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TELECOMS AND ISPS · OPERATIONS DOSSIER

Customer operations for telecoms and ISPs

Where is my payment? Why is my connection slow? When will service be back? Four questions, asked thousands of times a day.

Concierge answers them, opens the ticket, hands real faults to an engineer with the details already gathered — and calls subscribers back when service returns.

For subscriber operations spanning care, billing, technical support and retention

  • 01ANSWERED FIRST TIME
  • 02TICKET OPENED
  • 03CALLED BACK
ILLUSTRATIVE SERVICE ISSUE
  1. Stage REPORTRECEIVED

    Lost service reported

    The subscriber says what stopped working.

    SERVICE
    Home internet
    ISSUE
    No connection
  2. Stage CHECKREADY

    Context checked

    Checks the account and any known outage.

    AREA
    Known event
    ACCOUNT
    Check completed
  3. Stage TICKETROUTED

    Ticket or handoff

    Opens the ticket and routes it.

    TICKET
    NET-6042
    QUEUE
    Technical care
  4. Stage FOLLOW-UPLOGGED

    Follow-up recorded

    Calls back when the area is restored.

    REFERENCE
    NET-6042
    STATUS
    Service restored
The operational problem

A trained engineer spends the day answering questions that don’t need an engineer.

An outage hits one area and five thousand people ring to ask the same question. Each gets a different agent, repeats the same symptoms, and gets a slightly different answer. Behind them in the queue sits the subscriber with a genuine fault, waiting. Meanwhile the renewals nobody called about lapse, and the customers quietly deciding to leave are never contacted at all.

01 · VOLUME

One outage, five thousand identical calls

Everyone wants the same two things: when will it be fixed, and is my line on the list. Without a shared view of the event, each agent rebuilds the answer by hand and the same subscriber calls three times.

02 · CONTEXT

Billing and technical each see half the story

A suspended line looks exactly like a broken one until someone checks the account. When the two queues keep separate notes, the subscriber runs the same tests twice and both teams investigate the same thing.

03 · OUTREACH

The outbound calls never get made

Restoration confirmations, payment reminders, renewals, win-backs — all of it needs someone free to dial. Inbound takes the whole day, so those calls happen late or not at all. The subscriber quietly deciding to leave is never contacted, and the renewal lapses without anyone noticing until the revenue has already gone.

The operating model

From conversation to coordinated work.

INBOUND OPERATION

Handle the repetitive layer, protect the engineers

Concierge picks up every call the same way: which service, which account, what stopped working. If the area has a known outage it says so, using your current update rather than inventing a diagnosis. If the fault is real it opens the ticket and sends it to technical care with the checks already done. Anything sensitive, or a subscriber it cannot verify, goes to an agent. Callers leave with a reference and a next step. Trained agents stop spending their day on questions that never needed them, and the subscriber with a genuine fault is no longer queued behind five thousand people asking the same thing.

  • Payment, connectivity and outage questions
  • Plan and account enquiries
  • Real faults, routed to an engineer
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLECONTEXT READY

ILLUSTRATIVE ARTIFACT

Subscriber issue record

SERVICE
Home internet
AREA
Known event
REFERENCE
NET-6042

CONNECTED WORK

One ticket, one timeline, no duplicates

You decide during discovery which records Concierge may read, which ticket fields it may write, and which queue each issue goes to. It checks status, raises the ticket, attaches the account and area context and reads back the reference. Repeat reports of the same incident group onto the existing ticket instead of creating five new ones. If a system is down it does not fail silently — the request goes to care with the failure showing. Diagnosis stays with your engineers. Grouping repeat reports also means the ticket count reflects the number of faults rather than the number of people who rang about them.

  • Checks service status in your systems
  • Raises the ticket and returns the reference
  • Groups repeat reports instead of duplicating
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLEQUEUE OWNED

CONNECTED VIEW

Technical ticket timeline

TICKET
NET-6042
OWNER
Technical care
STATE
Under review

OUTBOUND OPERATION

Call them back before they call you

When an area comes back, Concierge rings the subscribers who reported it. It also runs payment reminders, renewals, upgrade offers, post-fix check-ins and win-back calls. Every call states who is calling and why, and sticks to your wording. If someone says their service is still down, the ticket reopens and goes back to technical care rather than being marked resolved. Interest in an upgrade goes to your commercial team; pricing decisions are theirs. Renewals get confirmed before they lapse, and the subscribers quietly deciding to leave are reached while they can still be kept.

  • Payment and renewal reminders
  • Restoration calls after an outage
  • Upgrade, feedback and win-back calls
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLERESPONSE LOGGED

FOLLOW-UP VIEW

Restoration outreach list

EVENT
Area restoration
RESPONSE
Service confirmed
FALLBACK
Technical queue
Scenarios

Two directions. One operational record.

INBOUND · A subscriber reports lost service.

My internet is down.

Anything that needs real diagnosis goes to an engineer.

  1. 01 · UNDERSTAND

    Identify service

    Home internet, no connection at all.

