The USA’s cell tower operators are increasingly excited about the opportunity to drive and capitalize on high interest in edge computing. They see the chance to extend their colocation and neutral host models into cloud infrastructure, with the data centers and cell sites that they manage for MNOs also able to house edge servers – which could support telcos’ push into edge computing, or even other customers such as webscalers or enterprise service providers. However, they are moving at different speeds, and sometimes backtracking on initial pledges. Crown Castle has been the most active in this area, forming partnerships with edge infrastructure providers such as Vapor.io and Packet. But late last year, its CEO, Jay Brown seemed to go back…