Joseph Waring

Hong Kong

Asia Editor at Mobile World Live

Featured in: Favicon

mobileworldlive.com Favicon

wiley.com

flipboard.com Favicon

3blmedia.com Favicon

fiercewireless.com Favicon

accesswire.com Favicon

subtelforum.com Favicon

newsbreak.com Favicon

brandspurng.com Favicon

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Articles

API venture Aduna adds 7 partners

1 week ago | mobileworldlive.com | Joseph Waring

Aduna expanded its network API ecosystem with the addition of Japanese operators SoftBank Corp and NTT Docomo, along with five vendors including Microsoft and Syniverse. In a statement, Aduna founding member Ericsson noted the venture signed deals with the Japan-based operators, extending its coverage across the country.
CelcomDigi signs up to Bridge Alliance

1 week ago | mobileworldlive.com | Joseph Waring

Malaysia operator CelcomDigi joined the Bridge Alliance and will participate in its API exchange partner programme, with the aim to enhance digital financial transaction security and drive cross-border cooperation through open network standards. CelcomDigi CEO Idham Nawawi explained in a joint statement the partnership “marks a significant step” in its commitment to advance digital trust and enable a more secure digital economy in Malaysia and across the region.
Honor chief advocates open AI alliance

1 week ago | mobileworldlive.com | Joseph Waring

LIVE FROM MWC SHANGHAI 2025: Honor CEO James Li (pictured) called for the creation of an open AI ecosystem, similar to the GSMA’s Open Gateway platform, in the form of an end-to-end alliance bringing together all stakeholders to develop standardised protocols and new business models.
China Tower efficiency push yields $15B in savings

1 week ago | mobileworldlive.com | Joseph Waring

LIVE FROM MWC SHANGHAI: China Tower chair Zhang Zhiyong (pictured) highlighted its productivity and efficiency gains over the past ten years and claimed its overall operations avoided the construction of more than 1.2 million duplicate towers. The scale of base station deployments in the world’s largest mobile market nearly doubled since 5G services were launched in 2019, with the company adding just over 1 million new cell sites last year, he stated.
China operators make first annual cut in emissions

1 week ago | mobileworldlive.com | Joseph Waring

LIVE FROM MWC SHANGHAI 2025: China’s mobile operators reduced their operational emissions for the first time in 2024 despite mobile data traffic nearly quadrupling since 2019, as the industry improved its energy efficiency and increased the use of renewables. Before the decline last year, previous analyses found regular annual increases in emissions in China, which rose 7 per cent between 2019 and 2023.
China Mobile chief articulates futuristic AI vision

1 week ago | mobileworldlive.com | Joseph Waring

LIVE FROM MWC SHANGHAI 2025: China Mobile chair Yang Jie (pictured) outlined a futuristic vision of a society where AI-supported service robots provide care for the sick and elderly, and robotic arms take industrial automation to new heights, powered by advanced 5G and cloud capabilities.
GSMA boss urges industry to complete 5G journey

1 week ago | mobileworldlive.com | Joseph Waring

LIVE FROM MWC SHANGHAI 2025: GSMA director general Vivek Badrinath (pictured) insisted before the mobile industry races ahead with 6G, operators needs to finish the upgrade to standalone (SA) 5G to open up new opportunities for growth. Badrinath noted as the sector discovers 5G’s full potential, one question remains: “how can we drive growth?”He argued before looking too far ahead, “we must stay focused on the opportunity that’s right in front of us.
SoftBank raises $4.8B from T-Mobile US share sale

1 week ago | mobileworldlive.com | Joseph Waring

SoftBank Group sold about a quarter of its 7.5 per cent stake in T-Mobile US, generating $4.8 billion to fund ambitious AI projects including a follow-up investment in OpenAI, Bloomberg reported. The news outlet reported SoftBank sold 21.5 million T-Mobile shares in a block trade. SoftBank remains the second-largest shareholder in T-Mobile after Deutsche Telekom, which holds a 59 per cent interest.
Huawei, SMIC land on Taiwan export control list

1 week ago | mobileworldlive.com | Joseph Waring

Taiwan reportedly followed the lead of the US and other allies in blocking access to advanced chipmaking equipment and materials, imposing fresh trade controls on Huawei and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC). Bloomberg reported Taiwan’s International Trade Administration put Huawei, SMIC and several of their subsidiaries on its strategic high-tech commodities entity list.
AWS boosts Australia data centre, solar farm spend

1 week ago | mobileworldlive.com | Joseph Waring

Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest AUD20 billion ($13 billion) to expand its data centre infrastructure and build three new solar farms in the country. In a post on X, Albanese wrote the commitment “is a huge vote of confidence in the Australian economy”. He added it also is the largest investment “our country has seen from a global technology provider”.