconnecting smart devices to enable diverse intelligent interactions; and developing diverse models to make multimodal intelligent applications widely accessible.

“Mobile First” Paradigm Shift: Beyond People, Toward Agents
The explosion of mobile AI usage, marked by longer interactions and surging active users, has shifted the paradigm to “Mobile First.” Enhanced capabilities and ubiquitous AI agents are transforming interactions and making intelligent services universally available. This is driving a change from connecting people to connecting agents.

• Personal devices: Agents are becoming next-generation “killer apps.” They cover all facets of daily life and reshape network traffic and device interaction models, triggering exponential traffic growth.
• Smart vehicles: Agents are powering every aspect of travel, enabling safe smart driving and advanced smart cockpits. They are turning vehicles into a “third living space,” expanding network coverage scenarios.
• Embodied AI: The integration of agents into physical systems unlocks silicon-based productivity, empowering sectors like manufacturing, home life, and urban governance. This opens up a vast market of trillions of new connections.

Three-Pronged Enablement: Laying the Foundation for the Agentverse

• Interconnected smart devices enable diverse intelligent interactions: The next wave of mobile AI will rely on devices that can talk to each other smoothly. To make that possible, various types of devices such as phones, cars, and home gadgets will need to integrate both 5G-A and agent capabilities. The goal is to move beyond isolated agents and build a connected system that can understand what is happening around it and respond in real time, enabling smarter automation in everyday situations.
• Versatile AoNR networks ensure multidimensional agent experience: Agent-powered intelligent interactions require networks to deliver GigaUplink and High Reliability, High Concurrency, High Duration. AoNR provides these network capabilities, supporting AI training and real-time inference. To evaluate multimodal agent experience, the China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) initiated the new AI-MOS standard this year. Similar to mean opinion scores (MOS) for voice quality assessment, this standard measures experience quality through a comprehensive set of metrics. Implementing this standard necessitates industry-wide collaboration.
• Diverse models make multimodal intelligent applications widely accessible: Companies need models tailored to specific scenarios to open up new commercial opportunities. Achieving that requires networks that can deliver computing power when and where it is needed, along with an efficient, well-distributed computing infrastructure that ensures access to these resources anywhere.

Zhao concluded that creating an Agentverse calls for concerted industry efforts to build an AoNR network through standards, ecosystem, and value innovation. This network is crucial for powering all-scenario intelligent interactions and opening up vast commercial opportunities.

The post AoNR Empowers the Agentverse: Fueling a Thriving Mobile AI Era appeared first on Mobile World Live.

President of CT Marketing & Solution Sales, Huawei presents at MWC Doha in the session: AI for a Hyper-Connected Future

The post Keynote 2: Richard Liu, Huawei appeared first on Mobile World Live.

May Li, VP ICT Solution Marketing – Middle East and Central Asia, provides insights from Huawei’s big presence at MWC25 Doha and discusses how the company is supporting governments’ digital and intelligent transformation in the region.

The post Partner Interview: Huawei appeared first on Mobile World Live.

He declared the rise of AI has reshaped industries across the globe, marking the beginning of a new era of digital transformation. “For Europe, this transformation presents both an opportunity and a challenge — an opportunity to lead the next wave of intelligent development, and a challenge to bridge the gap between ambition and implementation.”

Yang added the optical sector plays a critical role in connectivity and sensing, emerging as a cornerstone for Europe’s intelligent and sustainable future.

Using F5G-A technologies, he said Huawei is building an intelligent connectivity foundation with high bandwidth, low latency and enhanced awareness. “Together with our clients and partners, we are accelerating industry upgrades and helping Europe move toward a high-quality, sustainable and intelligent future.”

F5G-A is a next-generation fixed network standard built to support AI and future high-bandwidth applications, focusing on ultra-broadband, all-optical connectivity.

The event, themed F5G-A Accelerates Industry Intelligence, attracted more than 150 industry experts, customers and ecosystem partners from across Europe to explore the latest trends and deployments of all-optical networks that are driving industrial intelligence and digital innovation.

Powering industry AI
To accelerate the transformation, Huawei introduced an Intelligent Reference Architecture for industries, which emphasises three key elements:

•           Computing platforms that provide the required processing power;

•           Sensing systems that ensure access to high-quality data;

•           Connectivity that guarantees ultra-high bandwidth and low latency for seamless data transmission during training and inference.

The optical industry’s focus on intelligent connectivity and sensing, particularly through F5G-Advanced technologies, underpins this transformation, Huawei stated. The company has contributed to standards and supported multiple partners in deploying intelligent optical solutions across Europe.

F5G-A all-optical networks have been widely adopted across ISPs, education, electric power, government and healthcare.

Case studies
A number of organisations shared their practices and insights into F5G-A all-optical network deployments at the summit.

With AI applications becoming integral to daily life, the home AI penetration rate is rapidly increasing. Consumers now are willing to pay more for enhanced intelligent experiences, presenting a major opportunity for ISPs across the world.

Glasfaser Direkt jointly launched a fibre-to-the-room (FTTR) package in partnership with Huawei.

CMO of the partner, Carrierwerke, Raphael Peschkes, said FTTR not only enhances the user experience, but also lays the foundation for building smarter, more interconnected homes across Germany.

Vialis deployed FTTR in France using Huawei’s F5G-A all-optical network, adopting XGS-PON.

The deployment delivers symmetrical 10Gb/s speeds and seamless Wi-Fi 7 coverage, transforming home connectivity, boosting ARPU and enhancing customer retention.

The upgraded AI-FTTR solution enables new experiences such as 2D-to-3D video conversion, providing users with cinema-like visuals and driving premium package upgrades.

Huawei also has transformed traditional home gateways into AI home hubs with built-in computing power, supporting distributed voice interaction and AI agent deployment — creating new monetisation models for ISPs.

Intelligent campus upgrades
As AI advances, the demand for campus networks has evolved from just connectivity to guaranteed, high-quality experiences. Fibre-to-the-office (FTTO) is emerging as the gold standard for smart campus developments, across a wide range of sectors.

In healthcare, the technology enables uninterrupted network performance by delivering fibre directly to endpoints. This enables hospitals, for example, to reduce cabling costs by 50 per cent, cut low-voltage room usage by 80 per cent and significantly improve operational efficiency.

Jose Antonio Jimenez Caballero, head of Digitalisation of the Standards Department at the Spanish Association for Standardisation UNE, noted passive optical LAN all-optical networks work with its simple architecture, energy efficiency, large bandwidth, and smooth evolution to support efficient data transmission and enable high-quality diagnosis and treatment services in smart healthcare systems.

He said Spain is formulating standards and specifications for smart hospital network construction. “The goal is to leverage all-optical networks to enhance hospital connectivity and meet the evolving needs of the healthcare industry, and comply with the requirements of the Gigabit Infrastructure Act.”

In the hospitality sector, hotels are using a single fibre to support wired and wireless connectivity, telephony and sensing.

