At MWC Shanghai 2026, Huawei is showcasing its latest innovations that integrate services, networks, and compute to enable growth in both bytes and tokens, helping the telecom industry seize opportunities from rapidly evolving AI models and agents. Under the theme “Advancing All Intelligence,” the company aims to collaborate with global carriers, industry partners, and key opinion leaders to explore enhanced connectivity, 5G-A high uplink and experience monetization, and AI-powered business upgrades.
Keynote Speech by David Wang
David Wang, Huawei’s Deputy Chairman of the Board and Rotating Chairman, delivered a keynote speech on how AI is transforming mobile networks, paving the way for the next decade of industry growth. He noted that over the past 40 years, innovation in mobile technology from each generation to the next has been key to the industry’s success.
“With each generation, we have pushed the limits of spectral efficiency and performance,” said Wang. “Network architecture has gradually flattened, with new application scenarios and services emerging left and right. This has consistently expanded the boundaries of communications, helping carriers translate network capabilities into commercial value.”
Six Key Imperatives for the Age of Intelligence
According to Wang, “As mobile communications enters the age of intelligence, there are six key imperatives that will pave the way for the next decade of industry growth.” These include:
- Developing new services and capabilities for future mobile communications systems
- Integrating AI with mobile communications to build three distinct layers of intelligence
- Building network architecture for integrated satellite-ground communications
- Advocating for sustainable and future-oriented spectrum planning and allocation
- Clearly defining the specifications of AI-native core networks
- Exploring new business models and application scenarios for mobile services
Innovations Released at MWC Shanghai 2026
Huawei released a wide range of innovations during the event. Regarding services, the company, alongside China’s three major carriers, released technological and business innovations in 5G-A high uplink and experience monetization, AI-powered business upgrade, and token monetization.
For infrastructure, Huawei launched the AI-centric target network, which helps carriers enhance competitiveness in byte and token monetization. As part of this network, the basic communications network emphasizes a shift from traffic-centric networking to networking for real-time interaction, offering users guaranteed connectivity. It also leverages high uplink and downlink, along with guaranteed technologies and networks, to deliver high-quality connectivity.
The computing network emphasizes a shift from traffic transport to network-wide compute scheduling and supply, with the network designed for computing, where connecting to the network is equivalent to accessing compute. The AI computing infrastructure emphasizes high performance and efficiency, as well as support for open-source and open ecosystems.
