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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

Ten Tips for Starting Revenue Assurance

One of the most common questions I get asked is "how do you start doing revenue assurance in a telco that has never done...

RA Accreditation and More – Talking RA with Geoff Ibbett

Geoff Ibbett is an independent consultant with tremendous experience in the field of revenue assurance. Over the years he has held a string...

LinkedIn Exploits Links Out

Sorry to everybody who uses Morisso Taieb's wonderful LinkedIn group for people working in revenue assurance, but they will not be syndicating talkRA articles...

“Revenue Assurance” for Information Services

Anyone who has been reading my blogs long enough will know I occasionally dig up and share examples of how the phrase "revenue assurance",...

What Good RA Training Has In Common

In a perfect world, everybody would get one-to-one tuition that was tailored for their every need, whenever they received any kind of education. ...

FCCBs Cast Shadow Over Brighter Subex Results

Subash Menon, boss and founder of Subex, tried to make the best of the release of Subex's year end results. There were many...

Revenue Assurance for International Groups

Lee Scargall, fellow talkRA author and Director of Enterprise Risk Management at Qtel International, joined me for podcast 6. We talked about a...

Text Tax is a Sneak Attack

Walk around Britain today, and you sometimes see old houses with recesses in the walls. They look like they should have windows in...

cVidya Seek More VC Funding

A few weeks ago we reported that Israeli revenue assurance vendors cVidya had secured a new US$5m credit line from venture lenders Plenus. ...

Why Mattison is a Maggot: Wikipedia Spam Part 2

Wikipedia is not an advertising billboard.

Q1 Revenues: ECtel Down, WeDo Up

Israeli revenue assurance vendor ECtel have announced their Q1 results today. They make fairly dismal reading. Despite previous optimism that 2009 would...

Is Revenue an Optional Extra?

Every man and his dog seems to offer revenue assurance of one type or another. They may have a bit of a software...

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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