All Leakages and Frauds Suffered by Comms Providers, Ranked by Value
Bad debt topped the tables for the greatest single cause of leakage per the Risk & Assurance Group’s RAFM Survey.
Should Telcos Use Data to Recommend Better Deals to Existing Customers?
Giving advice about the best tariff for a subscriber might also encourage customers to act on other recommendations.
Making Money by Calculating Where to Put 5G Masts
The intersection of capital costs and subscriber behavior is an area where data and finance professionals could augment decisions usually trusted to engineers.
US Telcos Given Freedom to Use Analytics to Block Illegal Robocalls
An FCC order means traffic may be blocked if reasonable analytics suggests it would not be wanted by the recipient.
Why LinkedIn Marketing Matters Less Than You Think
The data shows LinkedIn is only a minor source of traffic for Commsrisk, and the number of likes and comments on a LinkedIn post is not a good predictor of how much traffic it will generate.
RAG TV: Data Drift and Reducing False Positives for Fraud Cases
Drift means any automated model for evaluating fraud risk needs to be updated, no matter how sophisticated the technology used.
Significant Fall in UK Nuisance Calls
A survey by the UK regulator found that fewer than half of landline and mobile subscribers had received a nuisance call in the previous four weeks.
How CDR Analysis Caught a Murderer
Gregory Lewis was convicted of kidnapping and murdering an employee of a Verizon store he wanted to rob. His lawyers argued otherwise, but CDRs showed Lewis was at the location of each crime.
Araxxe Offers Free Sample of International Termination Rates Report
The French vendor provides analysis of the termination rates charged by international carriers.
Could AI Be Used to Stop Corruption?
Ukrainian business Sciforce believes machine learning has the potential to identify anomalies in unstructured data which are indicative of corrupt transactions.