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

The RA Review for 2010

According to some quarters, 2010 was the year of the revenue assurance professional - for the third year in a row. But looking...

Subex: New $3M Order, Optimism for 2011

It has been a good year for Subex, and they will finish it on a high after winning a USD3M deal to deploy their...

Ghana Arrests Eight for Termination Fraud

It is good to see an old mate generating positive publicity about the fight against fraud. Nixon Wampamba can make a decent claim...

ATS Invests in OpenVault

American RA vendor ATS has made a strategic investment in fellow US firm OpenVault. You can read the press release here.OpenVault specializes in...

cVidya Sniffs Out Internal Fraud

I interviewed Tal Eisner, Senior Director of Product Strategy at cVidya, for talkRA podcast 13. You can download the file from here or...

talkRA Visitor Statistics

I sometimes write about the size of the revenue assurance world. Estimates can be made based on revenues from RA sales, numbers of...

TEOCO Talks Too…

You have to love any website with the word 'talk' in the title. The good people at cost and revenue management vendor TEOCO...

Call for Open Source Revenue Assurance

The thing about collaboration is that you can never be sure where it will lead. Güera asked about the differences between crowdsourcing and...

Alone in a Crowd

Güera asked "how does crowdsourcing differ from collaboration?". I dare not offer an answer as such - I would need to ask around...

The Hard Life of the Revolutionary Expert

Contrary to popular belief, I have better things to do than keep an eye on Papa Rob Mattison's endless self-praise. If he wants...

Traffic Pumping Costs US Carriers $400m Annually

TEOCO, the cost and revenue management vendors headquartered in Virginia, have issued a startling report about traffic pumping in the US market. Traffic...

Assuring Sunshine

This post started out as another in the occasional series on what other industries do when they talk about 'revenue assurance'... and then a...

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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