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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

Indian Police Arrest Teleonto MD

In October, the Managing Director of Teleonto, the fringe Indian RA vendor, was arrested by police for allegedly siphoning INR18.6M (USD340k) of investor funds;...

Merry Christmas China… Now Change Your Passwords

The astonishing news from China is that 10% of all Chinese web users had their passwords compromised over the Christmas period. Hackers stole...

Jim DeLoach on Enterprise Risk Management

Normally I spend a lot of time complaining that vendors and consultants talk an awful lot of nonsense about risk management. It is...

Comparing Bigfoot to GRAPA

Reading the website of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) I was stuck by the similarities with the website of the Global Revenue Assurance...

inteRAction

Let me share a secret. My interest in RA accounts for only half of my interest in talkRA. The other half of...

Psychometric Tests for Risk Managers

Hats off to risk vendors Active Risk, who are doing some research into an area long neglected. When recruiting, it is important not...

A Plus (not a must)

Because I keep tabs on what is happening in revenue assurance, I end up glancing over an awful lot of job adverts. However,...

MTN Ghana Blames Airtel for $9M Simbox Fraud

It seems that old pal Nixon Wampamba cannot escape the evils of simboxes. Last December he was in the news after the arrest...

RA vs Privacy: Malawi Row Continues

As previously reported on talkRA Malawi's regulator is imposing a 'revenue assurance' system on its operators, even though the operators insist it infringes customer...

Oil and Water; RA and Profit

Every now and then I happen upon a new RA website that I have not seen before. Most of them aim to promote...

Cloud Risk: Excellent New Paper

Hats off to Rufus Roberts of Praesidium, for authoring a new paper that succinctly but comprehensively explains the risk dynamics of the cloud. ...

Too Many Market Leaders

I admit it. I let Subex down. You see, I saw the press release saying...Analysys Mason ranks Subex Global Market Leader in...

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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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