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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.

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New RA Book by Yelland and Sherick

Mark Yelland joined me for talkRA podcast number 10. Mark has just co-written a new book with David Sherick, entitled "Revenue Assurance for...

cVidya Completes Purchase of ECtel

Revenue assurance vendor cVidya has announced they have completed the purchase of fellow Israeli business ECtel. You can read the announcement here. ...

WeDo: The Making of a National Champion?

If there is any vendor in the revenue assurance space that can be presented as a national champion, it is WeDo. Two news...

Subex Shares Slip

After a good run over the last year, Subex shares dipped 8% in trading yesterday. Other Indian tech firms were also down, but...

Content: The Frontier for RA?

They used to say that 3G stood for girls, goals and gambling. That reduces the network to its purpose as seen by the...

Connectiva Grows in 2009; Industry Challenges for 2010

It looks to have been a good year for revenue assurance software suppliers Connectiva. The news is that they have opened a new...

Revenue Assurance in 2009

Another year goes by, and we are all a year older. Are we a year wiser? Here is the review of what...

ECtel Shareholders Back Merger With cVidya

Shareholders for NASDAQ-listed revenue assurance vendors ECtel have approved the proposed merger with cVidya. Read the press release here.

Streamlining RA Management: Qtel and Symbox

For episode 9 of the talkRA podcast I was joined by Lee Scargall, regular talkRA contributor and Director of Risk and Revenue Assurance at...

Horizontal and Vertical Expansion of Revenue Assurance

A short while ago I referred readers to this article. It talks about start-ups, not established businesses, but the analysis of horizontals and...

Revenue Assurance for Local Government

This is another in the irregular series of posts on how the words 'revenue assurance', and the ideas behind it, are applied outside telecoms....

How to Start a New Revenue Assurance Business

For anyone wanting to set up their own revenue assurance business, there is some great advice in this article. The author hits the...

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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