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Rogers Communications - Call Centres and Satellite Offices

1 Rogers uses all Canadian based call centres for their Rogers, Fido and Cityfone brand names, and some offshore call centres for the Chatr division. The Canadian centres are

operated by the Rogers Shared Operations (RSO) division at various

satellite locations. These locations not only serve as call centres, but may also serve as satellite management offices

away from the head office in downtown Toronto. Listed below are the location of

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Call centre

1 In addition to a Call Centre, collective handling of Letter (message)|letter,

fax, live support software, and e-mail at one location is known as a

'Contact Centre'.


Call centre

1 A Call Centre is operated through an extensive open workspace for

Customer representative|Call Centre agents, with work stations that

include a computer for each agent, a telephone set/Headphones|headset connected to a telecom switch, and

one or more supervisor stations


Call centre - Technology

1 Call Centre technology is subject to improvements and

innovations



1 Historically, Call Centres have been built on Private branch exchange|PBX

equipment that is owned and hosted by the Call Centre operator. The PBX might

provide functions such as Automatic Call Distribution, Interactive Voice

Response, and skills-based routing. The Call Centre operator would be

responsible for the maintenance of the equipment and necessary software

upgrades as released by the vendor.https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html


1 'Virtual Call Centre Technology'



1 The vendor's telephony equipment then connects the calls to the Call Centre

operator's agents.



1 'Cloud Computing for Call Centres'



1 Cloud computing for Call Centres extends cloud computing to Software as

a service, or hosted, on-demand Call Centres by providing application

programming interfaces (APIs) on the Call Centre cloud computing platform

that allow Call Centre functionality to be integrated with cloud-based Customer

relationship management, such as Salesforce.com or Oracle CRM and leads

management and other applications.



1 The APIs typically provide programmatic access to two key

groups of features in the Call Centre platform:



1 Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) APIs provide developers with access to basic telephony controls and sophisticated call handling on

the Call Centre platform from a separate application.



1 Configuration APIs provide programmatic control of

administrative functions of the Call Centre platform which are typically accessed by a human administrator through a Graphical User Interface

(GUI).


Call centre - Dynamics

1 Call centre staff are often organised into a multi-tier support system for

more efficient handling of calls



1 Call centres have also been the subject of complaints by callers who

find the staff often do not have enough skill or authority to resolve

problems, while the staff sometimes appear apathetic



1 Telephone calls are easily monitored, and the close monitoring of call centre staff is widespread. This has the benefit

of helping the company to plan the workload and time of its employees. However it has also been argued that such close monitoring breaches the

human right to privacy. Most call centres provide electronic reports that outline performance metrics, quarterly highlights and other information about

the calls made and received.


Call centre - Varieties

1 *Inbound Call Centre - Exclusively or predominantly handles inbound calls

(calls initiated by the customer).



1 *Outbound Call Centre - One in which Call Centre agents make outbound calls to customers or sales leads.



1 *Blended Call Centre - Combining automatic call distribution for

incoming calls with predictive dialling for outbound calls, it makes more efficient use of agent time as each

type of agent (inbound or outbound) can handle the overflow of the other.



1 *Telephone answering service - A more personalised version of the Call

Centre, where agents get to know more about their customers and their callers; and therefore look after calls

just as if based in their customers office.


Call centre - Criticism and performance

1 Criticisms of call centres generally follow a number of common themes,

from both callers and call centre staff. From callers, common

criticisms include:


Call centre - Criticism and performance

1 (2005) Manage Your Human Sigma, Harvard Business Review Call centres

are beginning to address this by using Agent-assisted Automation to standardise the process all agents

use


Call centre - Mathematical theory

1 Queueing theory is a branch of mathematics in which models of

queueing systems have been developed. A call centre can be seen as a queuing network. The models can be applied to answer queueing

questions for call centres. The most widespread queueing model used is

the Erlang unit|Erlang C Formula.


Call centre - Mathematical theory

1 Call centre operations have been supported by mathematical models beyond queueing, with operations research, which considers a wide

range of Optimization (mathematics)|optimisation problems.


Call centre - Media portrayals

1 Indian call centres have been the focus of two documentary films, the 2005 film Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night and the 2006 film Bombay

Calling. An Indian call centre is also the subject of the 2006 film

Outsourced (film) and a key location in the 2008 film, Slumdog Millionaire.


Call centres - Varieties

1 *Inbound call centre – Exclusively or predominantly handles inbound calls

(calls initiated by the customer).



1 *Outbound call centre – One in which call centre agents make outbound calls to customers or sales leads.



1 *Blended call centre – Combining automatic call distribution for

incoming calls with predictive dialling for outbound calls, it makes more efficient use of agent time as each

type of agent (inbound or outbound) can handle the overflow of the other.



1 *Telephone answering service – A more personalised version of the call

centre, where agents get to know more about their customers and their callers; and therefore look after calls

just as if based in their customers office.


Call centres - Mathematical theory

1 (Erlang's C formula is such a result for an M/M/c queue and

approximations exist for an M/G/k queue.) Statistical analysis of call

centre data has suggested arrivals are governed by an inhomogeneous Poisson process and jobs have a log-

normal distribution|log-normal service time distribution.


The Daily Telegraph (Australia) - Call centres in India

1 The paper even sent a journalist to Bangalore, Luke McIlveen, and a

photographer to verify this claim.[http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s1766278.htm Media Watch: Front

Page — Bad Line For Bangalore] (16 October 2006) ANZ strongly denied the claim, stating that they do not employ

overseas call centre staff in India.http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/ep36anz2.pdf Subsequently, ANZ pulled all of its advertising from News Corp

Australia|News Limited, including Foxtel and News websites


HSBC Malta - Malta Call Centre

1 In April 2006 HSBC announced that it would be opening a new call centre in Malta, with an investment of €7 million and the creation of 350 jobs. The centre

will deal with calls from HSBC Bank (Europe)|HSBC Bank's customers in the

United Kingdom, and operate as a branch of that company, under the

oversight of HSBC Malta management [http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/arti

cle.php?id=222258].https://store.theartofservice.com/the-call-centre-toolkit.html

List of Hollyoaks locations - Call centre

1 Later in 2009, all of the staff quit and the call centre was ultimately shut down.


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