Videotron foremost to commence a chatbot
MONTRÉAL, March 22: In accordance with its dedication to giving
clients with the finest and the newest in novel expertise, Videotron is commencing
Chillico, the first Facebook Messenger chatbot from a Canadian
telecommunications contributor. Chillico's objective is to communicate with customers
so as to endorse choices from the illico.tv video-on-demand list. It utilizes expertise
fixed in simulated intelligence to connect with Videotron's clients in a novel and
tailored method.
"Chillico is our first experiment with chatbots," elucidated
Julie Brault, Vice President, Branding & Ominchannel Digital Strateg,
adding, "It will give us more information about how our customers interact
with this type of innovative service. In the long term, we expect to learn how
we can permanently incorporate bots into our customer service toolkit."
The technique it functions is easy: customers simply begin communicating
with Chillico, the chatbot sends back the acknowledgment and asks
multiple-choice questions so as to come about with viewing suggestions. The chat
can be reasonably thorough: preferred genre, customer's zones of interest, age,
and so forth. The bot will recommend the titles from the illico.tv list that
are expected to be the most apt and exciting to the customer.
Videotron (www.videotron.com), a completely possessed ancillary
of Quebecor Media Inc., is an assimilated communications company involved in
cable television, communicating multimedia expansion, Internet admittance,
cable telephone and mobile telephone facilities. Videotron is a frontrunner in newfangled
expertise with its illico interactive television facility and its broadband system,
which reinforces high-speed cable Internet admittance, analog as well as
digital cable television, and other facilities. As of December 31, 2016,
Videotron was coping with the needs of 1,690,800 cable television clients, comprising
1,587,000 Digital TV subscribers. Videotron is furthermore the Québec frontrunner
in high-speed Internet admittance, with 1,612,800 subscribers to its cable facility
as of December 31, 2016. As of the similar date, Videotron had 893,900
subscriber links to its mobile telephone facility and was giving cable
telephone facility to 1,253,100 Québec households and organizations. For the
eleventh successive year, Videotron graded as Québec's most appreciated
telecommunications company in the yearly Léger review.
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