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Anatomy of a Billing Error That Took 15 Years to Resolve

By Eric Priezkalns 26 Jan 2022 Assurance & Audit

Much can be learned from the story of O2 overcharging customers and misleading their regulator, but the most important is that many people want someone else to be responsible for billing assurance.


O2 Fined for Misleading Regulator about Overbilling

By Eric Priezkalns 6 Dec 2021 Assurance & Audit

Ofcom said Telefónica’s UK operating company had a ‘history’ of withholding information.


UK Serious Fraud Office Probes Major Mobile Network

By Eric Priezkalns 9 Sep 2021 Risk, Fraud & Security

Former executives at mobile operator O2 may have violated anti-bribery laws.


Wangiri Warnings in Czechia, Greece and Poland

By Eric Priezkalns 2 Sep 2021 Risk, Fraud & Security

They say you must be insane to repeat the same act whilst expecting a new result. Consider the sanity of relying on repeated warnings to protect customers from the world’s most common phone scam.


First Speakers Confirmed for RAG London 2021

By Eric Priezkalns 5 May 2021 Education & Conferences

Leading experts from Telefónica, BT, Inmarsat, Virgin Media and Vodafone have already committed to participating in RAG’s first post-lockdown conference.


Major UK Operator Overcharged Customers for 15 Years without Their Billing Auditors Noticing

By Eric Priezkalns 11 Mar 2021 Assurance & Audit

O2 was fined USD14.5mn for billing errors from 2011 to 2019, but those errors were evident as early as December 2003.


$14.5mn Fine for Telco That Overcharged Customers for 8 Years

By Eric Priezkalns 15 Feb 2021 Assurance & Audit

Telefónica UK presented inaccurate closing bills to 251,700 customers who wanted to end their service.


Wangiri Attack Makes UK News Headlines

By Eric Priezkalns 4 Sep 2019 Risk, Fraud & Security

Customers complained via social media about receiving 50 or 60 calls from slightly different originating numbers within African ranges.


BBC Tries To Create Panic Over SIM Swaps

By Eric Priezkalns 7 Nov 2018 Risk, Fraud & Security

The stores of some UK mobile networks will issue replacement SIMs without demanding photo ID. Just as importantly, some BBC journalism is fundamentally dishonest.


Customer Billed 11 Years after Canceling Contract?

By Eric Priezkalns 8 Jun 2017 Assurance & Audit

The customer claimed not to have noticed the regular monthly transfers from his bank account.


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RAG RAFMCS Survey Results

Watch Eric Priezkalns give his summary of the largest ever survey of revenue assurance, fraud management and cybersecurity (RAFMCS) pros working for communications providers worldwide.

 

Recent Comments

  • Eric Priezkalns Eric Priezkalns 20 Jun 2022
    New Data Shows Big Flaw in STIR/SHAKEN Is Now Even Worse
    You don't need to apologize, Dennis. The only person who was pedantic about the word 'authentication' was me. But I have reason to be pedantic as there is confusion between how the word is used by a...
  • Dennis Dupont Dennis Dupont 20 Jun 2022
    New Data Shows Big Flaw in STIR/SHAKEN Is Now Even Worse
    Sorry if I was being pedantic about that one word. I have been in the business of reading and implementing specs, so I may get hung up on them. Either way I think we have converged onto the root of...

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