It is a becoming a common call for MNOs – to prepare now for 5G riches in around five years’ time. The latest call has come from the less familiar source of IBM, the godfather of big iron computing that has reinvented itself several times to survive as a major force in enterprise IT today. This has taken the company recently into the expanding field of mobile edge computing and it is from that vantage point that IBM has conducted a survey of telco CEOs, seeking to identify how operators can grow and expand in the 5G era through new services and added value, rather than being confined to provision of connectivity networks. The findings overlap, to some extent, with…