Two lattice telecom towers against a deep blue sky with wisps of cloud and a vapour trail.

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Telecom & media20259–12 months

One data platform for network, marketing and care

Client: A mobile network operator

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  • Technology & Intelligence
  • AI Design
  • Marketing Technology

At a glance

The brief. Give network, marketing and care the same figures for the same customers.

Client
A mobile network operator
Year
2025
Duration
9–12 months
Scale
Network, marketing and care

What each discipline did

  1. 02Technology & Intelligence

    Shared data platform and metric definitions

  2. 04AI Design

    Care assistant with hand-off to a person

  3. 06Marketing Technology

    Registered messaging and a preference centre

From brief to result

How the data platform was built, from agreed metric definitions.

The brief in full, our approach, what we built and what it set out to change.

The brief, in full

Network, marketing and care each counted the same customers differently. Care could not see a local outage, and marketing could offer upgrades where there was no coverage. Every report began with an argument over whose number was right.

The brief: give network, marketing and care the same figures for the same customers.

Our approach

We started with definitions, not dashboards: a metric catalogue all three teams agreed, each metric with an owner and a documented source. Every dashboard reads from the shared data platform built on those definitions.

The platform also feeds a care assistant that sees live network status and hands over to a person. Offers go out as registered, consented messages, checked against coverage first.

How it ran

  1. Weeks 1–6Definitions

    The metric catalogue, agreed by network, marketing and care.

  2. Months 2–6Platform

    The shared data platform and the dashboards that read from it.

  3. Months 5–9Assistant

    The care assistant, its evaluation set and the hand-off to a person.

  4. Months 7–12Messaging

    Registered messaging and the preference centre, checked against coverage.

What we built

One data platform and metric catalogue for network, marketing and care, feeding a care assistant and registered, consented messaging.

What we delivered

  1. Data platform and metric catalogue
  2. Care assistant and evaluation set
  3. Preference centre
  4. Operational dashboards

What changed

The platform is built so all three teams, the care assistant and every offer draw on the same figures.

This programme is confidential: its figures are shared only under NDA.

How it is measured

Picture story

From mast to help desk, three teams working from the same data.

These pictures are illustrative: licensed stock photography and code-built mock-ups that show the setting, not the client’s own work. Credits are at the foot of the page.

A telecom mast lit with red warning lights against a dark night sky.
Fig. 01Live network status.Joshua Slate on Unsplash (opens in a new tab)
A bundle of optical fibres glowing blue and white against a dark background.
Fig. 02One data platform for every team.Denny Müller on Unsplash (opens in a new tab)
A technician on a lift platform works on the antennas of a cellular mast under a pale sky.
Fig. 03Field engineering and care read the same outage.iStrfry, Marcus on Unsplash (opens in a new tab)
A smiling customer-care agent in a headset at her desk, colleagues working behind her.
Fig. 04Care sees network status before the customer has to explain it.BaljkanN4 on Unsplash (opens in a new tab)
Server racks in a dark room, their cables in yellow and green bundles.
Fig. 05Metric definitions with owners and sources.Taylor Vick on Unsplash (opens in a new tab)
Yellow fibre-optic patch cables plugged into the green ports of a network switch.
Fig. 06Network events linked to each customer.Kirill Sh on Unsplash (opens in a new tab)

More pictures 1

  • A red and white telecom mast rising out of a white cloud into a clear blue sky.

Under NDA

Shown in a walk‑through, not on this page.

This programme is confidential, so the client’s artefacts stay off the website. Once an NDA is signed, we walk you through each one with the figures.

Withheld here

  • 2 screens from the product
  • Every result figure
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Illustration: a stack of sealed folders, one for each kind of artefact withheld, each marked “Under NDA”.

Outcomes

Judged on shared figures, available only under NDA.

This programme is confidential. Its figures and the client’s own screens, before-and-after views and brand kit stay off this page and are shared under NDA.

The measurement plan

  1. Self-service resolution rate

    Compared with
    The quarter before the assistant launched
    Read
    Monthly
    Result
    Under NDA Reported by The client’s care operations team
  2. Contacts per thousand subscribers

    Compared with
    The same months the year before
    Read
    Monthly, by region
    Result
    Under NDA Reported by Care and network analytics
  3. Offer accuracy across channels

    Compared with
    Offers sent before the coverage checks
    Read
    Each campaign
    Result
    Under NDA Reported by Marketing operations

Results

  • Withheld: shared under NDASelf-service resolution rate
  • Withheld: shared under NDAContacts per thousand subscribers
  • Withheld: shared under NDAOffer accuracy across channels

Withheld: shared under NDA

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Credits

The team and the pictures.

People are named only with their agreement.

Team 9 people

  • Programme lead × 1
  • Data architects × 2
  • Data engineers × 3
  • AI engineer × 1
  • Analysts × 2

Credits

Strategy, design and engineering
Xterra Edze
Screens and before-and-after views
Xterra Edze (code-built illustrations)
Photography
Licensed stock from Unsplash, credited picture by picture

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