Huawei Li Peng: Accelerating towards the agenttic internet era with 5G-A and AI | For enterprises

BARCELONA, Spain, March 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — At MWC Barcelona 2026, Li Peng, Huawei’s Senior Vice President and President of ICT Sales & Services, delivered a keynote speech on how carriers can maximize the value of 5G-A and AI and accelerate towards the agent-based internet era. Li suggested that as networks converge with AI, carriers have an opportunity to redefine the value of connectivity by upgrading to “5G-A x AI.” This allows you to monetize not only your traffic and experiences, but also your AI services.

Industry Value Leap: The $10 Trillion Agent Enters the Internet Age

Over the past few years, the mobile industry has been steadily evolving from 4G to 5G, and some carriers have begun rolling out 5G-A. As networks become more powerful than ever, intelligent applications are being introduced to all types of devices.

“This year, we will enter the age of the Internet of Agents. The network will not only connect people, but also hundreds of billions of agents,” said Li. However, the rise of agent applications over the next decade will increase the demand for connectivity as networks facilitate not just human communication but also agent-to-agent communication. This will move carriers from providing traffic to providing high-value services, opening up a new market worth $10 trillion.

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Evolving network capabilities will also change carrier business models. In the seven years since 5G commercialization, more than 300 carriers around the world have launched new packages. Monetize your trafficand this helped them grow both their revenue and user base.

As 5G networks continue to mature, Experience monetization It will become even more important to the success of carriers. 5G SA and 5G-A offer more diverse network resources and are being used by more than 30 major carriers to launch experience-based packages to monetize speed, latency, and more.

By dynamically scheduling resources, carriers can go beyond “best effort” service and deliver a deterministic experience. This helps build brand reputation and increase users’ willingness to spend on premium services. By offering services such as custom logo display and multi-level speed enhancements, carriers can guarantee network performance at critical moments and increase users’ perception of network quality.

Combining connectivity and AI services: Unlocking new growth potential with AI-powered consumer, home, and business services

Mr. Li also explained how applying AI models can help carriers transform their core services and improve consumer satisfaction.

• AI for consumers: First, AI can be integrated into traditional calling services. There are currently 5.4 billion calling service users around the world who will use AI to enable features such as transcription, translation, and AI assistants. Many of these features have already entered large-scale commercial use in China and South Korea. Additionally, more carriers are launching AI phones that serve as portals for the agent era. These phones are being used to upgrade B2C services, which is the biggest source of revenue for most carriers.
• Home AI: In addition to recent efforts by carriers to upgrade home broadband to ultra-gigabits, AI is also being deployed to enable smart home services. For example, Acceleration Assistant can guarantee decisive speeds for key services such as gaming and live streaming. Network Assistant helps you optimize your Wi-Fi and troubleshoot network problems through voice commands. AI lifestyle assistants are also a promising avenue for carriers looking to extract new value from traditional services. By integrating AI with video and storage services, features include automatically generating cloud-based family albums that can be shared across devices.
• AI for business: In industrial scenarios, the convergence of 5G-A and AI can be used to transform core workflows and significantly improve production efficiency. For example, in flexible manufacturing, AI-enabled factories can respond to demand in seconds, schedule new production in minutes, and deliver new products in hours.

A new vision: Helping carriers upgrade their portfolios with AI services

“Looking ahead, there are still many opportunities waiting to be unlocked by 5G-A and AI, and carriers are best positioned to explore future applications such as large-scale IoT and embodied AI,” said Lee. He also recommended three courses of action for carriers to seize these opportunities. First, carriers must evolve all services, devices, and frequency bands to 5G-A to create a thriving network ecosystem. Second, carriers need to implement AI in the BOM (Business, Operations, Management) area. This provides the foundation for a variety of O&M services. Third, carriers must inject intelligence into their infrastructure to support future network architecture evolution.

“Huawei is ready to work closely with carriers to make full use of 5G-A and AI, and help carriers evolve into AI service providers,” Li concluded. “We can work with carriers to upgrade key services through our multi-agent collaboration platform. We can also help carriers build AI-centric networks to enable more efficient operations. Together, we can open up a world of new opportunities and lay a strong foundation for future networks.”

MWC Barcelona 2026 will be held from March 2nd to March 5th in Barcelona, ​​Spain. During the event, Huawei will be showcasing its latest products and solutions for 1 hour and 50 minutes at the Fira Gran Via Hall 1 stand.

Now, the era of agent networks is rapidly approaching and large-scale commercial deployment of 5G-A is accelerating. Huawei is actively working with carriers and partners around the world to realize the full potential of 5G-A and pave the way for the evolution to 6G. We also build AI-centric network solutions that enable intelligent services, networks, and network elements (NEs), accelerate large-scale deployments of Level 4 Autonomous Networks (AN L4), and upgrade core businesses with AI. Together with other industry players, we will build a cutting-edge, value-driven network and AI computing backbone for a fully intelligent future.

For more information, please visit https://carrier.huawei.com/en/minisite/events/mwc2026/.

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