Eric Priezkalns

During his career, Eric has been a Director of Risk Management for a national telco, the Chief Executive of the Risk & Assurance Group, a Chief Marketing Officer for a software business, a consultant, a public speaker and the publisher of Commsrisk since its launch in 2006. Look here for more about the history of Commsrisk and the role played by Eric.

The comms providers that Eric has worked for include Qatar Telecom, Cable & Wireless, T‑Mobile, Sky and Worldcom. In addition to his proficiency at speaking about the current scamdemic, Eric is also a qualified chartered accountant and a subject matter expert in consumer protection, enterprise risk management, fraud prevention, data integrity and billing accuracy. Eric was the lead author of Revenue Assurance: Expert Opinions for Communications Providers, published by CRC Press. He can be reached through the contact form on this website.

Articles by This Author

Making Money by Calculating Where to Put 5G Masts

The intersection of capital costs and subscriber behavior is an area where data and finance professionals could augment decisions usually trusted to engineers.

Commsrisk Top Ten for August 2020

Commsrisk sustained its record-breaking audience from July, with the most popular articles in August focusing on strong black women in risk management and the corruption of GRAPA.

Zimbabwe Chokes Mobile Money; Poor Suffer Most

Unbanked Zimbabweans rely on mobile money but the central bank has banned mobile money agents and placed a tight limit on daily transactions.

Huge CenturyLink Outage Shows Risk Lies in the Details

A bad firewall configuration rule forced Tier 1 operator CenturyLink offline and reduced global internet traffic by 3.5%.

Police Raids in 19 Countries Take Down 60 Pirate Movie Servers

The US-led operation prompted arrests in the USA and Cyprus, whilst an alleged Norwegian conspirator remains at large.

Ghana’s Government Promises to Scrap Minimum Termination Rate

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia said the current GHC0.19 per minute rate is a 'nuisance tax' that causes simbox fraud.

Brazil Becomes Key Battleground in US-China 5G War

A recent war of words in the Brazilian press highlights the global scale of the US government's fight against Huawei.

Account Takeover Specialists SpyCloud Close $30mn Investment Round

SpyCloud identifies vulnerable online accounts by checking them against their library of compromised credentials.

Huawei, ZTE, Ericsson and Nokia Pass GSMA Security Audit

The Network Equipment Security Assurance Scheme (NESAS) is meant to provide a "security assurance framework" for vendors.

Telco Staff Targeted by New Custom Spear Voice Phishing Attacks

Criminals phone staff as they work at home, then tell them to log on to phishing websites that look like corporate portals.

RAG TV: Assuring PPV Revenue and Preventing Refiling

The final episode of RAG TV Season 2 featured two classy communicators: Kathy Romano of global media firm Discovery and Bryan Rowe of innovative fraud developers Six Degrees.

Which Networks Profit from Secret SIMs?

Secret SIMs, also known as white SIMs or Russian SIMs, are marketed as if they can never be tracked or monitored by the police.
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