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Bharti Airtel and Millicom Merger in Ghana: A Sign for African Operators

Many African telcos face the strategic risks associated with slow growth and too much competition.

Hackers Bring Down RAG Website

The website of the Risk & Assurance Group (RAG) suffered a sustained onslaught during the early hours of Tuesday.

MTN Fraud Analyst Sold Phone Records to Dodgy Businessman

The privacy infringement targeted politicians and journalists who had been outspoken about corruption.

TMF Launches RA Survey with Maturity Benchmark

The deadline for the new survey is November 27.

Turning Customer-Centricity into Curse Storm City

If customers lack faith in telcos it is because of how they are treated when confronted with real, and expensive, problems.

UK Telcos Accused of Overcharging for Handsets

A national advisory body did research showing how customers continue to pay for handset-inclusive deals even if they neglect to change their phone.

The Impact of Digitalization

How will digitalization of telco services create new issues for risk and assurance practitioners? That subject is covered by this presentation, given at the Subex User Conference in Zagreb.

Revisiting the Udacity Data Analyst Nanodegree

The series that reviews MOOCs and other online training courses continues with the second 'term' of the reorganized Udacity nanodegree for data analysts.

‘Unprecedented’ Wangiri Plague Hits Ireland

Irish mobile operators have responded by blocking calls to specific numbers in Liberia and the Comoros Islands.

India Considers Digital Payments Law to Fight Fraud

It makes sense for India's authorities to invest in tackling cybercrime as part of the transition to a cashless society.

Big Bills and Passed Bucks

Two recent stories in the UK press show how everyone hopes network operators will suffer the cost of other people's mistakes.

Cross-Border Mobile Money: More Risks, Many More Opportunities

Africans will benefit by easily and cheaply moving money. Telco assurance teams must cooperate to mitigate the risks.

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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