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Busy hour call attempts

Hey kiddo, do you know what a busy hour is? It's the time of the day when many people make phone calls. Now, imagine that there is a big company that has a lot of customers who use their phone service to make calls.

When we talk about busy hour call attempts, we're talking about the number of times people try to make a call during that busy hour.

For example, let's say that the busiest hour for the phone company is between 10:00 am and 11:00 am. During that time, the phone company might get thousands or even millions of phone call attempts!

The company needs to be prepared for this by having enough infrastructure like servers, switches, and equipment to handle all those calls. They also need to make sure they have enough employees available to handle any technical problems.

So, busy hour call attempts are basically a way to measure how busy a phone network gets during a specific time of the day, and the phone company needs to be ready for these busy hours to make sure their customers can make their calls without any problems.
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