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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

Good News for WeDo’s Horizontal Strategy

In a 2009 post, I commented on a key difference between WeDo's strategy and those pursued by their main competitors:WeDo has expanded horizontally, by...

Proposing a Hall of Fame (and Shame)

Like Popeye the Sailorman, I sometimes find myself saying "that's all I can stands, I can't stands no more". Regular readers of talkRA...

Putting a Value on User Data

The Atlantic has a brief but excellent analysis of the economic value of an internet user's data; see here. This is important -...

FCC Targets $200M of Waste, Fraud and Abuse in Free Phone Program

Government subsidies paid under the 'Lifeline' program are routinely abused.

Measure Your Personal Risk Intelligence

Dylan Evans is a psychologist with an interest in evaluating risk intelligence - how well (or how poorly) people calculate risk based on their...

Stop Fraud, Look Smart, Listen to Staff

Communications providers have a distinctive risk profile. They make big, long term investments in technology whilst generating revenue from lots of microtransactions. ...

WeDo Announces US Win

WeDo, the Portuguese business assurance vendor, has announced a deal to provide a managed revenue assurance service to 'one of the largest carriers in...

Connectiva – No News is Not Good Enough

I have not written much about Connectiva's seeming collapse because... well, what can I write? The Indian revenue assurance vendor has gone radio...

A History of RA, Part 2

Last week I posted the first podcast of this two-part series. Here is the concluding part, where the panel from WeDo's 7th Worldwide...

Subex Restructures

For a second time, Subex has cut a deal to restructure its financing. Subex's problems have stemmed from using convertible bonds denominated in...

A History of RA, Part 1

This May I was asked back to WeDo's Worldwide User Group (WWUG) event, held at a beautiful resort near Óbidos, Portugal. WWUG is...

Information Risk Forecast: Raining Nonsense

It is possible that Vishwa Bandhu Gupta, formerly an officer in India's Internal Revenue Service, wants to explain information risks using some pretty odd...

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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