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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

RAFM Firms Named in Stratecast ‘Top 10 to Watch’

WeDo, Sandvine and Veriflow were identified as innovative providers of operations, orchestration, data analytics and monetization solutions for telcos.

TMF Publishes RA Survey Results

This new revenue assurance report presents similar results to those given by previous TM Forum surveys.

Luke Taylor Interview: Why We Need a New Awards Body

Industry awards are broken. Luke Taylor wants to do something about it, and he told me why.

Governments + Telecoms Data = Utopia?

Some previous loose talk about telcos giving their data to government sounds even worse following revelations about the ways data, and people, have been abused in real life.

Comcast Story Shows Lasting Reputation Damage

Media is the meeting ground for those who run big distribution empires and those who have the content people want. Any weakness of the former will be ruthlessly exploited by the latter.

US Takes Action to Stop Robocall Scams

Regulators in the USA want tech and comms companies to develop new ways to prevent illegal automated calls that result in billions of dollars of fraud each year.

London Meeting: 28 Jun 2018

RAG's Summer London meeting will be held on Thursday 28th June, from 10.30am to 5.30pm at our regular venue of the conference room at...

Johannesburg Meeting: 22 May 2018

Our South African chapter have scheduled their first one-day meeting to be held on Tuesday 22nd May, at the MTN Innovation Centre in Johannesburg....

Absurdity Is Surrounding Social Media

Much of what people say about the need to control social media seems influenced by competition to be the center of attention.

Commsrisk Top Ten for March 2018

Which stories did you miss during March? These were the Commsrisk articles that were most widely read.

Will WeDo Bring Back Their Comic Strip?

Everybody likes superheroes, so perhaps the comic heroes of RAFM should return to fight more battles against marketing penguins and audit robots.

Should Telcos Research Quantum Safe Cryptography?

KPN is investing in the development of new cybersecurity technology. That may work for them, but not for every telco.

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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