Circles, Huawei Sign Deal to Build AI-Native Telecom Solutions

The agreement combines Huawei’s cloud and network infrastructure with Circles’ digital BSS SaaS platform to help operators accelerate monetization and automate service delivery at scale.

Circles and Huawei signed a strategic collaboration agreement on March 22 to jointly develop AI-native digital telecom solutions for operators worldwide, the companies announced via press release.

The deal pairs Huawei’s network and cloud infrastructure with Circles’ digital business support system (BSS) vertical software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Under the agreement, both companies will assess integration across charging, policy control, cloud infrastructure, and intelligent automation areas where telecom operators have historically relied on legacy systems.

The parties will evaluate deploying Circles’ SaaS platform on Huawei Cloud environments to support the release’s description of sovereign-ready AI workloads. That structure is intended to help operators in regulated markets meet data residency and compliance requirements without sacrificing performance. It’s unclear if financial terms were disclosed; neither company published figures alongside the announcement.

Telecom operators are at an inflection point where AI is no longer optional  it is foundational. Together with Huawei, we’re combining network expertise and our AI-native digital BSS to help operators accelerate monetization and deploy intelligent services at scale.
Sanjay Kaul, Chief Revenue Officer, Circles.

Alex Kang, President of Huawei Cloud Ecosystem, said the company intends to bring Circles’ products to the Huawei Cloud Marketplace as part of the collaboration.

Through joint marketing and market expansion, we aim to create greater value for operators and achieve a true one-plus-one greater-than-two collaboration.
Alex Kang, President of Huawei Cloud Ecosystem.

The move comes as global telecom operators face sustained pressure to shift away from hardware-heavy operating models toward software-defined, AI-driven architectures. Circles, founded in 2014 and backed by Peak XV Partners, Warburg Pincus, and Founders Fund, currently partners with operators across 14 countries, including KDDI Corporation, Etisalat Group (e&), AT&T, and Telkomsel. 

Both parties signed the agreement at Mobile World Congress 2026 (MWC26). The companies said they may also pursue joint go-to-market initiatives targeting operators seeking to replace legacy systems with fully digital, software-driven operating models, though no timeline for those initiatives was specified in the release.

Disclaimer: This news is based on information available from publicly accessible sources, including official press release issued by Circles and Huawei.

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