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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

Mobile Malware and Crowdsourcing

In a recent post at Connected Planet, Alex Leslie points out how smartphone owners are at risk from a variant of the classic PC...

Subex Q2 Results: emphasis on non-linearity

Subex, the Indian RA giant, have announced solid results for Q2 FY2012. Now that they have sold off the failing activation wing of...

500 not out

Five years ago, I wrote a blog post about revenue assurance. It was called 'The RA Truck Stop' and I asked if people...

Unrealistic Optimism: blame your brain

It is official - scientists have found an explanation for why most people are over-optimistic. In a previous blog, I talked about the...

Malawi: Making RA a Human Rights Issue

In a previous post I highlighted the plans of Malawi's regulator to implement a controversial new 'spy' system for the purpose of revenue assurance,...

5 RA Questions You Dare Not Ask (and I will not answer)

We all know what revenue assurance is like. People ask about how to pick the correct KPI mediation threshold when reconciling your roaming...

Tech Journalist Blasts Boards for Risk Failures

In a recent opinion piece, veteran journalist Mary Jander lambasted the boards of technology firms for not overseeing the risks taken by their companies....

Subjectivity of Perception for Mobile Phone Health Risks

Look here for a brilliantly simple explanation of the subjective way people perceive mobile phone health risks. As Michael Blastland of the BBC...

O2 Bill Shock Too Soon

Roaming data charges can lead to bill shock - the shock of enormous and unexpected bills. One sensible counter-measure to bill shock is...

Domain Typos are Security Loopholes

People love finding the complicated ways by which things go wrong. Audacious frauds, complex exploits, elaborate leakages - people love to find them...

Gaping Hole in HTC Android Security

It is getting to the point where smartphone users would be safer binning their radio-enabled computers and just walking around town wearing t-shirts emblazoned...

Responding to Disasters with Mobile Phone Data

Much is said about exploiting the value of customer data. Mobile phone networks know a lot about their customers, and this prompts technologists...

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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