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Password Sharing and Video Revenues

As services evolve, more businesses will need to mitigate the loss of revenues caused by customers sharing passwords for content distributed over comms networks.

Customers can be naughty. You may provide them with a unique password so they can access paid-for content like online video, only for the customer to share that password with other people. But how naughty are customers, and what can be done to reduce the revenues lost without driving the customer away?

Password sharing by customers, and the impact on revenues, was the topic of a case study presented by Rishi Modha of Cartesian to the March meeting of the Risk & Assurance Group. Rishi discussed the experience he gained whilst working with an American content distributor. His slides are now available to view on the RAG website and they are well worth a look.

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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