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Commsrisk Top Ten for February 2019

What stories have your peers been reading? These ten articles grabbed most attention during February.

Commsrisk traffic was peaking well above normal during early February, but slid back during the week of Mobile World Congress, probably because so many people were at that show. Am I the only person who wonders why the leaders of our industry think the best way to promote the convenience of mobile telecommunication is to fly lots of people to the same place so they can talk face to face? If you ask me, that seems like a better advert for airlines, conference halls and hotels. Perhaps the global hospitality industry should run a virtual conference in cyberspace so they can return the favor.

These ten Commsrisk articles topped the popularity charts for February.

  1. US-Trained Spy Worked at Qatari Telco Before Spying for UAE
  2. Sandvine Wins $12mn Latam Order for Network Analytics and RAFM
  3. What Do We Do with Huawei?
  4. RAG’s Inaugural Middle East Event Wows Bahrain
  5. Are You Still Using Risk Matrices?
  6. Another Surprisingly Large Fraud Estimate
  7. Hungary and Luxembourg Suffer Wangiri Surges
  8. Why Telecoms Assurance Must Become Agile
  9. 10 Year Prison Sentence for US SIM Swapper; Another Indicted
  10. Our Problem Is with SMS, Not SS7
Eric Priezkalns
Eric Priezkalnshttp://revenueprotect.com

During his career, Eric has been a Director of Risk Management for a national telco, the Chief Executive of the Risk & Assurance Group, a Chief Marketing Officer for a software business, a consultant, a public speaker and the publisher of Commsrisk since its launch in 2006. Look here for more about the history of Commsrisk and the role played by Eric.

The comms providers that Eric has worked for include Qatar Telecom, Cable & Wireless, T‑Mobile, Sky and Worldcom. In addition to his proficiency at speaking about the current scamdemic, Eric is also a qualified chartered accountant and a subject matter expert in consumer protection, enterprise risk management, fraud prevention, data integrity and billing accuracy. Eric was the lead author of Revenue Assurance: Expert Opinions for Communications Providers, published by CRC Press. He can be reached through the contact form on this website.

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