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The TMF, Surveys, RA and Risk: An Interview with Rene Felber

Rene explains his goals for the TM Forum RA team and calls on the TMF to focus on the needs of practitioners.
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Rene Felber (pictured above) is the Head of Risks & FRA at Telia Finland, and he also leads the TM Forum’s global revenue assurance survey. He gives a lot of his time to fostering collaboration with fellow professionals and encouraging them to share information and advice about how to do their job. That makes Rene the perfect guest for the Commsrisk podcast, and he kindly joined us to discuss a series of important topics, including:

  • recent surveys and research and the conclusions Rene draws from them;
  • why the TMF RA team needs to concentrate more on the needs of managers and analysts working inside telcos;
  • the role for software that empowers people to do troubleshooting within their business;
  • the relationship between revenue assurance and enterprise risk management, and how that works in practice inside Telia; and
  • what motivates him to volunteer so much of his time working with the TMF and fellow practitioners worldwide.

Dan Baker once again joined me as co-host, and he also reflected on his analysis of the TMF survey results.

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This is the 26th episode of the podcast, and we produce a new episode about once a quarter. There are many services you can use in order to obtain new episodes as soon as they come out. For example, you can become a follower via the Commsrisk page on iTunes, or by using the Blubrry Android service.

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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