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AI Transforms Contact Centres as Industry Adoption Accelerates Rapidly

Charter's partnership with RingCentral to deploy AI-powered contact centre capabilities represents a significant shift towards automation-first customer engagement strategies, with industry data suggesting 60-70% of inbound calls could already be handled by AI systems. This move signals that enterprises are moving beyond traditional Zendesk-centric support models towards integrated platforms that combine unified communications with proactive AI-driven customer interactions, requiring support teams to rethink agent workflows, skill requirements, and the role of human intervention in an increasingly automated contact centre environment.