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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

Revenue Assurance for African Utilities

Revenue assurance was on the agenda at the recent African Utility Week. Dean Villet, Professional Services Director for Itron, gave an interview to...

Subex Sells RA Solution to Ethio Telecom

Ethio Telecom, the monopoly telecom provider in Ethiopia, has purchased Subex's ROC revenue assurance solution following a competitive tender. Subex will implement their...

Over USD600k Stolen From Revenue Assurance Firm

Is everyone competent to do a reconciliation? Is everyone competent to implement controls that detect internal fraud, accounting mismatches and the like? ...

Gartner Announces New Market Leader; WeDo overtakes Subex

To be honest, I have long lost interest in what Gartner says about anything. It is my understanding that Gartner's customers buy research...

Etisalat Egypt Replaces RA System With WeDo’s RAID

Etisalat Egypt has joined the growing band of telcos that has replaced one vendor's COTS RA system with another. Earlier this week, WeDo...

cVidya Exec Discloses Corporate HQ Moved From Israel to USA; News not widely shared

Regular readers of talkRA will know that I begin many posts with a simple, common formula. It goes something like the following:, the...

Phone Companies Accused of Defrauding US Government

Government waste is a hot-button issue in US politics. Bill O'Reilly, the popular right-wing TV pundit, recently covered accusations that 'private phone companies'...

Analytics Shamalytics

As you might expect, I regularly check out the data on how many people read talkRA, and how popular it is compared to other,...

Subex Shares Continue to Slide

The share price of Subex, the Indian business assurance vendor, continues to slide to new lows. Trading was negative on Monday and Tuesday,...

Orange UK Issues Bill 500 Times More Than Normal; fights customer for payment

Alan and Carolyn Mazkouri run a small business. For 15 years they were loyal customers of Orange UK, who provided them with 10...

Tax Decision Goes Against Subex

Subex, the Indian business assurance vendor, received bad news when the Karnataka High Court upheld a decision to remove tax exemptions previously given to...

The Future of RA and Fraud Management

Three experts discussed what lies ahead for RAFM while attending WeDo's annual user conference.

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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