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BDC glossary

Speed to answer

Seconds from first ring to a live answer, usually reported as a median and a 90th percentile.

Speed to answer and abandon rate move together. Alpha Drive's AI answers in under a second; a human queue is measured in tens of seconds at best.

Also called: average speed of answer, ASA.

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