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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 Thinking Behind talkRA

I was bouncing ideas around with fellow blogger Güera and came up with a manifesto of sorts for talkRA. It captures some of...

IRMA is on the way…

A reliable source tells me that ECtel's 'IRMA' website is due to go live in early September. IRMA is ECtel's bid to host...

Telstra Announce Success with IT Migration

Fascinating news from Telstra, where yesterday's analyst briefing for the 2008 year end results explicitly mentioned billing accuracy and revenue assurance. The Australian...

BTC Mobile Buys Neural Fraud Solution

BTC Mobile has implemented the Minotaur fraud prevention solution of Neural Technologies. See here for the press release at Neural's website. BTC...

ECtel: Figures and Future

Last week, Israeli revenue management vendor ECtel announced their Q2 results. I spoke to Benny Yehezkel, Executive Vice President of ECtel, about the...

Q2 Results Highlight Growth At TMNG Global

TMNG Global, who acquired British revenue assurance company Cartesian in 2006, announced their Q2 results yesterday. Revenues were up, as were gross profits...

New LinkedIn Network For RA Practitioners

Time to get back to business as usual. Recently I spoke with Morisso Taieb, who has established a new LinkedIn network for revenue...

No News. Good News?

Thanks again to all of you who keep getting in touch, wanting to know what is happening. There is not much I can...

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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