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Old Aug 21, 2019 | 8:52 am
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Originally Posted by exwannabe
Around 15 years ago chat was "the thing" in the call service industry, but everybody soon found out is was really expensive and many dropped it. Problem is there is a long turn around around between replies. Even with agents handling a few concurrent chats it still slow compared to voice.

Email and twitter and much better from a cost perspective
Not if they are chatbots ... most of the basic questions can be easily answered via "digital assistants".
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