[Barcelona, Spain, March 4, 2026] During MWC26 Barcelona, the “Ubiquitous AI Health Assistant” jointly created by China Mobile 5G New Calling and Huawei has won two GSMA GLOMO Awards – the Best Mobile Connected Health and Wellbeing Innovation and the Best Use of Mobile for Accessibility & Inclusion. This marks that intelligent communications centered on voice core networks and featuring “Calling as a Service” has entered a new stage. Recognized as one of the most authoritative honors in global mobile communications and digital innovation, the awards celebrate outstanding innovations that drive social progress and improve people’s wellbeing through mobile technologies.
Best Mobile Connected Health and Wellbeing Innovation Award
Best Use of Mobile for Accessibility & Inclusion Award
With the mission of “Making health for 1.4 billion people as easy as making a phone call”, the AI Health Assistant integrates AI medical capabilities directly into carrier-grade basic communication networks. Leveraging 3GPP-standardized IMS Data Channel (IMS DC), the solution establishes a high-speed data channel alongside the standard voice call link, enabling real-time converged transmission of voice and data. Users can access medical Q&A, preliminary symptom screening, health consultation, and hospital recommendations simply by dialing a number—no app download, account registration, or complex operation required. This design greatly lowers the barrier to digital healthcare, providing inclusive health access especially for the elderly, rural users, and people in underserved regions.
The platform integrates multimodal large models, medical knowledge graphs, and carrier-grade real-time, highly reliable, wide-coverage connectivity to deliver millisecond-level voice interaction and high-precision medical understanding. To date, its ecosystem has connected more than 5,000 hospitals and medical institutions, covers over 1 million doctors, and deploys more than 300 AI medical expert avatars, helping users access professional medical advice more efficiently.
The AI Health Assistant represents cutting-edge innovation at the intersection of AI and communications, and demonstrates the large-scale social value of mobile technologies in public health. By embedding medical capabilities into basic communication services accessible to all, the project offers a replicable new paradigm for global digital health development.
This achievement marks the official entry of the “AI + DC New Communication” ecosystem into public‑oriented applications. The deep integration of real-time communication networks and AI is becoming critical infrastructure for next‑generation intelligent services, while the true value of technology lies in making complex healthcare simple, trustworthy, and available to everyone. Going forward, the two parties will continue to expand service capabilities, deepen cooperation with medical institutions, promote the deployment of AI health services in more countries and regions, and contribute to global health equity.
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.
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