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

Big Data Will Change How We Think

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Hungary Suspends Plans for Internet Tax

After the Hungarian people took to the streets to protest, Hungary's government today shelved proposals for a new tax on internet use, according to...

Looking Forward to the 2014 Subex User Conference

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Do CEOs Understand Revenue Assurance?

Last week, an anonymous individual explained why they were frustrated with their telco's approach to revenue assurance. Ultimately, the complaint was that management...

Big Data World Championship Coming Soon

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Poll Result: Do not ask stupid questions!

This week talkRA experimented with its first opinion poll. Not knowing how popular it would be, I had no idea how long to...

Live Poll: Do revenue assurance and fraud management belong together?

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Kevin Trapp, The ID Co.

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Craig McDermott, Apply Mobile

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Tony Poulos Joins WeDo; Market strategist role is a pointer to the future

WeDo, the Portuguese business assurance vendor, have hired Tony Poulos to be a market strategist and spokesperson for the company; you can find the...

The End of talkRA?

We Need Fewer, Bigger, Better Vendors

There has been a lot of revealing news recently. But when I say 'revealing', I mean that in the sense of a man...

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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