Huawei's AI-Powered Network Solution at MWC 2025
During the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, held from March 3 to 6, 2025, Huawei presented its groundbreaking AI-centered network solution. Yang Chaobin, Director of the Board and CEO of Huawei's ICT Business Group, emphasized the potential of high-quality, cost-effective, and open-source AI models in driving new innovations and accelerating the emergence of an intelligent world.
Transformational Impact of AI on Telecommunications
According to Yang, advancements in AI will reshape society on three levels. Firstly, consumers will receive truly personalized experiences. Secondly, organizations will foster intelligent collaboration. Lastly, there will be a foundation for broader intelligence accessible to all. While the growing diversity of application scenarios presents unprecedented growth opportunities for the ICT sector, it simultaneously raises demands for network infrastructure. To harness these opportunities fully, operators need significant breakthroughs in bandwidth, latency, coverage, and operations.
"Huawei's AI-centered network solution is designed to meet these demands," remarked Yang.
"It is revolutionizing network capabilities to enable connectivity across various domains, driving a shift towards application-oriented operations management and reshaping telecom services and business models to fully leverage the opportunities that AI presents."
A Four-Stage Approach to AI-Centric Networks
Yang addressed the challenges faced by network operators and explained how Huawei's solution can better prepare them for an influx of new AI-driven applications. The four-stage approach includes:
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Cross-Domain Connectivity: Through enhanced collaboration between AI and networks, operators can optimize resource orchestration for routing, bandwidth, and more. This allows intelligent applications universal network access, providing extremely high uplink and downlink speeds along with Service Level Agreement (SLA) guarantees.
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Application-Oriented Operations Management (OM): The advancement of AI applications will lead to complex service scenarios and varying experience requirements. This necessitates a shift from traditional resource-oriented network operations to a more application-focused approach. Huawei's Telecom Foundation model supports proactive management based on application-level insights and customized, intricate workflows, significantly boosting network operation and maintenance efficiency while elevating user experiences to new heights.
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Enhanced AI-to-X Services: At the individual user level, AI-centered networks can deliver the appropriate experience for diverse AI scenarios by precisely allocating the necessary bandwidth, latency, and reliability. Organizationally, they can overcome capacity bottlenecks and response-time issues configured for interaction between people, as well as evolve networks to support interactions from human to agent and even agent to agent. On a societal level, AI-centered networks will enable ubiquitous connectivity, expediting the integration of AI into public services such as education and healthcare, thereby creating greater value for communities worldwide.
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Innovative Business Models: Finally, the diverse experience requirements will provide operators with the chance to explore new business models that monetize a broader range of metrics. Essentially, AI-centered networks will empower operators to move beyond traditional traffic-based monetization towards monetizing experiences themselves. This shift will unlock the full potential of connectivity, opening up new revenue streams.
Collaborative Efforts Needed
Yang concluded with a call to action:
"We must come together and collaborate across the telecommunications industry. By unveiling network capabilities, partnering with various sectors, and engaging in scenario-specific innovations, we can optimally harness new growth opportunities in the AI era, bringing the world closer to a better and smarter future."
At MWC 2025, Huawei will showcase its latest products and solutions at booth 1H50 in the Fira Gran Via Hall 1, paving the way for the commercial rollout of 5G-Advanced, aided by AI in transforming operator operations and infrastructures. Huawei is actively partnering with operators and stakeholders globally to expedite the transition to an intelligent world.
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