PhilippinesTelecom (fiber broadband)Scale · $100K
Converge ICT

Three million fiber homes, one install and repair conversation layer: agentic operations for Converge

Give Converge an agentic layer for install scheduling, outage communication, fault triage, and billing service in Taglish — cutting truck rolls and churn while the network keeps scaling.

Entry use case
Fault triage & repair-visit coordination
Expected outcome
Resolve router-level issues in-conversation, cut avoidable truck rolls, and coordinate technician visits proactively — measured on repeat-fault contacts and visit no-shows
Recommended next step
Quantify current truck-roll volume attributable to router-level faults and pilot guided triage on Messenger for one region.
What we understand

Converge ICT's operating reality

Converge is the Philippines' pure-play fiber broadband challenger, ending 2025 with roughly 3M residential subscribers, revenue of about P44.8B (up ~10%), and a network passing more than 16M homes.

Public fact

It has expanded into prepaid fiber (Surf2Sawa) to reach mass-market segments, adding a price-sensitive base with different service and collection dynamics.

Public fact

Fiber operations economics are dominated by truck rolls: every avoidable technician dispatch for a router-reboot-level issue is direct margin loss, and every no-show visit doubles it.

Reasoned inference

Weather-driven outages (typhoons) create massive, geographically concentrated contact spikes where proactive status communication is the difference between managed incidents and social-media firestorms.

Reasoned inference

As a founder-led challenger competing against PLDT and Globe's incumbency, speed of capability deployment matters more than platform ownership; NTC service-quality reporting adds a regulatory lens on resolution metrics.

Reasoned inference

Prepaid fiber reloading and win-back could become a revenue-side workflow (recharge nudges, lapsed-account outreach) after the service workflows prove out.

Seller hypothesis — validate

Validate with the account team before outreach: OSS/diagnostics API accessibility for line-status grounding · Truck-roll cost and avoidable-dispatch share estimates · Field-service platform integration surface for scheduling

Build vs buy

Why we have a right to win here

Buy-led target

Limited internal ability or appetite to build the core platform — strong candidate for the packaged solution

Evidence: Converge's engineering identity is network construction, not software platforms; its digital touchpoints are vendor-built. A founder-led challenger optimizes for deployed capability per quarter — it will buy a proven layer and point it at truck-roll economics immediately.

Why they won't build the full stack: Every quarter spent building service infrastructure is a quarter of avoidable dispatch costs and churn on a base growing by ~400k subscribers a year; the buy case is the speed case.

What management is signalling

FY2025 results showed revenue of about P44.8B (+10.2%) and roughly 3M residential subscribers, with management guiding to continued subscriber growth and margin discipline.

Reported factFY2025 results · Feb 2026

GTM implication: Growth plus margin discipline is precisely the frame for dispatch-deflection economics — service cost per subscriber must fall as the base grows.

What already exists (don't pitch this)
  • ~3M residential fiber subscribers on an owned network
  • Converge Xperience app
  • Surf2Sawa prepaid fiber brand
  • Contact center and social-channel support
  • 16M+ homes-passed network footprint
What customers still can't do end-to-end (pitch this)
  • →Guided fault triage with line diagnostics
  • →Proactive outage status at scale
  • →In-channel install scheduling and reschedules
  • →Taglish voice automation
  • →Repeat-fault and dispatch-avoidance instrumentation
Opportunity map

Where agentic communications pays off first

WorkflowWhy it matters hereValueComplexitySpeedChannels
Fault triage & repair coordination
Guided diagnostics with line-status grounding, router-level fixes completed in-conversation, technician visits booked and confirmed with proactive reminders.
Deflected truck rolls are the single largest addressable cost pool in fiber service operations.
Friction today: Subscribers report 'no internet' with no diagnostics; agents dispatch technicians for issues a guided reboot would fix; visit windows are missed on both sides.
MessengerViberIn-app chatVoice
Outage communication & status
Affected subscribers proactively notified with restoration estimates; inbound status questions answered from the incident feed; escalations reserved for exceptions.
Typhoon-driven spikes hit exactly when the contact center is least able to answer; proactive status suppresses the spike.
Friction today: Area outages generate thousands of identical calls; agents have no better information than the customer.
MessengerSMSViberVoice
Install scheduling & onboarding
Application status pushed proactively, install slots confirmed and rescheduled in-channel, day-one setup guided conversationally.
Install speed is the challenger's brand promise; scheduling friction is churn before revenue starts.
Friction today: Application-to-install coordination runs on calls and SMS; reschedules loop through the hotline.
MessengerSMSVoice
Watch the change

Fault triage & repair-visit coordination: today vs the agentic model

Scenario: A typhoon knocks out a Pampanga barangay; every affected subscriber gets a proactive Messenger update with a restoration estimate, while a Cavite customer's 'no internet' turns out to be a router issue fixed in-conversation — no truck roll.
Today
same interaction, two worlds
Agentic layer
First-contact resolution
deferred via tickets
in-conversation actions
Platform capability
Cost per contact
$13.50 median assisted
$1.84 median self-service
Benchmark
QA coverage
1–2% sampled
100% scored
Platform capability
Sources & assumptions
  • · First-contact resolution: Process design: agent acts in systems of record
  • · Cost per contact: Gartner customer service cost benchmarks, 2024
  • · QA coverage: Platform capability: every interaction logged and evaluated
  • · Gartner, customer service cost benchmarks (2024): $13.50 median assisted vs $1.84 self-service per contact
  • · McKinsey, digital-first collections research: 20–25% NPL reduction among leaders; up to 40% opex reduction with gen AI
  • · Baymard Institute: ~70% average cart abandonment (meta-analysis)
  • · IAMAI–Kantar via IBEF (2025): 900M+ Indian internet users; 98% consume Indic-language content
  • · LeadSquared and vendor funnel studies: 78% of students choose the first institution to respond (directional, vendor data)
  • · HDI / ITSM operator benchmarks: $15–25 per L1 ticket; 40–60% of L1 volume is resets/status (validate per customer)
  • · Conventional-flow wait times and volumes are typical operator patterns — assumptions to replace with the customer's own baseline
  • · Agentic-flow behaviors (context retention, 100% logging, in-line policy checks) are platform capabilities, not projections
Recommended solution

One integrated stack, opinionated for this account

Channels · Tilicho Labs
MessengerViberIn-app chatVoiceSMS

Voice & channel orchestration, telephony, conversational execution, session/state, routing, integration build. Capability coverage validated during implementation.

