Daily News 2005/03/21

China, a promising leader in the Call center industry

According to the latest report made by Datacraft Asia, China will be the most brilliant star of tomorrow, although the explosion of call center industry in India and Philippines has caught much attention of the public in recent years. Nowadays, Chinese people are work hard at English and the 2008 Olympic games will be held in China (only 3 years from now on), which makes the country the most promising place for the development of call center industry.

With the 2008 Olympic games drawing nearer and nearer, China will make great efforts to provide more employees who are good at English. It is much necessary to be good at both Chinese and English for an employee of a call center in China.
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Dell setting up the third call center in India to improve the quality of customer service

Dell plans to set up the third contact center in India this month. The other two centers as set up by Dell in India has now been put into operation. The third one will be engaged in providing telephone-based services for customers in America and other parts of the world.

Dell has been much complained and blamed by the customers and enterprises who are not satisfied with its services in India. To solve this problem, it resorted to the technical support from American experts to improve the call center service. Senior Management personnel from Dell say that the company has input a large amount of capital in training Indian employees. As a result, the situation is becoming better now, with the service quality much improved and customers giving favorable comments.

According to the annual report by Dell, the number of employee has increased by 9200, with the total number reaching 55200. Most of these employees, that is, about 30600 persons, work outside America. This means that the growth of Dell is in fact a worldwide growth. Meanwhile, the company has also set up factories in other parts of America. The next factory will be set up in North Carolina. With the work started now, it is anticipated that the factory, to employ 1500 persons in the coming five years, will start producing desktop computer this September.

Meanwhile, Dell has set up a call center in the state of Oklahoma, and a physical distribution center in Westchester of Ohio. It has also set up call centers in Edmonton, Albertan, San Salvador and El Salvador in the last year.

Service hotline opened in Beijing People's Broadcasting Station

It is learnt from Beijing People's Broadcasting Station this afternoon that, the service line "65661566" will be put into operation on March 21. It will provide 24-hours service based on the principle of "providing high-quality service at any time for the customer"