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  • 20 May 2022 | Telecoms, Bribes and South Korea’s President: Part 2
  • 19 May 2022 | How STC Evolved from Reporting Assurance to Finance Assurance
  • 18 May 2022 | Cities of Gold or the Final Meltdown? Nobody Can Predict the Future of Bitcoin
  • 17 May 2022 | Zimbabwean Government Keeps Crushing Mobile Money
  • 16 May 2022 | Why Massive Political Bias in Email Spam Algorithms Is Problematic for Free Speech More Generally
  • 13 May 2022 | Telecoms, Bribes and South Korea’s President
  • 12 May 2022 | EU Flirts with Ending Net Neutrality to Squeeze Money for European Telcos from US Big Tech
  • 11 May 2022 | New Callback Scam Is Based on Misleading Voicemails
  • 10 May 2022 | US Says No Need for Telcos to Pay $3.3mn Illegal Robocall Penalty If They Cannot Afford It
  • 9 May 2022 | Nigeria Issues RFQ for National Phone Tracking System to ‘Fight Cybercrime and Insecurity’
> 2016 April

Getting Closer to a Reliable Fixed Asset Register

By Andy Jacobs 29 Apr 2016 Data & Analytics

The record of the telco’s network assets may not match the reality. This leads to lots of avoidable costs.


Password Sharing and Video Revenues

By Eric Priezkalns 28 Apr 2016 Risk, Fraud & Security

As services evolve, more businesses will need to mitigate the loss of revenues caused by customers sharing passwords for content distributed over comms networks.


RIP Customer Service

By Joseph Nderitu 27 Apr 2016 General

There say death and taxes are the two certainties in life, but poor customer service comes a close third.


RAFM Event Misled Sponsors About Speakers

By Eric Priezkalns 26 Apr 2016 Education & Conferences

A Commsrisk reader tells how Quintus, organizers of an upcoming RAFM conference in Vienna, have misled prospective sponsors.


Vodafone UK Challenged About PAYG Errors

By Eric Priezkalns 25 Apr 2016 Assurance & Audit

The UK regulator adds a new twist to the long-running farce surrounding the accuracy of Vodafone charges.


Studying Data Science: The Analytics Edge via edX (weeks 1 and 2)

By Michael Lazarou 22 Apr 2016 Education & Conferences

The first two weeks of this MIT course proved to be tough but engaging.


Did You Forget Something? Assuring Revenue in an NFV/SDN Environment

By Carlos Marques 21 Apr 2016 Assurance & Audit

If you thought RA was already a difficult job, network virtualization is going to make it a lot more complex.


The Health Check

By Joseph Nderitu 20 Apr 2016 Assurance & Audit

Businesses need to examine themselves in order to ensure their wellbeing, just like people need to monitor their own health and fitness.


Don’t Panic: Report About Networks ‘Going Dark’

By Eric Priezkalns 19 Apr 2016 Privacy & Intellectual Property

FBI bosses use the phrase ‘going dark’ to explain why they worry about encrypted comms. This Harvard report argues there will be a change in the pattern of light and dark, but no simple trend.


UK Press Slams Vodafone Billing Mess

By Eric Priezkalns 18 Apr 2016 Assurance & Audit

British journalists have finally discovered the Vodafone billing fiasco, and they have taken the opportunity to tear into the telco’s repeated failures.


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    New Callback Scam Is Based on Misleading Voicemails
    These are great insights and great questions. I don't know the answers, partly because I suspect legislators and regulators increasingly want to create some structural ambiguity about when it is...
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    New Callback Scam Is Based on Misleading Voicemails
    I'm with a major US carrier and I have received a few of these voicemails. What I like about my carrier is that it sends me a SMS with the transcript of the voicemail message. This eliminates all the...

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