Spearline

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology is a widely used, highly effective means of automating customer contact services. It is a game changer for call centers, freeing up human agents by routing and deflecting calls, providing recorded responses to FAQs, and even providing account information and accepting payments. IVRs have one major flaw though, people don’t like them!

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Spearline

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Passing the test Call center KPI tracking often involves exhaustive call testing; voice call quality testing, call connection testing, remote agent connection testing , latency testing, and symmetrical and asymmetrical collaborative tool testing, to name but a handful. You have to ask yourself what time and resources you have available to devote to the collection and analysis of KPI metrics.

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Spearline

JANUARY 25, 2023

Spearline is delighted to announce that it has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Cork Chamber’s Company of the Year Awards 2023. CEO and co-founder Kevin Buckley said it’s a great honour to be a finalist in the Cork Chamber’s Company of the Year Awards, “This award recognises our team’s hard work and efforts in growing and expanding the company over the past few years.

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Spearline

JANUARY 24, 2023

Welcome Angola to Spearline! Spearline is proud to unveil Angola as the latest addition to our rapidly expanding mobile testing network. With the inclusion of Angola, our global coverage now reaches an impressive 83 countries. That’s right, you can now confidently test your mobile numbers on Unitel and Movicel, the top two operators in Angola with a combined market share of 73%.

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Spearline

JANUARY 20, 2023

Call Quality Call center number testing is a vital component of any quality assurance planning framework The QA Mandate The overall customer journey is a complex lattice of touchpoints, with your call center representing one of the most important. A quality assurance (QA) plan will help to ensure that your call center meets and hopefully exceeds the operational and customer experience (CX) standards you are hoping to achieve.

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Spearline

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What a couple of years we’ve had! Our heads are still spinning from the rapidity of the shift toward digital channel and cloud adoption, as the continuing health crisis forced our work environments and infrastructures to bed down in the virtual sphere. We are only now getting the breathing space to appreciate the implications of our enforced digital revolution.

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Spearline

JANUARY 11, 2023

WebRTC applications are no different from other applications in the product development lifecycle. That said, understanding WebRTC and that lifecycle can greatly help us in our WebRTC testing needs. There are many ways to depict the product development lifecycle, and this depiction will change based on who is the one illustrating it. Here is my own interpretation of the product development lifecycle, which aligns well with WebRTC testing.

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Spearline

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Welcome Algeria to Spearline! We’re thrilled to announce Algeria as the latest country to join our mobile testing network – bringing Spearline’s global total coverage to 82 countries. You can now test your mobile numbers across Azurreo and Djezzy. Djezzy is a state-owned mobile operator and is the largest MNO in Algeria with a market share of approximately 65%.

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Spearline

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Spearline has acquired Callstats. We have some exciting news to share! After acquiring testRTC a year ago. WebRTC monitoring is now in the best hands. If you’re not aware, Callstats offers a passive monitoring solution for WebRTC applications. You embed their SDK (software development kit) within your application, it then siphons the metrics it needs to its servers for further analysis – similar in many ways to our watchRTC product.

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Spearline

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Skibbereen technology company Spearline acquires Callstats from 8×8 Skibbereen, Co. Cork, 8 th December 2022: Spearline, a leading global provider of communication testing technologies, has acquired Callstats analytics, diagnostics and optimization technology for WebRTC from 8×8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT) for an undisclosed sum. Spearline is headquartered in Skibbereen, Co.

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Spearline

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Spearline’s global coverage is growing at lightning speed! We’re thrilled to announce Pakistan as the latest country to join our mobile testing network – bringing Spearline’s global total coverage to 81 countries. You can now test your mobile numbers across Pakistan’s two major networks – Telenor and Jazz. These two operators dominate the market at 60%.

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Spearline

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For the full live experience click here. Talkdesk discusses managing remote agents’ networks Watch a replay of our live webinar from Wednesday, November 9th hosted by Tsahi Levent-Levi, Spearline’s Chief Product Officer, and Jacob Rivers, Director of Network Engineering at Talkdesk. One of the bigger challenges with managing remote agents’ networks is handling complaints about connectivity and quality issues when you don’t have insight into their home network environment.

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Spearline

OCTOBER 18, 2022

At Spearline, we recognize that Interactive Voice Response, or IVR systems are an important point of contact between you and your customers and carry the weight of your brand message. With this in mind, we have developed a comprehensive IVR testing solution for you to track call and data flows to your agents irrespective of location. Let’s take a look at just how our testing tool can shore up your IVR system integrity.

