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  • 23 May 2022 | US Hypocrisy on International Cooperation Shown in FCC Vote to Impose STIR/SHAKEN on Foreign Calls
  • 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
> 2020 October

Europol Uses Video Game to Teach Investigators How to Request Data from Telcos

By Eric Priezkalns 30 Oct 2020 Education & Conferences

The ‘immersive’ game asks players to query foreign ISPs and social media platforms following a hypothetical terrorist attack.


Telco CEO Charged with Fraud after 10-Year Investigation

By Eric Priezkalns 29 Oct 2020 Risk, Fraud & Security

Shareholder representatives are standing by Juris Gulbis, CEO of Tet, after he was charged with overpaying EUR7.6mn for TV equipment.


T-Mobile Outage Caused 250mn Calls to Fail

By Eric Priezkalns 28 Oct 2020 Assurance & Audit

The FCC said a cascade of failures would have been prevented if T-Mobile USA had periodically audited the diversity of their networks.


China’s Threats Cannot Save Huawei from New Cold War

By Eric Priezkalns 27 Oct 2020 Privacy & Intellectual Property

Telcos that can legally purchase equipment from Huawei will still need to consider the strategic risks of using a supplier banned on security and privacy grounds by a growing number of countries.


SS7 Used to Hack Messages of 20 Cryptocurrency Execs

By Eric Priezkalns 26 Oct 2020 Digital Money

Hackers took control of Telegram, Gmail and Yahoo accounts with the intention of tricking the victim’s business associates.


Nokia to Provide 4G Coverage on the Moon

By Eric Priezkalns 23 Oct 2020 General

NASA expects the mobile network technology will be more reliable and work at greater distances.


Taiwan Police Warns That Cheap Chinese Phones Have Scam Malware Preinstalled

By Eric Priezkalns 22 Oct 2020 Risk, Fraud & Security

Users are tricked into buying points for a game where fraudsters control the account and demand refunds from the game’s providers.


The 10 Commandments of Launching Mobile Money

By Joseph Nderitu 21 Oct 2020 Digital Money

Our resident mobile money expert looks back at what he has learned during the 13 years since he first launched a mobile money service.


Subex Appoints New CTO

By Eric Priezkalns 20 Oct 2020 General

Suresh Chintada previously worked in senior software engineering roles for network equipment manufacturers CommScope and ARRIS.


From A to B: The 5 Reasons to Join a Community That Permanently Prevents Fraud

By Eric Priezkalns 19 Oct 2020 Risk, Fraud & Security

We can make many voice frauds impossible with a simple ‘handshake’ check between the A and B-party operators.


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RAG RAFMCS Survey Results

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  • Eric Priezkalns Eric Priezkalns 11 May 2022
    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...
  • GCara GCara 11 May 2022
    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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