Huawei Champions 5G-A and AI-Driven Growth at MWC Shanghai 2025
TL;DR:
- At MWC Shanghai 2025, Huawei is showcasing its latest advancements in 5G-Advanced (5G-A) and scenario-based AI services under the theme “Accelerating the Intelligent World.”
- The company is focusing on how carriers can monetize the 5G-A experience, build AI-centric infrastructure with solutions like the new AI Ultra-Broadband (AI UBB), and optimize operations with AI.
- Huawei’s Rotating Chairman, Eric Xu, outlined four key pathways for telecom industry growth, including serving new user needs, boosting HD video, bringing 5G to every car, and empowering small businesses with advanced fiber (FTTR).
- Commercial adoption of 5G-A is accelerating, with China already having over 10 million users across 300 cities, demonstrating a clear model for monetization and intelligent transformation.
At this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai, global technology leader Huawei is demonstrating significant new developments in 5G-Advanced (5G-A) and the creation of value through scenario-based services powered by artificial intelligence. Under the exhibition theme “Accelerating the Intelligent World,” Huawei is meeting with global telecommunication carriers, industry partners, and thought leaders to chart new paths for development that place AI at the core of value creation.
The showcase focuses on a trio of strategic pillars—Services, Infrastructure, and Operations—that collectively aim to propel the telecommunications industry into a new era of intelligent connectivity and sustainable growth.
The New Frontier: Monetizing Services with 5G-A and AI
A central theme of Huawei’s presentation is the commercial monetization of the 5G-A experience. The company is announcing the success of several projects in collaboration with China’s three major carriers that leverage scenario-based AI applications, also known as AItoX (AI to Everything). These initiatives demonstrate how AI agents can deliver smarter, more personalized user experiences in real-world situations, enabling carriers to move beyond traditional connectivity packages and offer premium, value-added services.
Carriers are increasingly rebranding themselves as providers of personalized and integrated AI agents. In the smart home market, this means upgrading services to enable seamless coordination between various smart devices for enhanced smart home companionship. In the automotive sector, carriers are integrating AI with vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technologies to create intelligent, mobile third spaces. For businesses, this translates to enhanced computing-network services that deeply empower production and operations.
Future-Ready Infrastructure: AI-Centric Networks and Computing Hubs
To support this new service paradigm, Huawei is showcasing its latest advancements in AI-centric network infrastructure. A key announcement is the launch of a new comprehensive AI Ultra-Broadband (AI UBB) solution. This end-to-end platform covers all network layers, from home broadband to transport networks, and embeds computing power throughout to accelerate the evolution towards higher-level network autonomy. This, in turn, improves the experience of AI applications and enables new business growth.
Huawei’s carrier partners are also sharing their experiences in building these AI-centric networks and discussing strategies for creating AI computing hubs. These hubs are essential for enabling business success with AI by providing the massive computational power required for training and inference.
Intelligent Operations for a New Era
The third pillar of Huawei’s showcase focuses on operational excellence. In conjunction with China’s major carriers, Huawei is sharing the latest best practices and achievements in intelligent wireless network and home broadband operations. This includes the deployment of AI computing services for training and inference, which helps carriers build, maintain, and efficiently utilize their valuable computing power, further driving down operational costs while improving service quality.
Charting the Path to Sustainable Growth
Commercial adoption of 5G-A is expected to accelerate significantly in 2025, with China, the Middle East, and the wider Asia-Pacific region leading the charge. China has already emerged as a global pioneer, with 5G-A now available in over 300 cities and serving more than 10 million users. Carriers in these regions are actively exploring new experience monetization models, such as premium upgrade initiatives that reflect the growing value users place on superior network performance.
In a keynote address, Eric Xu, Huawei’s Deputy Chairman and Rotating Chairman, addressed the industry’s evolution. “After nearly four decades of rapid growth, the industry has entered a period of steady development, while facing some challenges to new growth,” he observed.
Xu proceeded to outline four potential pathways for carriers to drive new growth:
- Adapting to Evolving User Needs: Meeting new demands from emerging user groups with high growth potential, such as livestreamers and gig economy workers.
- Boosting HD Video Consumption: Fostering coordinated efforts across the ecosystem to increase the supply and consumption of high-definition video.
- Bringing 5G to Every Car: Tapping into new growth opportunities in the intelligent connected vehicle market.
- Empowering Small Businesses with FTTR: Extending Fiber-to-the-Room (FTTR) technology to micro and small businesses to help them leverage AI opportunities.
“Every carrier is different,” Xu concluded. “We’re ready and willing to work together, helping carriers explore opportunities unique to them and carve out the right pathways to long-term, sustainable growth.”
As the communications industry undergoes significant disruption driven by AI innovation, carriers are uniquely positioned to embrace this change, leveraging their inherent strengths in cloud, network, intelligence, and computing to unlock new drivers for business growth and reshape how society interacts with technology.
