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

B/OSS World Excellence Awards

Nominations are now open for the Billing & OSS World Excellence Awards 2009. 'Revenue Management' is one of the award categories. There...

Talking Revenue Assurance with Telenor

Last month I told you about a great article which explains some of the elements of the Telenor Revenue Assurance Program (TRAP). Telenor...

No Guarantees…

I was struck by the following passage when reading about the new strategic plans that ex-BT CEO Ben Verwaayen had unveiled for Alcatel-Lucent:Alcatel-Lucent’s plan...

Good PR for Subex

The top team of Indian revenue assurance vendor Subex has been doing the public relations rounds recently. CEO Subash Menon gave an upbeat,...

Openet Sells RA Solution to Nextel Brazil

Irish mediation vendor Openet has announced the deployment of its revenue assurance solution in Nextel Brazil. Read the press release here.Openet's revenue assurance...

BCS Award for Neural

Neural Technologies, the UK-based fraud and revenue assurance vendor, has won an award from the British Computer Society, a professional body with over 65,000...

IneoQuest Accuses Ixia of Stealing Secrets

If services delivered by Internet Protocol are the future (and increasingly, the present) then it follows that revenue assurance testing will increasingly revolve around...

International RA Day is Here Again!

I should send out reminders in advance, because, in all probability, you have forgotten to celebrate International Revenue Assurance Day (December 2nd). You...

If Health Means Wealth, then Plugs Are Drugs…

One difficulty with revenue assurance is the preponderance of metaphors that people use when talking about it. These metaphors may help with explaining...

A Memory for Revenue Assurance

I love the LinkedIn group that Morisso Taieb set up for revenue assurance. However, there is one thing that frustrates me about it....

GRAPA: Decision Time

Decision time is here. GRAPA has thrown down the gauntlet and put its standards and certification program to a vote. There are...

GRAPA: A Sucker Born Every Minute?

"There's a sucker born every minute" - Phineas T. BarnumOkay, those of you familiar with my previous blogs know what I think of Papa...

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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