PRESS RELEASE: China Unicom Beijing and Huawei have commercialized MetaAAU at over 1,000 sites, forming the world’s largest commercial MetaAAU network. This unlocks users’ demand for 5G traffic in rural areas, bringing a 38% increase in the total traffic of a single site. Compared with previous-generation AAUs, MetaAAUs reduce site energy consumption by 5% under the same network load, bolstering network energy efficiency. Their deployment represents an important step towards the green and digital village goals of the 5G Capital project. MetaAAU is the third-generation AAU developed by Huawei. It adopts a new architecture — extreme-large antenna array (ELAA) —…