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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

Meet the Professor

This video features Santhosh Laxmana, who describes himself as an Adjunct Professor at the Aegis School of Business. But how does somebody become...

How ‘Revenue’ Came to Mean ‘Cost’

The practice of revenue assurance is possibly the worst named discipline ever. There are a dwindling number of hardliners who stick to a...

The RA Analogy Between Utilities and Telcos

In an article for Public Utilities Fortnightly, Victor Milligan of Martin Dawes Analytics argues by analogy that utilities need revenue assurance in the way...

Golden August for Subex

Since its turnaround, Subex has continued to plot an upward course. At the end of July, the Indian giant posted Q1 results that...

TEOCO Completes TTI Purchase‏

US cost and revenue management vendor TEOCO has announced the completion of its acquisition of TTI Telecom, the Israeli service assurance firm . ...

Hailing the Mavericks

You know, there would not be a discipline called 'revenue assurance' if it was not for the pioneers - those brave souls that walked...

RA ‘Control Desk’ for Utilities

This is another post in the irregular series on revenue assurance outside of telecoms. The idea of reworking the practice of revenue assurance...

Once Upon a Time in the Internet Wild West…

Regular readers of talkRA will have noticed we had some difficulties over the last week. Hackers found an exploit and were able to...

Who is Dale Crossman? More Wikipedia Spam

Type the words 'dale crossman revenue assurance' into Google this morning, and you will find something you would not have found a few days...

Turning RA into Process Analytics

Regular readers of talkRA will know that I maintain an irregular series of posts about revenue assurance for businesses other than communications providers. ...

RA in the Bones, not the Skin

When advising people on what I am looking for in revenue assurance, sometimes I find it easiest to use metaphors. The right metaphor...

Using SharePoint to Build an RA Dashboard?

I must admit I have not spoken to people at Verizon Business or their software vendor, Something Digital, but I had to share this...

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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