Monetization & Assurance
Debt, Payments and Handsets: How a Global Crisis Leads Revenue Assurance to Find a New Balance
Sensitive management of access to each phone will maintain cash flow during a time when customers are under financial pressure.
How Much Are Revenue Assurance Professionals Paid?
Both the strengths and weaknesses of the revenue assurance job market are highlighted by data from a website that allows UK employees to anonymously rate their employers.
Zimbabwe Chooses GVG for National RA System
GVG is such a popular supplier of systems to track calls and mobile money transactions that Zimbabwe's regulator did not complete its public consultation before signing a deal with them.
Zimbabwe Wants Public Feedback on National RA Regulations by November 20
Zimbabwe intends to implement an RAFM system that will check telco revenues, identify fraud and monitor mobile money.
$200mn Settlement for Telco That Took Government Subsidies for 885,000 Ineligible Customers
T-Mobile USA will pay the FCC's largest fixed-amount civil penalty as redress for Sprint wrongly claiming Lifeline payments.
T-Mobile Outage Caused 250mn Calls to Fail
The FCC said a cascade of failures would have been prevented if T-Mobile USA had periodically audited the diversity of their networks.
3 Mind-Bending Futuristic Revenue Assurance Systems
The future starts with an impossible idea and then developing the means to make it possible. Here are three impossibly utopian ideas for RA and a roadmap to make them possible.
Why the Speed of Light Limits Call Duration Accuracy
Photons are very fast, but our planet is pretty big.
National RA Audit Row Continues in Ghana
Ghana's Communications Minister Ursula Owusu-Ekuful says her national RA audit has stopped telcos from cheating their taxes, so why is she not prosecuting them for tax evasion?
The Origins of Revenue Assurance and Why They Matter
We interviewed David Smith, an author of Successfully Managing Revenue Assurance, the 2001 publication that defined RA.
RAG TV: Boosting Profits with Engineering Governance
Yesterday's episode of RAG TV saw Nikhil Sehgal of Colt explaining the role of engineering governance, and Steffen Öftring of SIGOS talking about web-based risk training.
Zimbabwe Proposes New Rules for Traffic Monitoring
POTRAZ, the Zimbabwean comms regulator, wants to copy the automated national telco RA audits found in other countries.
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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