A telecommunications network which is accessible to a user equipment (10) via an access node (110) provided with an application service platform (150). The application service platform (150) may be used for locally supporting one or more application services which are accessible to the user equipment (10) via the access node (110). Further, a local gateway node (120) is co-located with the access node (110). The local gateway node (120) carries user plane data of the user equipment (10) between the access node (110) and the application service platform (150). Control plane communication between the local gateway node (120) and at least one central node (212, 214, 216, 218) of the telecommunications network is performed via a central gateway node (210) connected between the local gateway node (120) and the central node (212, 214, 216, 218) of the telecommunications network.