Customer Stories

Real MVNOs.
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See how MVNOs across banking, retail, and ISP verticals are using Digitata's AI-native platform to compete on intelligence — reducing churn, growing ARPU, and building sustainable subscriber value.

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↓ 31%
Average churn reduction
+22%
Average ARPU uplift
68%
Support queries resolved by AI
Campaign output vs. legacy tools

From challenge to transformation

Each story below represents a real-world MVNO challenge — and how Digitata's platform addressed it with measurable, sustainable outcomes. Details are anonymised at customer request.

🛒 Retail MVNO · South Africa
Turning a mobile brand into a loyalty anchor
A leading South African retailer with one of the country's most recognised loyalty programmes launched an MVNO to extend their customer relationship into mobile. Initial growth was strong, but churn was eroding the subscriber base — and the mobile product wasn't delivering its intended purpose: driving loyalty engagement and store visits. They needed a way to make mobile feel like a natural extension of their rewards ecosystem, not just another SIM card.
↓ 31%
Churn reduction
in 6 months
Loyalty engagement for mobile subscribers
+19%
ARPU growth via loyalty-linked bundles

The Challenge

Mobile subscribers weren't seeing the connection between their SIM card and their loyalty programme. Churn was primarily driven by price competition — subscribers were leaving for marginally cheaper MNO offers without any loyalty attachment to keep them. The MVNO team had limited visibility into which subscribers were at risk and no mechanism to trigger relevant, timely interventions.

What Digitata Did

  • Integrated Digitata's CVM platform with the retailer's loyalty data — combining mobile behaviour with in-store purchase history and loyalty points balance
  • Deployed behavioural churn prediction using multi-signal modelling (mobile + loyalty disengagement)
  • Built loyalty-linked bundle mechanics: earn points with recharges, burn points for data top-ups
  • Activated AI-triggered retention offers for at-risk subscribers — personalised to usage and loyalty tier
  • Launched location-triggered offers for subscribers near stores with unused loyalty balance

The Outcomes

  • Churn reduced by 31% within 6 months of deployment
  • Loyalty-linked mobile subscribers engage with rewards 3× more frequently than before
  • ARPU grew 19% as loyalty-linked bundle tiers commanded premium pricing
  • Mobile became the #1 daily touchpoint for the loyalty programme
  • Location-triggered campaigns showed 4× higher conversion than broadcast SMS campaigns

"We always knew our mobile subscribers were also our best loyalty customers — we just couldn't act on that connection. Digitata made it real. Now mobile isn't competing with our loyalty strategy, it's driving it."

Chief Digital Officer, Retail MVNO — South Africa
🏦 Banking MVNO · Sub-Saharan Africa
From cost centre to cross-sell engine
A major banking group launched its MVNO to deepen customer relationships and create a high-frequency digital touchpoint beyond banking app sessions. The mobile brand was growing, but the board questioned the ROI — it was still viewed as a cost to serve, not a revenue driver. The insight was clear: mobile behavioural data was an untapped goldmine for financial product personalisation. The missing piece was the AI layer to act on it.
+22%
ARPU uplift via cross-sell
2.4×
Financial product uptake
↓ 35%
Dual churn (bank + mobile)

The Challenge

The mobile platform was capturing rich behavioural data — top-up timing, data usage patterns, app engagement, location signals — but none of it was being used to improve financial product targeting. Banking campaigns were running on demographic segments, missing the signals that actually predicted financial product intent. Dual churn (losing the banking relationship when the mobile subscription lapsed) was also a growing concern.

What Digitata Did

  • Deployed Digitata's data fusion layer — combining mobile behavioural signals with banking transaction data
  • Built salary-day triggered bundle and cross-sell offer sequences
  • Identified financial stress signals in mobile behaviour (data rationing, missed top-ups) to pre-empt churn and proactively offer credit products
  • Launched AI-timed cross-sell campaigns for personal loans, insurance, and savings — triggered by mobile behaviour, not calendar cycles
  • Implemented dual-service churn prediction to flag subscribers at risk of losing both relationships

The Outcomes

  • ARPU grew 22% within 9 months — primarily from financial product attachment revenue
  • Financial product uptake among mobile subscribers 2.4× higher than non-mobile banking customers
  • Dual churn reduced by 35% as at-risk subscribers were intercepted with relevant retention offers
  • Mobile declared a profit centre within 12 months — no longer a cost line
  • Campaign conversion rate 3× higher for behaviour-triggered offers vs. demographic segment campaigns

"We had this incredible dataset sitting in our mobile platform and we weren't using it. Digitata's analytics layer showed us the salary-day signal alone was worth millions in improved offer timing. The ROI case for mobile became undeniable."

