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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

The Risks With Mobile Content

Look here for a very good article on the different kinds of risks that need to be managed with mobile content. It very...

WeDo Announces LatAm Strategy

Portugal's WeDo has once again taken aim at Latin America and announced it will open new offices in Chile and Panama in 2010. ...

Subex, and the Inequities of Debt

How much would you say Subex is worth? That is the question surrounding the Indian revenue assurance and OSS vendor after it announced...

Bad Q2 Results for Subex

Subex, the Indian revenue assurance and service activation vendor, has announced poor figures for its second quarter. You can read the press release...

ECtel and cVidya Merge

At last, we can lift the lid on the worst-kept secret in the RA industry. Israeli vendors ECtel and cVidya have announced they...

$60m Investment in TEOCO

TEOCO, the US cost, routing and revenue management vendor, has sold a minority stake to private equity firm TA Associates. TA Associates are...

ECtel Receives Nasdaq Warning

Israeli revenue assurance and revenue management vendor ECtel has been warned by Nasdaq that its shares might get delisted. The warning was issued...

Subex Seeks Refinance

Indian revenue assurance vendor Subex has offered to exchange its US$180m of FCCBs for new US dollar denominated bonds. The original bonds had...

Customer Transaction Monitoring for Financial Businesses

This is another in the irregular series of "it looks like revenue assurance, it smells like revenue assurance, it even tastes like revenue assurance,...

The Myth of ‘Average’ Intercarrier Leakage

They are spoken of less often these days, but we still keep hearing about those pesky 'estimates' of 'average' leakage. RA software vendors,...

BSNL & Ericsson: Linking Marketing with RA?

Here is a tiny news snippet that caught the eye. Ericsson have reportedly offered to provide business consulting services to help India's largest...

ATS and WeDo Agree Global Pact

What should two revenue assurance vendors do when one is popular in the North American market but struggles to get out, and the other...

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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