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MWC26 opened in Barcelona, convened by the GSMA, which launched the Mobile Economy 2026 report and set priorities on 5G, AI and digital safety.

NVIDIA invested $2 billion in Lumentum and agreed multiyear terms to support R&D and U.S. fabrication for next-generation AI infrastructure.

NVIDIA invested $2 billion in Coherent and signed a multiyear, nonexclusive agreement for advanced optics supply and capacity.

Digital Realty acquired Telepoint and added two Sofia data centers, including a facility with more than 110 network service providers.

Nokia expanded its partnership with TIM Brasil to modernize 5G across 14 states and prepare networks for AI-based services.

Innatera selected Synopsys simulation tools to design neuromorphic microcontrollers for low-power edge AI.

Nordic Semiconductor unveiled a next-generation cellular IoT portfolio designed to provide secure, resilient connectivity for billions of IoT devices.

Supermicro expanded support for AI-RAN and sovereign AI platforms and showed partner deployments and validated server designs at MWC Barcelona.

Nokia and Deutsche Telekom expanded cooperation to advance cloud-based, disaggregated and AI-native RAN technologies.

Ericsson and Intel announced a collaboration at MWC 2026 to accelerate ecosystem readiness for AI-native 6G deployments.

Huawei launched the Telco Intelligent Converged Cloud to support telco clouds' shift toward AI infrastructure.

Huawei said ICNMaster MDAF was deployed by 14 operators and uses a Mixture of Models architecture and intelligent agents.