We're way ahead of schedule," says Portal marketing manager Simon Ryan. The Portal has attracted a full range of users, with take-up from local authorities and planning agents exceeding expectations. The concept behind the Planning Portal (www...
While the UK call centre industry - and some call centre users - complain of language difficulties with agents in locations such as India, it's just such a language barrier that's keeping the Swedes' call centre industry firmly inside the country...
Indian government promises of tighter laws to boost data privacy and intellectual property protection for western companies that have outsourced IT and call centre operations to the country are still in limbo - some seven years after first being...
Despite the percentage decline in the ratio of unlicensed software, the BSA claimed it was important the UK government take tougher action against intellectual property violations by implementing the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement...
The shady middlemen selling the data could never explain exactly how it had come into their hands other than through 'social engineering', or using call centre agents to call UK mobile phone users and then solicit more personal information than...
Businesses should be working to move low-value interactions onto web and phone self-service channels, and to use the savings created to pay higher salaries to their agents. Steve Morrell, principal analyst at ContactBabel, said in the report: "The...