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The Indian Call Center Journey

            

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Indian Call Centers – Myths and Realities

There were many reasons why India was considered an attractive destination to set up call centers. The boom in the Indian information technology sector in the mid 1990s led to the country's IT strengths being recognized all over the world.

Moreover, India had the largest English-speaking population after the US and had a vast workforce of educated, reasonably tech-savvy personnel.

In a call center, manpower typically accounted for 55-60% of the total costs in the US and European markets - in India, the manpower cost was approximately one-tenth of this. While per agent cost in US worked out to approximately $ 40,000, in India it was only $ 5,000.

This was cited to be the biggest advantage India could offer to the MNCs. Apart from these, the Government's pro call center industry approach and a virtual 12-hour time zone difference with the US added to India's advantages.

There were a host of players in the Indian call center industry.

Apart from the pioneers British Airways, GE and Swiss Air, HLL, BPL, Godrej Soaps, Global Tele-Systems, Wipro, ICICI Banking Corporation, American Express, Bank of America, Citibank, ABN AMRO, Global Trust, Deutsche Bank, Airtel, and Bharati BT were the other major players in the call-center business.

After the projections of the NASSCOM-McKinsey report were made public, many people began thinking of entering the call center business. (Refer Table III).

During this rush to make money from the call center 'wave,' NASSCOM received queries from many people with spare cash and space, including lorry-fleet operators, garment exporters, leather merchants, tyre distributors and plantation owners among others.

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