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author: "Eric Priezkalns"
published: "2010-09-09T08:50:48+00:00"
modified: "2015-02-16T23:07:40+00:00"
title: "The RA Analogy Between Utilities and Telcos"
permalink: "https://commsrisk.com/the-ra-analogy-between-utilities-and-telcos/"
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# The RA Analogy Between Utilities and Telcos

In an article for *Public Utilities Fortnightly*, Victor Milligan of Martin Dawes Analytics argues by analogy that utilities need revenue assurance in the way telcos needed it at the end of the 90’s. You can read the article [here](http://www.martindawessystems.com/pdfs/businessmoney.pdf). I fully agree with Milligan’s comments about customers of RA services demanding a Proof of Concept and Proof of Value to minimize the risk and demonstrate the benefits of RA. However, he also provokes my favourite bugbear – lots of talk about % leakages and recovery, but where do these stats really come from, and how reliable are they?