Head of Digital Products, Banking Group MVNO
📡 ISP MVNO · Southern Africa
Scaling to 150,000 subscribers without scaling the support team
A regional internet service provider launched a mobile offering to bundle with their fixed broadband product and extend their brand into mobile. Subscriber growth exceeded expectations — but the support centre couldn't keep up. Call centre costs were rising linearly with subscriber volume, and the team was spending 80% of their time on routine queries that didn't require human expertise. They needed a way to serve more subscribers with the same team.
68%
Queries resolved by AI agents
↓ 42%
Support cost per subscriber
+11pts
NPS improvement post-deployment

The Challenge

With 150,000 subscribers and a lean team of 12 support agents, the ISP-MVNO was drowning in queries. Average wait times were over 8 minutes. Most queries were routine — billing questions, bundle changes, basic troubleshooting — but the chatbot they had deployed just pushed subscribers back to human agents. Growth was becoming a liability, not an asset. Customer satisfaction was declining as wait times increased.

What Digitata Did

  • Deployed Digitata's agentic AI layer connected to BSS/OSS — enabling AI agents to resolve billing queries, change bundles, and process SIM swaps without human escalation
  • Implemented combined fixed + mobile subscriber profiles — agents could see the full customer picture across both services
  • Built dual-service churn prediction to flag subscribers at risk on either product
  • Deployed proactive outage notifications and network status updates via AI — reducing inbound volume by 30%
  • Human agents re-focused on complex queries requiring genuine expertise

The Outcomes

  • 68% of all subscriber queries resolved by AI agents without human involvement
  • Support cost per subscriber reduced by 42% within 6 months
  • Average wait time dropped from 8+ minutes to under 90 seconds
  • NPS improved by 11 points — faster resolution drives higher satisfaction
  • Support team re-focused on retention and upsell conversations, not routine queries
  • Subscriber growth no longer constrained by support capacity

"We were hiring support agents as fast as we were adding subscribers — and still falling behind. Digitata's agentic AI flipped that equation completely. Our team is smaller than it was 18 months ago and we're serving three times as many subscribers, better than before."

COO, ISP MVNO — Southern Africa

Consistent outcomes across deployments

These aren't best-case scenarios. They're the outcomes Digitata's platform consistently delivers across MVNO verticals and market contexts.

↓ 25%+
Average churn reduction across all MVNO deployments
Digitata customer data · Multiple markets
+15–22%
ARPU uplift range — from CVM alone to full platform
Digitata customer data · 12-month benchmarks
70%
Subscriber queries resolved by agentic AI without human escalation
ISP and banking MVNO deployments
< 90 days
Time to first measurable churn reduction from deployment
CVM and behavioural intelligence module

What our customers say

From MVNO heads to product directors — the people who use Digitata every day.

★★★★★

"The behavioural intelligence layer changed how we think about our subscribers entirely. We went from 'which segment should this offer go to?' to 'this exact subscriber, right now, needs this exact offer.' The conversion difference is not subtle — it's transformative."

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Head of CVM & Loyalty
Retail MVNO, South Africa
★★★★★

"We had tried two other platforms before Digitata. The difference is that Digitata's team understands MVNOs — not just software. The playbooks, the onboarding support, the vertical expertise. They know what a lean team needs and they built for it."

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CEO & Co-Founder
Banking MVNO, Sub-Saharan Africa
★★★★★

"The analytics platform alone was worth it. For the first time, I can sit in a board meeting and show exactly what's driving ARPU, where the churn is coming from, and what we're doing about it — in real time, not last month's report."

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Chief Commercial Officer
ISP MVNO, Southern Africa
★★★★★

"Our MVNO team is four people. With Digitata's AI campaign intelligence, we're running 15–20 targeted campaigns concurrently that would have taken a team of 10 to manage manually. And they perform better because they're based on real behaviour, not assumptions."

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MVNO Marketing Director
Media MVNO, Africa

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