Cerium Techologias CEO Daniel Just said Huawei’s FTTO solution enables high-speed networks to reach every corner of a hotel, with its simplified cabling design significantly reducing construction costs.

The offering also supports long-distance transmission and easily covers large spaces such as villas, delivering a seamless high-speed network experience without blind spots.

Enabling smarter infrastructure
Optical sensing plays a crucial role in collecting high-quality data, offering high sensitivity to vibration and temperature. It is widely used for infrastructure protection.

Huawei’s AI fibre sensing solution is deployed in more than 120 projects globally.

Stefan Obucina, Architecture Department director at PUC Belgrade Metro and Train in Serbia, introduced the case study of optical-visual linkage assisting the metro in building intelligent boundaries.

Powered by AI-enhanced fibre sensing, Huawei’s optical-visual linkage perimeter inspection solution delivers zero missed alarms and an ultra-low false alarm rate, efficiently protecting metro operations by preventing intrusions and theft.

A sustainable, intelligent future
Intelligent transformation across industries begins with better connectivity and sensing, Yang suggested. “Powered by F5G-A, Huawei’s all-optical solutions leverage fibre to sense the world accurately, connect every space seamlessly and deliver ultra-broadband performance.”

He ended his keynote by calling on partners and customers across the continent “to join forces in accelerating fibre infrastructure construction and seize the opportunities of the intelligent era. Together, we can pioneer a sustainable, connected, and intelligent future.”

The post Tapping all-optical networks to power Europe’s intelligent transformation appeared first on Mobile World Live.

Speaking at a media roundtable following its annual Innovation and Intellectual Property Forum, Fan stated Huawei’s AI portfolio follows “products related patent logic instead of standards related patent logic,” given that “AI, unlike 5G, is not a standard for any particular industry”.

He said Huawei’s goal is to protect its AI ecosystem rather than monetise individual filings. “The purpose of applying for our AI patents is to protect our AI related ecosystems and related algorithms so that we can open up those patents for all partners to use,” he noted. “The purpose is not to collect patent royalties from other parties.”

On balancing IP protection with open participation, Fan said patents remain essential even in open-source environments. “When it comes to open source, the code is open to everyone else,” he said. “The purpose of applying for the patents for this open-source context is to protect the entire open-source ecosystem”, only allowing codes to remain replicable.

He also highlighted how Huawei’s cloud and AI platforms support emerging economies. “Developing countries don’t have companies like Nvidia or Google,” Fan observed. “Our technologies, like our ecosystem, AI and cloud computing technologies, can help those countries grow their own industries and businesses.”

The executive pointed to Huawei Cloud, the vendor’s global cloud computing platform with more than 8.5 million developers, as a key driver for local innovation, enabling partners to “leverage our development tools and open-source software to develop their local apps”.

Huawei revealed at its Beijing forum that it booked around $630 million in patent licensing revenue in 2024, split roughly one-third each between Asia-Pacific, the US and Europe.

The post Huawei chief warns AI needs fresh patent rules appeared first on Mobile World Live.

In a keynote address, Alan Fan, head of Huawei’s Intellectual Property Rights department announced it published 37,000 patents in 2024, “setting a new record for the company”. By the end of last year, Huawei held more than 150,000 active patents globally.

Chief legal officer Liuping Song (pictured) added that Huawei paid nearly three times more in patent royalties than it has received over the years. According to him, Huawei invested more than CNY170 billion (approximately $24 billion) in R&D last year, representing about 20.8 per cent of total revenue.

During a media roundtable, Song explained that 4G and 5G devices generated the bulk of licensing income in 2024, followed by automotive and consumer electronics. Patent revenue was split roughly evenly across Asia Pacific, US and Europe, each accounting for roughly one-third of total IP income.

Fan emphasised Huawei’s commitment to open innovation, noting it made more than 10,000 technical contributions to standards bodies and released more than 1,000 academic papers in the last year.

Trade tensions
Despite not selling hardware in the US since being placed on the country’s trade blacklist in 2019 over national security concerns, Song stressed that the US remains key to Huawei’s IP operations.  “Even though we do not sell products in the US, we still apply for patents in the US,” he noted. “Patent application in the US is still quite normal. It is not affected by geopolitical reasons.”

Around one-third of Huawei’s patent revenue now comes from the US, driven mainly by phone manufacturers, as well as Wi-Fi and automotive vendors.

Still, Huawei continues to face headwinds from US export controls, which have restricted its access to advanced chipmaking tools and partners. “Due to well-known reasons, the manufacturing of our chipsets has been affected,” Song acknowledged. “For some time, processes for our chips will still be lagging behind those industries processes.”  

However, he added that Huawei’s focus remains on overall system performance, arguing that “users won’t focus on the performance of a single chip, but instead they would focus on the performance of the whole cluster. That’s where our connectivity technology can come into play.”

Looking ahead, Fan said Huawei expects patent revenue to grow in 2025, citing rising “recognition in the industry of our technologies”, including Wi-Fi, 5G, audio and video.

The post Huawei reveals $630M revenue from IP deals appeared first on Mobile World Live.

At 6.6mm thick and 208 grams light, the Mate 70 Air is slightly bulkier than Apple’s latest handset but includes a larger 7-inch OLED display, stereo speakers and a substantial 6,500mAh battery, making fewer trade-offs than the e-SIM only iPhone Air.

Powered by the company’s in-house Kirin 9020 chipset, the Mate 70 Air runs on HarmonyOS 5.1 and offers up to 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. The camera system includes a 50MP main sensor, a 12MP telephoto lens and an 8MP ultra-wide macro lens, alongside a Red Maple primary colour camera for enhanced colour accuracy.

Available for preorder in China, the device is priced at CNY4,199 ($590), coming in well below Apple’s $999 model.

The release comes as Chinese manufacturers intensify efforts to challenge Apple in the high-end segment after the US company introduced the Air branding to its smartphones for the first time with the iPhone 17 series launch in September.

However, the iPhone Air faced regulatory delays in China, with sales beginning more than a month late after authorities approved eSIM trials for the country’s three major operators.

Earlier in July, Huawei reclaimed the top spot in China’s smartphone market for the first time in more than four years even as the overall market contracted.

Listen to our recent eSIM focussed Podcast here.

The post Huawei takes thin fight to Apple with Mate 70 Air appeared first on Mobile World Live.

The news agency stated one estimate puts the total cost of removing Huawei’s equipment at more than €2 billion and reported operators are perceived to have resisted stripping the infrastructure, which the state is concerned poses a national security risk.

It reported Deutsche Telekom referred it to an agreement operators struck with the government in 2024 covering arrangements on how to handle Chinese telecoms equipment.

Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone Germany and Telefonica Deutschland agreed to begin excluding Huawei and ZTE equipment from 5G networks in late 2026.

Bloomberg noted any public money used could contribute to closing a gap in German digital investment relative to other European countries.

The method of any approach is not settled.

One scenario would involve using defence or infrastructure budgets to fund the replacement, but discussions are ongoing and subject to change.

