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  • 24 Jun 2022 | Mobile vs Desktop: How Do You Read Commsrisk?
  • 23 Jun 2022 | The Wangiri Fraud That Was Mostly a Billing Error
  • 22 Jun 2022 | Regulator Warns Telco for Failing to Investigate Spam
  • 21 Jun 2022 | Huge Budget Rise Needed to Replace Chinese Tech in US Networks
  • 20 Jun 2022 | UK Government Proposes Heavy Fines for Spam Calls and Texts
  • 17 Jun 2022 | Saying African Telcos Are ‘Inadequately Prepared’ for Mobile Money Fraud Smacks of Unconscious Racism
  • 16 Jun 2022 | What If China Created a Rival to the US STIR/SHAKEN Program?
  • 15 Jun 2022 | New i3forum-RAG Survey Focuses on International Wholesale Fraud
  • 14 Jun 2022 | Widespread Reporting of Flubot ‘Takedown’ Shows How Little We Really Know
  • 13 Jun 2022 | New GVG National Revenue Assurance Tracking System Launched in Zimbabwe
> 2018 October

Do Telcos Have a Human Rights Problem?

By Eric Priezkalns 31 Oct 2018 General

Some research you have never heard of, but which somebody is paying for, illustrates why you should not believe everything you read.


Ghana’s Telecoms Tax Monitoring Platform Goes Live

By Joseph Nderitu 30 Oct 2018 Assurance & Audit

Whilst the government boasts of securing the ability to audit telco revenues in ‘real time’, the reality is Ghana’s taxpayers are paying for an expensive mechanism to tax themselves.


Blockchain Proposed as Solution to Roaming Fraud

By Eric Priezkalns 29 Oct 2018 Risk, Fraud & Security

A distributed ledger would potentially eliminate the delays in record keeping that are exploited by fraudsters. But could a blockchain ledger be updated for all roaming calls in real time?


Mobile Money Taxes: Aping the Inept

By Joseph Nderitu 26 Oct 2018 Digital Money

Zimbabwe has raised taxes on mobile money and electronic transactions. There are better ways to stimulate a developing economy.


RAG Kansas: Business Assurance Breaks Barriers in North America

By Luke Taylor 25 Oct 2018 Education & Conferences

The Risk & Assurance Group tapped into the zeal and dynamism of work being done by North American telcos.


8 Simple Strategies to Counter Wangiri Fraud

By Neha Priyadarshini 24 Oct 2018 Risk, Fraud & Security

Wangiri frauds appear to be occurring more frequently, but there are methods to prevent them and to reduce their impact.


Can Solid Bring ‘Balance’ to the Web?

By Eric Priezkalns 23 Oct 2018 Privacy & Intellectual Property

Tim Berners-Lee intends to guide ‘the next stage of the web’ but his plan to encourage users to create networked personal data pods suffers from an excess of ambition.


What Utilities Can Learn from Telcos About Assurance

By Eric Priezkalns 22 Oct 2018 Education & Conferences

Professionals who switched industries will lead the first utilities-oriented meeting of the Risk & Assurance Group.


Even Small Pacific Islands Suffer Wangiri

By Eric Priezkalns 19 Oct 2018 Risk, Fraud & Security

Residents of Guam have been warned about an apparent flood of wangiri calls.


Two New Training Courses on RAG Learning

By Michael Lazarou 18 Oct 2018 Education & Conferences

The new online content covers roaming and fraud management, and can be freely accessed by anyone. Both courses were developed and donated by MTN Group.


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Top Stories on Commsrisk

Mobile vs Desktop: How Do You Read Commsrisk?


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Regulator Warns Telco for Failing to Investigate Spam


Huge Budget Rise Needed to Replace Chinese Tech in US Networks



UK Government Proposes Heavy Fines for Spam Calls and Texts


Saying African Telcos Are ‘Inadequately Prepared’ for Mobile Money Fraud Smacks of Unconscious Racism


What If China Created a Rival to the US STIR/SHAKEN Program?


New i3forum-RAG Survey Focuses on International Wholesale Fraud



RAG RAFMCS Survey Results

Watch Eric Priezkalns give his summary of the largest ever survey of revenue assurance, fraud management and cybersecurity (RAFMCS) pros working for communications providers worldwide.

 

Recent Comments

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    New Data Shows Big Flaw in STIR/SHAKEN Is Now Even Worse
    You don't need to apologize, Dennis. The only person who was pedantic about the word 'authentication' was me. But I have reason to be pedantic as there is confusion between how the word is used by a...
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    Sorry if I was being pedantic about that one word. I have been in the business of reading and implementing specs, so I may get hung up on them. Either way I think we have converged onto the root of...

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