ZTE bags three Selular 2026 awards for AI network tech

ZTE Corporation received three major honors at the Selular Award 2026 ceremony held in Jakarta, Indonesia on June 8, 2026. The awards specifically recognized ZTE's AI-powered innovations in network infrastructure: Best AI Technology Fixed Wireless Access, Best AI Network Ecosystem, and Best Native AI Baseband. These categories emphasize ZTE's ability to embed artificial intelligence directly into core telecom components rather than treating AI as an overlay. The awards reflect increasing industry demand for networks that can automatically optimize spectrum usage, manage device density, and reduce latency through AI-native baseband processing.

The Best AI Technology Fixed Wireless Access award highlights ZTE's work on intelligent beamforming and adaptive modulation for fixed-wireless deployments, crucial for expanding broadband in underserved regions. Best AI Network Ecosystem recognizes ZTE's platform-level integration of AI across RAN, core, and transport layers, enabling automated network slicing and closed-loop optimization. Best Native AI Baseband honors ZTE's silicon-level AI coprocessors integrated into baseband units, allowing real-time inference for channel estimation and interference cancellation without additional hardware. These wins position ZTE as a leading vendor for operators seeking to modernize networks with AI-driven efficiency, particularly in Southeast Asia's rapidly digitizing markets.