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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

The TMF, Surveys, RA and Risk: An Interview with Rene Felber

Rene explains his goals for the TM Forum RA team and calls on the TMF to focus on the needs of practitioners.

Ģirts Kaimiņš, Tele2 Latvia

Ģirts is the Fraud Prevention and Security Manager at Tele2 Latvia. He has specialised in information security and fraud management since he joined...

Pauline Kieleko, Safaricom

Pauline Kieleko is Head of Revenue Assurance at Safaricom, a leading network operator in Kenya. She is responsible for billing assurance, platform integrity,...

WeDo Uses AI to Judge Your Personality

Machines can crawl the web for data in order to anticipate how we think and feel. That will allow them to treat good customers well, and identify people who pose a threat.

Hilary Onuorah, MTN Nigeria

Hilary Onuorah is responsible for IT audits at MTN Nigeria. He is an innovative telecommunications professional with more than 14 years’ hands-on experience...

Nixon Wampamba, MTN Nigeria

Nixon Wampamba is the General Manager for RAFM at MTN Nigeria. He has over 20 years of experience in revenue assurance, fraud management,...

Mike Morley-Fletcher, Macmillan Cancer Support

Mike Morley-Fletcher is the Head of Risk & Assurance at Macmillan Cancer Support, one of the largest charities in the UK. In total...

When I First Learned…

A Brazilian programmer has a message about education that is relevant to anyone working in a technology-driven industry, and especially to risk and assurance professionals.

Neural Revamps Brand and Continues to Recruit

The vendor has a new logo, new name for its product line and is taking on new staff in the UK, Singapore and Malaysia.

Prof. Bernhard Sick, University of Kassel

Bernhard Sick is the Professor of Intelligent Embedded Systems at the University of Kassel. The focus of his work is to develop and...

Review of BDO Telecoms Risk Factor Survey 2016

BDO's attempt to give good risk management advice was hampered by survey results that contradicted much of what they wanted to say.

Media Shreds Vodafone UK Billing Screw Ups

The mountain of complaints about Vodafone UK billing errors has led to an equally large mountain of negative press.

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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