China Mobile and Others Launch World's First Open Source Project for Communication Agent Collaboration

en.Wedoany.com Reported - On June 25, during the 2026 Mobile World Congress Shanghai, China Mobile, in collaboration with GSMA, Huawei, ZTE, and several other enterprises, officially released the world's first open source project for communication agent collaboration, OpenAN, under the Linux Foundation Networking community. This project is designed for network operation scenarios, aiming to achieve a secure, efficient, and controllable multi-agent collaboration model. Li Huidi, Vice President of China Mobile, attended the launch ceremony.

As network automation levels continue to improve, agent technology is regarded by the industry as key to achieving high-level autonomous networks. In actual network operations, multiple agents need to collaborate to complete complex tasks. However, existing open source multi-agent frameworks have shortcomings such as high exposure risks on the internet, low interaction efficiency, and the inability to be fully deployed privately, limiting large-scale engineering applications. To address this, China Mobile, together with its partners, launched OpenAN, which systematically adapts and enhances multi-agent collaboration.

At the protocol level, OpenAN has introduced an enhanced version of the agent interaction protocol, A2A-T, tailored for the communication industry, based on the original A2A protocol. Its three major extensions include: adding high-value scenario fields to clarify operational scenarios at the initial stage of interaction; introducing reliability extensions to support information and result negotiation, avoiding session restarts due to single interaction failures, thereby reducing latency and token waste; and extending security fields to support a blacklist mechanism, enabling authorization control over high-risk operations to prevent misoperations.

At the framework level, OpenAN has completely rewritten the registry module that Google did not open source, enabling local deployment and supporting arbitrary interconnection, query, and collaboration among over 1,000 agents without routing interaction traffic to external cloud platforms, thus reducing the internet exposure surface. Additionally, a standard solution toolkit developed under the leadership of China Mobile has been added, which can be directly invoked once the scenario is identified, improving problem response efficiency.

In this open source effort, China Mobile led the writing of the core code for the registry module and the A2A-T toolkit code. Based on its contributions in code development and industrial collaboration, China Mobile serves as the chair unit of the OpenAN project.

OpenAN provides the global communication industry with the first fully open source solution for agent collaboration tailored to communication scenarios, marking the transition of agent technology from conceptual research to engineering implementation and accumulating a technical foundation for the evolution of autonomous networks toward L4 level. In the future, China Mobile will collaborate with industry partners to improve the operation of the OpenAN open source community, attract more developers and enterprises to join, and drive the transformation of network operation models from human-machine collaboration to data-driven and multi-agent collaboration-driven approaches.

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