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Re:CallJoy – A cloud-based phone agent for small businesses by bdcravens on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @03:05PM (#19800527)
A feature that I've yet seen implemented: white-listing numbers to bypass the robot
Re:CallJoy – A cloud-based phone agent for small businesses by LostJourneyman on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @05:01PM (#19801605)
Disclaimer: I'm a telephony engineer, and while I understand and will below present the motivations and logic of enterprise-level companies, I don't always agree with it.

On the enterprise level, this is actually pretty common. I've personally implemented this several dozen times for VIP lines. For enterprises, though, it's important to understand that almost anything that happens in a call center is a cost to the company and rarely makes revenue. The company sees the call center, often, as a necessary evil. Having customers that could potentially have figured it out themselves talk to a human is really just taking time away from agents helping someone who couldn't "self-serve". You only really see this feature in cases where is almost always worth it for the company to have someone talking to an agent immediately.

Re:CallJoy – A cloud-based phone agent for small businesses by reaperducer on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @04:24PM (#19801250)
Bank of America seems to do this somewhat.

If I call from the phone that's connected to my Bank of America account, I can access my account with just a four-digit number. If I call from another phone, I have to go through the full user verification.

Re:CallJoy – A cloud-based phone agent for small businesses by mcny on Thursday May 02, 2019 @07:20AM (#19806687)
Can it tell the difference between calling from your phone as opposed to calling from your Amazon Alexa device if you have one? I mean how does it handle spoofing?
Re:CallJoy – A cloud-based phone agent for small businesses by iancarroll on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @05:46PM (#19801961)
Delta (and presumably most airlines) do this for you once you have elite status. You no longer have to go through the prompts and are just routed to a human.