Intelligence · Google Cloud
Gemini reasoningEnterprise groundingWorkflow agentsMulti-agent orchestrationGoverned actionsEvaluation & analytics
Systems · Converge ICT
OSS/line diagnosticsField-service managementSubscriber managementNetwork incident managementOrder management

API access to these systems is the critical-path dependency.

Trust & languages
Filipino/TagalogEnglishCebuano

Identity-bound sessions, policy-bounded actions, 100% audit logging, human approvals at defined points, in-tenant intelligence.

Business case

The economics, with your numbers

Addressable monthly interactions900K
Seller assumption — replace in discovery
Current cost per interaction ($)$0.8
Industry benchmark scale — validate
Automation / assistance rate (%)55%
Seller assumption — pilot proves this
$720K
Current operating cost / mo
$2.7M
Modelled gross benefit / yr
0.4 mo
Payback on Scale
125%
3-yr ROI (modelled)
Automated/assisted interactions per month495K
Modelled AI run-cost per month (usage + cloud, system estimate)$173K
New monthly operating cost$497K

All figures are modelling estimates from the labeled inputs above — nothing here is customer-provided yet. The pilot's first job is replacing these assumptions with Converge ICT's measured baseline. Package price covers implementation only; recurring usage billed separately.

Recommended package

Scale — $100K implementation

Scale · $100K · A multi-channel production deployment10–14 weeks to production across priority workflows

Why this package for Converge ICT: Fault triage, install coordination, and billing service are three high-volume workflows on one subscriber-management backbone; a challenger's growth rate makes single-workflow pilots immediately undersized.

Included
  • 4–6 channels
  • 2–3 priority workflows
  • Multiple enterprise integrations
  • API credential & security setup
  • Advanced orchestration
  • Multilingual support
  • Agent Assist / human escalation
  • Production analytics
  • Expansion roadmap
Not included
  • ✕Usage & consumption (billed separately)
  • ✕Enterprise-wide governance build-out
  • ✕Multi-BU rollout
Recurring costs (separate from the package)

Packages cover implementation and integration only. Recurring costs are billed separately: Tilicho Labs platform usage (~$0.15/call-min indicative, usage only), Google Cloud consumption, telephony/carrier charges, managed operations, and support & optimization. No package includes unlimited usage.

Customer resources required
  • · API access + credentials for: OSS/line diagnostics, Field-service management, Subscriber management
  • · A named business owner for fault triage & repair-visit coordination
  • · Security review counterpart and policy sign-off (OSS/line diagnostics scope)
  • · Baseline metrics for the pilot's success thresholds
Executive messages

What to say to whom

CEO / Founder

“Converge won by building fiber faster than incumbents thought possible. The same asymmetry applies to service: an agentic layer gives three million homes big-telco service quality at challenger cost — deployed in months.”

CIO / CTO

“One integration into diagnostics, field-service, and subscriber management powers triage, outage, and install workflows — partner-delivered while your team keeps building network, not contact-center software.”

COO

“Truck rolls drop to the visits that need trucks; outage spikes are absorbed by proactive status instead of melted queues; visit no-shows fall with confirmed scheduling.”

Head of Customer Experience

“Repeat-fault contacts and install-journey friction become instrumented and fixable — with NTC-visible resolution metrics improving as a byproduct.”

Chief Risk / Compliance Officer

“Service-quality reporting and Data Privacy Act consent handling ride on 100% logged interactions — evidence-grade records without building a logging stack.”

CFO / Procurement

“The business case is truck-roll math: deflected dispatches at hundreds of pesos each against sub-dollar interactions, measured from month one — plus churn impact on a base you're still growing.”

Outreach

Pre-built offer emails for Converge ICT

Written from this account's own research — the strategic signal, the capability gap, the entry workflow, and the modelled economics — not a mail-merge template. Pick the moment and the persona, edit anything, then copy or open in your mail client.

Moment in the deal
Cold outreach — no prior conversation
Who it's addressed to
Cares about: The workflow itself and its daily failure modes
Register
Length
Draft — edit freely before sending
Open in mail client

Customer-safe by construction: drafts are composed only from customer-facing fields. Account tier, build-vs-buy classification, priority score, internal routing, and partner-commercial detail are not inputs to the composer, so they cannot appear in a draft. Money figures are always framed as modelled from the customer's own volumes. Read before sending — you own what goes out.

The pursuit

Tier 2 — high-potential incubation

Why this tier

The pure-play fiber challenger that built a ~3M-subscriber residential base and a 16M-homes-passed network in under a decade — install scheduling, fault triage, and repair-visit coordination at that growth rate is a communication factory, and a founder-led challenger buys speed rather than building platforms.

Recommended next step

Quantify current truck-roll volume attributable to router-level faults and pilot guided triage on Messenger for one region.

Entry: Fault triage & repair-visit coordination · Scale package · 10–14 weeks to production across priority workflows. Human fallback throughout; success thresholds agreed before build.

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