Request ID: FOI-2157-2122 Date published: 11 January 2022
You asked
Dear Transport for London,
May I request the name or supplier of the hold music used when calling TfL Customer Service?
We answered
TfL Ref: 2157-2122
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 20 December 2021 asking for the name or supplier of the hold music used when calling TfL Customer Service. Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. I can confirm that we hold the information you require.
TfL has multiple 0343 customer service numbers. We traditionally associate TfL Customer Services with 0343 222 1234 as it covers the broadest range of reasons a customer would want/need to talk to TfL. The 0343 222 1234 number can route through to three different call centres dependant on the option a customer selects. These are our TfL Call Centre in London or one of our two TfL Outsourcing Partners. Within our TfL call centre we actually challenged a few members of our own team locally to freshen up our hold music and this is therefore written independently by our staff. One of our outsource partners uses an Avaya hold music, and the other outsource partner uses a Cirrus hold music.
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Yours sincerely
Sara Thomas FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
