Risk, Fraud & Security
Subex & Swisscom Win Award for Sharing Fraud Risk
Swisscom and Subex have walked away with the Global Telecoms Business Innovation Award in the Business Service Innovation category. The two companies innovated...
Solar Flares and Satellite Comms
Could storms on the sun disrupt our communications infrastructure? Yes, they can... and do. The potential impact of solar events on satellite...
Less Text, What Next?
Our recent discussions about revenue assurance, business assurance (or whatever we call it these days), confirm the one constant in the telecom industry: that...
Survey Says 27% of Companies Buy Network Liability Insurance
A new risk survey by Towers Watson, the US professional services firm, reports that 27% of companies buy insurance to cover the risk of...
Teaching the Importance of ERM
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is so global and diverse that it has rapidly been incorporated into the syllabus of business schools around the world....
Data Roaming: Tax, or Punishment?
Regular followers of Tony Poulos will know of his crusade against bill shock - the heart-stopping moment when a customer looks at their bill...
Random Foolishness
Can you predict what will happen tomorrow? Yes... but your prediction may be wrong. Can you improve the reliability of your predictions?...
Alltel Buys cVidya Fraud Solution
cVidya, the Israeli RA vendor, recently announced the sale of its fraud management solution to Alltel, a wireless brand of US telco Atlantic Tele-Network;...
Using Probes to Protect LECs in North America
The regulation of the communications industry in North America generates many idiosyncrasies for revenue assurance in that part of the world. One of...
Risk: More than a Little Bit More
Today I am going to tackle a subject that needs to be tackled by talkRA, and by everyone working in revenue assurance, fraud management...
New Traffic Pumping Study: $150M Annual Cost to US Wireless Providers
Connectiv Solutions, a US vendor of network efficiency products, has issued a new study into traffic pumping; you can obtain the report from here....
Putting a Cost to Cybercrime
When it comes to cybercrime, telcos find themselves not just being fired upon, but also carrying the crossfire. That leaves telcos with double...
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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