Automated Roaming
CORTEX, as an intelligent automation platform, offers significant value in optimizing and automating commercial roaming operations for telecoms. By bridging systems, processes, and teams, CORTEX streamlines workflows that are traditionally manual, fragmented, and prone to delay or error.
At the contract lifecycle stage, CORTEX can automate partner onboarding workflows, orchestrating the sequence of tasks such as due diligence checks, data entry into CRM or ERP systems, and notification flows between commercial and technical teams. For IOT and discount management, CORTEX can ingest tariff updates (e.g., from GSMA IOT documents or operator emails), validate them against internal thresholds or commercial policies, and trigger approval chains or discrepancy alerts.
In performance management, CORTEX can ingest roaming data from multiple sources—such as NRTRDE feeds, clearing house reports, and billing systems—enabling automated KPI tracking and visualisation for contract compliance, SLA breaches, or volume-based incentives. Anomalies like sudden traffic drops or outlier costs can prompt real-time alerts and workflow triggers.
For steering optimisation, CORTEX can coordinate across roaming hubs, policy engines, and analytics tools to detect inefficient traffic patterns and propose or execute changes in the preferred partner list. This ensures alignment between commercial objectives and actual roaming behaviour.
Additionally, CORTEX enhances collaboration and auditability, maintaining a transparent record of actions taken across departments—legal, finance, wholesale, and operations—through its built-in workflow engine and dashboarding.
By transforming manual, email-based coordination into structured, rule-driven workflows, CORTEX reduces lead times, increases accuracy, and empowers roaming teams to focus on value-generating activities.
Automated Vendor Management
CORTEX regularly aggregates a diverse range of data, encompassing operational, performance, and commercial aspects from many systems. Its ability to assimilate information from varied sources equips it with a comprehensive understanding of the business environment, enabling it to deliver insightful analyses and reports.
A key feature of CORTEX is its ability to monitor Service Level Agreements (SLAs) within business relationships. It can detect when these SLAs are being breached and when they are at risk of being breached. This foresight is crucial for maintaining the quality and reliability of services. Upon identifying such risks or breaches, CORTEX doesn’t just record these instances; it proactively escalates the issues internally and externally to involved partners or stakeholders. This escalation process ensures that potential problems are addressed promptly and effectively, minimising any negative impact on the business or customer experience.
CORTEX plays a pivotal role in communication and transparency in business relationships. It regularly compiles and shares detailed reports on these relationships’ status with internal and external stakeholders. These reports include vital metrics and analytics, offering a clear, objective view of the performance and health of the business partnerships.
The detailed activities of Relationship Management vary whether considering Vendor Management or Wholesale and Roaming operations.
In Roaming Operations, relationship management is a critical commercial function that ensures profitable and seamless international connectivity between mobile network operators (MNOs). The commercial elements primarily revolve around partnership acquisition, contract negotiation, revenue assurance, and performance optimisation.
Key processes begin with partner onboarding, where operators assess potential roaming partners based on footprint, technology compatibility (e.g. 5G readiness), and mutual traffic potential. This leads to roaming agreement negotiations, where commercial terms such as Inter-Operator Tariffs (IOTs), discount models (like volume-based or commit-based), and service scope (voice, SMS, data, VoLTE, etc.) are defined. Contract lifecycle management includes periodic review and renegotiation of terms, ensuring alignment with market conditions and roaming strategies.
Performance monitoring and reporting are critical and focus on KPIs like traffic volumes, quality of service, revenue trends, and incident resolution times. These insights feed into commercial steering meetings or bilateral reviews, helping both parties explore optimisation strategies, such as preferred roaming agreements (PRAs) or steering-of-roaming enhancements.
Fraud and risk mitigation also fall under commercial purview, ensuring robust processes are in place to detect and address revenue leakage, misuse, or SIM box fraud. Relationship managers also collaborate with legal and regulatory teams to ensure compliance with GSMA standards and regional telecom laws.
In Vendor Management, regular supplier or partner performance reviews are essential in maintaining a beneficial relationship and ensuring continuous value delivery to both companies. These reviews are comprehensive, covering various aspects of the partnership. They assess changes in the range of available products and services, which is crucial for adapting to evolving market demands and customer needs. Additionally, these reviews scrutinise modifications in processes for service provisioning and assurance.
Any changes in the operation of inter-company invoicing and payment need to be identified well in advance. This foresight is crucial to allow adequate time for both companies to make necessary adjustments in their respective systems. Such proactive identification and adaptation to changes ensure smooth financial transactions and help avoid conflicts or misunderstandings.
These regular reviews play a strategic role in the relationship between companies. They facilitate ongoing alignment and coordination, ensuring that both parties are informed of any shifts in products, services, or operational procedures. Doing so enables both companies to make timely and effective system changes, adapt strategies, and maintain a strong, productive partnership. This process not only supports operational efficiency but also fosters a dynamic collaboration that can adapt to the changing business landscape.
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