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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

TEOCO Enters RAN Optimization Market Via New Acquisition

TEOCO, the assurance and analytics business headquartered in Virgina, USA, has announced the acquisition of Schema Ltd, a company specializing in Radio Access Network...

Subex Roundup: Sales, Debt and Rumours

There has been a flurry of news from Subex, the Indian RA giant, since they released version 5 of their ROC software. Within...

New Open Source RA Project

Recent events in the revenue assurance world have highlighted some of the downside risks of relying on proprietary software. One of those risks...

cVidya Reveals Zero Growth Over Last Two Years

Information about cVidya, the Israeli revenue assurance vendor, is so minimal, scatty and unreliable that even when you collect it all and piece it...

New TRI Report on Business Assurance

Dan Baker, research director and owner of the Technology Research Institute, has released his new report into telecoms business assurance. The 635-page report...

WeDo Patents Data Gathering Technology

WeDo, the Portuguese business assurance vendor, has secured a UK and European patent for a new data collecting technology; see their press release here.The...

cVidya Needs More Money; Seeks Buyer

cVidya, the Israeli revenue assurance vendor, is seeking an injection of between USD10M and USD15M, and is possibly looking to attract buyers, according to...

Kicking Risk’s Bottom

What is the job of a risk manager? Well, it is basically to kick people in the bottom for being careless, before the...

Connectiva Leaks Bad News

I never blog rumours, but lots of bloggers do. Each to their own. So whilst I hear lots of rumours about Connectiva,...

O2 Data Breach: customers are best testers

UK mobile operator O2 found themselves in trouble last week, when it was discovered they automatically sent the user's telephone number to any website...

Get RA-Wise with 5 Whys

5 Whys is perhaps the best known technique for finding the root cause of problems. Developed in Japan and pioneered in Toyota, it...

Never Beyond Bias

I have always been preoccupied by bias, but last year I spent a lot more time trying to understand what drives and enables it....

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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