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# Telecoms uptime is as much a finance question as an engineering one

**[TechCentral](https://daily.dev/sources/techcentral)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

An advertorial from Backspace Technologies argues that telecoms uptime should be viewed through a financial lens, not just an engineering one. It claims finance teams can spot warning signs of network trouble in revenue reports, billing anomalies, and creditor payments before engineers do, and urges telecoms operators to break down silos between finance and operations. It also stresses that paying upstream suppliers on time is itself an uptime strategy, since delayed payments can cause providers to cut services.

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