New Traffic Pumping Study: $150M Annual Cost to US Wireless Providers

Connectiv Solutions, a US vendor of network efficiency products, has issued a new study into traffic pumping; you can obtain the report from here. Put simply, traffic pumping is the practice of driving up traffic to terminating carriers that charge the highest termination fees. As the calls are generally free to the end user, the extra cost is suffered by their service providers. The report says that traffic pumping companies earned USD150M from US wireless providers during 2010. The cost is forecast to rise to USD170M in 2011. Last year, TEOCO issued its own report into traffic pumping, which put the annual cost to US carriers at USD400M.

Eric Priezkalns
Eric Priezkalnshttp://revenueprotect.com

Eric is the Editor of Commsrisk. Look here for more about the history of Commsrisk and the role played by Eric.

Eric is also the Chief Executive of the Risk & Assurance Group (RAG), an association of professionals working in risk management and business assurance for communications providers. RAG was founded in 2003 and Eric was appointed CEO in 2016.

Previously Eric was Director of Risk Management for Qatar Telecom and he has worked with Cable & Wireless, T‑Mobile, Sky, Worldcom and other telcos. He was lead author of Revenue Assurance: Expert Opinions for Communications Providers, published by CRC Press.

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