PhilippinesTelecomScale · $100K
Globe Telecom

Prepaid-scale service for 55M+ Filipinos — load, promos, and GFiber repairs handled in Taglish at prepaid unit costs

Globe's base is prepaid-heavy and promo-driven; every human contact costs a multiple of daily ARPU. Agentic conversations resolve load, promo, and fiber issues in-channel and turn retention into a two-way dialogue.

Entry use case
Prepaid load, promo & account service
Expected outcome
Structural reduction in cost per contact on the highest-volume prepaid intents
Recommended next step
Economics workshop with consumer-operations leadership: baseline the top five prepaid intents' cost per contact and scope an in-channel load-and-promo pilot.
What we understand

Globe Telecom's operating reality

Globe Telecom is one of the Philippines' two dominant mobile operators, with a subscriber base in the tens of millions, overwhelmingly prepaid, plus a growing GFiber home-broadband business.

Public fact

Globe's parent ecosystem includes Mynt (GCash) — the group has publicly championed digital-first customer experience for years.

Public fact

Promo-registration culture (daily and weekly data promos) generates enormous transactional contact volume unique to Philippine prepaid.

Reasoned inference

GFiber growth brings install and repair scheduling — truck rolls and missed appointments — into the cost base.

Reasoned inference

The GlobeOne app and existing chatbots deflect FAQs, but execution-grade voice automation over charging and field-service systems remains open.

Seller hypothesis — validate

Validate with the account team before outreach: Incumbent chatbot/CCaaS vendors and contract windows · Charging-system API readiness for in-channel load completion · Whether GCash payment rails can be used in-conversation for load

Build vs buy

Why we have a right to win here

Partner-led target

Technically capable but needs industry workflows, integration, acceleration, or managed operations

Evidence: Globe has digital ambition and the Mynt ecosystem in the family, but its engineering investment flows to GCash and the network — customer-care automation is a workflow it has historically sourced from partners, as its chatbot history shows.

Why they won't build the full stack: Group capital allocation favors the fintech ecosystem; building voice AI for telco care would compete with GCash for scarce engineering, while a partner platform can integrate with GlobeOne, charging systems, and GCash rails now.

What management is signalling

Globe's investor communications emphasize capex moderation and non-telco growth via the Mynt ecosystem, implying core-telco opex efficiency funds the portfolio story.

Inferencerecent investor communications (validate) · 2025–2026

GTM implication: Frame care automation as structural opex release that the portfolio narrative depends on — serve-cost per prepaid subscriber is the headline number.

What already exists (don't pitch this)
  • GlobeOne app
  • Existing care chatbots
  • GFiber service operations and field force
  • GCash payment rails within the group
What customers still can't do end-to-end (pitch this)
  • →Voice-grade load and promo completion in Taglish and Cebuano
  • →Proactive storm-time outage communications
  • →Field-appointment management with pre-visit triage
  • →Reason-aware retention beyond blast SMS
Opportunity map

Where agentic communications pays off first

WorkflowWhy it matters hereValueComplexitySpeedChannels
Prepaid load, promo & account service
Recognized-by-number conversations that explain balances, recommend promos, and complete load in-channel.
The dominant contact category across tens of millions of prepaid users; per-contact cost must fit sachet-economy ARPU.
Friction today: USSD codes, app menus, and IVRs leave a long voice tail that costs multiples of daily ARPU.
VoiceViber/WhatsAppIn-app
GFiber install & repair appointments
Proactive appointment management, pre-visit triage, and storm-time outage updates that suppress inbound.
Truck rolls are the costliest unit of home-broadband opex; no-shows waste them.
Friction today: Scheduling and rescheduling via call center; outage questions swamp lines during storms.
Viber/WhatsAppSMSVoice
Churn-risk retention & winback
Reason-aware retention dialogues with matrix-bounded offers and attributed saves.
Prepaid switching costs are near zero; retention must be conversational to beat blast-SMS fatigue.
Friction today: Untargeted blasts convert poorly; save teams reach a fraction of at-risk users.
VoiceViber/WhatsApp
Watch the change

