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  Telecommunications in Australia

Optus overall Effort Score: 36 Optus vs 38 Optus last quarter
Sector Effort Score benchmark: 45 Optus vs 46 Optus last quarter

Optus has continued its decline, as its Overall Customer Effort score has dropped a further -2 points, bringing the total to -4 since the beginning of the year. It also places it at the bottom of the Australian Telecommunications ranking list for a second quarter.

Diving into the reason for the decline more closely, all four pillars have dropped by -1 or -2 points. Its Style of Communication and Value to Customers scores declined -2 points.

For Valuing the Customer, customers marked the telecommunications company down for how they made them feel valued/important, with 2% fewer rating them as ‘good’. All is not lost, however, as 2% more customers said they were ‘very satisfied’ with the outcome of their communication.

Under the Knowledge and Expertise pillar, which dropped by -1 point to 37, 1% fewer customers ranked them as ‘good’ for the way details were explained to them.

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Customer Effort in detail

Style of Communication 46 vs 48 last quarter

37% say the politeness of their customer service agents is 'good'

38% rate the ability to communicate with them in their chosen language (other than English) as 'good'

Knowledge and Expertise 37 vs 38 last quarter

36% rate the expertise of the customer service agent as 'good'

34% say the way details were clearly explained to them was 'good'

36% rate how well the customer service agent understood their particular problem or question as 'good'

Understanding & Valuing the Customer 35 vs 37 last quarter

33% rate how they were able to speak to a customer service agent that can help them with their query as 'good'

36% rate how they were able to speak to a customer service agent that can help them with their query as 'good'

33% rate how they were able to speak to a customer service agent that can help them with their query as 'good'

Speed Solving the Problem 30 vs 32 last quarter

34% rate how easy it was to find the information they wanted on the website/app as 'good'

36% rate how they were able to speak to a customer service agent that can help them with their query as 'good'

33% rate how they were able to speak to a customer service agent that can help them with their query as 'good'

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ContactEngine believes that a great customer experience is an effortless one, where life is made as easy as possible for the customer. ContactEngine commissioned the Customer Effort Index to measure how real people perceive the effort it takes to be a customer of some of the leading brands in the world. By enabling a comparison of effort not only within an industry, but across industries, we can identify and learn from the brands who lead on making it easy for their customers to do business with them.