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

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...

TEOCO Targets TTI?

US cost and revenue management vendor TEOCO is reportedly in talks to acquire Israeli service assurance firm TTI Telecom, according to Israeli journal Globes....

Openet Squeeze Into RA Market

In a press release from mediation vendors Openet about their new BI and analytics offering, there is a tiny, almost casual reference to revenue...

High Demand for TMF RA Practitioner’s Accreditation

Geoff Ibbett ranks as one of the most knowledgeable and experienced people working in the field of revenue assurance. When the TM Forum...

Ovum’s Findings Challenge Conventional RA Thinking

Businesses like Ovum, that do research and provide analysis, can never rest easy. No matter how good their research is, they may always...

Connectiva Offers Customer Experience Management

Indian revenue assurance vendor has announced the launch of a new solution for customer experience management (CEM). You can read the press release...

Poll Conclusion – Trust for RA in the Cloud

These are the final results from the B/OSS magazine online poll asking if people trust RA in the cloud:Are you kidding me? RA systems...

Net Neutrality and Business Models

I am glad that David Leshem writes for talkRA. Sometimes you need somebody like David to make a point that nobody else sees,...

cVidya Appoints New EVP of Global Sales

Israeli software vendor cVidya has appointed Ron Halpern to the position of Executive Vice President of Global Sales. Halpern was previously a Vice President...

Revenue Assurance and Fraud Management in the Context of Enterprise Risk

In my last post, I mentioned how my career focus has shifted towards joining the dots between revenue assurance, fraud management and other risk...

Rediscovering Intelligence?

Benjamin Franklin was an intelligent man. He was an author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, soldier, 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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