Prepaid load, promo & account service: today vs the agentic model

Scenario: A prepaid user in Cebu asks in Cebuano why her data ran out; the agent reads her usage, recommends the right promo, and completes the load via GCash in one conversation.
Today
same interaction, two worlds
Agentic layer
Languages served
2–3 staffed
10+ in one deployment
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
  • · Languages served: Platform capability: Gemini + Chirp speech
  • · 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
VoiceViber/WhatsAppIn-appSMS

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 · Globe Telecom
Charging systemPromo catalogPayments/GCashField-service managementNetwork statusChurn modelCampaign engine

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 interactions5.0M
Seller assumption — replace in discovery
Current cost per interaction ($)$0.9
Industry benchmark scale — validate
Automation / assistance rate (%)55%
Seller assumption — pilot proves this
$4.5M
Current operating cost / mo
$18.1M
Modelled gross benefit / yr
0.1 mo
Payback on Scale
156%
3-yr ROI (modelled)
Automated/assisted interactions per month2.8M
Modelled AI run-cost per month (usage + cloud, system estimate)$962K
New monthly operating cost$3.0M

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 Globe Telecom'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 Globe Telecom: Prepaid service, GFiber appointments, and retention are three clear workflows across mobile and broadband — a Scale deployment matched to Globe's digital ambitions.

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: Charging system, Promo catalog, Payments/GCash
  • · A named business owner for prepaid load, promo & account service
  • · Security review counterpart and policy sign-off (Charging system scope)
  • · Baseline metrics for the pilot's success thresholds
Executive messages

What to say to whom

CEO

“Globe's digital-Philippines narrative needs a frontline proof point. Agentic service in Taglish and Cebuano at prepaid unit costs is that proof — visible to millions daily.”

CIO / CTO

“Gemini agents ground in charging and field-service systems with governed actions — extending GlobeOne's self-service into full conversational execution.”

COO

“Storm days break your queues twice: outage calls and repair scheduling. Proactive conversational comms absorb both surges without surge staffing.”

Head of Consumer Mobile & Broadband

“Promo confusion is both your biggest contact driver and a revenue moment — the agent that explains the balance also sells the right promo.”

Chief Risk / Compliance Officer

“Consent-governed outreach and complete conversation logs keep NTC and data-privacy obligations satisfied while automation scales.”

CFO / Procurement

“In the BPO capital of the world, your own service costs still outrun prepaid ARPU — that irony is the business case, and the pilot quantifies it on your queues.”

Outreach

Pre-built offer emails for Globe Telecom

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 1 — immediate strategic pursuit

Why this tier

One of the Philippines' two dominant operators with a ~55M+ prepaid-heavy base, GFiber growth, and the Mynt/GCash ecosystem in the family — massive volume and a digitally ambitious leadership.

30 / 60 / 90-day plan
  • Day 0–30: Economics workshop with consumer-operations leadership: baseline the top five prepaid intents' cost per contact and scope an in-channel load-and-promo pilot.; confirm sponsor and baseline data access; validate: Incumbent chatbot/CCaaS vendors and contract windows
  • Day 31–60: architecture & security review with the platform team; Tilicho Labs scoping on Voice + Viber/WhatsApp; pilot scope signed
  • Day 61–90: Scale package kickoff; prepaid load, promo & account service pilot in build; success thresholds locked with the Head of Consumer Mobile & Broadband
Recommended next step

Economics workshop with consumer-operations leadership: baseline the top five prepaid intents' cost per contact and scope an in-channel load-and-promo pilot.

Entry: Prepaid load, promo & account service · Scale package · 10–14 weeks to production across priority workflows. Human fallback throughout; success thresholds agreed before build.

Start the pursuit

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