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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

Assured and Direct: Report from the Subex User Conference

After writing 638 posts for talkRA, I may not be the ideal advocate for the principle that 'less is more'. However, I passionately...

Subex User Event Starts Soon

In my opinion, user events have emerged as the best-attended and most dynamic meetings of RA practitioners. The audiences for traditional conferences have declined....

Subex’s Asset Assurance: Rediscovering how to lead

Many years ago, when I was still handsome and slim (or at least, when I was less ugly and fat), I had a conversation...

More On The Relationship Between Risk and Control

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a lengthy post about why I despise the word 'control'. Regular reader Michael Lazarou often leaves...

GRAPA Reaches for the Bottom of the Barrel

Papa Rob thinks he can train engineers.

talkRA and the Audience Effect

Blogging is easily disparaged, especially by people who think the world can be reduced to a series of buy-sell transactions. As should be...

WeDo to Assure Sky Brazil Billing Migration

Sky Brazil will use WeDo's RAID software to assure the migration of customer tariff data to Sky's new billing system. The price was...

Why I Despise the Word ‘Control’

Control. Controls. You hear those words a lot, in our line of work. Often you hear them in the phrases 'more...

Subex Q1 Results: Pay your money, take your choice

It has taken me a while to review Subex's results for the first quarter of FY14. That is not because they were especially...

Secure Email Providers Close In Response to US Surveillance

Edward Snowden's recent revelations about US government surveillance have prompted a lot of speculation about the wider impact on the US communications industry. ...

Another Story of Waste from the US Lifeline Program

Straightforward investigative journalism reveals the abuse of the Lifeline program.

Subex COO Explains Strategy to talkRA

An old BT marketing campaign was built around the slogan: "it's good to talk". That is a philosophy shared by talkRA. In...

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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