Telecoms operators have some natural advantages in addressing the rising demand for edge computing to support applications that must tick demanding boxes in terms of security and privacy, responsiveness or availability. They have readymade locations in which to install edge data centers – repurposed central offices or even cell sites – and an investment in edge infrastructure can support multiple business cases, from supporting a distributed virtualized RAN and core, to improving performance of core services such as video streaming, to enabling new revenue streams from enterprises which want to run applications on a public, rather than on-premise, edge. However, as we have often analyzed in Wireless Watch, most operators will hesitate to deploy the density of edge infrastructure that…