Dave Stuart
David is an experienced manager, having worked for a variety of international telcos. He has hands-on knowledge of fraud management, revenue assurance, risk management and software development. David is currently the Group Director of Revenue Assurance & Fraud Management at Vimpelcom.
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RA Question of the Week – NOC vs RA
This weeks questions, isn't going to look at a Revenue Loss issue, but instead a common issue for an RA department.I was working for a...
Answer: Faulty Transmission
This weeks issue was identified with on of the simplest RA controls to put in place. It was identified with a CDR sequence number...
RA Question of the Week – Faulty Transmission
For this weeks question, I am going to return to a standard RA issue. At a fixed line operator, it was identified that approximately 50% of...
Answer: The VAT Man
I don't believe that this particular issue can be found using any conventional revenue assurance reconciliation. This issue was found by simply talking to...
RA Question of the Week – The VAT Man
For this weeks question, I’m actually going to ask two questions. The usual how would you identify this loss? and a second question – does...
Answer: The Fraudulent Engineer
Firstly, thankyou to everyone who posted an answer this week. The purpose of this weeks question was to demonstrate that certain scenarios can be...
RA Question of the Week – The Fraudulent Engineer
Whilst working for a fixed line operator the following scenario was discovered: A single switch that served half of the country was found to have...
Answer: The Hidden Switch
The RA solution that flagged up the missing switch problem, is the oldest and probably one of the best - I checked my bill!...
RA Question of the Week – The Hidden Switch
Each week I'm going to post a real life revenue loss example and ask you the readers, how it would be identified with your existing...
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