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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

New ISO Standard Aligns Information Security Risk to ERM

Risk management is dogged by too many separate camps, doing their own thing, calling it risk management, and oblivious to the different way that...

GRAPA Recruitment

A revealing ad on craigslist says that Papa Rob's GRAPA is recruiting a 'faculty team assistant'. The job pays USD12 per hour. ...

The Most Valuable Asset?

You have probably heard somebody say something like:people are our most valuable/most important/greatest asset.Whenever I hear this, my eyes involuntarily roll around my head,...

Canadian Management Accountants Respond to Risk

Though not specific to telcos, I thought it worth sharing an excellent report from an unexpected source. Eric Krell of The Society of Management...

Book Review by Tony Poulos

We have been waiting anxiously for Tony Poulos' review of our revenue assurance book. Tony is one of the best-known and best-loved authorities...

Panel on RA and Fraud Maturity at WeDo’s WUG

Kudos goes to WeDo for sharing some of the content from their big annual user group get-together, the 'WUG'. Their panel session featured...

Reflecting on Human Capital Risk

Check out this interesting press release about risk and Human Resources. To summarize, it argues the kinds of risks managed as a silo...

Simpler Rates, Lower Costs

US jobs data has highlighted how America's mobile carriers have been cutting jobs whilst revenues have risen; see here. Whilst there is debate...

New Survey Highlights Top Threats

Anything that might be called a threat to the business could just as well be called a risk to the business - we know...

The Difference Between Money and Value

Do you know what is the difference between money and value?Do you, really? Can you define it? Can you calculate it? ...

A Business Unit for Every Kind of Customer?

The other day I was asked an intriguing question by Dan Baker of B/OSS World and the RA Roundtable: what if a large telco...

Collins and Silvestre on M2M and NFC Assurance

Look here for an interesting interview of Simon Collins and Sergio Silvestre by Alex Leslie. The WeDo duo talked about the fraud and...

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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