Gregory Rudd ran Keurboom Communications, which was responsible for causing almost 100mn nuisance robocalls.

Whilst 20 percent of telcos have not implemented fundamental RA controls, the most mature business assurance teams also admit to having little or no monitoring for many types of leakage.

Tarek William Saab, Prosecutor General of Venezuela, accused employees of mobile operator Movilnet of using servers in Miami to reroute traffic and avoid international termination fees.

i3forum's Fight Against Fraud group, chaired by Katia Gonzalez Gutierrez of BICS, drives expectations for how international wholesale voice carriers cooperate to reduce crime.

The TRACED Act demands US telcos authenticate calls over IP and TDM networks, but the provisions for international enforcement and tackling wangiri fraud also raise questions for foreign telcos.

Anti-spam firm Truecaller claims that telcos generated almost half of the 45 spam voice calls that Brazilian phone users receive each month.

CTEG is an Iranian consultancy whose staff seemingly include a Greek singer and a Mexican actress, per the photos on their LinkedIn profiles.

2019 was the best year in the history of Commsrisk, with 17 percent more visitors than 2018. These were the ten most popular articles of the year, plus the charts for December.

Telcos may underestimate the risk of leakages caused by a combination of 5G network slicing and mobile IoT devices.

The all-IP future of telecoms risk is coming our way, even if some risk managers struggle to move towards it.

The Indian economy has lost billions of dollars as a consequence of the government suspending internet services.

During the year there were some small industry problems that were greatly exaggerated, and other lasting issues that many tried to ignore.