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China Mobile Seals MVNO Deal with Maxis in

Malaysia

China Mobile International (CMI) reached
a deal to use Maxis’ network in Malaysia
to launch an MVNO, expanding its global
footprint following launches in Singapore,
Japan, Thailand, Italy and the UK. CMI’s
MVNO offering, called CMLink, will be
hosted on Maxis’ nationwide mobile and
fiber networks. It will target the Chinese
community living in the country. Key
features include one card, multiple numbers
and China-Malaysia data sharing services.
The companies forged the partnership
at the China Mobile SEA Cooperation
Conference in Kuala Lumpur. A year ago,
Maxis signed an agreement with CMI
with the aim to accelerate 5G initiatives.
Maxis is the second-largest mobile player showed. CelcomDigi is the market leader its reach, CMI moved into the UK market in
in Malaysia, with 11.5 million connections with 20.3 million connections. In one of a 2017 when it agreed to use EE’s network for
at end-June, data from GSMA Intelligence number of similar agreements expanding the service.

China Mobile and Huawei Jointly Win the 2025 Leading Lights Award of
Outstanding Use Case: Telco Cloud

At the 21st Leading Lights Awards, China migration of traditional services to the projects that have delivered outstanding
Mobile Network Business Unit, China cloud-native platform. By advancing green achievements in communications
Mobile Henan Network Management and sustainable telecom practices, the technologies, applications, services,
Center, and Huawei were honored with the project sets a new global benchmark for strategies, and innovation on a global scale.
Outstanding Use Case: Telco Cloud award Telco Cloud transformation. The Leading Telco Cloud has become the cornerstone
for their groundbreaking project “TICC Lights Awards, hosted by Light Reading— of 5G and the digital world. With the rapid
Cloud-Native Platform Empowering China one of the world's foremost telecom media advancement of 5G-A and AI technologies,
Mobile's Next-Gen Telco Operations.” This titles—are widely regarded as among the Telco Cloud is steadily evolving toward
pioneering initiative, built on the industry's most credible and authoritative honors containerization and intelligence. As
first converged dual-engine architecture in the industry. Established in 2004, early pioneers and key contributors to
and enhanced with AI, allows seamless the awards recognize companies and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV),
China Mobile and Huawei spearheaded
the introduction of the industry's first
OpenStack-Kubernetes dual-engine
converged architecture. By integrating
foundation models and intelligent agents,
they jointly developed the industry-leading
Telco Intelligent Converged Cloud (TICC)
platform. This platform delivers carrier-
grade stability, automated O&M, energy
efficiency, and AI-driven capabilities. As
a result, service rollout time has been
reduced by 50%, while network upgrade
efficiency has improved more than sixfold.
China Mobile Henan Branch and Huawei
have collaborated to jointly develop the
“Green Core” system-level intelligent Telco
Cloud energy-saving solution, built on the

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