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Spearline

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

WebRTC application development is challenging! It involves interactions between multiple people, not just a person and a machine. When testing such applications, how do you handle scenarios requiring multiple users connected through multiple devices over different networks and locations? If you conduct these tests manually, you won’t be able to scale your testing or validation, which could end up with your application breaking for your users in production.

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Spearline

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

What is it and how do you test it? Interactive voice response, or IVR, is an automated enterprise telephony system that uses pre-recorded messages and/or text-to-speech technology to interact with a combination of voice telephone inputs and touch-tone keypad selection. If you’ve ever had to ‘say or press one for English’ then you already have experience with IVR.

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Spearline

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Digital transformation (DX) is redrawing the entire contact center map. One of the most disruptive DX trends is the shift to a seamless omnichannel customer experience (CX). Increasingly, customers (we’re looking at you, millennials ) are choosing webRTC avenues for sales and support before they even consider making a call to a contact center. These new, interconnected WebRTC communications channels are vulnerable to all the usual web demons; breakages, outages, latency, jitter, etc.

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Spearline

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today’s customers are connected customers, they expect personalized, seamless, omnichannel engagement and they are willing to pay a premium for it. Building an ecology of CX excellence takes some effort but you’ll be glad you put the work in. Let’s build a picture of what this environment will look like by first discussing some CX issues that frustrate rather than delight our customers. to track call and data flows to your agents irrespective of location, and receive full Call Detail Records (CD

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Spearline

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

At Spearline, we recognize that Interactive Voice Response, or IVR systems are an important point of contact between you and your customers and carry the weight of your brand message. With this in mind, we have developed a comprehensive suite of IVR testing and monitoring solutions for you to track call and data flows to your agents irrespective of location, and receive full Call Detail Records (CDRs) and a fully transcribed and mapped MP3 recording of each call.

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Spearline

AUGUST 24, 2022

Watch for the swerve. Real-time WebRTC communication has become the controlling force in communications technology and yet, somewhat ironically, there are still many WebRTC variables beyond our control. While WebRTC’s availability across all major browsers and on native clients for all major platforms is undoubtedly a good thing, the result is a massive disparity in media quality that hinges on issues of frame size, frame-rate, codecs, bitrate, latency, and transport protocols.

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Spearline

AUGUST 17, 2022

Welcome The Dominican Republic, Ghana, Guatemala & Côte d’Ivoire to the Spearline network! We are delighted to let you know that you can now test your mobile numbers in the Dominican Republic, Ghana, Guatemala and Côte d’Ivoire across the countries’ major mobile networks – bringing Spearline’s global total coverage to 80 countries.

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Spearline

AUGUST 26, 2022

Do you ever find yourself up all night worrying about how your infrastructure is keeping pace with your requirements and your SLAs? Do you toss and turn, stressing about whether your webRTC application is working globally just where you need it? Is your beauty sleep interrupted with nightmares of bad user experiences throughout the week? Well, good news; at Spearline, we have a powerful scheduling tool that will execute test scripts in front of your WebRTC application at any interval throughout

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Spearline

JULY 12, 2022

An introduction to Voice Quality Testing We’ve all experienced a phone call where the voice quality makes it almost impossible to hold a conversation. ‘Sorry, what was that?’, ‘Can you repeat that?’… Poor voice quality can lead to misunderstandings, stress and, sometimes, calls being abandoned completely. Poor voice quality affecting your personal calls is frustrating.

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Spearline

JULY 7, 2022

At Spearline, we’re committed to transforming the future of webRTC testing, monitoring, and analytics. O ur suite of webRTC testing, monitoring, and analytics solutions provide a raft of real-time and aggregate global and localized testing metrics. These metrics represent performance at all levels of critical webRTC infrastructure and network paths.

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Spearline

JUNE 28, 2022

For the full live experience click here. Bring visibility to WebRTC applications using monitoring Watch a replay of our live webinar from Wednesday June 15 hosted by Tsahi Levent-Levi, Head of Product at testRTC , author of Bloggeek.me and Shóna O’ Donovan, Senior Customer Engagement Specialist at Spearline. This is part of our WebRTC webinar series.

