MalaysiaTelecom (fixed / fiber)Scale · $100K
Telekom Malaysia

The national fiber backbone deserves a national-grade service layer: agentic operations for TM and Unifi

Give TM an agentic layer for Unifi install and repair coordination, outage communication, and billing service in Bahasa Malaysia, English, Mandarin, and Tamil — cutting truck rolls and churn while TM One takes the same capability to enterprise customers.

Entry use case
Unifi fault triage & repair coordination
Expected outcome
Resolve router-level faults in-conversation, cut avoidable truck rolls, and coordinate technician visits proactively — measured on dispatch avoidance and repeat-fault contacts
Recommended next step
Quantify avoidable-dispatch share and repeat-fault contact rates for one state, then pilot guided triage on WhatsApp with TM One observing for enterprise resale potential.
What we understand

Telekom Malaysia's operating reality

Telekom Malaysia is the fixed-line incumbent and national fiber wholesale provider, with Unifi serving roughly 3 million broadband customers and TM One serving enterprise and government segments.

Public fact

TM formed the TM Nxera joint venture with Singtel's Nxera to build an AI-ready data-center campus in Johor (initial 64MW, scalable toward 200MW), with first-phase commercial operations targeted from 2026 — signaling group-level AI-infrastructure ambitions.

Public fact

Fixed-broadband service economics are dominated by truck rolls and repeat faults; every avoidable dispatch for a router-level issue is direct margin loss on a price-competitive base.

Reasoned inference

Malaysia's Mandatory Standards on Quality of Service (MCMC) put regulatory weight behind resolution and installation timeliness — making instrumented, deflection-capable service a compliance asset.

Reasoned inference

As a Khazanah-linked GLC, TM's procurement favors governed partnerships; its data-center JV pattern (partnering with Singtel rather than building alone) is the template for how platform capability arrives.

Reasoned inference

TM One could resell or co-deliver the same agentic capability to its enterprise and government customers, turning a service deployment into a channel partnership.

Seller hypothesis — validate

Validate with the account team before outreach: OSS/diagnostics API accessibility for line-status grounding · Avoidable-dispatch share and truck-roll unit cost · TM One's appetite to co-sell agentic service to enterprise customers

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: TM has genuine engineering depth in networks and a group-level AI-infrastructure agenda, but its platform pattern is partnership — the Nxera data-center JV being the template. Customer-facing conversational capability will arrive the same way: a governed partner platform integrated by TM, not an internal build competing with network priorities.

Why they won't build the full stack: TM's engineering advantage is fiber and infrastructure, not conversational software; with MCMC metrics and price competition pressing now, a partner-delivered layer monetizes deflection this year while the group's AI capital stays focused on the data-center bet.

What management is signalling

TM formed the TM Nxera JV with Singtel's Nxera for an AI-ready data-center campus in Johor (64MW initial, scalable to ~200MW), with first-phase operations targeted from 2026.

Reported factJV announcements and progress disclosures · 2025–2026

GTM implication: Group strategy is publicly committed to AI infrastructure — an agentic service layer for its own base is the natural, board-legible complement.

Results commentary emphasizes cost discipline and convergence competition in fixed broadband.

Inferencerecent investor communications (validate) · 2025

GTM implication: Dispatch-deflection economics and churn defense fit the stated margin narrative directly.

What already exists (don't pitch this)
  • Unifi broadband base (~3M) on the national fiber network
  • MyUnifi app and TMpoint outlets
  • TM One enterprise/government arm
  • TM Nxera AI data-center JV with Singtel
  • Contact-center and field-service operations
What customers still can't do end-to-end (pitch this)
  • →Guided fault triage with line diagnostics
  • →Proactive outage and maintenance communication
  • →In-channel billing dispute resolution and payment completion
  • →Mandarin and Tamil automated coverage
  • →Dispatch-avoidance instrumentation
Opportunity map

