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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

Sunil Joshi, EE

Sunil is a Product Development Manager for Everything Everywhere (EE) and he is also an expert in roaming, having accumulated a decade of relevant...

EU-US Privacy Shield: New Name, Same Crap

When it comes to transferring personal data to the USA, the chief goal of the European Commission is to deceive Europeans about the implausibility of imposing EU data protection law.

Rohit Maheshwari, Subex

Rohit is the Head of Business and Solution Consulting at Subex. He specializes in risk management, having worked in the industry for over...

Spring Meeting: 10th March 2016

The first meeting of the new year will be held on Thursday 10th March, at our regular venue in the conference room at Cartesian's offices, Holborn, London

Dan Baker, Editor of Black Swan

Dan Baker is the founder of the Technology Research Institute (TRI), the Editor of Black Swan, and co-host of the Commsrisk Podcast. He...

45% Rise in Telco Security Incidents and Losses

PwC have published their 2016 survey of global information security, and the telecoms sector has taken a beating, despite a 37% rise in security spending.

Net Neutrality and Dogma

Recent arguments in India and the USA show how political dogmatists have latched on to net neutrality, using it prohibit innovations that most of us would support.

Joaquim Teixeira, Energias de Portugal

Joaquim is the Head of Organization & Development at the distribution division of Energias de Portugal (EDP). EDP is a major European electricity...

Miguel Mendes, WeDo Utilities Director

For the last seven years Miguel has been responsible for promoting WeDo's products amongst utilities, helping them to significantly expand the market for business...

EE Overcharged Customer Service Calls

RA has been around for over a decade, but the investigation of an old mistake by EE shows the UK regulator still has a naive understanding of human error and its implications.

Andy Harper, Cartesian

Andy is a Vice President at Cartesian, with responsibility for the EMEA region. He has extensive experience of serving the RAFM market, having...

Rene Felber, EY

Rene Felber is a Senior Manager at EY Finland, where he is subject domain leader for technology risk. He has extensive experience of GRC,...

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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