Bloomberg reported the government denied knowledge of any such plan.

The post Germany linked with Huawei removal payment plan appeared first on Mobile World Live.

The new version, coming four months after it was sent to developers for testing, supports NFC connectivity with iPhones, iPads and Macs, allowing users to transfer data between devices without an internet connection.

Chair of Huawei’s consumer business group Richard Yu (pictured) noted at the launch conference the OS has been “comprehensively upgraded in terms of application ecology and user experience”.

The HarmonyOS 6 public beta will power more than 90 Huawei devices, he added.

Third parties have developed more than 80 AI agents through HarmonyOS 6’s agent development framework.

The company said HarmonyOS 5, released in October 2024, has an installed base of more than 23 million devices.

Data from Counterpoint Research showed in China HarmonyOS held a 17 per cent market share in Q2, compared with 66 per cent for Android and 16 per cent for Apple’s iOS.

The post Upgraded Huawei OS supports file sharing with Apple devices appeared first on Mobile World Live.

Wang explained: “Intelligence should be as easily accessible as water and electricity. I hope every person, home and organization, can benefit from AI. Huawei is ready to help SMEs tackle these challenges and ‘go intelligent’ faster. No one will be left behind in the intelligent world.”

While AI is starting to be applied broadly across businesses worldwide, current applications tend to focus on intelligent assistants for employees. Future use-cases, however, are forecast to require deep integration with core in-house production systems. Huawei believes this process will have a profound impact on product, service, business and operations models, making AI a major engine of growth for enterprises.

SMEs play a significant role in the overall economy. China alone has more than 58 million, which create more than 80 per cent of the country’s urban jobs and generate 60 per cent of national GDP. Despite the increased adoption of AI around the world, SMEs generally struggle to use the technology because of low AI awareness and a lack of technical capabilities, making the bar for AI adoption too high for most SMEs.

eKit suite launch
Wang also released the company’s suite of new eKit 4+10+N SME Intelligence solutions. The 4 refers to four major scenarios covering most business operations: intelligent office, intelligent business, intelligent education and intelligent healthcare.

The 10 covers one-stop, scenario-based solutions, which include SME office, intelligent hotel, digital diagnosis platform and intelligent interactive classroom solutions, while the N refers to a series of “star products” tailored to the different scenarios.

eKit is a Huawei sub-brand and digital ecosystem focused on providing intelligent ICT products and scenario-based solutions for SMEs. The range includes Wi-Fi access points, AI firewalls and smart IdeaHubs, integrated with digital platforms and services like the eKit App, to simplify network deployment, management and overall digital transformation for businesses.

At the event, held a day before Huawei Connect 2025, the company launched a total of 26 products as part of its N series of enterprise solutions, including the eKit Engine AR180 series ultra-high-speed routers, which integrate a number of functions, including routing, switching, Wi-Fi and VPN.

Its New IdeaHub products combine AI conferencing, acoustic baffle and AI applications, and feature an all-in-one design, intelligent interactions and comprehensive security.

Driving AI adoption
Wang emphasised: “We handle the complexity so customers and partners can focus on growing.” The eKit one-stop scenario-based solutions are an upgrade in terms of solution development, sales enablement and delivery services, he noted, adding by using “these solutions to power our partners, we bring the benefits of AI to SMEs”.

The new releases all have significantly more advanced AI technologies than previous releases, with the features pre-integrated and pre-validated, which makes delivery more flexible and allows installers to easily bundle products to meet the specific needs of different scenarios, Huawei stated.

The company explained it is providing additional sales enablement for its distribution partners, including faster access to related resources, solution demonstrations and scenario-based configuration plans to simplify product selection and solution design for both installers and customers.

For delivery services, Huawei said it supports unified installation, centralised network management and consolidated customer support, allowing clients to quickly adopt AI, while ensuring worry-free delivery for installers.

Wang closed his talk by saying the new suite will power the last mile of the intelligent world for SMEs. “We are more than welcome to stand strong with distribution partners and installers to pool resources and fully empower SMEs to go intelligent.”

The post Huawei intelligent ICT line-up upgrade brings AI to enterprises appeared first on Mobile World Live.

In his opening keynote, Xu unveiled the Atlas 950 SuperPoD supporting more than 8,000 Ascend GPUs and scheduled for launch in Q4 next year. It will feature 128 computing racks and cover about 1,000 sq metres.

The announcement is the first time the company has shared its long-term chip plans and comes after years of remaining silent on key technology developments.

He compared the development with Nvidia’s next upgrade, scheduled to come out in H2 next year. The Atlas 950 will deliver 6.7 times greater computing power and 15 times more memory capacity, reaching 1152TB.

In Q4 2027, Huawei will ship the Atlas 960 SuperPod fitted with up to 15,488 Ascend 960 chips. The system will have a computing power of 30 exaflops and memory capacity of 4,460TB.

Xu stated the two systems will lead the world in key metrics and remain the world’s most powerful super nodes for many years to come. He added Huawei believes the impact goes beyond AI, as the technology can bring significant value to general purpose computing on the demand side in China.

Huawei has been subject to sanctions from the west, blocking its access to the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing process nodes, he noted. “We need to put together less advanced chips and form them into a super pod, which can work as one computer.”

Power in numbers
He acknowledged at the chip level, the performance of an individual AI Huawei chip is not as good as Nvidia’s, “but at a super pod level, we can deliver the most powerful systems in the market”.

Speaking a day after a Chinese regulator reportedly ordered domestic technology companies to stop buying Nvidia AI chips, Xu reminded the audience of a forecast he made last year at the event that China will continue to lag behind in semiconductor manufacturing for “a very long time”.

Over the next three years, Huawei will release three new series of Ascend chips: the 950 series, including the 950PR and the 950DT, the 960 and the 970.

Within the 950 line-up, the Ascent 950PR is optimised for the prefilled stage of inference and for recommendation, and will be available in the first quarter of 2026 in two form factors. The 950DT, with interconnected bandwidth reaching 2Tb/s, will ship in Q4 2026.

The Ascend 960 will have twice the computing power, memory bandwidth and memory capacity of its predecessor and will be available in Q4 2027.

The post Huawei lays out roadmap to lead global AI computing appeared first on Mobile World Live.

In a 12-page letter, the US House Select Committee on China stated Futurewei Technologies held the main lease on three buildings at the campus, with Nvidia subletting space before it acquired full control in 2024.

The Committee claimed the co-location provided Futurewei “unprecedented access to America’s most advanced semiconductor and AI capabilities”, and called for the unit to share documents and contracts related to the selection of the site along with explaining any activities involving Nvidia by 28 September.

An Nvidia representative told Bloomberg it always maintains a separate site even when facilities are shared.

Huawei was barred from importing the most advanced chips since US sanctions were imposed in 2019.

Nvidia recently restarted shipping AI chips designed for the Chinese market after it and AMD reached a licensing agreement with the US government.

The post Nvidia plays down Huawei unit co-location appeared first on Mobile World Live.

