Wireless Watch’s sister service, RAN Research, has published its latest market forecast, charting the uptake of telco cloud and edge computing, and the arrival of GPUaaS too. GPUaaS is a sliver of a larger total, but the ten-year outlook, should Nvidia convince RAN engineers of the viability of the GPU platform, is much rosier. To put this in context, MNOs have faced a decade of stagnant ARPU, rising costs, and the self-inflicted commoditization of their mobile communications business model. Consequently, any promise of new revenue growth grabs their attention. So, is this new wave of AI-based computing hype a salve for those underlying problems? The short answer is no. The longer answer is more complicated. In this forecast, RAN Research…