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[Barcelona, Spain, March 4, 2026] During MWC26 Barcelona, Eric Zhao, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Huawei’s Wireless Solution delivered a keynote speech titled “Embracing the Agentverse, Unveiling the Agent-Oriented Network” at the Wireless Media & Analysts Roundtable. He stated: “Mobile AI is sparking a paradigm shift across the communications industry. With a trillion-scale surge in Agentverse connections on the horizon, mobile networks need an urgent upgrade. To unlock the full potential of 5G-A, the industry should accelerate end-to-end upgrades and innovation, building multidimensional network capabilities that can meet the demands ahead.”

Agents Reshape Mobile Network Demands

Agents are rapidly evolving from personal assistants into engines of industrial automation and broad societal change, unlocking unprecedented economic value. On the consumer side, AI already generates more than 60% of online content, and AI shopping and AI-created video are becoming mainstream. In industries, “silicon-based productivity” agents are making fully automated manufacturing possible through autonomous learning and the precise coordination of thousands of robots. By 2030, the global market is expected to reach trillions of intelligent connections worldwide.

The rise of AI-driven networks is pushing requirements to a new level:

• Multi-directional bandwidth: Networks must evolve from today’s asymmetric uplink/downlink model to symmetric, high-bandwidth connectivity to enable smooth, real-time multimodal AI interactions.
• Deterministic reliability: Jitter must be minimized to avoid safety risks when embodied robots (VTLA) collaborate across modalities. This requires end-to-end high-reliability transmission and two-way interaction to ensure data integrity.

Building Agent-Oriented Mobile Networks to Unlock Network Potential

To meet these challenges, Huawei proposes agent-oriented networks:

• Agentic MBB Network: This Huawei’s new solution upgrades devices and algorithms. The industry’s first 256T U6GHz AAU delivers 1 Gbps downlink, 1 Tbps uplink, and ultra-low latency, while paving the way for 6G. Global intelligent coordination optimizes resources across time, frequency, and space to improve edge-user experience.
• Token Block Pipeline: A new AI-MOS experience standard maps multimodal demand to network KPIs. Huawei’s Token Block pipeline enables layered, modality-aware transmission for truly differentiated, deterministic experiences.
• A2A-T Intent Interface: This interface dedicated to the communications industry can translate business intent into network actions. While ensuring security, automated agent calls cut integration from months to days, enabling on-demand access to 5G-A capabilities.

Eric Zhao concluded: “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in a short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. With the mobile AI revolution and trillion-scale Agentverse connections ahead, even today’s vision may be conservative.” This is a structural shift that demands urgent action. Huawei calls on the global industry to collaborate, accelerate agent-oriented networking, fully unlock 5G-A potential, and embrace Agentverse.

MWC Barcelona 2026 will be held from March 2 to March 5 in Barcelona, Spain. During the event, Huawei will showcase its latest products and solutions at stand 1H50 in Fira Gran Via Hall 1.

The era of agentic networks is now approaching fast, and the commercial adoption of 5G-A at scale is gaining speed. Huawei is actively working with carriers and partners around the world to unleash the full potential of 5G-A and pave the way for the evolution to 6G. We are also creating AI-Centric Network solutions to enable intelligent services, networks, and network elements (NEs), speeding up the large-scale deployment of level-4 autonomous networks (AN L4), and using AI to upgrade our core business. Together with other industry players, we will create leading value-driven networks and AI computing backbones for a fully intelligent future.

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

[Barcelona, Spain, March 4, 2026] During MWC Barcelona 2026, Huawei held an Intelligent CEM (SmartCare) Forum themed “Unleashing Value from Network Experience & Data to Drive Business Growth”, and launched the SmartCare Intelligence solution based on the industry’s first AI-Native architecture. This solution helps operators apply new AI technologies to high-value scenarios, creating new business value.

More than 100 industry guests and experts from renowned analysis organizations, TM Forum, and operators, had in-depth discussions on AI investment strategies and paths for large-scale application, and witnessed the launch of the new SmartCare Intelligence solution.