  2. 02 · VERIFY OR COLLECT

    Check context

    Checks the account, and finds a known event in the area.

  3. 03 · ACT OR ROUTE

    Create or route

    Raises NET-6042 against technical care.

  4. 04 · RECORD OR FOLLOW UP

    Return reference

    Gives the subscriber the reference and the expected update.

ILLUSTRATIVE OPERATIONAL OUTPUT

Subscriber issue record

SERVICE
Home internet
TICKET
NET-6042
QUEUE
Technical care

OUTBOUND · The area is back up. Concierge calls everyone who reported it.

Service in your area has been restored.

A fault that survived the fix goes straight back to the queue.

  1. 01 · UNDERSTAND

    Match event

    Matches the restoration to the subscribers who reported it.

  2. 02 · VERIFY OR COLLECT

    Confirm recipient

    Confirms it is the right person before saying anything.

  3. 03 · ACT OR ROUTE

    Share update

    Shares your update, in your wording.

  4. 04 · RECORD OR FOLLOW UP

    Capture response

    Still down? The ticket reopens instead of closing.

ILLUSTRATIVE OPERATIONAL OUTPUT

Restoration outreach list

EVENT
Area restoration
RESPONSE
Still offline
ROUTE
Technical care
Operating boundary

Concierge takes the repetitive layer. Engineers keep the judgement.

REPEATABLE WORK

What Concierge does

Inside the permissions you set.

  • Answers payment, plan and connectivity questions
  • Checks account and outage status
  • Raises and updates tickets
  • Runs restoration, renewal and retention calls

WHAT TRANSFERS WITH THE CALL

The account, the checks already run, the ticket, and why it needs them.

HUMAN JUDGEMENT

What your engineers own

Diagnosis, exceptions and anything commercial.

  • Faults that need real diagnosis
  • Subscribers who cannot be verified
  • Sensitive account and service exceptions
  • Pricing and commercial decisions
The operating environment

What we agree before go-live

One subscriber segment, mapped properly: what it may say, what it may touch, and who owns it when it stops.

01

What it may say

Which calls it takes, which answers it gives, and what stays off-limits.

  • Calls in scope
  • Outage wording
  • Off-limits data
02

What it may touch

Which records it reads, which ticket fields it writes, and what happens on failure.

  • Subscriber records
  • Writable fields
  • Failure path
03

Who owns it next

Named owners across care, technical and commercial, and the route to each.

  • Queue owners
  • Escalation routes
  • Next action

AGENT ASSIST

Your engineer is not starting cold

The account, the checks already run and a written-up note, ready before they speak.

Who is calling
Account, location and what they reported
Which rules apply
The outage guidance for this area
Written up
Handoff summary, ready to file
The benefit

What changes in a telecoms operation.

  • Maximize resources

    Trained agents move onto complex escalations — no need to scale headcount in step with your subscriber base.

  • Save time

    Customers get answers on payments, connectivity and outages the moment they call, not after a hold queue.

  • Improve revenue

    Faster first-contact resolution and proactive outreach reduce the repeat calls and quiet attrition that follow poor service.

  • Position your brand

    An always-on, responsive support experience builds trust in a market where customers switch providers over service quality.

Take the repetitive layer off your contact centre — see a concierge handle real call volume, live.

Expected business impact

What the category is delivering elsewhere.

What this category of technology is delivering today, independently reported, for organizations running the same kind of call volume you do.

Industry benchmarks · not Concierge results

65%
Of voice calls contained end-to-end by AI in a published enterprise deployment — calls that would previously have gone to human agents.
5–6 min → 0
Call wait times eliminated entirely in the same deployment, from a 5–6 minute average to immediate answer.
391%
Three-year ROI, with payback in under six months, found by an independent Total Economic Impact study of enterprise voice-AI deployments (2025).
30–45%
Typical customer-service cost reduction from generative-AI deployments, per McKinsey analysis.

Inbound: fewer repeat calls, faster resolutions that chip away at the churn that compounds year after year, and a support cost curve decoupled from subscriber growth. Outbound: renewals confirmed before they lapse, upgrades offered across the whole base rather than the fraction a team can reach, and at-risk subscribers contacted while they can still be kept.

Sources: Forrester Total Economic Impact study commissioned by PolyAI (2025); published Retell AI and PolyAI enterprise deployment case studies; McKinsey analysis of generative-AI customer-service deployments.

These are third-party benchmarks from comparable voice-AI platforms deployed abroad, presented as directional indicators rather than guaranteed outcomes. The most reliable way to establish your own numbers is a pilot on your real call volume.

START WITH ONE SERVICE EVENT

Run it on one outage, end to end

Pick a segment and an outage source. We wire the ticket path and the escalation route, then run it on live calls.

RECOMMENDED FIRST WORKFLOW
One outage and ticket-status flow, for one subscriber segment
BOUNDARY FOR THE PILOT
Engineers keep diagnosis, exceptions and commercial decisions. Every connected action is tested first.
Start a pilot