During MWC Shanghai 2025, China Mobile and Huawei were honored with the Best AI Innovation in Asia Award at the GSMA Asia Mobile Awards for their groundbreaking AI Core Network solution. This industry-first achievement underscores both companies’ leadership in fusing next-gen network infrastructure with artificial intelligence, setting a new standard for telecom innovation in the AI era, DKnews.kz reports.
5G-A Meets AI: The Dawn of the Mobile Intelligence Era
The convergence of 5G-Advanced and artificial intelligence marks a turning point in connectivity. It’s no longer just about linking people — it's about seamless, intelligent communication between homes, devices, industries, and digital agents.
To meet these demands, China Mobile and Huawei have collaborated to develop the AI Core Network — a solution that brings intelligent services and intelligent networks together in a unified, future-ready ecosystem.
What Is the AI Core Network?
Huawei and China Mobile’s approach evolves in two distinct phases:
Phase 1: Building a 5G-A Smart Core with AI Agents
The first step introduces AI agents into the network core, enhancing automation in services, experience management, and O&M (operations and maintenance). It also establishes computing-network convergence, helping to solve the challenges of limited processing power and energy consumption on end-user devices.
Phase 2: The Agentic Core — an AI-Native Network Foundation
In the second phase, the network core evolves into a self-generating, self-optimizing, and self-maintaining system. The Agentic Core adapts in real time to millions of users and AI agents, enabling hyper-personalized, dynamic services.
Real-World Applications: From User Experience to Sustainability
New Services: New Calling
Already commercially available in China, New Calling enables services like visualized voice calling, fun calling, and real-time translation — enriching traditional voice communication with smart features.
Intelligent Experience: IPE
The Intelligent Personalized Experience (IPE) solution is live in multiple Chinese provinces. It delivers service-, user-, and network-awareness, enabling experience-based monetization instead of traditional data-driven models.
Smart O&M: AI in Action
China Mobile’s Zhejiang branch has pioneered the use of AI agents for fault detection and complaint resolution, dramatically improving service efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Low-Carbon Networks: Energy-Efficient Infrastructure
Through joint innovation, Huawei and China Mobile have developed a green, low-carbon core network, integrating hardware and software to reduce power consumption and improve energy efficiency at the system level.
From IoT to Internet of Agents: A New Model for Connectivity
George Gao, President of Huawei’s Cloud Core Network Product Line, explained:
“Integrating AI into the core network is a defining milestone in the mobile AI era. The AI Core Network offers a powerful platform for future services, enabling a shift from connecting things to connecting intelligent agents.”
“Huawei will continue working with China Mobile and other industry partners to develop transformative services, support industrial digitalization, and generate greater business value.”
MWC Shanghai 2025: Huawei Showcases What’s Next
MWC Shanghai 2025 is taking place from June 18 to 20 at the Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC). At Hall N1, Huawei is showcasing its latest innovations in 5G-A, AI, cloud computing, and intelligent network infrastructure — shaping what the future of connectivity will look like.
Mobile AI Is No Longer the Future — It’s Now
With 5G-Advanced commercialization accelerating across the globe in 2025, Huawei is working hand-in-hand with global carriers, industry experts, and ecosystem partners to rethink telecom infrastructure with AI at its core.
AI Core Network is more than a technical milestone — it’s the beginning of a new chapter in intelligent, autonomous, and experience-driven mobile connectivity. Huawei and China Mobile are making that chapter a reality.
