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New year, new leakages?

Firstly, happy new year to all talkRA readers. I hope 2009 will be a beneficial one for you.RA practioners have many options to extend...

B/OSS World Excellence Awards

Nominations are now open for the Billing & OSS World Excellence Awards 2009. 'Revenue Management' is one of the award categories. There...

No Guarantees…

I was struck by the following passage when reading about the new strategic plans that ex-BT CEO Ben Verwaayen had unveiled for Alcatel-Lucent:Alcatel-Lucent’s plan...

BCS Award for Neural

Neural Technologies, the UK-based fraud and revenue assurance vendor, has won an award from the British Computer Society, a professional body with over 65,000...

ECtel Cuts Forecast; Becomes a Target?

Israeli revenue assurance vendor ECtel has announced, with its Q3 results, less optimistic guidance for its annual revenues. The new forecast range for...

Double Billing

I was talking today to a colleague, whose name, role and company best be kept anonymous, and they advised me a recent incident where...

Progressive KPIs

Now here's a question. Can RA practices be standardized (or bottled) into a one-size-fits-all solution?What do I mean by the above statement? Should it...

Battlegrounds and Graveyards

There is a well known saying at Cable & Wireless that goes, “Jamaica is the battleground and also the graveyard for Chief Executives!” The...

Voter Assurance

Letters asking for proof of identity. Computer mismatches. Bad data and confused processes. This story has it all. However, this...

ECtel launches IRMA, probably

Israeli vendor ECtel has issued a press release announcing the launch of its on-line 'social network' for revenue management. The Integrated Revenue Management...

Where Revenue Assurance Stops, a bedtime story

Many years ago, in the year of 2001, there was Genie, the mobile internet portal by BT. Genie was an attempt by BT to...

Primary or Secondary (?)

I guess I don't understand how a data source be marked as primary or secondary, and who decides which is which.I will illustrate my...

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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