| The world of communication has evolved rapidly over | | | | the transfer of a call to a specific number, in case all |
| the past few years and has provided organisations | | | | numbers are busy. This facility can be very beneficial in |
| with such telecommunication tools with which they can | | | | transferring calls to another group, if one group is busy; |
| expand their businesses beyond the horizons. | | | | or can be used in any other way as required by the |
| Business-phone lines are such facilities that help the | | | | business. |
| organisations to expand their businesses and to | | | | Caller ID is another great feature offered by |
| provide high quality services to their customers and | | | | business-phone lines. The subscriber is allowed to view |
| clients. | | | | the phone number of the calling customers. This facility |
| Due to the widespread use of business phone lines, | | | | is very helpful as it can be linked to a client database |
| many companies have started to provide this service | | | | and full information about the customer can be |
| and the features of each service varies from the | | | | obtained from this number, if it is available in the client |
| other. However, there are some features which are | | | | database. This way, the customer care officer can |
| common among many service providers, due to their | | | | deal with the customers in a more personalised way, |
| intensive usability and requirements in the business | | | | thus creating a caring reputation of the company. |
| world. | | | | Direct Inward Dialling is another great feature offered |
| Hunting is one of the greatest features of | | | | by many companies which allows the subscribers to |
| business-phone lines. It is quite natural that a company | | | | communicate with a large number of terminals within |
| which has a huge clientele would require many | | | | the network of the organization without having to buy |
| telephone lines at their customer care centre, to | | | | dedicated phone lines for all these terminals. A limited |
| provide technical support to a large number of | | | | number of lines sufficient for simultaneous |
| customers at a time. However, it is simply not feasible | | | | communication are required for this kind of service. |
| to provide so many phone numbers to customers and | | | | Some companies provide T1 circuits, which can carry |
| to tell them to call at each number. | | | | up to 24 lines and in combination with direct inward |
| This job is done by a feature called Hunting, which | | | | dialling; T1 circuits can provide sufficient communication |
| searches through the phone lines subscribed in a group | | | | lines for an internal network of an organisation. A large |
| and locates the first idle number and subsequently | | | | number of phone numbers can be supplied with only a |
| transfers the call to that line. This way, the customer | | | | limited number of lines with the help of a T1 circuit and |
| only has to dial one number and the call is | | | | DID. The number of lines depends on the number of |
| automatically transferred to an available customer | | | | calls a company expects. This cost effective solution |
| care officer. | | | | is perhaps one of the greatest features of |
| Call forwarding is another related feature which offers | | | | business-phone lines. |