Streamlining 5G integrations
5G installs stalled on unpredictable software updates. We measured the waste and moved the slow work off the tower.
- Client
- Regional telecom operator
- Industry
- Telecom & tower ops
- Scope
- Process + field analytics
- Year
- 2023
- 10K+
- Labor hours saved annually
- 19%
- Lower update failure rate
- <1%
- Software updates as share of time
- $26.8K
- First-year savings
The issue.
Installing 5G equipment on-site was slow and regularly stalled by unpredictable software updates.
A typical site carried three to four modules, each waiting on the last, and updates failed at random, sending crews back to the start.
How we fixed it.
- 01
Measured the waste
Quantified the software-update time nobody was tracking.
- 02
Ran updates in parallel
Stopped updating one module at a time.
- 03
Moved the slow work off-tower
With error-signature monitoring to catch failures in the first five minutes.
What it unlocked.
- Labor saved per integration
- 1–2 hours
- Tower-crew wait time
- 3–8 hours reduced
- Annual labor hours saved
- 10,000+
- First-year savings
- $26,879
- New vendors
- None
No new vendors, no re-platforming. At rollout scale, that's millions in labor saved over time.
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