Huaneng Yimin open-pit mine in Inner Mongolia turned to Huawei and XCMG for a comprehensive system supported by a private 5G-Advanced network to reduce use of manned vehicles and significantly improve safety.

Earlier in the year, it introduced 100 autonomous, electric trucks into its operations, claiming a first in China. The trucks represent about a third of its total dump trucks used at the mine covering 42.4 million sq km.

Huaneng Yimin mine director Shu Yingqiu told Mobile World Live and other media visiting the mine the recently upgraded operation is “one of the most advanced in the world”, adding it has entertained a number of executives from other mines keen to learn about the capabilities for possible adoption.

China is home to as many as 1,000 open-pit and underground coal mines alone. He highlighted the country also has about 5,000 other mines extracting metals and other minerals, creating a vast upside for the platform, which comprises the network, data centre and integrated management system.

The nation accounts for more than 45 per cent of the global intelligent coal mining market, Huawei stated.

While China has more than 80,000 mining trucks, only about 5,000 are autonomous, again the highest in the world. But that number is forecast to double by end-2026.

Solar powered
The mine, with an annual capacity of 35 million tons, required some 75,000 tons of fuel each year, with diesel costs accounting for as much as 50 per cent of overall variable costs. One electric truck can save CNY158,000 (about $22,200) a year, said Shao Qi, GM of Huawei’s open pit-mine division.

In addition to lowering fuel usage and costs, unmanned vehicles significantly reduce the need for drivers, which Shu noted are difficulty to recruit. The average age at the Yimin mine is more than 45 years. “Younger people are just not interested in those jobs, which require long hours and shift work.”

Since each truck requires multiple drivers, Huaneng Yimin estimates as many as 350 employees were shifted to other positions.

Huawei and XCMG spent five years developing a custom electric truck that weighs 45 tons, with the driver cab replaced by a lithium battery. Each truck has two cameras and multiple sensors (for lidar and mmWave radar), and can carry a load of 90 metric tons. A vehicle can operate continually in all temperatures and in harsh conditions, such as strong winds creating dust and impairing visibility, a joint statement claimed.

Production efficiency jumped significantly as trucks can now operate up to 22 hours a day; previously they ran for 17 to 18 hours in a day.

An onsite solar cell farm generates sufficient energy to charge the batteries, which are swapped out quickly to eliminate down time.

The network
The 5G-A network features 500Mb/s uplink and 20ms latency, supporting HD video backhaul and cloud-based dispatching of autonomous trucks.

The entire stripping operation is equipped with about 800 sensors to monitor temperature as well as detect intrusion.

Huawei developed AI algorithms for open-pit mining, enabling precise sensing for autonomous vehicles, accurately identifying locations to the centimetre level.

Shu said Yimin is seeking the green light from its parent company, the owner of the mine and an adjacent coal power plant, to double the number of trucks by next year and deploy 100 per cent driverless trucks in the long term.

The next step will add complexity as it aims to move from dump trucks to heavy equipment involved in the excavation process.

Shao explained real-time communications between trucks enabled by 5G is critical, particularly with mixed operations (both unmanned and manned vehicles), requiring clear operational rules to be spelled out. It is working with authorities to set industry standards.

The mine deployed a lidar system with 85 detection points supported by BeDou (China’s satellite system) to monitor the conditions of the slopes, which are the riskiest aspect of the large-scale operation, he stated.

Because the slopes are changing due to traffic and moving retaining walls, the system must respond dynamically to shifts. The roads all require constant maintenance.

“We adopted AI to sense the dynamics on the ground. Using multiple sensors and AI, the system can navigate a truck through the whole route and make sure dumping is safe,” he noted.

The post Feature: Huawei-backed tech powers unmanned EVs at mine appeared first on Mobile World Live.

Mate XTs is the follow-up to the headline-grabbing Mate XT, a device released in 2024 to much fanfare as the first smartphone in a new form factor.

Orders for the latest model are set to begin today (4 September) with shipments expected by the end of the month. Prices start at CNY17,999 ($2,522), slightly cheaper than its predecessor which cost from CNY19,999 at launch.

Changes to the original include the use of a Kirin 9020 chipset, an improved rear camera system and employing Huawei’s latest OS.

The device has two hinges, providing the ability to use screens of 6.4-inches, 7.9-inches or 10.2-inches depending on the fold pattern.

Other specs include a 50MP main camera and a 5600mAh battery.

Huawei promoted the handset as providing large-screen productivity and AI, highlighting a multi-window mode for multitasking and linked app for PCs.

It comes with a stylus to aid work and entertainment features.

In Weibo posts accompanying the launch, Huawei noted the smartphone features an “extraordinary design” highlighting the “futuristic three-fold form” is “gathering momentum”.

The company also provided an update on the uptake if its latest Harmony OS5, with more than 14 million devices now using the software. It is offered on more than 50 pieces of hardware.

The post Huawei unveils follow-up to hyped tri-panel smartphone appeared first on Mobile World Live.

Net profit in the January to June period dropped 24.7 per cent year-on-year to CNY37.2 billion ($5.2 billion), with total revenue increasing 4 per cent to CNY427.1 billion.

Spending on R&D rose 9.1 per cent to nearly CNY97 billion.

The filing provided no explanation for the profit drop, nor detail on which sectors drove the revenue gains.

Despite continued trade sanctions, Huawei maintained its global position in telecoms equipment, ranked number two behind Ericsson in the RAN market outside of China, Omdia reported.

The company also returned to the top position in China’s smartphone market in Q2 after more than four years, data from IDC showed.

Huawei was recently hit by new measures in Europe, with Telefonica reportedly confirming plans to phase out its equipment from 5G networks in Spain and Germany to meet domestic regulatory guidelines.

Over the past few years, the company has shifted its attention to the smart automotive sector, while continuing to adapt its core telecoms business and focus on the domestic enterprise segment.

The post Huawei H1 profit dives appeared first on Mobile World Live.

The news comes less than a month after Reuters cited comments from the operator’s COO Emilio Gayo, who stated it was reducing use of the vendor’s equipment in Spain and Germany in line with regulatory requirements.

El Pais cited “highly reliable industry sources”, noting the deal was signed when the operator was under its previous CEO Jose Maria Alvarez Pallete.   

In its response to the newspaper, Huawei Spain emphasised its contracts in the country are confidential, but noted elements such as the “5G core in the user plane” were not subject to regulatory restrictions.

Telefonica inked an enterprise-focused core deal with Nokia two months after the deal was apparently signed with Huawei relating to its consumer business.

Although there is no blanket ban on Huawei in Spain, the European Commission has pushed for restrictions on the use of equipment from what it deems higher risk vendors in member states and last month reportedly warned the country’s authorities about a contract it gave the vendor.

Huawei has denied its equipment poses a security risk numerous times and regularly referred to the campaign against it, initially led by the US, as politically motivated.

The post Telefonica linked with extended Huawei 5G deal in Spain appeared first on Mobile World Live.

