{"id":84351,"date":"2026-06-24T11:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/84351\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:25:20","slug":"chinas-telecoms-giants-bet-on-air-space-ground-sea-networks-for-future-ai-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/84351\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s telecoms giants bet on \u2018air-space-ground-sea\u2019 networks for future AI needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s telecoms giants are pushing for \u201cair-space-ground-sea\u201d networks amid Beijing\u2019s push to expand artificial intelligence infrastructure, as SpaceX\u2019s market debut has ignited the industry\u2019s focus beyond the Earth.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At the opening of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai on Wednesday, telecommunications executives framed the next phase of infrastructure as one that needs to encompass both the skies and oceans to meet skyrocketing demand for AI computing.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wang Tao, rotating chairman of Huawei Technologies, said that as AI gains agentic capabilities, the geographic coverage of the internet should be extended from the current 20 per cent on the ground to 100 per cent \u201cacross high altitudes, oceans and deserts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He expected the number of AI agents to reach up to 1 trillion globally by 2030, which pushed operators to break beyond urban borders.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Huawei rotating chairman Wang Tao speaks during the opening ceremony of MWC in Shanghai on Wednesday. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ee955386-930e-4b23-99a6-35ddb9cef7e0_31cb0603.jpg\" title=\"Huawei rotating chairman Wang Tao speaks during the opening ceremony of MWC in Shanghai on Wednesday. Photo: AFP\"\/>Huawei rotating chairman Wang Tao speaks during the opening ceremony of MWC in Shanghai on Wednesday. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wang, who became Huawei\u2019s rotating chairman in April, said that 2026 marked a \u201ccrucial inflection point for mobile communication\u201d. With the number of 5G users in China now exceeding 1.1 billion, the coming decade demanded an unprecedented technological leap, he added.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zhang Zhiyong, chairman of state-owned telecoms tower provider China Tower, said the company was leveraging its base station locations to forge a network covering air, space, ground and sea. The company currently manages over 6.2 million base stations, including 3.28 million dedicated to 5G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s telecoms giants are pushing for \u201cair-space-ground-sea\u201d networks amid Beijing\u2019s push to expand artificial intelligence infrastructure, as SpaceX\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2705,2191,24,25,45550,45551,85,1118,205,11755,45549,4516,212,40697],"class_list":["post-84351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-5g","tag-6g","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-china-mobile","tag-china-tower","tag-data-center","tag-huawei","tag-infrastructure","tag-mobile-world-congress","tag-mwc","tag-shanghai","tag-space","tag-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}