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  • 16 Apr 2021 | RAG Learning Celebrates Third Birthday and Offers New Course on Roaming SMS Fraud
  • 15 Apr 2021 | Why Closing the Digital Divide with Smart Credit and Smart Security Is Good for Everybody
  • 14 Apr 2021 | Last Chance to Benchmark Your Leakage Coverage
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  • 12 Apr 2021 | Canada Postpones STIR/SHAKEN Deadline Yet Again
  • 9 Apr 2021 | Mobile Money APIs, Society and Risk
  • 8 Apr 2021 | Fake Cryptocurrency Wallets Found on Google and Apple App Stores
  • 7 Apr 2021 | UK Regulator Hints at Considering STIR/SHAKEN
> 2012 May

Telco Offers $25k Reward in Response to Copper Theft

By Eric Priezkalns 31 May 2012 Risk, Fraud & Security

Customers of Windstream Communications were left without service for hours after copper thieves stole cables in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA. The rising number of thefts…


Long Prison Sentences for $20M Fraudsters

By Eric Priezkalns 30 May 2012 Risk, Fraud & Security

Prosecutors have succeeded in obtaining long prison sentences for criminals engaged in a USD20M fraud of US telcos including AT&T, Verizon, XO Communications, Excel Communications,…


Xintec Raises 900k Euros

By Eric Priezkalns 25 May 2012 Assurance & Audit

Xintec, the Dublin-based vendor of RA solutions, has raised EUR900k in finance; see the press release here. EUR350k comes from the Bank of Ireland Seed…


Connectiva Sale Rumoured

By Eric Priezkalns 22 May 2012 Assurance & Audit

Mara-Ison, the Dubai-headquartered IT services business, is rumoured to be in advanced talks to buy Connectiva, the troubled Indian RA vendor, according to the unofficial…


An ISP That Wants Privacy to be a USP

By Eric Priezkalns 21 May 2012 Privacy & Intellectual Property

Privacy. I like mine. You may have lost yours already. Once lost, privacy is not something you can easily recover. However, these days people keep…


Scary Numbers! or is it??

By Moinak Banerjee 17 May 2012 Risk, Fraud & Security

Reaping benefit of having news feeds from Google on key words, I get to know a lot of publications on revenue management across the globe….


Ghana to Audit International Revenues

By Eric Priezkalns 15 May 2012 Assurance & Audit

The National Communication Authority (NCA) of Ghana has announced it will conduct revenue assurance audits based on CDRs provided by the country’s six telecoms operators;…


New Business Assurance Journal Launched

By Eric Priezkalns 10 May 2012 Assurance & Audit

Dan Baker, telecoms researcher and good friend to talkRA, has launched a hotly-anticipated online magazine, the Black Swan Telecom Journal, dedicated to the topic of…


Seeing the Big Picture for Benefits Analysis

By Eric Priezkalns 7 May 2012 Risk, Fraud & Security

Most of you will have heard of the US Government. As an organization, they are responsible for decisions like how much to spend on stopping…


WeDo buys Connectiv

By Eric Priezkalns 2 May 2012 Assurance & Audit

WeDo, the Portuguese revenue assurance vendor, has announced the purchase of Connectiv Solutions, US providers of cost management and network efficiency tools; see the press…


Top Stories on Commsrisk

American Lawyers Turn Anti-Robocall Law Into Hot Steaming Mess


Only 1 in 5 Mobile Operators Believe GSMA/3GPP Security Guidelines Cover All Signaling Threats


RAG Learning Celebrates Third Birthday and Offers New Course on Roaming SMS Fraud


Why Closing the Digital Divide with Smart Credit and Smart Security Is Good for Everybody



Last Chance to Benchmark Your Leakage Coverage


A Brief Guide to the Digital Divide


Canada Postpones STIR/SHAKEN Deadline Yet Again


Mobile Money APIs, Society and Risk



RAG TV Season 3

Commsrisk Editor Eric Priezkalns is back presenting a new season of RAG TV! Watch the replays if you miss the live show. Here is the season opener, where Eric and co-presenter Lee Scargall reviewed the events of 2020.

 

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    Hi Tomislav. Thank you very much for questions. You wrote: Even though the handshake will be received, what is going to happen? Will you be disconnecting the calls or you will inform your roaming partner to disconnect the SIM card? The answer is following: the system detects in...
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