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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

Reflections on WeDo’s Future (part two)

In part one of these reflections, I commented on how WeDo might want to review the positioning of their distributed data gathering technology, and...

Secret Court Order Shows US Government Collecting All CDRs From One Telco

Britain's Guardian newspaper has broken a story claiming the United States' National Security Agency is currently collecting every CDR for every call carried by...

Review of Subex FY13 Results

They say every cloud has a silver lining. To be truthful, after a long look through Subex's results for the last financial year,...

Reflections on WeDo’s Future (part one)

The rise in WeDo revenues and fall in Subex revenues suggests that WeDo's steady but sustainable strategy has landed them the top spot in...

Tango Luxembourg Buys Xintec RA Solution

Xintec, the Irish business assurance software house, has sold their RAevolution 3.0 suite to Tango, an alternative CSP in Luxembourg. The price was...

WeDo Wows Customers at WWUG13

Last week WeDo, the Portuguese business assurance vendor, returned to base for their 8th annual worldwide user group meeting, which they call the 'WWUG'....

Subex Dives; No management turnaround

During a busy week for talkRA, Subex slipped out their dreadful annual results. The full and detailed analysis will have to wait until...

Subex Shares Recover From All-Time Low

As we wait for Subex's annual results, due soon, the Indian vendor has experienced a slight improvement in its share price. At Monday's...

Do’s and Don’ts of RA Marketing: lesson 136

I hate spam. I really hate spam. Anyone who reads this website knows how much I hate spam, because I always mock...

New Report Explains How to Sell and Market Analytics Software

talkRA blogger David Leshem has teamed up with Dan Baker, of Black Swan and TRI, to write a new report on the selling and...

Slip by BT Highlights Reality of RA Targets

If you want to be good at revenue assurance, you need intelligence. And by intelligence, I mean more than just having a big brain...

MACH’s Comedy Cloud Keeps Raining Gold

MACH, the specialists in mobile clearing, gave us some of the biggest belly laughs of the year so far, by announcing they were 'first'...

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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