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What Happened to WRAF?

Remember the World Revenue Assurance Forum? You may have forgotten about them already. They were the ones saying they were "for the...

RA Question of the Week: Fraudulent PrePaid Top Ups

For this week's question I'm going to return to the subject of fraud and it's cross-over into Revenue Assurance analysis. Whilst working for a mobile...

Answer: Noc vs RA

To resolve this week’s issue, we went for the most obvious resolution path and performed a CDR to SS7 reconciliation against a days worth...

Reliance Annual Report Mentions RA

Are execs starting to take more notice of revenue assurance? Whilst the news is always good, and never bad, at least there is...

RA Question of the Week – NOC vs RA

This weeks questions, isn't going to look at a Revenue Loss issue, but instead a common issue for an RA department.I was working for a...

Saving Pennies, Saving Face

David's recent post, asked a difficult question about which countries appreciate revenue assurance, and which have little interest. This started me thinking. ...

Revenue Assurance is a Silo!!!

Been away for a while now, but on the way back, I got something which has become very, very clear. The way RA is...

Answer: Faulty Transmission

This weeks issue was identified with on of the simplest RA controls to put in place. It was identified with a CDR sequence number...

New arrival checking in…

Hello everyone,My name is Mike Willett and I am writing to you from Australia. Firstly, my thanks to Eric and the talkRA team for...

The Synergy of Billing Verification and Fraud Management

In this post I would like to provide a different perspective on the supposedly separate disciplines of fraud management and billing verification and to...

Life at BT (but not as we know it)

I spoke to the lawyers this morning. They gave me the confirmation I wanted: I can now tell you the truth about BT....

RA Question of the Week – Faulty Transmission

For this weeks question, I am going to return to a standard RA issue. At a fixed line operator, it was identified that approximately 50% of...

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