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Delivering Analytics on Snowflake for Telecom Operators

Cartesian is a telecom-focused consulting firm specializing in analytics, strategy, and data-driven decision support built on Snowflake’s Data Cloud. We help telecommunications operators, infrastructure providers, and telecom investors unify complex data environments and turn large-scale data into actionable insights. Clients we have helped in this area include multiple leading US telecom operators. Schedule a consultation.

Deep Snowflake Expertise for Telecom Use Cases

Telecom organizations generate massive volumes of data across OSS, BSS, network, customer, and commercial systems. Cartesian designs and implements Snowflake-based analytics architectures that bring these datasets together securely and at scale to drive key metrics.

Snowflake Analytics Use Cases:

  • Network performance & capacity analytics
  • Customer experience & churn analysis
  • Revenue assurance & fraud analytics
  • Network investment & capital allocation
  • Wholesale / roaming / interconnect analytics
  • M&A, carve-outs, NetCo/OpCo reporting

What We Deliver:

  • Snowflake-Centered Telecom Data Architectures
  • Advanced Analytics and Decision Support
  • Snowflake Data Governance Frameworks and Enterprise Readiness
  • Actionable Snowflake Dashboards and Decision Tools

How Cartesian Can Help

Cartesian’s telecom expertise and Snowflake-first approach provide a holistic view of performance, customers, investment, and risk for analytics that deliver actionable insights.

Snowflake Architecture

Advanced Analytics

External Data Overlays

Governance & Security

Telecom Domain Expertise

Partnering with Snowflake

Telecom Analytics, Built on Snowflake

Cartesian aligns data at common dimensions (location, time, customer, asset) so decisions are made from a shared view of the business

We work across:

Operators

Telecom Investors

Infrastructure Providers

Regulatory Stakeholders

Why Cartesian?

Telecom-first focus with deep industry domain experience
Snowflake expertise for large-scale telecom data analytics
Business-led analytics, not generic data engineering
Trusted advisor to operators, infrastructure providers & investors

Contact Us to Learn More

Together, Cartesian and Snowflake help telecom organizations modernize analytics without disrupting operations. Let’s discuss your data, your priorities, and how to unlock value from Snowflake. 

  • Samuel Kornstein, CFA

    Managing Director, Strategy & Analytics

    +1 617 999-1121 • samuel.kornstein@cartesian.com

  • Ted Chan

    Principal

    +1 844 448-6800 • ted.chan@cartesian.com

Samuel Kornstein, CFA

Managing Director, Strategy & Analytics

Sam is Managing Director for Cartesian’s global Strategy & Analytics practice, with responsibilities for client development and engagement oversight.

He brings over ten years of experience advising clients on a broad range of strategic initiatives. He has worked with clients on topics including corporate strategy, product strategy, growth strategy, market analysis, data analysis and visualization, and predictive analytics.

Sam’s project expertise includes:

  • Growth opportunity identification and execution
  • Sales & Marketing strategy including realizing ROI through data driven test and learn programs
  • Customer data analytics and customer lifecycle management programs
  • Market strategy development and assessment
  • Video and content-delivery business models
  • Network investment strategy and cost modelling
  • Regulatory policy assessment and development

Sam received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and his Bachelor of Science degree with Honors from the Boston University School of Management.

Contact Sam via the email below or at +1 617 999-1121

Ted Chan

Principal

Ted brings more than 20 years of experience across strategy consulting, technology, and executive leadership, with deep expertise in telecommunications, media, and digital platforms. His work spans wireless and fiber networks, international markets, carrier value-added services, media ecosystems, and complex technical integrations. Trained originally as a systems architect, Ted combines technical depth with strategic and commercial insight in areas such as AI, APIs, and cloud architecture.

During his consulting career, Ted led or supported more than 30 strategy engagements across the telecommunications, media, and nonprofit sectors, advising top global wireless carriers and ISPs. During his previous stint at Cartesian, he spent nearly a year based in Sydney supporting a major Australian carrier on strategy and transformation initiatives. Ted began his career at Collaborative Consulting, now part of DXC Technology, where he drove large-scale transformation, analytics, and data warehouse initiatives in the finance and insurance sectors.

Ted has served as CEO of two venture-backed startups, including PracticeQuiz.com, a platform used by more than 200 million people. Most recently, he served as Chief Strategy Officer of the Better Business Bureau, where he drove digital and data led transformation initiatives across North America. He also teaches Marketing Analytics and Quantitative Decision Making at Boston University.

Ted holds a BA from Swarthmore College and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does Cartesian do with Snowflake for telecom companies?

Cartesian partners with Snowflake to help telecom operators design and implement Snowflake as a centralized analytics platform. We unify data from OSS, BSS, network, and customer systems and turn it into actionable insights for decision-making across operations, strategy, and investment.

Snowflake functions as a scalable cloud database and analytics platform for large-scale, complex datasets. This allows for advanced analytics such as churn prediction, network performance monitoring, revenue assurance, and investment modeling.

No, Cartesian works with your existing OSS, BSS, and data infrastructure to provide seamless Snowflake integration. Snowflake acts as a central analytics layer, integrating data across systems without disrupting operations.

Snowflake supports:

  • Structured data (billing, CRM, financials)
  • Semi-structured data (logs, events, usage records)
  • Time-series data (network performance, telemetry)

This makes it ideal for telecom environments with diverse and high-volume datasets.

Typical use cases include:

  • Customer churn analysis
  • Network investment and capacity planning
  • Revenue assurance and fraud detection
  • Margin and cost-to-serve analysis
  • Wholesale and interconnect analytics

Snowflake provides the platform, Cartesian brings:

  • Deep telecom domain expertise
  • Proven analytics frameworks and models
  • Business-focused insights (not just data engineering)
  • Decision support aligned to real operational and financial outcomes

Yes. We enrich Snowflake environments with external datasets such as:

  • GIS and geospatial coverage data
  • Demographics and household data
  • Competitive intelligence (coverage, pricing, speed)
  • Internet and application-level traffic data

We design Snowflake solutions with enterprise-grade controls, including:

  • Role-based access and data segregation
  • Full data lineage and transparency
  • Compliance with regulatory and reporting requirements
  • Auditable and explainable analytics

Yes. We support:

  • Telecom operators
  • Infrastructure providers
  • Private equity and institutional investors

Our work includes M&A analytics, carve-outs, and NetCo/OpCo reporting.

We typically begin with a focused discussion of your current data environment, business priorities, and key use cases. From there, we define a Snowflake-based roadmap tailored to your organization. 

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