Ding Chengyi, President of Network Performance and Converged Data Operations Domain unveiled the SmartCare Intelligence solution at the forum. This solution is based on an architecture featuring “1 unified AI entry + 2 key technology foundations + N scenario-based intelligent services”, introducing new capabilities such as domain-specific professional models and digital twins, enabling rapid closed-loop of production and operations processes, and achieving new business outcomes:

• 1 unified AI entry DataChat: Serving as the unified AI entry in the telecom CEM domain, DataChat integrates long-term memory capabilities with domain knowledge to proactively perceive the user, traffic, and experience status on the network. It can also call upon various intelligent agents and tools as needed for collaborative analysis, providing globally optimal solutions and recommendations, thereby creating an intelligent decision support entry with deep expertise in the telecom domain.
• 2 key technology foundations: By loading newly upgraded series of domain-specific professional models, such as the network digital twin and SRCON2.0 in the telecommunications field, the new solution will enable a “new work paradigm of experts + digital employees” to quickly close the loop on issues and generate business value.
• N scenario-based intelligent services: With the release of the new solution, four high-value scenarios were simultaneously launched—complaint management, network NPS improvement, high-value customer experience assurance, and hyper-personalized marketing. These scenarios focus on the most pressing pain points and challenges currently faced by customers, enabling seamless and efficient collaboration between domain experts and scenario-based AI agents, thereby helping operators quickly achieve a closed-loop of business value.

Ding Chengyi said, “The telecom industry is moving towards a new phase of fully intelligent operations. The SmartCare Intelligence solution will help operators quickly apply AI to high-value scenarios, accelerate the unleashing value from network experience and data, lead a new operational paradigm of business and network synergy, and drive new business growth.”

MWC Barcelona 2026 will be held from March 2 to March 5 in Barcelona, Spain. During the event, Huawei will showcase its latest products and solutions at stand 1H50 in Fira Gran Via Hall 1.

The era of agentic networks is now approaching fast, and the commercial adoption of 5G-A at scale is gaining speed. Huawei is actively working with carriers and partners around the world to unleash the full potential of 5G-A and pave the way for the evolution to 6G. We are also creating AI-Centric Network solutions to enable intelligent services, networks, and network elements (NEs), speeding up the large-scale deployment of level-4 autonomous networks (AN L4), and using AI to upgrade our core business. Together with other industry players, we will create leading value-driven networks and AI computing backbones for a fully intelligent future.

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

China has successfully achieved a significant breakthrough by testing a laser communication link between a high-orbit satellite and the ground, achieving a two-day data transfer at 1 gigabit per second over a distance of more than 40,000 kilometres.

The primary objective of satellite-ground laser communication research focuses on two main areas: increasing downlink speeds to handle arguing data volumes in specific scenarios and improving long-term real-time communication capabilities in high-orbit environments. These advancements are crucial for space systems and cutting-edge interactive tools.

The successful collaboration between the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Electronics and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications forged a robust laser connection between an observatory in southwestern Yunnan Province and a geosynchronous satellite.

The recent development enables satellites not only to transmit data immediately but also to receive complex commands in real time, opening avenues for transforming high-orbit satellites from passive data relays into intelligent processing centers.

Recent experiments have confirmed the deep-space communication capabilities of ground stations. These technologies provide a mature engineering model set for future large-scale applications. Furthermore, laser communication offers up to 1,000 times the bandwidth of conventional systems, resolving data bottlenecks and achieving remarkable results for high-resolution remote sensing.

[Barcelona, Spain, March 3, 2026] During MWC Barcelona 2026, Huawei held a summit themed “AI+, Accelerating Healthcare Intelligence.” The event gathered leading global healthcare experts, academics, and industry partners to envision the new future of digital and intelligent healthcare. At the summit, Huawei teamed up with HM Hospitals, Spain to officially launch the Global Smart Healthcare Showcase. Xavier Tarrago Bonfill, Digital Transformation Project Director of HM Hospitals, Spain, William Zhang, President of the Healthcare BU, Huawei, and Kai Zhang, Director of Healthcare Industry in Spain, Huawei unveiled the showcase together.

HM Hospitals, Spain and Huawei jointly launched the Global Smart Healthcare Showcase

Li Junfeng, Vice President of Huawei and CEO of the Global Public Sector BU, stated in his speech that as Huawei’s first smart healthcare showcase in Europe, HM Hospitals integrates China’s leading digital technologies with European healthcare expertise, providing a practical blueprint for the intelligent upgrade of the global healthcare industry.

