Huawei has outlined a mobile-network core that would organize AI-agent tasks around their needs and coordinate network and computing resources, setting out a proposed direction for future telecom services.
In an Oct. 15 announcement, Huawei described an architecture for task-oriented services and gave no deployment schedule or names of operator customers. The release follows Huawei's earlier outline of a mobile core designed around agent tasks.
In Huawei's layout, devices would tell the core what an agent task requires; an added Data & AI Plane would sit beside control and user planes, while AI would inform core procedures.
The company described three applications. Agent Over New Radio (AoNR) would address tasks sensitive to delay; a Wide-Area Computing Network (WCN) would organize computing capacity across wider areas; and an Agent Computing Network (ACN) would enable secure cooperation among specialized agents spanning domains and ecosystems.
A Sept. 8 post on Huawei's blog describes two AoNR benchmarks: an aim to deliver all task tokens within 50 milliseconds, and a separate ceiling of 400 milliseconds from issuing a request until its first token reaches the requester. The post presents both as design goals; it reports no operating results.
Huawei's Intelligent World 2035 report projects 900 billion AI agents by 2035, alongside a population of nine billion — a rough average of 100 agents per person. The company argues operators could extend their business beyond connectivity by offering task-based services, but its announcement gives no infrastructure cost estimate or payer.
A Sept. 8 post says current fixed signaling procedures may be too slow for agent services that need networks to interpret task requests and allocate resources. Huawei frames that coordination problem as a reason for redesigning the core.
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) lists the “Study on Architecture for 6G System” work item as PCG approved, with a planned end date of March 3, 2027. The related technical report is still marked as a draft; version 0.9.0 was uploaded Sept. 21, 2026. The records do not show Huawei's proposal as an adopted standard.
