Chunghwa Telecom and Nokia signed a memorandum of understanding at the 2026 Mobile World Congress to deepen their strategic collaboration on AI-driven network optimisation, 5G-Advanced evolution, and pre-6G research.
The partners said their 2025 field trials of Predictive Hardware Analytics (PHWA) delivered strong results, achieving close to 80% accuracy in predicting hardware faults. That capability, they contend, improved maintenance efficiency and customer experience.
In 5G-Advanced application tests at the Kaohsiung Asia Bay 5G AIoT Innovation Park, a collaboration with Pegatron produced MC2521 RedCap smart surveillance cameras that reduced power consumption by 42% compared with traditional 5G cameras, underscoring the potential of 5G-Advanced for Internet of Things deployments.
Under the renewed cooperation, Chunghwa Telecom will deploy Nokia's AI for RAN equipment and software, together with the MantaRay product suite, to strengthen autonomous network optimisation, anomaly detection, and intent-based automation. The partners aim to boost network resilience, service quality, and operational efficiency and to accelerate seamless evolution of 5G-Advanced capabilities to support new IoT device classes such as RedCap and enhanced RedCap, real-time zero-latency applications enabled by L4S (Low Latency, Low Loss and Scalable Throughput), and XR wearable devices.
The collaboration will also initiate coordinated testing and research into pre-6G advanced capabilities, covering AI model integration, scalable compute infrastructure, sensing technologies, data architectures and integrated services. Both companies framed these efforts as a way to move beyond traditional connectivity limits and enable next-generation digital services.
Nokia Group chief technology and AI officer Pallavi Mahajan described the agreement as a milestone toward truly AI-native networks, saying the collaboration demonstrates how AI can improve network performance and efficiency and will help accelerate progress from 5G-Advanced toward future 6G development.
Article edited by Joseph Chen
