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

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...

Google Takes a Stand on State Cyberattacks

Can private enterprise step into the digital crossfire when agents of a state conduct cyberattacks? Per Google, the answer is yes. Google...

Superb Overview of International Gateway Monitoring in Ghana

Once in a while you find a needle in the interweb haystack of news, information, misinformation and comment. Recently talkRA has been highlighting...

Fear and Loathing in Revenue Assurance

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.Samuel JohnsonScene: Long after everyone else has left the...

Telco Offers $25k Reward in Response to Copper Theft

Customers of Windstream Communications were left without service for hours after copper thieves stole cables in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA. The rising number...

Long Prison Sentences for $20M Fraudsters

Prosecutors have succeeded in obtaining long prison sentences for criminals engaged in a USD20M fraud of US telcos including AT&T, Verizon, XO Communications, Excel...

Xintec Raises 900k Euros

Xintec, the Dublin-based vendor of RA solutions, has raised EUR900k in finance; see the press release here. EUR350k comes from the Bank of...

Connectiva Sale Rumoured

Mara-Ison, the Dubai-headquartered IT services business, is rumoured to be in advanced talks to buy Connectiva, the troubled Indian RA vendor, according to the...

An ISP That Wants Privacy to be a USP

Privacy. I like mine. You may have lost yours already. Once lost, privacy is not something you can easily recover. ...

Ghana to Audit International Revenues

The National Communication Authority (NCA) of Ghana has announced it will conduct revenue assurance audits based on CDRs provided by the country's six telecoms...

New Business Assurance Journal Launched

Dan Baker, telecoms researcher and good friend to talkRA, has launched a hotly-anticipated online magazine, the Black Swan Telecom Journal, dedicated to the topic...

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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