MWC 2025 Live Updates: Breaking News from March 11 2025
Live updates from MWC 2025 (March 11, 2025) #MWC25. Stay tuned for breaking news, key announcements, top stories and highlights from MWC Barcelona 2025. This page features vendors' plans and experiences at the event, as part of The Fast Mode's 'We Came, We Saw, We Conquered' segment. Last updated: 2025-03-11 02:15:00 UTC
Nokia's Groundbreaking Announcements
From our opening press conference on Sunday to the final day, the week flew by amid a flurry of groundbreaking demos and industry-leading announcements. We celebrated the closing of the acquisition of Infinera and the creation of an optical networks powerhouse that can meet the network and power demands of the AI era alongside the development of AI-driven RAN. We also showcased our remotely driven car using Network as Code and MX Context worker safety, highlighting the real-world impact of Nokia's highly automated and programmable networks for customers worldwide. Throughout it all, we honored the century-long legacy of innovation from our award-winning Nokia Bell Labs.
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CSG's Industry Dominance
With an opening keynote, 6 onstage sessions and over a dozen stand presentations, CSG solidified its industry dominance at MWC25. CSG’s executives took to the stage to share insights on crucial topics like cloud-driven enterprise strategies, techco transformation, xVNE opportunities in the NetCo/ServCo era and AI in telco customer experiences. One thing we heard time and time again: CSPs need ways to make monetization easier. This is really about connecting experiences to value, creating a clear path from post-acquisition customer experience to sustainable revenue growth. Every show trend, from agentic AI to techco transformation, laddered up to this same goal.
Ciena's Network Evolution
MWC solidified its position as THE go-to event for the telecommunications networking ecosystem, fostering valuable engagements with industry leaders and strengthening relations with customers, partners and other key stakeholders. Ciena reaffirmed its network evolution leadership, showcasing the industry-leading WaveLogic 6 and advanced network automation through Blue Planet and Navigator Network Control Suite, demonstrating the potential of AI-powered networks.
AI-Enabled Opportunities and Innovations
The mood at MWC 2025 was upbeat. Telcos are looking to gain from their fiber and 5G investments and see AI-enabled opportunities in B2B, B2C and autonomous networks. There was talk of a return to premium pricing and how sovereign AI is making telcos’ local business models relevant once again.
VIAVI's Network Testing Solutions
At MWC 2025, VIAVI reinforced its leadership in network testing and optimization, showcasing solutions for 6G, AI-driven digital twins, NTN, resilient PNT and AIOps. In collaboration with 20+ partners, it also highlighted innovation through Open RAN testing, streaming live demos from its VALOR™ Lab, funded by NTIA’s PWSCIF.
Hexnode's Endpoint Management
With another MWC come and gone, Hexnode’s booth was once again filled with great conversations, hands-on demos, and endless cups of coffee. Visitors from every corner of the world stopped by—all eager to see how Hexnode’s endpoint management solutions tackle diverse devices in today’s remote-first world. Barcelona, you’ve been fantastic!
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Infobip's Innovation
Infobip made waves at MWC25 with a prominent booth, participating in seven panels and connecting with customers, partners, analysts, journalists, and influencers. Our impactful presence underscored our dedication to client success. Infobip fostered innovation during MWC25 by addressing topics such as Network APIs, RCS, Conversational AI, and more.
Kansys' Industry Solutions
What an exciting MWC 2025 for Kansys! Our team engaged in dozens of insightful meetings with clients, prospects, and analysts, exchanging perspectives on the key challenges and trends shaping the telecommunications industry. From BSS modernization to enabling flexible, future-ready billing models, we presented how our solution empowers CSPs to deliver more value to their customers.
NTT DATA's Innovations
The NTT DATA booth was packed with individuals flooding in to attend booth talks, grab a demo or just a cup of coffee! NTT DATA chatted with a number of customers, partners, media and analysts on Private 5G network innovations, edge AI in industrial settings and what is next to come.
Mobileum's AI-Powered Solutions
MWC Barcelona 2025 was a success! From celebrating 25 years of innovation to showcasing AI-powered telecom solutions, Mobileum’s booth was buzzing with energy. Thank you for joining us — see you next year!
BubbleRAN's Network Discussions
A brilliant week at MWC 2025 for BubbleRAN! Amazing live demos, meetings and discussions around network intelligence and automation. Inspiring to see so much collaboration, together we are building the future of connectivity!
Key Takeaways from MWC Barcelona 2025
Our top takeaways from MWC Barcelona 2025 are: - Quiet confidence from the telecom industry that 5G is turning a corner and revenue is starting to grow as 5G SA deployments expand and 5G-Advanced capabilities start to come online. - The application and monetization of AI began to feel real with telecommunications a leading proponent. Lots of real examples of how AI is being used in the network to provide greater efficiencies and agility, and lots of use cases how network as a service for AI is being offered to enterprises, especially SMEs. - The NTN (space sector) was at MWC Barcelona in force as a partner and collaborator. Lots of excitement on what NTN could offer in-terms of coverage, with acknowledgment for the need for strong collaboration to solve the challenges around capacity, cost, energy, integration/interoperability. - MWC 25 clearly highlighted the broader intersection between wireless, wireline (fibre) and Data Centres. Lots of examples on the reality of converged network and compute landscape. - AR glasses could be the next form factor disruptor like the iPhone and could even challenge the traditional eyewear market. Numerous lightweight prototypes on show that tether to your smartphone. They have an ease of adoption appeal, and a mass market already conditioned. - Quantum. While AI was the main theme, quantum was quietly on show highlighting what a rapidly approaching Quantum+AI compute and networked world could look like. Not enough emphasis was maybe given to today's need for Post Quantum security.
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Subex's Revenue Opportunities Through AI
MWC 2025 was filled with non-stop discussions and live demos focusing on unlocking new revenue opportunities through AI for operators. At Subex, we showcased the power of our GenAI-powered solutions, demonstrating how our fraud investigat
