ZTE · South Africa

In 2026, ZTE and MTN South Africa validated and expanded AIR RAN EnergyTurbo on a commercial network in Cape Town. EnergyTurbo is an AI-native closed-loop energy intelligence solution that predicts load based on traffic patterns, site energy strategies, and real-time service demand, then dynamically controls base-station energy saving to reduce power consumption while maintaining user experience.

AI energy strategies were trained/calibrated on a real commercial mobile network in South Africa, with site-level closed-loop decisions based on local traffic and site differences, and then expanded from the pilot to the Western Cape region.

Structured fields

Host country

South Africa

Region

Sub-Saharan Africa

AI segment

Cloud & Computing Infrastructure

Entry mode

Joint Venture / Strategic Partnership

Entry year

2026

Deployment status

Landed

Capital direction

China->host (outbound deployment)

Company group

ZTE

Local partner

In the Cape Town pilot, baseline energy-saving functions reduced energy use by 2.8% per site; with EnergyTurbo AI, savings reached 13.5%, an additional improvement of 10.7 percentage points. The solution was expanded to the Western Cape region in Q2 2026. Investment amount has not been disclosed.

Sources & notes

Record note: The ESG impact includes quantified energy-saving data; no project investment amount has been disclosed. ⚠ 2026-09-13 全库回扫处置：判定：落地断言在文本上成立，但全部证据来自当事方自证，维持 SELF_ATTESTED_ONLY。依据：两条 URL 同属 zte.com.cn，真实事实源头仅 1 个；source_url 为 ZTE 官网通稿、无记者署名，具名发言人只有 ZTE 南非 CEO 与 MTN 代理 CTO 两位当事方，不独立；other_sources 的 sustainability.html 为泛用 ESG 栏目页，与本项目零关联；节能 2.8%/13.5%/10.7pp 由 ZTE 自行测量，无第三方计量或审计背书。本次改动：reliability High→Medium；n_sources 2→1 并删除 sustainability.html；deployment_status 维持 Landed（通稿为完成时推广叙述，改标 Announced-concrete 会在相反方向注入新的事实错误），但标注「企业自证、未经佐证」，唯一依据句为「the deployment was expanded across the Western Cape region in Q2 2026」；另修正 ai_segment CLOUD→RAN/电信网络智能化、entry_mode JV→供货/商业合同、撤销 capital_direction、删除无源的「训练/校准」表述。恢复 High 需补到 1 条正文逐字支撑「已在现网运行/已扩展部署」的独立来源：ICASA 在册材料、MTN Group 经外部鉴证的 ESG 披露，或 MyBroadband/ITWeb 署名报道。

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