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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

Confronting the Risks When Governments Gather Phone Data

In the wake of a Federal judge's ruling that the United States' National Security Agency probably acted unconstitutionally by accumulating huge volumes of call...

Zain Chooses WeDo Software for Kuwait, Jordan and Iraq

WeDo, Portuguese vendor and market leader, has rounded out a good year with more positive news. Zain Group has purchased WeDo's RAID revenue...

Time for RA to Cut Costs

In my latest article for BillingViews, I ask if telco revenue assurance budgets should follow the established pattern of RA software sales, with the...

The talkRA Review of 2013

Another year over, and what have you done? John Lennon's festive song reminds us that we participate in the world, as well as...

What the TEOCO-AIRCOM Deal Says About Assurance

Atul Jain, CEO of TEOCO, modestly says his firm is not a player in the revenue assurance market. But TEOCO's purchase of AIRCOM,...

Killing the Kill Switch

CNN reports that US mobile carriers are obstructing manufacturers' attempts to implement a 'kill switch' for their smartphones. The aim of a kill...

The Tao of Bitcoin and Mobile Money

Bitcoin, the virtual currency, is the most underestimated threat to the mobile industry. To find out why, and how it has something to...

The Value of Network Asset Assurance

I was very impressed by the quality of the presentations given at the Subex User Conference. There was a lot of straight talk...

Upgrading Assurance; Exclusive new article for Billing Views

People often ask me difficult questions, which require me to give evasive answers. Questions like...Q. What's the biggest cause of revenue leakage in...

cVidya Ranked in Israeli Fast 50 Growth Index… but suggests $10mn revenue slump

Unlike market leaders WeDo and Subex, analysing Israeli RA vendor cVidya always causes me headaches. For example, they tell their customers they are...

Saying Nothing About Communication Risks

I am the kind of guy who is interested in how all companies - not just telcos - deal with the risks created by...

CFOs Do Not Know RA (and that is fine)

I have a LinkedIn profile. Often I regret that fact. LinkedIn is a fairly useful tool for keeping in touch with casual...

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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