It is critical to the near term 5G business case that total cost of ownership is reduced in as many ways as possible. This is particularly true in markets where key expected drivers of new 5G revenues will not emerge at scale for some years, particularly the growth of enterprise services that will underpin operational transformation in many sectors – but not necessarily for some years to come. Where additional revenues are not easy to find, but operators are still under competitive or regulatory pressure to build out 5G rapidly, clearly a new cost model is needed. Over the next decade, the move to cloud-native networks, and the transformation of many telco processes, will help to deliver that new model,…