Global MBBF 2024: Accelerating 5.5G and AI convergence to lead mobile AI era

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The Global Mobile Broadband Forum 2024 (MBBF 2024) has kicked off in Istanbul, Türkiye with the theme “5.5G leads mobile AI era”. More than 1,000 guests from mobile network carriers, ecosystem players, and leaders from vertical industries have gathered to discuss a wide range of topics, from business model innovation to industry development and key technological directions in the mobile AI era.

This forum was set up to further promote the convergence of 5.5G and intelligent applications to create greater value for the mobile industry. During the forum, Huawei and Türkiye network carriers have jointly provided diverse intelligent 5.5G field experiences. Also, various players in the mobile AI ecosystem will be displaying their intelligent connectivity applications for people, homes, things, vehicles, and industries.

MBBF 2024 began with the opening remarks from Huawei Rotating Chairman Ken Hu. “In the future, AI will change everything. Everyone will be able to use it, anytime and anywhere. Mobile networks and devices will play an important role in making that happen, just like what we have done to enable telephones and mobile internet as a universal service,” said Hu.

2024 has brought both the commercial launch of 5.5G and the unprecedented expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) into our everyday life and work. Globally, more than three million AI-capable applications have been developed, more than the total number of non-AI apps available in the app store. That early commercial 5.5G rollout coincides with the first year of AI adoption in various devices is tremendously significant — it heralds the dawn of the mobile AI era.

Huawei Senior Vice President and President – ICT Sales and Service Li Peng delivered a keynote on how to maximise new growth opportunities in the mobile AI era. “The mobile AI era is here,” said Li. “We will see new forms of interaction with devices, new intelligent services, and structural changes in traffic models. This will bring huge new opportunities for the mobile industry.”