Telefonica COO Emilio Gayo told Reuters the operator is “reducing our exposure to Huawei” in both countries, where governments have mandated the phase-out of the Chinese vendor’s equipment from 5G core networks due to national security concerns.

In the UK, where a similar ban is in place, Gayo added that Telefonica’s exposure to Huawei is already “very, very low”.

However, the operator confirmed it will continue using Huawei equipment in Brazil and other Latin American markets, where no such restrictions are in place. Reuters reported that Telefonica CEO Marc Murtra emphasised that equipment from all suppliers is subject to strict internal standards, ensuring security for the company and its customers.

Huawei has faced restrictions across European markets for a numbers of years, with governments citing national security risks.

However, Spain did recently award a €12 million wiretap contract to Huawei, which was met with a warning from the European Commission.

According to The Financial Times, the European watchdog warned that Huawei “represents materially higher risks” than other suppliers.

However, a Huawei spokesperson told Mobile World Live that all of its products in Spain “fully comply with local laws, regulations, and applicable product admission criteria and standards.”

Regarding the wiretap equipment in question, OceanStor Dorado, the company stated it is “a common flash storage hardware” that adheres to Spain’s National Security Scheme and ICT security guidelines. “Huawei has no access to customer data, all the information stored in hardware belongs to and is at the exclusive disposal of the customer,” the spokesperson added.

The post Telefonica drops Huawei gear across Spain, Germany appeared first on Mobile World Live.

The Financial Times (FT) reported the EC has cautioned Spain against relying on Huawei, stating the company “represents materially higher risks” than other telecoms suppliers.

Its comments come after it emerged last week Spain had signed a contract with Huawei for the vendor to provide hardware to store wiretaps, used for law enforcement and by Spain’s intelligence services.

Apparently news of the contract led to two senior US lawmakers asking the US government to review its intelligence sharing with Spain.

The EC has told operators across the European Union to place restrictions on high-risk suppliers such as Huawei and ZTE, including a stop on the installation of new equipment.

Two years ago, then European Commissioner Thierry Breton bemoaned slow progress in placing restrictions on vendors deemed high risk, while stating those that excluded the two Chinese vendors from 5G build outs were justified in doing so and in-line with its recommendations. It also released a 5G toolbox of policy recommendations, tailored to the bloc’s cyber security.

However, FT reported Spain is one of the EU’s most China-friendly nations, while Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has a testy relationship with US President Donald Trump.

Huawei, which has always maintained its equipment is not used for spying, stated its products in Spain “strictly comply with local laws and regulations, as with applicable product admission criteria and standards”.

The post EC cautions Spain over Huawei deal appeared first on Mobile World Live.

Data from IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report revealed that total shipments dropped to 69 million units, marking the first decline in the country’s smartphone market following six consecutive quarters of growth. The downturn was attributed to limited impact from government subsidies and weak consumer confidence.

In an economically uncertain market, Huawei led with 12.5 million units shipped, capturing an 18.1 per cent market share despite a 3.4 per cent decline. Will Wong, senior research manager for client devices at IDC Asia Pacific, credited Huawei’s rebound to “its strong brand appeal and effective shipment management”.

Vivo ranked second with 11.9 million units, down 10.1 per cent, while Oppo followed with 10.7 million units, falling 5 per cent.

Xiaomi was the only top five vendor to record annual growth during the quarter, driven by its appeal amongst price-sensitive consumers, Wong noted. Apple rounded out the top five, with 9.6 million units shipped and a 1.3 per cent decline. Despite its downturn, Wong explained the iPhone-maker managed to narrow its losses by adjusting prices to make select iPhone 16 and 16 Pro models eligible for government subsidies.

Rebound unlikely
IDC also flagged headwinds tied to the country’s subsidy scheme. Arthur Guo, senior research analyst at IDC China, noted that disruptions in the rollout of subsidies dampened demand. “We anticipate a gradual resumption,” he said, though he cautioned that broader economic uncertainties would continue to weigh on consumer confidence.

Indeed, Guo warned that although the recent US-China trade truce might have eased geopolitical tensions, a rebound in smartphone demand is “unlikely in the immediate term” as the market will face a “more complex landscape” in the second half of the year.

The post Huawei takes back China smartphone lead appeared first on Mobile World Live.

Following the Pura 80 series’ debut in China last month, Huawei chose Dubai and the Middle East for its global launch. Speaking to Mobile World Live (MWL) at the event, Andreas Zimmer, head of product at Huawei’s consumer business group, positioned the series as a continuation of the brand’s design-led innovation.

“The Huawei Pura Series has always been about more than just technology. It stands at the intersection of high-end imaging and high fashion,” he explained.

Zimmer hailed the series, which includes the Pura 80 Ultra and Pura 80 Pro, as “a complete, versatile imaging system all there, right in your pocket”. He explained the Ultra is “the flagship version of the Pura 80” highlighting several hardware upgrades aimed at professional creators.

The Pura 80 Pro features a one-inch Ultra Lighting HDR sensor with triple gain HDR technology, which enables the sensor to perform “three exposures of the image in a single take”, a capability that enhances image and video clarity in complex lighting.

Another innovation, he stated, lies in the smartphone’s dual telephoto system, which comprises of “two optical telephoto cameras in here, within a single component.” This component enables 3.7x and 10x optical zoom, with up to 100x digital magnification and cinematic portrait capabilities.

The Pro model also incorporates a 48MP macro telephoto lens, 40MP ultra-wide sensor, and the company’s Ultra Chroma Camera for enhanced colour accuracy. Huawei further claimed its RYYB sensor enables up to three times more light intake compared to conventional sensors, while focusing at distances as close as 5cm.

Coming soon
The devices are powered by the Chinese vendor’s proprietary EMUI 15 operating system, offering AI features including handsfree smart gestures, two-way noise cancellation during calls, gaze detection for screen privacy and image editing.

In terms of design, the devices feature glass backs in multiple finishes with enhanced durability and scratch-resistance.

Pricing starts at €1,099 for the Pura 80 Pro and €1,499 for the Ultra. Huawei also teased the standard Pura 80, confirmed as “coming soon”, but did not provide a specific release date.

Alongside its flagship smartphones, Huawei also introduced the MatePad 11.5 inch PaperMatte edition, a new addition to its MatePad tablet series aimed at productivity and eye comfort. The device starts from €289.

Huawei’s announcements come just a day after rival Samsung’s annual Galaxy Unpacked event, where the South Korean vendor unveiled its latest foldable smartphone models and AI updates.

The post Huawei Pura 80 series goes global with UAE showcase appeared first on Mobile World Live.

US chip controls take toll on Samsung

What happened: In the same week it made a big foldable device splash, Samsung Electronics flagged a sharp downturn in its second quarter operating profit, attributing the slump in part to US export controls on the supply of advanced AI chips to China.

