Products
Resources
Get Sample Data
← Back to PreMovers
PreMovers for telecom & ISP

Stop the disconnect before they dial

Pre-mover signals on Canadian residential addresses, delivered weekly. National coverage, address-level granularity, Snowflake-native delivery. Built for telecom retention, disconnect prevention, and address-of-move acquisition.

The disconnect window

A move is a churn event

The single biggest driver of Canadian telecom subscriber churn is moving. The carrier that engages early keeps the subscriber. The carrier that finds out from a disconnect call has already lost them.

For Canadian telecom and ISP carriers, the move event is the most reliable churn driver in the customer base. A household moves; they evaluate every recurring service at the new address; the incumbent provider often loses the relationship not because of price or service quality, but because the competitor reached them first at the new address. The retention motion that runs during the disconnect call is too late — the decision has already been made.

Pre-mover data is the leading signal that closes this gap. A weekly file of households entering the move cycle, matched against the active subscriber base on service address, surfaces every at-risk subscriber 4 to 12 weeks before they call to disconnect. The retention team has time to offer a smooth service transfer, a moving promo, or a portfolio review — all before the household has chosen a new provider.

"Telecoms and internet providers use it to retain subscribers who are about to disconnect and acquire new subscribers at addresses entering the market."

What a telecom-grade pre-mover record looks like

For telecom retention and acquisition use, BrightCat PreMovers delivers property-level signals built for warehouse-native integration:

Use cases

Three telecom workflows, one dataset

Disconnect prevention
Match the weekly pre-mover file against the active subscriber base on service address. Flag at-risk subscribers. Route to retention 4 to 12 weeks before the disconnect call, when a service-transfer offer can actually save the relationship.
Address-of-move acquisition
Prospect listed addresses with offers timed to the move cycle. Reach households at the new address before the incumbent provider has a chance to retain them.
Footprint & expansion planning
Listing activity across regions feeds expansion planning, service-area prioritization, and competitive intelligence — using the same pipeline that produces the retention signal.
Continuous capture, not periodic drop

The move event is structural, not seasonal

Canadian households move year-round, but the listing market has predictable seasonal patterns — spring and fall peaks, winter trough. A pre-mover program that runs continuously, on the same weekly cadence as the listing market, captures the structural baseline plus the seasonal lift. BrightCat PreMovers is delivered on that continuous weekly cadence, since 2014, with no gaps.

BrightCat PreMovers is delivered as a continuously-maintained dataset rather than a periodic audience drop. The data refreshes weekly inside the carrier's Snowflake environment, available to every downstream workflow — retention queue, acquisition campaign, churn model, expansion analytics. The same data joins to the subscriber base for retention and to the prospect universe for acquisition, without re-licensing or re-formatting.

For Canadian carriers running pre-mover programs against a multi-million-subscriber base, the warehouse-native shape means one license, one dataset, one integration — not separate vendors for each workflow.

Delivery

Procurement

Built for carrier procurement

Snowflake-native delivery, documented methodology, PIPEDA-consistent data shape, and enterprise licensing terms.

Canadian telecom procurement runs multi-stage privacy and security review on data vendors. BrightCat is built around that workflow:

Related

Connected to the broader pipeline

Pre-mover is one product. Telecom teams also use the listings, sold, and rentals data on the same pipeline for footprint, expansion, and competitive analytics.

Pre-mover data for telecom

Save the subscriber before they call to disconnect

Get sample data in your Snowflake account or as a flat file. Match against your subscriber base before committing.

Request sample data PreMovers product page