Telco Offers $25k Reward in Response to Copper Theft
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
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
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
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
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??
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
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
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
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
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…