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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

New Subex Asset Assurance Solution

Subex has officially launched their 'asset assurance' solution. This uses network asset discovery to recover stranded assets and reconcile inventory to costs and...

cVidya: 10th Most Promising Start-Up in Israel

If I worked for cVidya, I am not sure how I would react to the news that they came tenth whilst competing for their...

Fraud and Security Post 9-11

Danny Lieberman is a security expert with a broader range than telco revenue assurance, but is invariably worth a read for his insights on...

Assurance, Anniversaries and Alternatives

I have been so busy recently that I complete forgot an important anniversary. talkRA is now so settled, it has become part of...

US$22m Fraud at AT&T and T-Mobile US

It has been revealed that slack controls over customer data allowed eight people to obtain US$22m worth of equipment from AT&T and T-Mobile US,...

Africa and Beyond: Talking RA with Nitin Patel

My guest for episode 8 of the talkRA podcast was Nitin Patel, revenue assurance consultant. He told me about his experiences from different...

Putting the Ass into Revenue Assurance

Do you know the phrase "so bad it's good"? This advert from Papa Rob is so bad it transcends good and ends up...

Better Q2 for ECtel

Israeli RA vendors ECtel bounced back from a poor Q1, this week reporting much better figures for Q2. Revenues for Q2 were US$5.7m,...

Razorsight buys Singletusk

Razorsight, the revenue assurance software vendor has bought rivals Singletusk for an undisclosed sum. You can read Razorsight's press release here.It is another...

More Mattison Madness and Mirth

Papa Rob Mattison, self-proclaimed President of the Revenue Assurance World, is up to his tricks again (but you did not need me to tell...

News from BillingViews

In 2003, I was lucky enough to co-chair the Revenue Assurance stream at IIR's Billing Systems conference. My fellow chair was Alex Leslie,...

cVidya to buy ECtel?

Globes, the Israeli business daily, has reported that cVidya is in talks to buy fellow Israeli vendor, ECtel. You can read the Globes...

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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