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Telecom churn prevention and subscriber lifecycle journeys

Telecom case study: subscriber acquisition, churn-risk audiences, network-event personalisation and lifecycle journeys with AEP, RTCDP and AJO.

Quick answer

This telecom case study brings subscriber, usage, network-event and digital data into Adobe Experience Platform, builds churn-risk and upgrade audiences in Real-Time CDP and orchestrates save, upgrade and network-event journeys in Journey Optimizer. It runs on the Infinite360 telecom simulator using synthetic subscriber data.

Case study at a glance

About this case study: this is an Infinite360 Tech Academy project case study delivered on a simulation environment with synthetic data. It shows the scope, architecture and approach our consultants and learners practise. It is not a client engagement and implies no affiliation with, or endorsement by, any company or brand.

IndustryTelecom
PlatformsAEP, Real-Time CDP, Journey Optimizer, CJA, Query Service
TypeAcademy project case study (simulated environment, synthetic data)
Roles practisedData engineer, data scientist, AJO developer, CJA analyst
Environmenttele.infiante360techacademy.com

The business challenge

A telecom operator sees churn only after a subscriber ports out. Usage drops, repeated network issues and contract end dates live in separate systems, so retention teams cannot intervene early and offers are not matched to the reason a subscriber is at risk.

Target architecture

Telecom reference architectureTELECOM REFERENCE ARCHITECTURESourcesBillingUsageNetwork eventsApp & webCollectBatchStreamingAEPHousehold identityProfileQuery ServiceActivateChurn audiencesAJO save journeysMeasureCJASave rate view
Reference architecture used in the telecom case study.

Implementation approach

Telecom delivery flowTELECOM DELIVERY FLOW1Define churn signalsusage, issues, contract2Model & ingestsubscriber + events3Score riskQuery Service / model4Audiencesrisk tiers5Journeyssave, upgrade, apology6Measureholdout comparison
Delivery sequence: each stage is validated before the next starts.
  1. Define churn signals — usage, issues, contract
  2. Model & ingest — subscriber + events
  3. Score risk — Query Service / model
  4. Audiences — risk tiers
  5. Journeys — save, upgrade, apology
  6. Measure — holdout comparison

Use cases implemented

  • Churn-risk audiences by reason (price, network, contract end)
  • Network-incident apology journey with service credit offer
  • Contract-end upgrade journey
  • New-subscriber onboarding and activation
  • Paid-media suppression for recently saved subscribers
  • Retention measurement with a holdout group

Validation and governance checks

  • Risk features engineered outside the profile and ingested as clean attributes
  • Holdout group defined before launch so impact can be measured honestly
  • Network-event journeys throttled to avoid message floods during outages
  • Household and individual identities kept distinct to prevent false merges
  • Offer eligibility and fallbacks tested for every risk tier

What Infinite360 brings

Architecture first

A documented target architecture, identity strategy and data model before a single journey is built.

Reusable accelerators

Schema patterns, naming conventions, backlog templates, QA checklists and runbooks reused across projects.

Validation discipline

Every stage is validated - payloads, identity graphs, profile fragments, audience counts and journey test runs.

Governance built in

Consent, data usage labels and least-privilege access are designed in, not bolted on at go-live.

Knowledge transfer

Walkthrough recordings, documentation and pairing so your team can run and extend the solution.

Day-one-ready people

Consultants and contract engineers who have practised the same pattern end to end before joining your team.

From case study to contract delivery

The roles that practise this case study — Data engineer, data scientist, AJO developer, CJA analyst — are the same profiles we place through contract hiring and staff augmentation. Because they have already built this pattern end to end, onboarding focuses on your systems and standards rather than on learning the platform.

Frequently asked questions

How is churn risk calculated?

In the project, features such as usage decline, repeated incidents and contract end date are combined in Query Service or an external model and ingested as profile attributes.

Is this a real operator's data?

No. All subscriber data in the simulator is synthetic.

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