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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

Mobile World Congress is Rubbish

I must admit, it has been a while since I attended the Mobile World Congress. But there is a reason for that. ...

Revenue Assurance Group Announce Next Meeting

The London-based Revenue Assurance Group, the longest recurring get-together of telco RA managers in the world, has announced their next meeting will take place...

Bangladesh Authorities Seize $128mn From Telecom Fraudsters

32 Taiwanese, 7 Bangladeshis and 5 Chinese have been arrested by Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion, following an multinational investigation into telecoms fraud. The...

Keynote buys Meucci

Keynote, California-headquartered suppliers of telecoms test equipment, have purchased Meucci, Belgian specialists in detecting bypass fraud. The price was not disclosed. You...

Vodafone Concerns Over Surveillance in USA

Vodafone's privacy boss has taken the unusual step of garnering public support - via mainstream news media - as part of his company's strategy...

Subex Announces $10mn of New Deals

Subex, Indian vendors of business assurance software, have announced 5 new customer contracts in emerging markets, worth USD10mn in total. You can read...

The Size of Your Data… and what you do with it

Big Data is a new buzzword, and like with most buzzwords some interesting new capabilities are rapidly obscured by vague and contradictory chatter. ...

WeDo Appoints VP to Promote Business Assurance Outside of Telecoms

WeDo Technologies has recruited Raul Mascarenhas to a new position in their management team: Vice President with responsibility for business development in...

Guess My Cyberstalker

Let us play a game.Loyal talkRA readers will recognize names of people who leave comments. They include Lionel Griache, Michael Lazarou, and Dan...

Kiss My Tariff

KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid. The KISS design principle is as sound today as it was when first formulated in the 1960's. ...

The Real Cost of Internet Filters

Internet filters have become surprisingly popular, given that the internet was already wildly popular before anybody started to filter it. The UK has...

Sometimes Real-Time is the Only Time

A while ago, Nexustelecom issued a press release, boasting of how they had supported a revenue assurance project for Mobilink. They explained some...

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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