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In telecommunications, calling is:
1.Any attempt to set up a communications
circuit.
2.A unit of traffic measurement.
3.The actions performed by a call originator.
4.The operations required to establish,
maintain, and release a connection.
5.To use a connection between two stations.
Related Terms:
Conference Call: Allows you to speak to more than one person at the same time. This can be extremely useful for remote business meetings. To use this service, it must be supported by your network and by your phone. You may also have to add this service to your subscription. A conference call is a telephone call where the calling party wants to have more than one called party listen in to the audio portion of the call. The conference call may be designed to allow the called party to also talk during the call, or the call may be set up so that the called party merely listens into the call but cannot speak.
Call Center: A call centre (Commonwealth English) or call center (AmE) is a centralised office of a company that answers incoming telephone calls from customers or that makes outgoing telephone calls to customers (telemarketing). Such an office may also respond to letters, faxes, e-mails and similar written correspondence. However the term contact centre (Commonwealth English) or contact center (AmE) is often applied when such multiple functions are blended in one office.
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