Huawei, ZTE showcase AI prowess to telcos at MWC Barcelona as industry gears up for transformation
- The Huawei AI model enables telcos to offer more intelligent business solutions to customers, and supports carriers in more efficiently using their network resources
- ZTE’s Nebula can help reduce 80 per cent of the workload for operations and maintenance while lowering costs by 15 per cent, according to the company
The telecommunications industry is rushing to explore the potential of generative artificial intelligence (AI), and Chinese equipment suppliers Huawei Technologies and ZTE have joined the pack with their own industry-specific models shown at MWC Barcelona this week.
At the event, the world’s biggest trade show for the mobile industry, Huawei launched its self-developed AI model specifically for telecoms service providers.
Dubbed the Huawei Telecom Foundation Model, it enables telecoms operators to provide more intelligent business solutions to consumers and enterprises, and supports carriers in more efficiently using their network resources, Philip Song Xiaodi, chief marketing officer of Huawei’s carrier business group, said at a media briefing at the event on Tuesday.
It can also help telecoms service providers improve operations and maintenance efficiency, for example, by shortening the time needed to fix a problem in the network after receiving a customer complaint, Song said.
Huawei has no clear timeline for the commercialisation of its telecoms AI model. “We have this kind of capability, and we have to work with our partners to explore it. I think it’s still a long way [to commercialisation],” Song added.
