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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

AT&T Stop Metered Internet Trial

In Reno, Nevada and Beaumont, Texas, AT&T has run a trial to charge DSL customers $1 per every gigabyte they exceeded their plan's usage...

WeDo Has Top Share of RA Market

Portuguese RA vendor WeDo is reported to have a 25% share of the worldwide market for revenue assurance, making them market leaders. The...

MoneyMap Deployment in North America

Israeli revenue assurance vendor cVidya has announced a new deployment of its MoneyMap software in a North American communication provider. You can read...

AT&T Aims to End 10-Year Billing Dispute

US communication provider AT&T has offered to settle a class action lawsuit over disputed billing by AT&T Mobility, a business which AT&T bought in...

RA Love/Hate

Güera's recent post on undisciplined theory really resonated with me. I was especially drawn to her saying it was good thing "to think...

Avi Basu on Revenue and Service Assurance Convergence

In a recent interview, Avi Basu, CEO of Indian RA vendor Connectiva, revealed some of his thoughts on how revenue assurance and service assurance...

Risk and Billing

Why should Risk Managers make friends with Billing Managers? I can think of three reasons:Many risks, if not managed properly, manifest themselves in...

Regulator Confirms Bell Canada Must Pay for RA Mistakes

Previously talkRA reported how slip-ups by Bell Canada's revenue assurance program actually resulted in the company overcharging its customers. Now the Canadian Radio-television...

TEOCO offers $58m to buy TTI

As previously rumoured, US cost, routing and revenue management vendor TEOCO has made a formal bid to take over Israeli OSS vendor TTI Telecom....

Big Fish in the Revenue Assurance Pond

Estimating the size of the revenue assurance market is complicated by many factors. Some of these I write about on a regular basis:...

Discussion Panel at WeDo’s WUG

They do things differently in Portugal. Normally the prospect of sitting through a software vendor's user group meeting would have me grinding my...

Is Fraud Management the same as Revenue Assurance?

Jeepers creepers. My eyes popped out when I reviewed the proposal by Moshe Zolotov of cVidya to include fraud management in the TM...

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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