Li Junfeng, Vice President of Huawei and CEO of the Global Public Sector BU, delivering his speech

Xavier Tarrago Bonfill, Digital Transformation Project Director of HM Hospitals, detailed the technical architecture and application achievements of the showcase in his keynote speech. By upgrading digital and intelligent infrastructure and introducing Huawei’s solutions such as Medical Technology Digitalization and Smart Hospital Campus, both parties are comprehensively advancing the construction of smart hospitals. In campus and ward management scenarios, Wi-Fi 7 and high-performance devices have been deployed, paired with 2.5GE wired access to meet clinical requirements for low latency and high bandwidth. The deployment of CloudCampus and the CampusInsight platform enables intelligent network O&M. In the medical technology field, the group strengthened its hospital information system (HIS) and picture archiving and communication system (PACS) with Huawei’s gateway-free, active-active, all-flash storage solution, ensuring seamless continuity of healthcare services. By further integrating a medical data lake built on scale-out storage, the group enabled automatic tiering of massive amounts of unstructured files. This not only addresses the ever-evolving needs of imaging and pathology systems, but also lays a high-speed digital foundation for smart diagnosis and treatment.

Xavier Tarrago Bonfill, Digital Transformation Project Director of HM Hospitals, delivering his speech

The Global Smart Healthcare Showcase that Huawei launched with HM Hospitals marks a milestone in the in-depth cooperation between the two parties. Both of them have fully leveraged their respective strengths to achieve resource sharing and mutual benefits, providing fresh insights for the global construction of smart healthcare. Looking ahead, Huawei will continue to lead through innovation, working hand-in-hand with global customers and partners to infuse intelligence into every hospital and co-author a new chapter of industry intelligence.

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South Korean equities plunged 12 per cent on Wednesday in a record one-day drop, as the world’s best-performing market this year bore the brunt of a big sell-off in Asian markets over fears of a prolonged conflict in the Middle East.

The high-flying Kospi benchmark has fallen nearly 20 per cent since Friday after rising nearly 50 per cent in the first two months of this year. Investors fear the intensifying war in the Middle East could harm the world’s eighth-largest oil importer.

“Investors are trying to take profits from one of the best-performing markets year to date,” said Jason Lui, head of Asia-Pacific equities and derivatives strategy at BNP Paribas, noting that some were pricing in a “more severe disruption scenario”.

The heavy sell-off was driven by declines in market heavyweights Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, which account for nearly 40 per cent of the Kospi index. They have dropped about 20 per cent each since the war broke out.

Shares across east Asian economies that depend heavily on energy imports fell sharply on Tuesday as oil prices continued their rise.

Japan’s Topix fell 3.7 per cent, while Taiwan’s Taiex slumped 4.4 per cent. In China, the Hang Seng index and CSI 300 lost 2 per cent and 1.1 per cent respectively. 

Brent crude climbed 2.5 per cent to $83.40 a barrel.

Foreign investors have sold a net Won5tn ($3.4bn) worth of Kospi shares so far this week. The Kospi 200 volatility index surged to the highest since March 2020.

The heavy foreign selling piled pressure on the Korean won, which slid 2.5 per cent over two days and briefly fell past Won1,500 to the dollar on Tuesday to its weakest level since the global financial crisis.

“Given that Korea is a big oil importer, higher oil prices will have a worrisome impact on the country’s macroeconomy including inflation, exchange rates and growth, if the war is not over in a week or two,” said Jongmin Shim, an equity strategist at CLSA.  

He also blamed the heavy sell-off on the unwinding of leveraged stock purchases by retail investors, who had emerged as the main drivers of the rally this year.

The sharp fall has pushed many retail investors into panic mode.

“I’m having a meltdown. I’ve never seen a freefall like this in my decades of stock investing, even when a war broke out,” said Song Mi-kyung, a 60-year-old housewife. “There is not much I can do other than just wish for a quick recovery.”

The Bank of Korea said on Wednesday it would closely monitor the market to take measures in case of “excessive moves” in the currency.

Lawmakers from South Korea’s ruling party said they would meet the country’s top financial regulator on Thursday to discuss measures to stabilise the stock market.

Analysts fear further pressure on the won as Seoul has promised to invest $350bn in the US as part of its trade deal with Washington aimed at reducing high American tariffs.