Why it matters: The South Korean vendor projected a 56 per cent year-on-year drop in operating profit and flat revenue, attributed mainly to its Device Solutions unit, which includes Samsung’s memory, system chips and foundry operations, It blamed “inventory value adjustments and the impact of US restrictions on advanced AI chips for China”. However, analysts argue a key factor to the decline is Samsung’s delays in supplying its latest HBM3E chips to major US customer Nvidia. According to Reuters, a few months ago Samsung forecasted that progress on its 12-layer HBM3E chip could come by June, but ultimately offered no timeline for Nvidia supply in its Q2 update. The silence is telling, particularly as rivals SK Hynix and Micron continue gaining momentum in AI-driven memory demand. “The key issue remains regaining competitiveness… Everything ultimately comes back to HBM,” stated Ryu Young-ho, senior analyst at NH Investment and Securities, in a statement to Reuters. Moreover, the potential for new US tariffs could further squeeze Samsung’s margins, particularly across its chip and mobile lines. “It will also be difficult to raise prices immediately due to competition,” Ryu added, underscoring the pressure Samsung now faces.

Huawei denies copying rival AI models

What happened: Huawei’s AI research division reportedly denied accusations that it lifted code from competitors to develop its large language model (LLM), the Pangu Pro Mixture of Experts (MoE) platform.

Why it matters: The controversy kicked off after Huawei published the source code for Pangu Pro MoE on GitHub last week. Later, an online group called “HonestAGI” contained allegations the model included uncredited components from Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5 14B model, Bloomberg reported. Responding in a post on WeChat, Huawei stated the Noah’s Ark Lab, the team behind Pangu Pro, “strictly adheres to the requirement of open source licenses and clearly mark copyright statements in the relevant source files”. While the tech giant didn’t directly name Alibaba in its response, it firmly pushed back against any implications of foul play as they strike at Huawei’s credibility at a pivotal moment in China’s AI journey. Indeed, according to Matthias Bastian, co-founder of publication The Decoder, “the accusations come at a sensitive time for Huawei, which is working to show that its Pangu models – trained on Ascend chips – can compete with global AI leaders”. This is of growing significance “as China seeks alternatives to Nvidia amid increasing US export restrictions”, Bastian explained.

Capgemini ups agentic AI play with $3.3B WNS buy

What happened: Capgemini dialled up its agentic AI push with a $3.3 billion deal to acquire technology outsourcing company WNS in a bid to leverage growing enterprise interest in AI.

Why it matters: The French consultancy stated the move would enable it to deliver more intelligent operations, citing agentic AI’s role in reshaping enterprise operation. Capgemini described WNS as a “springboard” for this evolution due to its expertise in digital business process services (BPS). The company stated the acquisition will serve as a means to better serve enterprise customers looking to overhaul traditional processes with more intelligent AI-powered systems. Indeed, Capgemini CEO Aiman Ezzat argued that BPS is now a “showcase” for agentic AI innovation and said the deal would accelerate its ability to lead the transition. “Capgemini’s acquisition of WNS will provide the group with the scale and vertical sector expertise to capture that rapidly emerging strategic opportunity,” he explained. WNS chief Keshav Murugesh echoed the sentiment, pointing to demand from clients who are “already digitised” and now aim to embed AI deeper into their operations. The deal also deepens Capgemini’s reach in the US market, currently WNS’s largest base, while unlocking cross-sell potential between both companies’ client bases.

The post Samsung stumbles; Huawei rejects plagiarism claims appeared first on Mobile World Live.

A year after the commercialisation of 5G-Advanced (5G-A), China Mobile Shanghai, as a pioneer in the next-generation technology, has embedded it in various everyday uses. The Shanghai style has now acquired a hint of 5G-A.

During MWC Shanghai 2025 running from 18 to 20 June, reporters visited several locations in Shanghai to experience its 5G-A capabilities.

5G-A reshapes urban living
In a cafe on Nanjing West Road on a quiet morning, the 5G-A icon on the window blends seamlessly with the rising steam from freshly brewed coffee, creating an image where technology and life intertwine. Coffee is often described as a form of social currency, and China Mobile Shanghai is quietly driving a revolution in the coffee industry through 5G-A technology.

“With 5G-A, my game was already downloaded before I finished my coffee,” says one resident. Such an experience allows business professionals to completely say goodbye to the anxiety of watching the “loading circle” on their phone screens. Even more impressive is the seamless integration between the 5G-A cloud drive and the coffee customisation process — upload a selfie, apply AI beautification and send it to the coffee machine. Within seconds, you can receive a customised latte with your photo printed on it.

The combination of the “1 yuan for 5G-A cloud drive + coffee” discount coupon in a cafe’s mini-programme has made technology not just a concept but a delightful part of everyday life.

After ordering the 1 yuan for 5G-A cloud drive package through the mini-programme, the customer instantly receives a text message with a coffee discount coupon.

Wang Zheng, the head of China Mobile Shanghai’s western district Jing’an branch, shared the company’s rationale behind its partnership with the coffee industry. “Coffee-related scenarios attract a large number of business professionals and young users. With 5G-A’s high speed and low latency, users can upload design drafts or watch livestreams without any lag, making it the perfect way to demonstrate the real value of our technology.”

Shanghai now boasts more than 9,000 cafes, surpassing New York and London to become the global coffee capital. The introduction of 5G-A into these cafes offers more than just a speed revolution: it’s an upgrade in taste, meeting the demand of global users for both business efficiency and lifestyle quality.

China Mobile Shanghai has created exclusive 5G-A experiences along 21 metro lines and in venues such as the Mercedes-Benz Arena, allowing 5G-A users to be the first to experience the “faster-than-ever” network services.

Seamless fusion
China Mobile Shanghai on 17 June officially launched 5G-A 2.0, with the theme Magic Speed Leads, Intelligence Creates the Future, aimed at setting the city as a new benchmark for global smart city experiences and injecting new vitality into the digital economy.

This milestone not only marked the next iteration of communications technology but also symbolised the new beginning of deep integration between the sports industry and the ICT sector.

A partnership between Shanghai Shenhua Football Club and the operator to launch an exclusive 5G-A product for fans is a strategic initiative based on the objective to “empower the sports ecosystem with technology”.

By combining 5G-A’s low latency, higher bandwidth and user experience identity with Shanghai Shenhua’s knowhow in fan operations over the past 30 years, they created the first-ever “sports + technology” mobile network service in China. The appearance of Shenhua player Wu Xi, who is the 5G-A experience ambassador, at the launch event symbolised the convergence of sports spirit and innovative technology.

Scenario-based innovations
China Mobile Shanghai has rolled out six major scenario-based 5G-A products covering live streaming, gaming, business, entertainment, travel and sports, catering to the diverse needs of users.

From cafes to the country’s first “sports + technology” mobile network service, the innovative 5G-A experiences offered by China Mobile Shanghai are like a modern interpretation of “technology with the Shanghai style”, perfectly blending the old-world charm of the city with the brilliance of new technology.

Communications is no longer a simple means of transmitting information but has become a digital social bond that merges efficiency with a people-centric philosophy. Through these scenario-based innovations, China Mobile Shanghai is shifting communications technology from a “pipeline service” to “full-scenario empowerment”, making technology truly serve human social needs.

