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Customer Billed 11 Years after Canceling Contract?

The customer claimed not to have noticed the regular monthly transfers from his bank account.

Top Lawyer Explains US Reverse on Business Data Services Regulation

Andrew Lipman, Senior Partner at legal firm Morgan Lewis, talks about the u-turn in US telco regulation and legal risk in general.

COFPFTE: A Taxing Comms Puzzle

The UK's new Corporate Offences of Failure to Prevent Facilitation of Tax Evasion (COFPFTE) Act may trip up British telcos when calls are unlawfully terminated overseas.

Subex Repositions as Analytics Provider; Unveils Logo

The shift to analytics hints at the kinds of business that Subex will buy, or the kind that Subex wants to be bought by.

Commsrisk Top Ten for May 2017

Did you miss some big stories? These are the Commsrisk articles which received most attention during May.

Bonn Appetite: Risk & Assurance on the Menu at Deutsche Telekom HQ

This month's RAG conference in Bonn will sandwich an incredible number of speakers into just two days.

User Survey and Tests Measure Impact of OTT Bypass

Our research shows that OTT bypass affects the quality of calls as well as revenues, but many users choose not to disable it.

Subex Revenues Up; 2017 Results Reverse Decline

FY17 operating revenues were up 11 percent but Subex took a big exceptional hit after writing down goodwill for both its US and UK subsidiaries.

Uber Is Not an Information Service

Per Advocate General Szpunar of the Court of Justice of the EU, Uber will have to submit to national transport regulations because it supplies more than information.

Auditors Ditch Lycamobile… or Vice Versa?

KPMG says they had long announced their intention to resign the troubled audit of Lycamobile, but the telco's CFO said he terminated their contract first.

Italian Court Finds YouTube Liable for Not Removing Unlicensed Content

The Turin Court of First Instance partly accepted Delta TV's request for damages for copyright infringement.

The Argument for National Regulatory Telco Testing

Regulators should procure the systems needed to test telcos instead of telling telcos to test themselves.

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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