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call centre

A central hub for receiving calls and routing callers to the appropriate resources. In healthcare, call centres—staffed or automated, outsourced or in house—can be used to offload non-emergency callers, link consumers to educational messages or route them to physician scheduling systems.
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The college) developed the program in anticipation of call centres being established in Northern Ontario," Rondeau says.
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Wicom's call centre application provides comprehensive tools for managing virtual skill groups across multiple locations.
Our daily call load varies between 5000 and 7000 calls and there are times when the number of calls coming in to the call centre is 120 per cent over capacity and yet a few hours later demand has fallen to only 30 per cent.
The Finland Post call centre clearly proves that IP telephony is reliable enough to be deployed in business critical applications.
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Losco said Telstra was committed to working with all levels of Government, educational institutions and other interested parties in putting together total solution packages which were necessary to attract call centre investment to Australia.
Citibank Announces Plans to Establish Asia-Pacific Call Centre in Queensland Australia; Telstra/Government Partnership Brings Jobs Dividend

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