5G-A is no longer just a cold technical term but a practical technology seamlessly integrated into everyday life.

At MWC Shanghai 2025, China Mobile Shanghai’s experience in tailoring 5G-A’s technological capabilities for specific scenarios served as a valuable reference for the entire industry. Looking ahead, the technology story written by the company, infused with the Shanghai style, is becoming a vivid annotation of the mobile AI era.

The post China Mobile Shanghai taps 5G-A to local benefit appeared first on Mobile World Live.

Pursue experience-guided development. Telkomsel is Indonesia’s largest digital telecom service provider, a subsidiary and highest revenue contributor of Telkom Indonesia. Its special focus on user experience is the reason it has stayed ahead of the curve in network performance and market competition. When the 4G market became saturated, with a penetration rate as high as 95%, the retention of high-value users became even more important than ever. Telkomsel and Huawei began looking for efficient intelligent 5G solutions that would keep users by providing stable high-speed network connectivity.

Sustain innovation using spectrum advantages. 2.3GHz enables wide coverage and large capacity and has been recognized as the ideal spectrum for 5G networks. Understanding this, Telkomsel deployed EasyAAU, which used the latest leaf antenna technology, to drive data traffic growth and quickly deploy networks.It is also one of the innovative 5G-AA solutions launched by Huawei in 2024. In comparison to the nTnR solutions previously adopted by the operator, EasyAAU has improved the operator network’s average downlink throughput by 3.8 times, with the investment efficiency doubled.

The lightweight, energy-saving EasyAAU has proven effective for agile deployment of 5G, improving both the operator’s network coverage and user experience. In the core areas of Bali (Denpasar, Badung) and Greater Jakarta Area (Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, Bekasi), users can experience more stable 5G connections and faster network speeds.

Set an industry benchmark through the 5G City project. Telkomsel and Huawei have already kicked off their 5G City partnership project in Bali and currently planning the final phase of the replication project in Greater Jakarta Area. This entails the construction of a basic 5G network on the 2.3GHz spectrum to provide urban users with stable and fast 5G access. The project is not only a prototype for 5G construction in Indonesia, but a global benchmark for the efficient deployment and optimization of 5G networks.

Rev up the evolution. Telkomsel is a strong believer in the importance of 5G network evolution. The operator is determined to further unlock the potential of 5G by jointly building and sharing networks with partners and integrating spectrum resources. This will advance the 5G industry in both Indonesia and the world at large. For this course, Huawei also expressed willingness to help the operator build networks with better user experience and advance the digital vision in Indonesia.

The post Telkomsel Indonesia Deploys Huawei’s EasyAAU on a Scale of Thousands of Sites, Setting a New Benchmark for 5G City in Asia-Pacific region appeared first on Mobile World Live.

4G-5G Coordination Reshapes Network Experience

As a frontrunner in network construction in Kenya, the operator is committed to transforming people’s lives and improving social and economic development through digitalization and the application of innovative communications technologies. Rapid 5G development has created many opportunities for the operator, but it has also increased competition in Kenya. This has raised the bar for network performance and investment. The operator therefore decided to make full use of its legacy spectrum and the high bandwidth of 2.6 GHz to build experience-driven TDD Massive MIMO networks.

Innovation Drives Up Network Performance

The operator deployed Huawei’s 2.6 GHz EasyAAU, which is one of the vendor’s 5G-A^A solutions released in 2024. This solution provides 1.7 to 2.3 times higher coverage and two times higher capacity than conventional 8T8R devices. Within five days of deployment, the operator’s total traffic had grown by 14%, and the number of cells with a physical resource block (PRB) usage of over 70% had reduced by more than 1,000. This has helped deliver better experience to users in high-value areas and over heavy-load cells.

New Opportunities Enable Sustainable Development

The operator’s experience-driven network construction has further unlocked new business opportunities and new 5G revenues. For example, they now offer customized 5G services, like the cost-effective 5G Internet packages designed for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The packages have helped the operator attract more than 3,000 new users in just 70 days. These packages have also significantly increased the average revenue per user (ARPU) of SME users. In addition, EasyAAU deployments allow the operator to double investment efficiency, slash network costs, and improve energy efficiency by 46%, which has made their overall network construction more sustainable.

Continuous Optimization Consolidates Market Leadership

This collaboration between the operator and Huawei has accelerated the development of 5G networks in Kenya by unlocking higher network quality and enabling new business opportunities. Looking ahead, the operator plans to continue its leadership in the Kenyan telecom market and inject new energy into the country’s digital transformation and economic development.

The post Kenya’s Telecom Operator and Huawei Drive Universal 5G with Large-Scale EasyAAU Deployment appeared first on Mobile World Live.

The companies established the Shanghai All-Optical 10-gigabit Cloud Broadband Industry Collaborative Innovation Demonstration Base, or F5G-A Innovation Centre, to highlight the transition to 10-gigabit optical networks, covering everything from technical verification to massive commercial adoption.

Field tests show download speed can reach 9.4Gb/s, enabling a 90GB movie to be downloaded in just 72 seconds.

On 16 June, two days before MWC Shanghai 2025 kicked off, China Telecom Shanghai hosted a media tour entitled 5G-A Future Experience Officer.

The first F5G-A industry innovation centre in China highlighted cutting-edge technologies, such as shallow compression for cloud gaming and 3D lidar sensing, and promoted the nation’s advancements in key areas, such as 50G-PON ports deployed and dual 10-gigabit city projects.

Journalists were transported by car and cruise ship connected to the dual networks to experience the possibilities brought by the convergence of all-optical networks, 5G-A and AI. The tour included a stop at the operator’s Smart Home Experience Centre at the Shanghai Posts & Telecommunications Designing Consulting Institute to learn how the three technologies make smart living a reality and what the digital age will look like.

2D to 3D conversion
In the entertainment demo area, the operator’s infrastructure supported technology that can convert a classic movie in 2D video into 3D. On-site deployed hardware equipment and local software algorithms perform real-time analysis and 3D reproduction of 2D videos, creating real 3D spatial relationships between objects and background. Viewers can perceive the distance, size and movement of objects, gaining a better viewing experience than with 2D videos.

The ultra-fast connectivity delivered by the dual network also supports a cloud gaming experience that wasn’t previously possible. A CNY1,000+ tablet connected to the 10-gigabit network smoothly ran an AAA game like Cyberpunk 2077. China Telecom Shanghai uses new codec technology to exchange bandwidth for latency and image quality, giving users the performance of a CNY10,000 PC on more affordable devices.

The optical network uses 50G PON, the next-generation 10-gigabit optical access technology, which features a single-wavelength bandwidth of 50Gb/s and millisecond-level latency.

An AI home companion robot doubled as a smart mobile housekeeper and a smart companion for children and the elderly using a FTTR network. The robot’s mobile projector can independently follow the host to greet visitors, display recipes and provide users with suggestions, delivering everything from functional services to emotional companionship.

