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Predictive churn reduction

Client · European telecom operator · 12M mobile lines

End-to-end churn prediction and prevention combining ML scoring, uplift modeling and test-and-learn marketing — reducing annual churn by 1.3 points.

01

Challenge

  • Mature, saturated market with 18% annual B2C mobile churn.
  • Costly, poorly personalized historical retention actions (push offers, outbound calls).
  • Limited ability to identify weak signals of churn.
  • Weak measurement of retention efficiency, hard to separate causal from windfall effects.
02

Solution

  • Churn prediction model at 30/60/90 days with 400+ features (usage, billing, support, network quality, app behavior).
  • Uplift modeling to target customers where retention generates positive uplift vs. blanket campaigns.
  • Test-and-learn platform comparing offers and reallocating budget to top performers.
  • Channel integration (call center, app, email, SMS) with channel and message personalization.
03

Business impact

  • −1.3 pt annual churn on the targeted segment (~110K customers retained).
  • −22% retention cost per retained customer thanks to uplift modeling.
  • +7 pt engagement on proactive retention actions.
  • Approach now extended to B2B SMB segment.

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