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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

Güera Romo talks to Dan Baker

Dan Baker of B/OSS World interviewed talkRA's very own Güera Romo for his most recent blog. The two discussed the boundaries of revenue...

UK Regulator Launches ‘Bill Shock’ Consultation

'Bill shock' is the phenomenon of customers receiving bills that are far higher than they are used to. The high charges may stem...

Subex Strategy is Paying Off

Full year results for Subex, the Indian RA vendor, confirmed the increasing profitability of their business. Profits before tax and exceptionals were INR882M...

Alltel Buys cVidya Fraud Solution

cVidya, the Israeli RA vendor, recently announced the sale of its fraud management solution to Alltel, a wireless brand of US telco Atlantic Tele-Network;...

WeDo Strategy to Expand Assurance Outside of Telcos

2011 marks the tenth year since WeDo was founded. The Portuguese suppliers of business and revenue assurance solutions have grown to become one...

Knowing What CFOs Want (and knowing when Louis Khor is bluffing)

I have never been the CFO of a telco, but I have met quite a few. Louis Khor, who works for Papa...

Using Probes to Protect LECs in North America

The regulation of the communications industry in North America generates many idiosyncrasies for revenue assurance in that part of the world. One of...

Risk: More than a Little Bit More

Today I am going to tackle a subject that needs to be tackled by talkRA, and by everyone working in revenue assurance, fraud management...

WeDo Lands Deal with Turkcell Group

Portuguese revenue assurance vendor WeDo has announced it will implement its RAID software across Turkcell Group. Turkcell Group has operations in 9 countries,...

New Traffic Pumping Study: $150M Annual Cost to US Wireless Providers

Connectiv Solutions, a US vendor of network efficiency products, has issued a new study into traffic pumping; you can obtain the report from here....

Putting a Cost to Cybercrime

When it comes to cybercrime, telcos find themselves not just being fired upon, but also carrying the crossfire. That leaves telcos with double...

One Fifth of UK PRS Traffic Alleged to be Fraudulent

UK mobile CSPs are losing GBP136M a year to Premium Rate Services (PRS) fraud, according to BillingScore, vendors of technology to identify Artificially Inflated...

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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