Walmart plans to build its own edge computing centers. Furthermore, Walmart expects to make that capability available to third parties. Also, Walmart expects to make its warehouse and shipping capabilities available to third-party sellers, using a model perhaps similar to the way Amazon supports third-party retailers.
Walmart further says it will use its large supercenter store locations to fulfill online orders for Walmart’s groceries and other items.
The point is that the market opportunity for multi-access edge computing now is being challenged by retailers, Amazon and eventually others who plan to deliver edge computing as a service themselves, perhaps foreclosing much of the potential role for connectivity service providers to become suppliers of edge computing as a service.
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