Have you ever observed that your phone dialer has 2 hidden options along with the digits from 0 to 9?? Still didn’t get it? Look clearly at the last row in your phone dialer, you will get 2 options p (,) or w(;) by long pressing * and #. These two options in phone dialer are very much useful in IVRS calls.
In basic model Nokia phones, press * four times to get ‘w’ and press * three times to get ‘p’. In most of the Android devices ( by long pressing * or 0 or #) ‘w’ is replaced with ‘;’ and ‘p’ is replaced with ‘,’.
Here’s the actual purpose of p and w:
In the keypad ‘w’ means wait and ‘p’ means pause. These 2 inputs are used for IVRS calls. Let’s take an example of Airtel’s Customer (complaint) care number 198, it takes approximately 2 -3 minutes to listen to all the instructions and only after following all those we can talk to the customer care executive. In this process first we need to press 1 then wait for the some time and press 2 wait for the instructions and lastly press 9 to speak to the executive. A lot of time is wasted in this process. So instead use p(,) or w(;) to make these calls hassle free.
We can use pause or ‘,’ to call quickly. Save the contact as “198,1,,,,,,,2,,,9″ (Works in Hyderabad, may change for others), here ‘,’ pauses for 2 seconds before triggering 1 as input. Similarly after triggering 1 it will wait for 14 seconds ( each ‘,’ takes 2 seconds time) and then it will give the input as 2 after that again after 6 seconds it will give input as 9 which will take to the customer care executive directly without any manual entries.
We can also use wait or ‘;’ for this purpose, just save the contact as “198;1;2;9″ here ‘;’ waits for our permission before giving the output. Remember to press Yes at the correct time. Your job will be done in one step.
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