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[Mike Fedyk]

Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
> Mike Fedyk a écrit :
>> Ok, feel free to smack me with a cold tuna if I'm off my rocker, but 
>> how does ASR measure anything having to do with the services offered 
>> when it is a measure based on the people who are called?
>
> <cold-tuna>*splat*</cold-tuna>
>
> The thing is, once you start having some decent, and unless you have a 
> large client who sends you lots of crappy traffic (because you are 
> last in their routing and so you get all the non-existent numbers and 
> so on), the people who are called are sufficiently diverse for the 
> statistic to become meaningful.
>
> Otherwise you would have to make a distinction for busy, wrong number, 
> fast-busy, and so on...
>
> Now I agree, it might not be the best metric in the world, but it's 
> simple to understand, easy to measure, and is widely accepted in the 
> industry. Multiply it with the ACD (Average Call Duration) and the 
> margin, and you have a good idea on how valuable the route is to you. 
Great, thanks for the explanation.

Is there anywhere I can find a list of these accepted industry standard 
terms and their definitions and derivations?  I'd be happy to start a 
page on the wiki if someone took the time to explain it a bit to me.

Mike