Frost & Sullivan's annual survey of IT and business decision-makers, now in its 16th year, aims to understand their perceptions, decisions, and purchasing behaviors. In 2024, Frost & Sullivan introduced a new set of questions focused on multi-access edge computing (MEC) to the yearly survey, and in 2025, it was possible to contrast results for 2024 and 2025. The survey aims to understand respondents’ evolving organizational priorities and the extent to which technologies help them achieve their business objectives.

The findings provide an analysis of mobile private network and MEC adoption, including the status of implementation, current and future infrastructure, challenges and needs, investment priorities, use cases, latency requirements, benefits by region, industry, and company size, as well as the choice of IT vendors and cloud providers for MEC hardware procurements.

• How are your teams aligning investment priorities for MEC hardware procurements to achieve sustained long-term growth?
• What growth opportunities arise from the shift toward hybrid, multi-cloud, and distributed environments supporting AI deployments?
• What role does MEC play in enabling Edge AI across manufacturing, mining, oil and gas, and ports and logistics industries?