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Spearline

JUNE 20, 2022

Most voice and video communications today take place using WebRTC. But how exactly do you monitor this traffic? watchRTC enables just that. By integrating our SDK or Chrome Extension with your application, watchRTC collects relevant telemetry and data points. Traffic is analyzed at scale, providing a bird’s eye view of your deployment, with the ability to drill down to the minute level of a single user on a session. watchRTC uses little CPU and network resources, safeguarding your application’

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Spearline

JUNE 20, 2022

See why testRTC , is the world’s most powerful WebRTC testing and monitoring platform, for companies serious about WebRTC! WebRTC is an important focus for us today and how Spearline plans to future proof communications for our customers. About Us Spearline provides quality assurance tools for business communication services, allowing you to proactively manage your inbound and outbound voice and communications services.

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Spearline

JUNE 2, 2022

Customer Insight – United World Telecom Technical Support Manager, Alain Rodriguez and Sales and marketing manager, Luke Genoyer, from United World Telecom explain why they use Spearline everyday and how it has helped with their testing issues. Founded in 1996, United World Telecom originally operated as a callback service provider. With a growing customer portfolio and increased demand, UWT transitioned to being a call forwarding service provider over time and created Global Call Forwardi

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Spearline

JUNE 2, 2022

It’s been widely noted that the last two years of pandemic have forced an acceleration of the digital transformation of many companies, not least those operating contact centers. We may have (mostly) emerged from the restrictions that forced this change, but there is undoubtedly a longer term legacy for contact centers, and impact on future contact center trends.

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Spearline

MAY 25, 2022

Welcome Bosnia and Herzegovina to Spearline! We are delighted to let you know that you can now test your numbers in Bosnia and Herzegovina across the country’s two major mobile networks – BH Telecom and M-Tel. Between these two operators, they hold around 90% of the overall market share in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The solution is hosted in Sarajevo which is where the calls will originate from and terminate in.

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Spearline

MAY 10, 2022

Voice Assure Interstate puts the control in your hands and lets you test your numbers in any state or province in the United States or Canada. Find out more about Voice Assure Interstate here. Contact our sales team today and start testing your numbers or visit www.spearline.com. People like to talk. You want to make sure your customers have the best experience on your support lines.

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Spearline

MAY 3, 2022

Phone number testing is arguably one of the most important aspects to ensure an excellent customer experience. No matter what business you operate, your phone numbers are one of your most important assets. Studies show that phone calls are the most used channel for customer service. While other contact channes such as email, online chat and FAQs etc. are important, when a customer takes the time to actually phone you, it is generally for something important.

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Spearline

APRIL 10, 2022

Until 2009, contact centers and other organizations had to rely on relatives abroad or holidaymakers to call their overseas numbers to make sure they were working and that the line was of sufficient quality to hold a conversation. This was far from a foolproof system, so a cloud-based SaaS solution was developed by Spearline for multinational organizations to test numbers in almost 80 countries, and growing, around the world.

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Spearline

APRIL 10, 2022

Until 2009, contact centers and other organizations had to rely on relatives abroad or holidaymakers to call their overseas numbers to make sure they were working and that the line was of sufficient quality to hold a conversation. This was far from a foolproof system, so a cloud-based SaaS solution was developed by Spearline for multinational organizations to test numbers in almost 80 countries, and growing, around the world.

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Spearline

APRIL 5, 2022

Voice Assure Realtime puts the control in your hands and lets you test your numbers anytime, anywhere. Find out more about Voice Assure Realtime here. People like to talk. You want to make sure your customers have the best experience on your support lines. The question is, how do you know if they are? Spearline’s Voice Assure Realtime allows you to test your numbers anytime, anywhere.

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Spearline

MARCH 24, 2022

Perceptual evaluation of speech quality – a standard The perceptual evaluation of speed quality has become a telecommunications standard. A standard is an agreed way of making a product, managing a process, delivering a service, or supplying materials. Standards offer comfort. Standards give some predictability of outcomes; typically positive.

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Spearline

MARCH 17, 2022

Call centers are the core of today’s industry. Every successful company has a call center to engage with its customers, addressing their needs and providing assistance. It is vital to ensure that these customer engagements build a strong customer relationship. Leading businesses are always on the lookout for opportunities to improve the customer experience.

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Spearline

MARCH 16, 2022

In 2021 Spearline made huge advancements in our product offering when we acquired testRTC, a leader in the provision of WebRTC testing, monitoring and support. Now, in 2022 see why WebRTC is an important focus for us and how Spearline plans to future proof communications for our customers. Contact Spearline today for a free trial or find out more on www.spearline.com About Us Spearline provides quality assurance tools for business communication services, allowing you to proactively manage your

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