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Text Messaging and Artificial Intelligence: a Match Made in Heaven?Service To Business

Sprint delivers an artificial intelligence-powered texting service to more than 5 million businesses for better customer service.

March 14, 2019 Lisa Montgomery Leave a Comment

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If your business has a landline phone, and you’re a Sprint customer, you can take advantage of a unique service that enables an automatic response to text messages from customers. The Sprint Smart Messaging solution uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to provide answers to simple text-based questions like business hours and product availability. It can also handle more complex tasks like taking food orders or setting appointments to further streamline interactions with customers

“Sprint currently serves over 5 million business phone numbers that will now have immediate access to Sprint’s Smart Messaging AI-powered platform,” says Sasha Gorman, vice president of development for Sprint. “Our business customers can run their operations more efficiently by responding to messaging requests in parallel and in real-time.”

Sprint Smart Messaging features:

  • Business Messaging: Businesses can now use their landline or wireline telephone number to receive and respond to text messages from customers through mobile phones, tablets or desktop computers.
  • AI-driven Auto-Response: Sprint Smart Messaging uses AI to learn about a business and auto-respond to customer questions instantly. Businesses will be able to answer customer inquiries 24/7, ultimately saving on labor costs by sending automated responses to commonly asked questions.
  • Call Rescue: Statistics show that 62 percent of calls to small business are left unanswered. Sprint Smart Messaging automatically texts the customer back, re-engaging them and increasing their interest. With Sprint Smart Messaging, 50 percent1of customers whose call didn’t go through are saved from going to a competitor.
  • Direct Customer Interaction: Businesses will be able to offer their customers the ability to make transactions, such as order placements and appointment setting, more convenient through its messaging system to increase efficiency on both ends.

“Voice is an inefficient way to communicate with customers. We are moving towards a ‘WeChat’ like world where consumers and business interact and conduct commerce over messaging,” adds Tasso Roumeliotis, chief executive officer and co-founder of NumberAI. “Sprint is the first carrier in the U.S. to launch a messaging-based solution to further one-to-one interaction for its business customers.”

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