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Utilities & telecoms · Small ISPs & fibre operators

Provisioning. Outage. Renewal. On rails.

UK small ISPs and altnet operators — provisioning workflow, network ops, customer portal, Ofcom compliance.

Altnet · 1k-100k subscribers
UK · Ofcom-regulated
Outage support calls, typical
Customer NPS lift, year one
ISPs Altnet · 1k-100k subscribersFibre · ULL UK · Ofcom-regulated−60% Outage support calls, typical+29 NPS Customer NPS lift, year one
The small isps & fibre operators stack

Six instruments, calibrated.

UK small ISPs and altnet operators — provisioning workflow, network ops, customer portal, Ofcom compliance. Provisioning, outage, renewal — on rails.

01 · Provisioning workflow

Sign-up to live circuit, hours not days.

Carrier APIs wired to a sign-up flow that routes orders, raises tickets, and lights the circuit. The customer onboards while the engineer sleeps.

  • Carrier API integration (Openreach, CityFibre)
  • Order routing & validation
  • Service activation tracking
  • Customer welcome automation
02 · Network ops + outage comms

Customers see the incident before they call.

Statuspage + Twilio wired to network monitoring. Affected subscribers get the SMS, see the public incident, and stop dialling support. Mean time to clarity, minutes.

  • Statuspage public incident feed
  • Twilio SMS to affected subscribers
  • Carrier-circuit monitoring hook
  • Post-incident report automation
03 · Customer portal + self-serve

Self-serve usage, billing, tickets.

Custom subscriber portal — usage, invoices, payment, tickets, plan upgrades — without a phone call. The cheapest support is the call that never happened.

  • Live usage dashboard
  • Invoice & payment self-serve
  • Ticket open & track
  • Plan upgrade / downgrade
04 · Ofcom EOL/migration handling

End-of-life and switching, by the deadline.

EOL programmes, migration windows, switching obligations under GC C7 — workflow-managed, deadline-tracked, audit-trailed for the inspection that follows.

  • EOL programme tracking
  • Subscriber migration workflow
  • GC C7 switching compliance
  • Ofcom audit trail
05 · Billing

Aurora, Inform Billing, custom — owner-readable.

Usage data, tariff logic, dunning, refunds — reconciled monthly. Aurora, Inform Billing, or a custom build around the tariffs you actually sell.

  • Aurora / Inform Billing wiring
  • Usage capture & rating
  • Dunning & failed-payment recovery
  • Per-subscriber P&L visibility
06 · BrainBase

Carrier procedures, Ofcom framework, training.

The institutional memory of a regulated ISP — carrier escalation paths, Ofcom correspondence, engineer runbooks — searchable, version-tracked, owned.

  • Carrier procedure library
  • Ofcom regulatory index
  • Engineer runbook archive
  • AI-assisted retrieval
Sample engagement

The four-thousand-subscriber altnet that silenced the outage queue.

Four thousand subscribers. Twenty-eight staff. Outage day = phones on fire.

A regional altnet ran provisioning on email and ticketed outages by phone. Three-week build: Statuspage wired to the carrier-monitoring webhook, Twilio SMS to affected subscribers in the impacted exchange, customer portal with live status. Six months in: outage support calls down sixty percent, NPS lifted from 22 to 51, weekly retention review on one screen.

How we measure: Outage call volume measured through the Twilio-Statuspage incident window across nine recorded incidents pre vs post build; NPS sampled quarterly across 600+ subscribers via in-portal survey.

−60%outage support calls
22 → 51subscriber NPS
0 missedOfcom returns, typical
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Map the network.

Bring the last billing run, an Ofcom return draft, and an outage post-mortem. We diagnose from the data.