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Network Capacity Prediction

Which cell towers will exceed capacity?

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A real-world example

Which cell towers will exceed capacity?

A single cell tower outage affects 2,000-10,000 subscribers and costs $50K-$200K in service credits and churn. Carriers spend $8B annually on network upgrades, but 30% of CapEx goes to towers that did not actually need it while capacity-strained towers go unaddressed. Traffic patterns shift with events, construction, and subscriber mobility in ways that static coverage models cannot predict.

How KumoRFM solves this

Graph-learned network intelligence across your entire subscriber base

Kumo connects towers, cells, traffic records, subscribers, and events into a spatial-temporal graph. It learns that when a nearby tower goes into maintenance, traffic redistributes predictably based on subscriber density and handoff patterns. The model captures event-driven spikes (stadium, concert venue), seasonal shifts, and cascading congestion effects across adjacent cells that isolated time-series models miss.

From data to predictions

See the full pipeline in action

Connect your tables, write a PQL query, and get predictions with built-in explainability — all in minutes, not months.

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Your data

The relational tables Kumo learns from

TOWERS

tower_idlocationtypemax_capacity_mbpssectors
TWR00140.7128,-74.006Macro100003
TWR00240.7589,-73.985Small cell20001
TWR00340.7484,-73.985Macro100003

CELLS

cell_idtower_idbandtechnologycurrent_load_pct
C001TWR001n715G72%
C002TWR002B66LTE91%
C003TWR003n415G45%

TRAFFIC_RECORDS

record_idcell_idtimestampthroughput_mbpsconnected_users
TR01C0012025-03-02 18:0072003400
TR02C0022025-03-02 18:001850890
TR03C0032025-03-02 18:0045002100

SUBSCRIBERS

subscriber_idhome_towerplanavg_data_gb_day
SUB101TWR001Unlimited Plus1.2
SUB102TWR002Basic 5GB0.3
SUB103TWR001Unlimited Plus2.1

EVENTS

event_idtypelocationdateexpected_attendees
EVT01Concert40.7505,-73.9932025-03-1520000
EVT02Construction40.7128,-74.0052025-03-10N/A
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Write your PQL query

Describe what to predict in 2–3 lines — Kumo handles the rest

PQL
PREDICT MAX(TRAFFIC_RECORDS.THROUGHPUT_MBPS, 0, 24, hours)
FOR EACH CELLS.CELL_ID
WHERE CELLS.CURRENT_LOAD_PCT > 50
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Prediction output

Every entity gets a score, updated continuously

CELL_IDTOWER_IDCURRENT_LOADPREDICTED_PEAK_LOAD_24H
C001TWR00172%88%
C002TWR00291%105% (OVERFLOW)
C003TWR00345%62%
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Understand why

Every prediction includes feature attributions — no black boxes

Cell C002 -- TWR002, Small cell, LTE

Predicted: 105% predicted peak load (overflow)

Top contributing features

Current load vs capacity

91% utilized

28% attribution

Nearby event (concert, 0.3mi)

20,000 attendees

25% attribution

Adjacent tower maintenance

TWR004 offline

20% attribution

Historical Friday peak multiplier

1.35x

15% attribution

Subscriber growth (last 30d)

+8% in area

12% attribution

Feature attributions are computed automatically for every prediction. No separate tooling required. Learn more about Kumo explainability

Bottom line: A carrier with 50,000 cell sites that predicts capacity overflows 24 hours in advance prevents $20M in annual service credits and targeted churn. Kumo captures event-driven traffic spikes, maintenance cascades, and spatial congestion propagation that isolated tower-level forecasting misses.

Topics covered

network capacity predictioncell tower capacity AItelecom capacity planningtraffic forecasting MLnetwork congestion predictiongraph neural network telecomKumoRFM network capacityRAN optimization AIwireless capacity forecasting

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KumoRFM

Relational Foundation Model

Turn structured relational data into predictions in seconds. KumoRFM delivers zero-shot predictions that rival months of traditional data science. No training, feature engineering, or infrastructure required. Just connect your data and start predicting.

For critical use cases, fine-tune KumoRFM on your data using the Kumo platform and Data Science Agent for 30%+ higher accuracy than traditional models.

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