5G-A's Five Key Pathways to Fuel Success in the Mobile AI Era

[Shanghai, China, September 28, 2025] With mobile AI creating ever-higher requirements for networks, Huawei's wireless solutions will deepen the integration of 5G-A and AI in all bands, all coverage, all scenarios, all digitalization, and all intelligence, raising the wireless industry’s quality levels in the mobile AI era, according to Samuel Chen, Vice President of Marketing of Huawei's Wireless Network Business.

In a speech entitled "5G-A Reshapes the Mobile AI Era," Chen said 5G-A is growing quickly after a year of commercial use. By the end of this year, there are expected to be more than 50 large-scale commercial 5G-A networks deployed globally, with more than 120 smartphone models supporting 5G-A. By then, 100 million consumers will enjoy the premium experience brought by 5G-A, while nearly 60,000 5G-A dedicated networks will be built across industries, driving over CNY20 trillion in economic output.

Meanwhile, mobile AI has entered a stage of explosive growth: by year-end 2025, worldwide  shipment of AI phones is expected to reach nearly 400 million units, surpassing that of traditional phones, and tens of trillions of tokens, the basic units of data created and processed by generative AI, will be created every day.

These trends are injecting strong momentum into industry development and spurring three major transformations.

AI x Personal communications: Dedicated AI assistants are enabling personalized, intelligent interaction

By 2030, there will be more AI agents than traditional apps, giving rise to three interaction models. The first is intent-based, cross-app interaction, which will account for 70% of all interaction activities and require ultra-low latency for instant intent comprehension. The second is multi-agent interaction across five to six devices, which will require reliable real-time connections for seamless collaboration. The third is holographic, emotional interaction, which will need uplink speeds exceeding 1 Gbps and high reliability to turn AI agents into capable companions for humans.

AI x IoT: Universal, intelligent connectivity is rapidly becoming reality

AI continues to push the boundaries of connectivity, making more objects connectable and creating new industry demands. In China today, 20 million intelligent connected vehicles have made assisted driving a necessity for users. In the future, the large-scale application of wearable devices and embodied AI robots will create billions of new IoT connections. Developments like these prove that the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) is enabling the digital and intelligent upgrade of various industries. A real-world example of this is the 5G-powered smart grids built in Shandong, China, where drones and robots are used for intelligent grid inspection, increasing operational efficiency eightfold and shortening fault response times to seconds.

AI x Mobile networks: AgenticRAN is reshaping network capabilities

Intelligence has already been incorporated into the three key elements of mobile networks: spectrum, energy, and O&M. The Agentic Workflow enables intent-driven collaborative efficiency improvement for spectrum, energy, and O&M, and pushes network automation to AN L4 across all scenarios, thus boosting network productivity.

To build a solid foundation for the mobile AI era, Huawei will focus on five key areas to continue innovating in 5G-A and improving related capabilities,

1. All-band Massive MIMO: Building premium pipes for wireless networks. Huawei has released its unique ultra-wide band (UWB) AAU series solutions. These solutions employ the dual-band fused array design to enable collaborative high- and low-band coverage, providing users with ubiquitous access to high-speed 5 Gbps connections. Furthermore, by building a unified architecture across large bandwidth spans, Huawei has reconstructed a foundation network with large bandwidth of 100 Mbps, capable of supporting ubiquitous IoT connectivity and real-time services in the mobile AI era.
2. All-coverage beamforming: Enabling ubiquitous, multi-dimensional connectivity. Huawei has released innovative wide-angle Pano Radio series solutions and industry-leading lightweight EasyAAU series solutions, aiming to support huge numbers of high-quality connections. These solutions utilize ultra-wide-angle architecture and new materials for blade antennas to deliver enhanced connection capabilities, including higher uplink and downlink speeds and lower latency. This will enable mobile networks to support ubiquitous, real-time AI interaction and enlarge emerging markets like the low-altitude economy, facilitating carriers' business success.
3. All-scenario seamless coverage: Building experience-centered networks. Huawei has commercially deployed a range of innovative solutions, such as RuralCow for integrated rural networks, LampSite X which integrates five bands with one box, and full-duplex microwave solutions, significantly improving network performance while lowering costs. These solutions cover all network scenarios, including cities, rural areas, indoor spaces, oceans, and deserts, providing reliable connectivity for real-time intelligent applications.
4. All-domain digital sites: Laying the groundwork for network intelligence. To address the long-standing industry pain point that passive equipment lacks perception and cannot be controlled, Huawei has released unique digital antenna and digital power solutions that make antennas and power supplies digital and intelligent. With these solutions, all domains of a wireless site can perceive and be controlled, greatly boosting network efficiency and user experience.
5. Industry's first agent engineer team: Advancing wireless networks to AN L4. Huawei has incubated an innovative agent engineer team with four types of virtual human experts. This team can perform unmanned maintenance, real-time network optimization, all-weather energy conservation, and precise business evaluation. By August 2025, Huawei's intelligent wireless capabilities had served over 60 carriers and more than 500,000 sites worldwide.

Huawei will continue to provide end-to-end 5G-A network solutions, collaborate with industry partners to advance technological innovation, and help carriers build simplified and green AN L4 intelligent networks that provide optimal user experience.