Years
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Building digital products and regulated technology systems
Telecomms
& Digital Services ./
Digital channel ecosystems, subscriber account management, and telco e-commerce — spanning activation, self-service, and service management.
The Sector
Where digital journeys have to close, not just start
Telecommunications sits at the intersection of complex products, fragmented back-end estates, and customers who expect digital to work end-to-end. The gap between a digital channel that looks complete and one that actually closes — purchase confirmed, account created, service active — is where most telco transformation programmes stall.
Plans, devices, portability flows, activation sequences, and account creation are not independent steps. Closing a telco sale digitally requires integrating commercial, operational, and provisioning logic that most digital channel tooling was never built to handle.
Our Positioning
Telecommunications delivery across digital channels, self-service, and commercial platforms
We work across the full telecom channel estate, from acquisition and e-commerce through to self-service and account management.
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End-to-End Channel Delivery
Telecommunications digital programmes typically span multiple channels that have to work together. We design and build across the full estate — e-commerce, account management, mobile, and business portals — covering front-end delivery, back-end integration, QA, analytics, and ongoing channel development.
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Multi-Segment Journey Design
Prepaid, postpaid, residential, and corporate subscribers have different journeys, different friction points, and different definitions of self-service success. Good telco design reflects those differences in the structure, content, and flow of each journey.
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Digital Commerce Complexity
Plan configuration, device selection, number portability, account creation, and service activation are interdependent steps that require back-end sequences to complete. We build journeys that close at every stage, including confirmation, account setup, and service activation.
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Self-Service at Scale
Account management platforms rely on more than a well-designed interface. They need back-end integration that confirms payments, credits top-ups, and updates account state in real time. We deliver both the subscriber-facing experience and the integration underneath it.
What We Do
Digital channels, self-service platforms, and end-to-end commercial journeys
Telecoms operators need digital channel estates that cover the full subscriber lifecycle — acquisition, self-service, account management, and retention — across a range of channel types that have to feel consistent even when they serve different purposes. We design and build these ecosystems across the full breadth: public site, e-commerce, mobile app, subscriber account portal, business portal, checkout, top-ups, and number portability. The channels are designed as a connected experience, with shared information architecture, design system, and integration layer across the estate.
- Multi-channel ecosystem design: consistent information architecture, shared design system, and coordinated user flows across web, mobile, and account management surfaces.
- End-to-end e-commerce: plan and device selection, cart, checkout, payment, confirmation, account creation, and service activation — built as a complete digital journey from selection through to activation.
- Mobile-first delivery: critical subscriber journeys prioritised for performance and continuity on mobile web and app, where the majority of interactions happen.
- Integration architecture connecting front-end channel surfaces to telco back-end services, with defined API contracts, integration SLAs, and failure handling built in.
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What the Market Says
What telecommunications operators actually deal with
Real pressure points from digital, product, and technology leads running telecom channels day to day.
“Our digital channel looks complete from the outside. But the purchase journey still ends in a callback. The real problem is the back end, and nobody internally wants to own the integration that would actually close it.”
— Head of Digital, Telecommunications Operator
Where We Apply Our Expertise
Capability areas across telecommunications
Telecommunications operators work with Soho across several capability areas — often in combination, because self-service, e-commerce, and account management problems rarely present independently.
End-to-end digital channel platforms for telecoms — e-commerce, subscriber account management, mobile, and the self-service journeys that sit between telco back-end systems and the subscribers who use them.
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Including telecommunications operators and digital service providers
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Delivered worldwide
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Client satisfaction score (H1)
“In telecoms, the quality of a digital channel shows up in the last steps of the journey: checkout completion, account creation, and service activation. That is where the integration underneath the experience either holds together or it does not.”
Leonardo Magalhães
Operations Director, Soho Europe
Delivery strategist and senior programme leader with 15+ years leading digital channel and enterprise technology programmes in regulated and multinational environments. Leonardo brings deep experience in delivery governance, cross-functional coordination, and the operational discipline required to run complex digital programmes at scale.
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Whether you're building a self-service platform that actually deflects call centre volume, closing the gap in a digital purchase journey, or designing across a multi-segment subscriber base — we know what telco digital delivery involves in practice. Let's have a conversation.
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