Recently, EE in the UK introduced a new feature, called Priority Answer, that allows its customers to pay £0.50 ($0.81) to jump the queue on customer service calls. EE is one of the largest telecoms ...

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Here’s one thing that’s not contracting in today’s economy: queues. People are waiting longer and more frequently for a variety of services. Customer service call center hold times, for example, have ...

A queue is a data structure that works on a FIFO (first in first out) basis. Items are inserted at the rear of the queue and removed from the front. The term “Enqueue” denotes the operation that ...