Telecommunications
Telecom software for support AI, self-service and network analytics
We build customer support AI, self-service portals, network-data analytics and field operations tools for operators, ISPs and fibre providers, connected to the BSS, OSS and CRM platforms you already run.
Overview
Technology for telecoms operators
Telecom operators handle large volumes of repetitive contact: bill explanations, plan changes, outage questions, installation appointments and SIM requests. Most answers already exist in billing, provisioning and network systems, yet customers wait in queues because those systems are not connected to the channels customers actually use.
Softweb Planet builds the layer between your core platforms and the people who depend on them: AI assistants that answer and act through your BSS and CRM, self-service portals and apps, analytics pipelines that turn alarms and usage data into decisions, and mobile tools that give field engineers the job details and updates they need on site.
The approach suits mobile operators, broadband and fibre providers, ISPs and business connectivity firms in the UK, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and other markets, with support channels in English, Urdu and Arabic. Our in-house DevOps and SRE engineers design these services to stay available when demand peaks, which in telecoms usually means in the middle of an outage.
Challenges
What telecoms operators are up against
Queues full of bill and data-balance questions
Billing queries, data balances and outage checks fill the queue, and agents spend much of each call looking up the same information across several systems.
Self-service that stops halfway
Customers can view a bill online but cannot change a plan, replace a SIM or book an engineer, so they call anyway and the portal adds a step rather than removing one.
Network data that never reaches decisions
Alarms, performance counters, probe data and trouble tickets live in separate tools, so engineers see individual symptoms rather than recurring patterns.
Outage communication under pressure
When a fault hits, contact volumes spike, agents lack a reliable status view and affected customers hear nothing until they call to ask.
Engineer visits that need a second trip
Engineers arrive without the full job history, the right equipment or a confirmed appointment, and every repeat visit costs money and goodwill.
Billing and provisioning systems that cannot take more load
Core BSS and OSS platforms often expose limited APIs, follow vendor-controlled release cycles and cannot absorb heavy traffic from new digital channels.
What we build
Technology solutions for this sector
Support assistants connected to billing and network status
Web, app and WhatsApp assistants that verify the customer, explain charges, show remaining data, check for outages at their address and log faults with diagnostics, handing over to an agent with full context.
Agent assist with account and line context
During calls and chats, agents see the customer's plan, recent faults, latest line test and any outage at their address in one panel, with suggested answers from the knowledge base and draft after-call notes written to the CRM.
Plan, SIM and installation self-service
Portals and apps for plan changes, add-ons, bill payment, installation booking, order tracking and SIM replacement with step-up identity checks, built on Next.js and Flutter and wired to provisioning through controlled APIs.
Network and customer-experience analytics
Pipelines that bring alarms, performance counters, tickets and usage records into one warehouse, with anomaly detection, site and region dashboards and churn risk scores linked to network experience.
Field engineer job apps
Offline-first mobile apps with job lists, site history, checklists, optical power readings, photo evidence, parts used and customer sign-off, plus a dispatch console that shows job status as devices sync.
Protective API layer over BSS and OSS
APIs and Kafka event streams that expose narrow, permission-checked actions to new channels, with adapters for older interfaces and caching that shields core systems from traffic spikes.
Automated outage notifications
Incidents opened in network monitoring trigger status page updates, proactive SMS or WhatsApp messages to affected customers and an outage mode in the support assistant.
Telecom support and analytics work involves account details, call recordings, location and usage records. We design with UK GDPR in mind and to the data protection rules of each market you operate in: identity checks before account actions, redaction of personal data in transcripts, retention periods you define and hosting in the region you require. Obligations that come from your operating licence are confirmed by your legal and regulatory teams, and we work within the requirements they set.
Typical projects
Where we usually start
- 01A WhatsApp and web assistant for a broadband provider that checks line status, explains the latest bill and books an engineer when a fault is confirmed.
- 02A self-service portal where mobile customers change plans, buy add-ons and request a replacement SIM after additional identity checks.
- 03A network analytics dashboard that correlates alarms, performance counters and support tickets by site to show where faults cluster and recur.
- 04A field engineer app for fibre installations with job details, photo evidence, checklists and offline sync for sites without coverage.
- 05Automated outage notices that message affected customers and update the support assistant as soon as an incident is opened.
Services and solutions
How we help telecoms operators
Telecommunications FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Yes, provided it can reach the right systems. Once connected to billing, CRM and network status, an assistant can verify the customer, explain charges on the latest bill, show remaining data, check for known outages at their address and log a fault with diagnostics attached. Anything outside agreed rules, such as a disputed charge above a set amount or a customer who needs extra support, passes to an agent with the full conversation and account context.
Through a protective API layer that the assistant calls instead of touching core platforms itself. That layer uses the APIs your BSS, OSS and CRM already expose, adds adapters for older interfaces, and caches frequently requested data so a busy support channel does not overload billing or provisioning. The assistant only sees narrow, permission-checked actions, such as reading a balance or booking an engineer, and each one is logged for audit.
Yes, if your OSS and device management platforms expose those actions through an API. The assistant can trigger a line or service test, read the result, check the customer's router through your remote management platform, for example one based on TR-069, and guide the customer through a restart or settings check. Only when those steps fail, or the test points to a network fault, does it offer an engineer appointment, with the diagnostics attached to the job so the visit starts with evidence.
We treat them as high-risk actions with extra checks. A SIM replacement or port-out request requires step-up verification, such as a one-time code to an existing contact method plus knowledge or document checks, and is screened for risk signals like a recent password reset or an unfamiliar device. Suspicious requests pause for an agent to review. Customers are notified on every channel on file, giving them a chance to stop a request they did not make.
Monitoring tools tell engineers what is failing now; analytics shows patterns over time and their effect on customers. By combining alarms, performance counters, trouble tickets and usage data in one warehouse, we can show which sites fail repeatedly, which faults generate the most support contacts, where capacity is running short and how network experience relates to complaints in each area. Anomaly detection models can then flag unusual behaviour before it becomes a wider outage.
Yes, churn models are a common use of the same data. They combine signals such as repeated faults, dropped calls, slow speeds, billing disputes, contract end dates and recent support contacts to score each customer's risk of leaving. The useful part is the reason behind each score, so retention teams can act on the cause, for example fixing a recurring fault rather than only offering a discount. Models are validated on historical churn before anyone acts on them.
We build them offline-first. Job details, site records, checklists and reference documents download to the device before the engineer travels, and everything captured on site, including photos, optical power readings, equipment serial numbers, parts used and customer sign-off, is stored locally and synchronised when a connection returns. Conflicts are resolved by agreed rules, and dispatchers can see when each job last synced, so they know how current the information in front of them is.
Yes, when it is designed for incident-scale demand, which is when it matters most. The assistant and portal run on autoscaling cloud infrastructure, read outage status from a cache instead of querying core systems for every customer, and switch to an outage mode that answers the most common question first with the latest update. Load tests simulate incident traffic before launch, and our SRE engineers set alerts on latency and error rates.
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