Where agentic communications pays off first

WorkflowWhy it matters hereValueComplexitySpeedChannels
Unifi fault triage & repair coordination
Guided diagnostics with line-status grounding in four languages, router-level fixes in-conversation, visits booked and confirmed with proactive reminders.
Dispatch avoidance is the largest addressable cost pool in the consumer business.
Friction today: 'No internet' reports arrive without diagnostics; technicians dispatch for issues a guided reboot fixes; visit windows are missed on both sides.
WhatsAppIn-app chat (MyUnifi)Voice
Outage & maintenance communication
Affected subscribers proactively notified with restoration estimates; inbound status questions answered from the incident feed.
Area outages create concentrated spikes and MCMC-visible dissatisfaction; proactive status suppresses both.
Friction today: Planned maintenance and outages generate thousands of identical calls the contact center cannot answer better than a status page.
WhatsAppSMSVoice
Billing service & payment outreach
Bill items explained from billing data, disputes intaken conversationally, payment links in-channel, policy-timed reminders before suspension.
Billing disputes and late payments are steady volume where in-channel resolution and payment links beat hotline queues.
Friction today: Bill-explanation calls queue at month-end; payment reminders are one-way SMS.
WhatsAppIn-app chatVoiceSMS
Watch the change

Unifi fault triage & repair coordination: today vs the agentic model

Scenario: A Unifi customer in Johor Bahru reports 'no internet' on WhatsApp in Bahasa Malaysia; guided diagnostics find a router fault, fix it in-conversation, and the truck roll never happens — while a planned-maintenance notice reaches her neighborhood before the calls start.
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
WhatsAppIn-app chat (MyUnifi)VoiceSMSIn-app chat

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 · Telekom Malaysia
OSS/line diagnosticsField-service managementSubscriber managementNetwork incident managementBilling/BSSPayment gateway

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

Trust & languages
Bahasa MalaysiaEnglishMandarinTamil

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 interactions1.8M
Seller assumption — replace in discovery
Current cost per interaction ($)$0.8
Industry benchmark scale — validate
Automation / assistance rate (%)55%
Seller assumption — pilot proves this
$1.4M
Current operating cost / mo
$5.3M
Modelled gross benefit / yr
0.2 mo
Payback on Scale
127%
3-yr ROI (modelled)
Automated/assisted interactions per month990K
Modelled AI run-cost per month (usage + cloud, system estimate)$347K
New monthly operating cost$995K

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 Telekom Malaysia'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 Telekom Malaysia: Fault triage, install coordination, and billing service across Unifi's base are three high-volume workflows on one OSS/BSS backbone; the multilingual requirement is native to Malaysia's market, not an add-on.

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 unifi fault triage & repair 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 / Group CEO

“TM is building AI infrastructure for the nation through TM Nxera; the service layer is where the group's own customers should feel that ambition first. Agentic operations make Unifi's scale an efficiency asset instead of a cost curve.”

CIO / CTO

“One integration into OSS, field-service, and billing powers triage, outage, and billing workflows — partner-delivered under GLC procurement, consistent with how the group already partners for platform capability.”

COO

“Truck rolls fall to the visits that need trucks, outage spikes are absorbed by proactive status, and month-end billing queues move to in-channel resolution — in all four languages, around the clock.”

Head of Unifi / Consumer

“Repeat-fault contacts, missed visits, and MCMC quality metrics all become instrumented and improvable — churn defense on a price-competitive base without price cuts.”

Chief Risk / Compliance Officer

“MCMC quality-of-service reporting and PDPA consent ride on 100% logged interactions — regulatory evidence generated as a byproduct of better service.”

CFO / Procurement

“The business case is dispatch arithmetic plus churn: avoidable truck rolls at incumbent cost versus sub-dollar interactions, measured monthly — with TM One resale upside as the strategic kicker.”

Outreach

Pre-built offer emails for Telekom Malaysia

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

Malaysia's fixed-line incumbent and national fiber backbone — Unifi's ~3M-strong broadband base, the TM One enterprise arm, and the TM Nxera AI-data-center JV with Singtel — where install scheduling, fault triage, and multilingual mass-market service meet a GLC that partners for platforms rather than building them.

Recommended next step

Quantify avoidable-dispatch share and repeat-fault contact rates for one state, then pilot guided triage on WhatsApp with TM One observing for enterprise resale potential.

Entry: Unifi fault triage & repair coordination · 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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