Huawei and Industry Partners Unite to Enhance Mobile AI and 5G-A Monetization

Enhancing Mobile AI and 5G-A Monetization: Insights from the Mobile AI Summit 2025

The Mobile AI Summit, held by Huawei alongside the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai 2025, was a pivotal gathering of operators, AI ecosystem partners, scholars, and industry stakeholders. This summit focused on discussing the future trends in mobile AI, where key consensus points emerged regarding the enhancement of mobile AI networks, especially emphasizing the improvement of uplink experiences in 5G-Advanced (5G-A) and promoting the monetization of mobile AI experiences.

One of the highlights was the launch of the GSMA Foundry project, which aims to establish a mobile network that promotes AI. This initiative indicates a shift in how operators began to monetize customer experiences while simultaneously starting to create networks centered on user experiences for mobile AI.

President Wen Ku of the China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) emphasized that the integration of 5G-A and AI is a critical direction for the evolution of communication networks. He stated that efforts should be focused on standard definition, intelligent network integration, and collaborative ecosystem promotion to pave the way for the future of mobile AI. This multifaceted approach is expected to enhance the market for AI services and usher in a new era of digital experiences.

During discussions at the summit, industry pioneers such as Rokid, MiniMax, and Unitree Robotics elaborated on how AI service providers can lead through differentiated competition and swiftly capitalize on emerging market opportunities. The range of experiences provided by AI is expanding notably—from traditional touch-screen interactions to multimodal interfaces that incorporate voice, video, and spatial processing. This growth is supported by advancements that facilitate audiovisual transmission speeds and higher accuracy in response. Leveraging 5G-A networks helps minimize latency for seamless interactions, ensuring efficient service delivery including real-time AI interactions and high-quality video calls requiring uplink rates of at least 20 Mbps.

Moreover, attendees including Zhi-Quan Luo, a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, IEEE representatives, and operators from Ookla shared their practices in AI-driven network optimization, along with strategic planning for the complete adoption of AI technologies. AI is fundamentally reshaping mobile networks and the mobile telephony sector at large, thus assisting operators to execute digital transformations across networks, operations, and business models. This transformation enables them to shift from mere traffic monetization to commercial monetization, providing differentiated services to various sectors.

Through the summit, consensus centered on three critical factors impacting the capacities of mobile AI networks: uplink, latency, and stability. Huawei, as a leading 5G-A technology provider, presented its GigaBand solution portfolio, showcasing the potential of resource pooling in air interface (AIR) and optimization solver (Optsolver) orchestration to seamlessly evolve 5G-A networks to support new AI services. These innovations empower operators to develop resilient networks backed by Service Level Agreements (SLA) suitable for diverse services like live streaming, mobile AI assistants, and cloud gaming.

For instance, GigaBand’s deployment in Hong Kong demonstrated multi-band sharing (4G/5G) effectively for various service delivery purposes, achieving up to 2.28 times the 5G throughput while maintaining a stable 4G user experience.

As the 5G-A technology continues to evolve with GigaBand and other innovative solutions within industry ecosystems, mobile AI is expected to become a new growth engine for revenue generation in the mobile telecommunications sector. This will significantly enhance digital living, providing people with intelligent and ubiquitous services.

The MWC Shanghai 2025 took place from June 18 to 20 in Shanghai, China. During the event, Huawei showcased its latest products and solutions at the N1 pavilion of the Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC). Looking forward into 2025, we can anticipate a significant acceleration in the commercial adoption of 5G-Advanced technology. Ongoing collaborations between Huawei and global operators, industry experts, and opinion leaders aim to explore how AI innovations can reshape the telecom industry’s services, infrastructure, and operations for new revenue streams, while hastening the transition towards a smarter world.

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