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The shifting CSPs battleground

          Customers are beginning to judge the                       Artificial Intelligence (AI) can

          quality of the products or services they                  greatly personalize interactions
          receive not only against multiple players                      and, thereby, transform

          within that sector but also with respect                     the customer engagement
          to their customer service experiences                     process. Tools such as decision

          from other industries. In other words,                    management, natural language
          customers now expect deeper levels of                     processing (NLP), text analytics,

          personalization, on-demand access and                      and machine learning can be
          quality standards matching those of the                  used to engage customers more

          leaders in any industry. Taking note of                     deeply in the moment. They
          this fact has become increasingly crucial                allow organizations to strike the

          for operators with expectations evolving                 right balance between customer
          faster than the industry’s ability to meet               satisfaction and the overall goals

          them.                                                          of the business, such as

          Capitalizing on digital                                     margins, acquisition targets

          subscriptions                                                    and top line growth.

          As digital disruptors and OTT players
          attack traditional communication

          revenues, telcos are pursuing                        The four pillars of customer value
          opportunities to climb the digital                   management
          ladder up to the services layer. With a              1. Creating unified identity across the

          large customer base, ownership of key                   digital subscription
          infrastructure and strong technology
          capabilities, telecom operators are trying           Uncovering the anonymity of a customer

          to take on the role of digital services              is critical to serve them in our digital
          providers, often emerging as disruptors              world. Hence identity management
          to other industries.                                 is an essential component of the
                                                               digital marketing ecosystem. In simple
          Bundling digital services along with                 terms, it is the ability to capture,
          telecom billing can provide visibility               source, integrate, cleanse and link
          of subscription, digital usage and                   data to recognize different consumers.

          activities. Studying consumers’ digital              CVM solutions need to empower
          behavior can further allow CSPs to create            the marketers to consolidate online

          digital customer-centric products and                and offline data sources to support
          services such as video streaming, music              unique identification of consumers and
          subscription, mobile wallets, micro-                 constantly uncover customer anonymity

          insurance and so on, which can help reap             by profiling them more accurately and
          benefits in the current market context.              deeply.




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