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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

Plenty of Call Blocking Apps, but Few Inter-Telco Calls Authenticated by STIR/SHAKEN Says FCC Report

Nuisance robocalls have fallen in the USA as billions of voice calls are now blocked automatically.

RAG TV: Improving Collections by Remotely Controlling Handsets

Episode 3 of the new season of RAG TV featured Dion Price, CEO of Trustonic, and Kingsley Unah, formerly with Airtel Nigeria.

US Designates Huawei a Threat to National Security

The FCC has barred the purchase of Huawei and ZTE equipment with subsidies from their universal service fund.

Massive Wangiri Attack Hits Angola

Customers of Angolan operator UNITEL were said to have received calls that apparently originated from a wide range of countries.

Activists File GDPR Complaint about A1 Telekom Austria

The burden on telcos to provide data to customers could be greatly increased if the activists who destroyed the US-EU data protection safe harbor succeed with their latest legal challenge.

Mobile Money vs Government: Zimbabwe’s Leading Mobile Money Service Resists Suspension

Zimbabwe's Information Secretary Nick Mangwana blamed telcos for "fraudulent generation of money".

RAG TV: Data Drift and Reducing False Positives for Fraud Cases

Drift means any automated model for evaluating fraud risk needs to be updated, no matter how sophisticated the technology used.

How GRAPA Defeats Other Associations on Social Media

Other providers of education to RAFM practitioners should ask themselves why GRAPA is so much more popular than they are.

BT Has Financial Reporting Internal Control Weaknesses per KPMG Review

BT said material weaknesses identified with general IT controls and risk assessments related to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

Privacy Breach at Virtual Telecoms Conference

Delegates of the Virtual ITW conference were warned their profile information, including their messages, could be accessed by other users if personalized hyperlinks had been forwarded to them.

RAG TV: Bypass Fraud and the Small Carrier’s Perspective

An expert in fraud detection and the owner of a niche international carrier were the guests on the first episode of a new series of RAG TV.

Spanish Police Disconnect Pirate IPTV Service with 2mn Customers

Over 40,000 television channels, movies and series were used to generate an estimated USD17mn of illegal profit.
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