Stream of Thought - December 2024

From Our Executive Team - Andy Youé, VP Sales at Wavelo 

Welcome to Stream of Thought, Wavelo’s new newsletter! Here, we plan to discuss industry trends, conference recaps, and our solutions to telecom’s biggest problems—all from the perspective of our leadership team. 

Using new tech to solve old problems

We have been to many of the most important industry events this year, including Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, TMForum’s DTW ignite in Copenhagen, CCA’s Annual Convention in Amelia Island, Network X and TMForum’s Innovate Americas in Dallas.  These events are an exciting mix of innovation, new technologies, AI, and sets a great foundation for engaged conversions on the future of telecoms.    

However, while innovation is promoted and discussed at length, an unfortunate underlying theme comes up in almost all conversations with operators: outdated, overly complex and inflexible legacy systems are the biggest obstacles to innovation.

When we speak with customers about Wavelo’s approach to solving this problem with new technology, enabling rapid migration of subscribers to new systems, automating network OSS functions, we’re either met with skepticism or enthusiasm. In both instances, it’s clear that we’re revolutionizing the industry with our approach.     

Event-based architecture

Wavelo’s solution is based on something unique—an event-based architecture. This approach is used by most modern internet companies, like Uber, Pizza Hut, etc., but uncommon in telecoms. While we’ve developed our event-based architecture in scale and flexibility, the real challenge has been breaking through decades of ingrained habits and outdated, point-to-point solutions that hold the industry back.

Our success story with DISH

However, we’ve proven our approach’s effectiveness, with DISH being one key example. By early 2020, DISH agreed to acquire Boost Mobile, but in order to pull this off, DISH needed to service and migrate millions of existing mobile customers from Boost to their own network, a challenge not dissimilar to those faced by other operators today. 

Wavelo’s cloud-native, flexible software is designed precisely to solve this challenge. 

“For us to win, we couldn’t follow the same playbook from the past 30 years,” says Rob Bennett, Senior Vice President, Retail Wireless Technology at DISH Wireless. “On all fronts, we needed to innovate. We thought there was an innovation factor with the Wavelo team that would help us do things differently.”

With a modular infrastructure that seamlessly integrates with existing systems, Wavelo was able to migrate 220,000 subscribers to DISH per night—the first 1M migrating without any delays or service interruptions. Scalability and interoperability were our golden tickets and our teams partnered with DISH to develop an infrastructure built for modern market demands—including configurable plans, consolidated billing for both pre and post-paid plans, increased visibility across products and services and much more.

Conclusion

More than ever, operators are seeking solutions to outdated legacy systems, and Wavelo’s success is a testament to this vision becoming a reality—a solution we are ready to offer to CSPs worldwide.

Stay tuned for more thoughts and insights from me—and our other execs—on this topic and other industry musings.

About Andy

Andy Youé is the Vice President of Sales at Wavelo. Andy is helping accelerate our mission to help operators globally increase revenue and decrease costs, side-by-side with both Wavelo’s team and customers.

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