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Gutting the Goose that Lays the Golden Egg

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta wants a 67 percent increase of taxes on mobile money transactions.

RAG Nairobi: How Interaction and Innovation Leads to Collaboration

MTN Group demonstrated the key ingredients for success at the RAG Nairobi conference.

WeDo Embarrass Themselves With 3-Year Old Fraud Stat

There is no excuse for sharing data which is known to be out of date.

The EU Is Ruining the Open Internet

Axel Voss MEP persuaded the European Parliament to add to the long track record of terrible EU decisions about the management of the internet.

Addressing Old Telecoms Frauds

Why has the telecoms industry not been able to eliminate bypass and wangiri fraud, two of the oldest and most prevalent frauds?

The Gambia Intends to Implement National RA System

Gambia's President follows the African fashion for automated national revenue assurance audits.

HardenStance Network Security Sales Index Q2 2018

The Hardenstance index tracks sales by eight important vendors of network security. Last quarter was positive; most vendors enjoyed a significant rise in sales year-on-year.

Scorn for Web Identity Scheme of US Mobile Operators

The operators want to authenticate subscribers when they use online services provided by other businesses.

5 Takeaways from RAG Nairobi

Safaricom welcomed a full audience to their superb conference facility, and the speakers were equally inspiring.

Book Review: The Legal Challenges of Social Media

This multi-disciplinary text struggles to reach conclusions because the law is evolving.

Bahrain Conference: 23-24 Jan 2019

Our Middle East conference will be held at the excellent facilities of Batelco

Can This Patent Stop SIM Swaps?

Payfone says they have the 'definitive' means of preventing SIM swaps, but prospective customers will need to ask questions about what the tech really does.

The Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard


Our Global Fraud Dashboard uses AI-powered search to collate, update and visualize data about scams and other network abuses from around the world. New charts are added each month. See it here.

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