2026-05-14

Reading CSSR without letting the busy hour flatter the rest of the day

Rows of indicator lights on server equipment

CSSR is only as honest as the attempt counter in the denominator. Vendor A and vendor B do not always count a ‘call attempt’ the same way, especially after a 4G/5G split. A dictionary session that skips this point will compare two numbers that never met.

Busy-hour CSSR can look calm while a shoulder hour is unusable. Schools, shift changes, and coastal weekends move the busy hour. Quote the hour you used. If the operator’s monthly pack still prints a single CSSR, keep a second column for the worst hour of the same day.

A quality walkthrough that finds a CSSR hole should also check drops in the same hours. Accessibility without retainability is a different complaint in the call centre. Mixing them in one sentence makes the field team chase the wrong cabinet.

We do not publish a universal CSSR target. Targets belong to the operator’s licence and to the desk’s own history on that cluster. Borrowing a figure from another country’s monthly pack is how a healthy rural face gets treated as failed.

Keep the extract. Screenshots of a dashboard age badly when the colour scale changes. The walkthrough note should cite the file name and the time the file was pulled.