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$200mn Settlement for Telco That Took Government Subsidies for 885,000 Ineligible Customers

By Eric Priezkalns 11 Nov 2020 Assurance & Audit

T-Mobile USA will pay the FCC’s largest fixed-amount civil penalty as redress for Sprint wrongly claiming Lifeline payments.


Hackers Fool Telco Staff into Installing Remote Desktop Software, Claims Magazine

By Eric Priezkalns 13 Feb 2020 Risk, Fraud & Security

Persuading the unwary to allow remote access to their computers is an old trick, but it supposedly is used to execute SIM swaps.


Sprint Wrongly Took Government Subsidies for 885,000 Inactive Customers

By Eric Priezkalns 26 Sep 2019 Assurance & Audit

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said Sprint’s actions were “outrageous”. The merger of Sprint and T-Mobile US may now be in jeopardy.


12 US Telcos Form Anti-Robocall Alliance

By Eric Priezkalns 27 Aug 2019 Risk, Fraud & Security

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has persuaded the bulk of US telephony providers to adopt eight principles for stopping nuisance robocalls.


Scorn for Web Identity Scheme of US Mobile Operators

By Eric Priezkalns 18 Sep 2018 Risk, Fraud & Security

The operators want to authenticate subscribers when they use online services provided by other businesses.


RAG Events Venture Into New Territories

By Eric Priezkalns 4 May 2018 Education & Conferences

Safaricom, Sprint and Batelco have agreed to host telco risk and assurance conferences in Kenya, USA and Bahrain respectively.


Next-Gen Mobile Authentication Coming to the USA

By Eric Priezkalns 15 Mar 2018 Risk, Fraud & Security

The ‘big four’ mobile operators in the USA intend to deliver a common secure authentication service by the end of the year.


Telco Boss Cloned Phones; Gets 6 Year Prison Term

By Eric Priezkalns 17 Apr 2017 Risk, Fraud & Security

Ramon Batista admitted that his telco had cloned mobile phones and used the compromised accounts to make international calls, resulting in losses of almost USD800,000 for Sprint and Verizon.


Sprint Faces $300mn Lawsuit for Not Billing Sales Tax

By Eric Priezkalns 12 Nov 2015 Assurance & Audit

The New York Attorney General wants damages worth three times the amount Sprint failed to collect from customers.


David Beckham vs. Complicated Tariffs

By Eric Priezkalns 7 Aug 2015 General

Do you think mobile phone tariffs are too confusing? So does David Beckham!


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