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China Mobile Zhejiang and Huawei Co-Awarded "Best Innovative Commercial

Case in 5G Automation 2021"

China Mobile Zhejiang and Huawei were co-awarded the "Best slow processing. Therefore, operators should give top priority
Innovative Commercial Case in 5G Automation 2021" for their to building cross-layer fault demarcation for NFV scenarios.
world-first intelligent 5G core network O&M project at the fourth China Mobile Zhejiang and Huawei jointly conducted a series of
360° Network Automation Congress recently held online by pilot projects to verify innovative intelligent O&M technologies in
Layer123. With the rapid construction and large-scale commercial NFV scenarios, and built a troubleshooting center that uses 5GC
use of NFV and 5G all-cloud networks, operator networks are fault management and O&M to quickly and precisely identify,
facing O&M challenges such as complex O&M, high security risks, demarcate and respond to cross-layer faults in live-network NFV
and difficulties in ensuring service quality, particularly for networks scenarios, ensuring optimal user experience. As the world's first
that cover large regions, with a large management scope, and from commercial project with NFV cross-layer fault demarcation, it
multiple vendors. Due to the lack of effective fault demarcation adopts the Huawei iMaster MAE-CN intelligent O&M solution to
methods in NFV scenarios, operators need to coordinate cross- provide panoramic, intelligent, automated O&M experience for
product and cross-vendor O&M experts to manually troubleshoot the cloud core network of China Mobile Zhejiang. It combines
alarms when they are reported on the cloud-based network, which expert experience and intelligent methods to enhance the entire
results in high communication costs, difficult demarcation, and fault handling process, including network fault prevention,
precise fault demarcation, and intelligent fault recovery. These
enhancements help China Mobile Zhejiang transform its passive
O&M into proactive prevention so that faults can be detected
within 5 minutes without manual intervention and demarcated
within only 15 minutes. Intelligent O&M transformation cannot
be achieved overnight and requires joint exploration and efforts
from the entire industry. With its success, the NFV cross-layer
fault demarcation project provides valuable experience and
technology for the industry, which will greatly promote the digital
transformation of global telecom network O&M. The Network
Automation Congress is a professional event focusing on
network automation, virtualization, and intelligence. The Network
Automation Recognition Awards honor the organizations and
projects that have made significant contributions to network
automation and transformation, and encourage healthy and rapid
development of the industry.

China Mobile Planning Shanghai Share Issue After NYSE Delisting

Chinese full-service provider China Mobile has unveiled plans for
a listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchange after it was delisted
from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) – along with its
rival operators China Unicom and China Telecom – in line with
a directive from US authorities. The proposed share issue would
see China Mobile sell up to 964.813 million shares, equivalent to
no more than 4.5% of its total issued shares and worth up to an
estimated CNY38.95 billion (USD6.1 billion) – based on the price
of its Hong Kong-listed shares. In a regulatory filing the operator
it noted that the proceeds from the sale would be used for the
development of its 5G mobile networks, infrastructure for cloud
resources and gigabit broadband and smart home services,
amongst others. As previously reported by TeleGeography’s
CommsUpdate, rival operator China Telecom has also set out
plans for a Shanghai listing in the wake of its that could raise
around USD4.1 billion.

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