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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

FICO Patents ‘Revenue Assurance Analytics’

Every month sees new battles waged over who owns the intellectual property rights to new technologies. Now it seems like the the battleground...

Open Source RA with Lionel Griache

Open source revenue assurance? It has long been a popular discussion topic in RA circles, but there was only one problem: nobody had...

Connectiva Allegedly Sells Parser Code

Official news about Connectiva continues to be notable by its absence, but the information leaked by an unofficial employee blog paints a grim picture...

FTC Privacy Report Pushes Do-Not-Track

The United States' Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has completed its final commission report on protecting consumer privacy; you can download it from here.One key...

Risk: Not Just Keeping Upside Down

There are two sides to every story, and there are two sides to the story of risk. We like upsides. We do...

Poulos on Security and Neutrality

Tony Poulos, the inimitable 'insider', has written another great blog comparing cybersecurity goals with net neutrality aspirations - and questioning how consistent they are....

Counting up to Number One

Subex, the Indian RA vendor has announced some good news: Gartner reportedly ranks Subex as having been the number one market leader in revenue...

Telco Leakages Make BBC News

Sometimes the biggest news is about what made the news. Last week, two reports from Juniper Research and KPMG generated the following headline...

Subex Announces APAC Greenfield Win

Subex, the Indian RA vendor, has announced the sale of its ROC RA and FMS solutions to an unnamed greenfield operator in APAC; see...

WeDo Upbeat About Results, Despite Having ‘A Challenging Year’

WeDo has issued a positive press release about their 2011 financial year; see here. The Portuguese vendors of business assurance software reported annual...

Little Action from UK Regulator Bill Shock Review

This month Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, published an action plan to tackle bill shock - the modern phenomenon of customers receiving phone bills...

What Is talkRA For?

Why are we here? What is the good life? How do we determine our purpose, and judge if we have been true...

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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