Many telcos have pulled back from building their own telco clouds for IT purposes, and turned to partnerships with public cloud providers, that trend may be reversed when it comes to the highly distributed, high performance cloud and edge infrastructure needed to support 5G vRANs. Many operators are still wary of putting their RANs in a public cloud, either because they fear performance trade-offs, or they resist being locked into AWS or Google in the same way they are currently locked into their major vendors. Austria’s A1 is one telco that is pursuing development of its own cloud infrastructure and aims to use this to enable new services for enterprise customers, as well as for internal purposes like vRAN. Its…