During MWC Shanghai 2024, Chen Hao, President of Carrier Business at Huawei, delivered a keynote speech. He noted that while primary innovation unleashes technology dividends, secondary innovation accelerates business success, and pointed out that 5G is currently undergoing secondary innovation.

During MWC Shanghai 2024, GSMA hosted the 5G-A Industry Roundtable to bring together global regulators, operators, equipment vendors, research institutes, and vertical industry leaders. Participants shared their network construction and application achievements during the evolution from 5G to 5G-Advanced (5G-A) and dug into 5G-A business monetization and strategic development.

At the 5G-A Intelligent Packet Core Industry Roundtable sponsored by the IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group and China Mobile Office and held by Huawei during MWC Shanghai 2024, participants shared the latest practices and achievements on 5G-A differentiated experience monetization in uplink live streaming, HD video on demand, and sports event live streaming, and discussed on more refined monetization scenarios and operations.

At MWC Shanghai 2024, Huawei hosted the Global Launch of 5G-A Pioneers Program. The event, themed "driving shared success with 5G-A", brought together pioneering 5G operators from around the world, including China's "big three", as well as HKT, du, and Oman Telecommunications. At the event, they discussed how to drive the high-quality development of 5G-A networks and how to seize opportunities from the upcoming intelligent world to create new market space for growth.

At the Accelerating Open Gateway in the Era of 5G-Advanced and AI Summit held during MWC Shanghai, industry players like carriers, Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) providers, and consulting agencies discussed how open application programmable interfaces (APIs) will help reshape the telecom industry in the 5G era and explore the latest 5G-A applications. During the summit, Dr. Philip Song, Chief Marketing Officer of Huawei Carrier Business Group, explained how Open Gateway will be essential for carriers to pursue experience-driven operations based on diverse 5G-A network capabilities in the mobile AI era, and shared Huawei's overall strategy and practices concerning open APIs.