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  • 24 Jun 2022 | Mobile vs Desktop: How Do You Read Commsrisk?
  • 23 Jun 2022 | The Wangiri Fraud That Was Mostly a Billing Error
  • 22 Jun 2022 | Regulator Warns Telco for Failing to Investigate Spam
  • 21 Jun 2022 | Huge Budget Rise Needed to Replace Chinese Tech in US Networks
  • 20 Jun 2022 | UK Government Proposes Heavy Fines for Spam Calls and Texts
  • 17 Jun 2022 | Saying African Telcos Are ‘Inadequately Prepared’ for Mobile Money Fraud Smacks of Unconscious Racism
  • 16 Jun 2022 | What If China Created a Rival to the US STIR/SHAKEN Program?
  • 15 Jun 2022 | New i3forum-RAG Survey Focuses on International Wholesale Fraud
  • 14 Jun 2022 | Widespread Reporting of Flubot ‘Takedown’ Shows How Little We Really Know
  • 13 Jun 2022 | New GVG National Revenue Assurance Tracking System Launched in Zimbabwe
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Huge Budget Rise Needed to Replace Chinese Tech in US Networks

By Eric Priezkalns 21 Jun 2022 Risk, Fraud & Security

The US government has allocated less than half of the USD5.3bn required to reimburse telcos for scrapping Huawei and ZTE gear.


Ericsson May Have Paid Islamic State Terrorists to Enable Tax Evasion

By Eric Priezkalns 22 Feb 2022 Risk, Fraud & Security

An internal investigation by the network manufacturer suggests they avoided Iraqi Customs by using roads controlled by ISIS.


How Not to Report Telco Tax Compliance

By Joseph Nderitu 4 Jun 2020 Assurance & Audit

A vibrant and free press is vital to holding public bodies accountable for their failures. Tanzania’s press prefers to blame telcos for every failure by every government function.


Surprise Vodacom Tax Bill from DRC Government

By David Morrow 15 May 2019 Risk, Fraud & Security

Vodacom finds itself being squeezed for money by another African government, this time in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).


Uganda U-Turn: Mobile Money Tax Is Halved

By Eric Priezkalns 20 Nov 2018 Digital Money

President Museveni said the 1 percent tax on mobile money withdrawals was a known ‘error’, but approved that law anyway. Now his government has cut the tax to 0.5 percent.


Mobile Money Taxes: Aping the Inept

By Joseph Nderitu 26 Oct 2018 Digital Money

Zimbabwe has raised taxes on mobile money and electronic transactions. There are better ways to stimulate a developing economy.


Gutting the Goose that Lays the Golden Egg

By Joseph Nderitu 27 Sep 2018 Digital Money

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta wants a 67 percent increase of taxes on mobile money transactions.


Social Media Tax in Uganda

By Joseph Nderitu 18 Apr 2018 General

Telcos will face additional pricing headaches as the Ugandan government imposes a tax on social media users of 200 shillings (roughly 5 US cents) per day.


Mobile Money: Easy Levies, Untapped Value

By Joseph Nderitu 18 Jan 2018 Digital Money

African governments should be reducing the burden on their people by using mobile money to efficiently collect tax, instead of increasing their burden by taxing mobile money transactions.


COFPFTE: A Taxing Comms Puzzle

By David Morrow 6 Jun 2017 Risk, Fraud & Security

The UK’s new Corporate Offences of Failure to Prevent Facilitation of Tax Evasion (COFPFTE) Act may trip up British telcos when calls are unlawfully terminated overseas.


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Top Stories on Commsrisk

Mobile vs Desktop: How Do You Read Commsrisk?


The Wangiri Fraud That Was Mostly a Billing Error


Regulator Warns Telco for Failing to Investigate Spam


Huge Budget Rise Needed to Replace Chinese Tech in US Networks



UK Government Proposes Heavy Fines for Spam Calls and Texts


Saying African Telcos Are ‘Inadequately Prepared’ for Mobile Money Fraud Smacks of Unconscious Racism


What If China Created a Rival to the US STIR/SHAKEN Program?


New i3forum-RAG Survey Focuses on International Wholesale Fraud



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

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    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...
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    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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