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Hosted IVR services are in still nascent state as such, except Bulk Voice Calling, which has grown on the back of SMS ( Short Messaging Service) mass messaging after Mobile Phone revolution in India! But still, hosted IVR Service providers face many problems, majorly from telecom service providers. Lately, many companies have understood benefit of [...]

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How to get Toll Free Number in India ?

by Uttam Pegu on April 27, 2011

IVR and toll free number has very close relation. Almost all toll free numbers in the world are first answered by an IVR before a caller can speak to human agent. Many people are almost impatient to speak to human agent after dialing a toll free number, while Ithe VR seems to get in between [...]

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Outbound IVR : Interesting Implementation

by Uttam Pegu on September 22, 2010

Recently, I have come across some interesting outbound IVR ( Interactive Voice Response System) implementation. While it may not be the best outbound IVR arrangement, but it sure is the cheapest and most reliable in the circumstances in India. Just to mention, majority of the outbound IVR applications dial out a number, plays a recorded [...]

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CRBT and Mobile Number portability

by Uttam Pegu on September 13, 2010

CRBT ( Caller Ring Back Tone) has been very successful in Mobile VAS (Value Added Service) industry ( specially in India, where it is said to generate almost 60% of the total revenue). There has been few discussions how CRBT will work when MNP ( Mobile Number Portability) is implemented in India. There has been [...]

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IVR usability and Airtel (India) Call center

by Uttam Pegu on June 16, 2010

Recently, I came to know that Airtel ( Mobile Service provider in India with largest number of mobile subscribers, around 135 millions) charges caller to its mobile subscribers at the Rs. 0.5 per 3 minutes when they call their helpline number ( customer care) and speak to any human agent. The charge starts as soon [...]

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Voice Portal services in India

by Uttam Pegu on March 1, 2010

Voice portal services in India are one of the most successful VAS ( Value Added Service) in terms of revenue generation. Voice portal is steadily growing in India. Voice Portal operators like OnMobile, One97, Cellebrum ( Now Spice Digital), IMI Mbile, Rajasthan Patrika, etc. are few players who are spearheading the voice portal growth in [...]

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Integrating CTI board with Telecom switch or EPABX

by Uttam Pegu on October 12, 2009

Most probably, the most dreaded and time consuming part of deployment of IVR system is the integration of CTI board with the telecom switch or EPABX. And if EPABX or switch is of lower end or from smaller EPABX manufacturer ( there are few in India), it may become really a nightmare for IVRS integrator [...]

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CRBT for Advertisement

by Uttam Pegu on July 22, 2009

CRBT (Caller Ring Back Tone) is a very popular IVR application used in Telecom Industry. It is known as “Hello Tunes”, “Caller Tunes” in India. CRBT is a fairly simple IVR system which has a smart call routing and a IVR application which plays one audio file, a music as per choice by the CRBT [...]

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