The ultra-HD 3D livestreaming showcase in the Efficient Office area displayed clips captured by a binocular 3D camera and processed by AI in the cloud. Visitors could switch the angle of view on a tablet. With AI scheduling, the ultra-fast cloud NAS could handle simultaneous uploads and downloads by multiple users, making team collaboration and office processing more convenient.

River view meets smart connectivity
During a cruise on the Huangpu river, passengers enjoyed an average downlink speed of up to 2.2Gb/s thanks to China Telecom Shanghai partnering with Jiushi Group and Huawei to create a 5G-A x AI river-land-air 3D network.

With an average daily passenger volume of more than 30,000, the crowds at the international passenger terminal put immense pressure on mobile networks as visitors share video and livestream on social media.

On-water coverage is a challenge in mobile communication network construction around the world due to complex signal reflection and ship cabin barriers.

China Telecom Shanghai, with its partners, used 3CC carrier aggregation on the 2.1GHz and 3.5GHz bands to deliver continuous coverage, while inside the ship Huawei’s LampSite were deployed using 5G-A high-frequency backhaul.

In the AI + Travel experience area, visitors used AI-glasses for a guided tour. After stating “show me the Oriental Pearl”, the glasses presented the 3D video in both Chinese and English. Arriving at a historical building at the Bund, the glasses automatically triggered a real-time translation feature for foreign tourists to understand the buildings’ history. This excellent experience is made possible by the strong uplink capability of the 5G-A network.

The picture of overseas visitors enjoying barrier-free tours using AI glasses and livestreaming the river view through VR clearly demonstrated the back-end infrastructure was not just a network upgrade, but a leap in city service capacity.

The dual-10-gigabit showcase, created by China Telecom together with China Communications Service and Huawei, not only demonstrated cutting-edge technology applications, but outlined a picture of smart living. From home to city, and from personal to industry, the integration of 10-gigabit optical networks and AI is composing a new chapter of digital China.

The post China Telecom Shanghai accelerates shift to intelligent world appeared first on Mobile World Live.

Unveiling the world’s first operator-developed commercial smart home product, China Unicom Shanghai’s Tone Experience event in June served as a warm-up for MWC Shanghai 2025 days later.

The launch also raised a critical question: At this pivotal moment of deepening network development and widespread AI adoption in the world’s largest communications market, how can Chinese operators transcend their role as “pipe service providers” through scenario-based innovation?

The event on 16 June, held at China Unicom’s Digital Flagship Hall in Shanghai, highlighted innovation across a number of areas.

In terms of computing-network convergence, Tone makes use of both computing power and networks, and leverages more than 300 integrated communication-AI cloud pools and high-speed full-home optical broadband networks.

The robot also delivers device-cloud computing power collaboration services and uses a carrier-class security system to protect user information.

Interactive AI agent
In terms of integrated digital and intelligent innovation, the Tone AI agent, powered by the Yuanjing model and mainstream AI technologies in the industry, provides users with intelligent interactive experiences. Innovation in integrating the digital and real worlds focuses on home and personal lifestyle needs, enabling more convenient, seamless and enriched smart living.

When it comes to functional experience, Tone comes with an all-scenario intelligent voice interaction system, allowing users to quickly wake up the AI assistant through voice commands and request different tasks to be completed.

To address the issues of complex operations and troublesome account login and switchover due to features like cloud disk storage, smart home security and video entertainment delivered by different apps, Tone comes with a “super-aggregated” ecosystem platform, which seamlessly accesses top video service platforms, audio book resources and China Unicom’s own quality apps.

It also supports unified account management, which enables customers to access all applications through a single phone number. The cloud-based AI PC supports multi-device account data synchronisation, delivering efficient cross-device coordination through voice.

China Unicom’s cloud-based AI phone not only expands traditional hardware, it also supports the close integration of cloud services and intelligent applications. By putting game rendering in the cloud, with the company’s powerful cloud computing capability, the AI phone can enable a low-end phone owner to enjoy the user experience of a high-end phone.

It also supports lightning-fast downloads with reduced power consumption. This innovative product enhances the user experience, while promoting the deep integration of AI and smart devices.

Dual network support
China Unicom Shanghai’s dual 10-gigabit networks, supported by 5G-Advanced (5G-A) and 10-gigabit broadband, and Tone complement each other, bringing unprecedented network experience to home users.

With dual 10-gigabit networks, an HD movie can be downloaded in the blink of an eye, and large files can be transferred almost instantly. Low-latency 10-gigabit networks can instantly response to online work task instructions, making remote collaboration feel face-to-face. In agent control, command execution achieves near-zero latency, greatly improving smooth smart home operations.

The combination of Tone and dual 10-gigabit networks has spawned a variety of smart home applications. China Unicom combines separate smart devices, network services and home requirements into an integrated solution, promoting a home upgrade from “single-point intelligence” to “all-scenario intelligence” to meet the different needs of every family member.

Reshaping value creation
Under the spotlight at MWC Shanghai 2025, China Unicom Shanghai’s Tone Experience event was not only a showcase of technological innovation, but an example of operator transformation in China.

When users wake up smart devices in the home by saying “Hi Tone”, so-called pipe service providers, which once centered on bandwidth-based charging, are now transforming into definers of intelligent scenarios, builders of digital ecosystems and even key drivers of industry upgrades, by using the close integration of 5G-A, 10-gigabit broadband and AI.

The traditional business model in the communications industry is essentially a “pipe economy” based on network coverage and bandwidth capacity. In the era of 5G-A and 10-gigabit broadband, China Unicom Shanghai’s initiatives show that networks are now more than data transmission channels, but are quantifiable and customisable “capability products”.

As the boundary of operator services expands from connectivity to scenario-based experiences, their business model is also shifting from traffic-based charging to value sharing. The transformation exploration of China Unicom Shanghai also demonstrates that operators are becoming key drivers of industry digital transformation by building new infrastructure that integrates networks, computing and intelligence.

The post China Unicom Shanghai elevates smart home with versatile robot appeared first on Mobile World Live.

In a post on WeChat, seen by Bloomberg, the Chinese vendor responded to accusations posted on coding website GitHub which claimed the Pangu Pro Mixture of Experts (MoE) model had used uncredited source code from rivals.

The accusation came after Huawei released its source code for the model last week, prompting a group to be set up on GitHub called “HonestAGI’, calling out elements of Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5 14B model in particular.

Noah’s Ark research lab, the team behind Pangu Pro MoE, stated in response it strictly adheres to the requirement of open source licenses “and clearly mark copyright statements in the relevant source files”.

It continued: “We welcome and look forward to in-depth and professional discussions on technical details with everyone in the open source community.”

The research lab was founded in 2012 and introduced a number of Pangu AI models in 2021 for various sectors, including telecoms and weather forecasting. The Pangu Pro MoE has 72 billion parameters and uses a hybrid technique powered Huawei’s in-house designed AI chips.

The post Huawei denies copying rival AI models appeared first on Mobile World Live.