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

Pat Turner, TUFF

For over ten years Pat has been a member of the board of the Telecommunications UK Fraud Forum (TUFF) and the Mobile Industry Crime...

Tim Haentjens, Araxxe

Tim works for Araxxe as their VP of Sales for the EMEA and APAC regions. Araxxe provides monitoring services to the communications industry...

Amdocs Buys Cvidya

Customers of the Israeli assurance software firm have been told about the acquisition by Amdocs, confirming rumors which first surfaced in November.

Araxxe Shares Data on Frequency of OTT Bypass

The French telecoms revenue and fraud specialists have a regional analysis of the frequency of OTT bypass, derived from the audits they have performed for customers.

Ghana’s National Audits to Be Copied by Guinea and Others

Perhaps eight African countries will adopt national revenue, tax and anti-simbox audits like those imposed on Ghanian telcos.

EY Highlights 2016 Fraud and Corruption Trends

According to EY, 2016 is going to be a complicated and challenging year for cybersecurity and risk management.

Colin Marden, Apply Mobile

Colin Marden is the General Manager and COO of Apply Mobile, a business which supplies authentication and credential management software for mobile phones. ...

Nice Buys Nexidia for $135mn; Boosts Speech Analytics

This deal shows the importance of mining data in places that were previously inaccessible, such as audio recordings.

Nigel Smith, Experienced Billing and RA Pro

Nigel is a knowledgeable billing and assurance manager, having worked as Group Head of Revenue Assurance & Fraud at Colt, and Director of Billing...

Ravi Palepu, VirtusaPolaris

Ravi is Global Solutions Head for VirtusaPolaris’ Communications business unit. He will speak at the Summer RAG on the topic of how analytics-driven...

Juniper Pulls Suspected NSA Firewall Backdoor

The NetScreen line of firewalls had been compromised by unauthorized code, and was subject to a weakness relating to the random numbers used for encryption.

3 Takeaways from Neural’s Telco Risk Survey

You should apply professional skepticism, but it is worth reading this succinct report on estimated leakages and trends in risk management.
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