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Crawler: Spinning the assurance web

Shahid Ishtiaq of Etisalat challenges the limitations of RAFM tools in the first of this two-part series.

Moving from Customer Experience to Customer Engagement- The Soft Touch

In my last post on Dunbar's number and CEM; I mentioned that the key to better customer experience could be to target the set...

Good News for WeDo’s Horizontal Strategy

In a 2009 post, I commented on a key difference between WeDo's strategy and those pursued by their main competitors:WeDo has expanded horizontally, by...

Can Dunbar’s number aid in Customer Experience Management?

Probably one of the key aspects of CEM is finding out the experience of the customer in his/her day to day interactions with the...

Proposing a Hall of Fame (and Shame)

Like Popeye the Sailorman, I sometimes find myself saying "that's all I can stands, I can't stands no more". Regular readers of talkRA...

Content is King!…. but would telcos get a share of the pie??

It is not a new phenomenon to hear 'Content is King'; but what is valuable content and what is not, especially when it comes...

Too Much Privacy is also a Risk

In his post entitled 'An ISP That Wants Privacy to be a USP', Eric Priezkalns reviewed the potential for Nicholas Merrill and the Calyx...

Putting a Value on User Data

The Atlantic has a brief but excellent analysis of the economic value of an internet user's data; see here. This is important -...

FCC Targets $200M of Waste, Fraud and Abuse in Free Phone Program

Government subsidies paid under the 'Lifeline' program are routinely abused.

Measure Your Personal Risk Intelligence

Dylan Evans is a psychologist with an interest in evaluating risk intelligence - how well (or how poorly) people calculate risk based on their...

Stop Fraud, Look Smart, Listen to Staff

Communications providers have a distinctive risk profile. They make big, long term investments in technology whilst generating revenue from lots of microtransactions. ...

WeDo Announces US Win

WeDo, the Portuguese business assurance vendor, has announced a deal to provide a managed revenue assurance service to 'one of the largest carriers in...

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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