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The term "call center" was first published and recognised by the Oxford English Dictionary in 1983. The 1980s saw the development of toll-free telephone numbers to increase the efficiency of agents and overall call volume. Call centers increased with the deregulation of long-distance calling and growth in information-dependent industries. [11]
The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In the 20th century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until it was broken up in 1982 and replaced by a system of competitors.
ICT Group, Inc. was a multinational call center and outsourcing company based in the Philadelphia suburb of Newtown. [1]During the Great Recession, it closed call centers in the United States and Canada, and reduced staff numbers in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia, as part of a plan to move its operations to lower-wage countries.
A message center or “message desk” was a centralized, manual answering service inside a company staffed by a few people, usually women, answering everyone's phones. Extensions that were busy or rang “no answer” would forward to the message center onto a device called a “call director”.
For a local call, the operator inserted the front cord of the pair (ringing cord) into the called party's local jack and started the ringing cycle. For a long-distance call, the operator plugged into a trunk circuit to connect to another operator in another bank of boards or at a remote central office. In 1918, the average time to complete the ...
PSTN network topology is the switching network topology of a telephone network connected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN).. In the United States and Canada, the Bell System network topology was the switching system hierarchy implemented and operated from c. 1930 to the 1980s for the purpose of integrating the diverse array of local telephone companies and telephone numbering ...
11 February 1876: Elisha Gray invents a liquid transmitter for use with a telephone, but he did not make one. 14 February 1876 about 9:30 am: Gray or his lawyer brings Gray's patent caveat for the telephone to the Washington, D.C. Patent Office (a caveat was a notice of intention to file a patent application.
Company Founded Employees Revenue Locations Atento: 1999 154,000 Concentrix: 1983 290,000+ US$5.3 billion (2020) Conduent: 3 January 2017 31,000 (2021) US$4.140 billion (2021) 22 countries (2021)