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Stop Treating Revenue Assurance Like a Backlog, Run It Like a Risk Engine

Stop Treating Revenue Assurance Like a Backlog, Run It Like a Risk Engine

Carlos Marques . January 30, 2026

From ad-hoc firefighting to a scalable model built on people, process, and tools. Telecom Financial ...

Calm Before the Surge: Why Operators Must Start Preparing for the AI Traffic Boom

Calm Before the Surge: Why Operators Must Start Preparing for the AI Traffic Boom

Ashwin Chalapathy . December 5, 2025

After a decade of exponential growth, global mobile data consumption has quietly entered a slowdown....

From Star Power to Staying Power – How MVNOs Can Compete in a Crowded Market

From Star Power to Staying Power – How MVNOs Can Compete in a Crowded Market

Miguel Carames . November 14, 2025

Celebrity-backed and Brand MVNOs aren’t just a U.S. phenomenon. Alongside Mint Mobile (Ryan Reynolds...

The Challenges of Testing SIP Systems

The Challenges of Testing SIP Systems

Steve Brooks . October 31, 2025

Why do VoIP calls drop, echo, or distort during an important meeting? The answer often lies in the c...

Democratizing Data – Hidden Key to Unlocking AI’s Full Potential

Democratizing Data – Hidden Key to Unlocking AI’s Full Potential

Amit Jain . October 17, 2025

In the AI age, data is not just the new oil, it is the entire power grid. Here is the biggest twist:...

From Fraud to Sabotage: The New Threat of Weaponized SIM Farms

From Fraud to Sabotage: The New Threat of Weaponized SIM Farms

Bernardo Lucas . September 29, 2025

A Takedown Near New York City Earlier this month, the U.S. Secret Service dismantled a hidden operat...

Scaling Private 5G: How CSPs Can Deliver Secure, Smart, and Service-Ready Networks

Scaling Private 5G: How CSPs Can Deliver Secure, Smart, and Service-Ready Networks

Miguel Carames . September 5, 2025

Private 5G networks have emerged as one of the most compelling opportunities for Communications Serv...

Built for Impact: How We Reimagined the Mobileum Digital Experience

Built for Impact: How We Reimagined the Mobileum Digital Experience

Sandra Almeida . July 11, 2025

We recently completed one of the most strategic and collaborative projects at Mobileum: the redesign...

Fighting Telecom Fraud Demands an AI-Driven Approach

Fighting Telecom Fraud Demands an AI-Driven Approach

Rui Paiva . June 9, 2025

Worldwide, telecom service providers are under pressure to ensure a secure, reliable and high-perfor...

The Rise of Phone Verified Account (PVA) Fraud: A New Threat to Telecom Operators

The Rise of Phone Verified Account (PVA) Fraud: A New Threat to Telecom Operators

Diogo Lourenço . March 28, 2025

Last month, I had the opportunity to attend the GSMA FASG #31 meeting in Johannesburg, where industr...

The Growing Influence of eSIMs: Convenience for Travelers, Challenges for Operators

The Growing Influence of eSIMs: Convenience for Travelers, Challenges for Operators

Deepa S. Godkhindi . March 21, 2025

With the increasing demand for international travel—both for business and leisure—eSIM technology ha...

eSIM Impact on Telecom Risk Management: Revenue Assurance & Fraud Risks

eSIM Impact on Telecom Risk Management: Revenue Assurance & Fraud Risks

Carlos Marques . February 27, 2025

eSIM (embedded SIM) technology is transforming the telecommunications industry by embedding SIM func...

Roaming Value-Added Services Evolution for MVNOs

Roaming Value-Added Services Evolution for MVNOs

Miguel Carames . February 21, 2025

With consumers demanding more flexibility, affordability, and digital-first experiences, Mobile Virt...

Breaking Down Silos: The Future of Risk Management in Telecom

Breaking Down Silos: The Future of Risk Management in Telecom

Carlos Marques . February 14, 2025

As businesses push for growth, they are becoming more willing to accept higher levels of risk. A rec...

Driving the Telecom Journey with Virtualization, Cloudification, and AI/Gen-AI

Driving the Telecom Journey with Virtualization, Cloudification, and AI/Gen-AI

Amit Jain . January 31, 2025

Envision a telecom world where network failures are predicted and proactively prevented, customer se...

Voice and SMS Firewall: A Converged Strategy to Combat Fraud and Protect Revenues

Voice and SMS Firewall: A Converged Strategy to Combat Fraud and Protect Revenues

Vishal Gandhi . December 6, 2024

In many parts of the world, cybercrime has surpassed physical crime in terms of financial impact to ...

Unleashing the Power of Data Analytics: How CSPs Drive Growth, Cut Costs, and Mitigate Risks

Unleashing the Power of Data Analytics: How CSPs Drive Growth, Cut Costs, and Mitigate Risks

Amit Jain . November 15, 2024

Have you ever wondered how telecom operators predict business challenges with such precision? The an...

Seamless Connectivity for IoT Wearables: The Essential Role of Network Testing

Seamless Connectivity for IoT Wearables: The Essential Role of Network Testing

Carla Araujo Scholz . October 25, 2024

Imagine Alex, a busy professional and an avid fitness enthusiast, starting his morning run. He strap...

How to Transform Managed Services to Drive Business Outcomes

How to Transform Managed Services to Drive Business Outcomes

Peter Flynn . September 20, 2024

For many years, successful Managed Services providers have been those who have strived to deliver bu...

Maximizing Telecom Data's Potential

Maximizing Telecom Data's Potential

Luís Brás . September 6, 2024

In the fast-paced world of telecommunications, unlocking the power of data has become a strategic im...

How Mobile Operators Can Mitigate SMS Scams

How Mobile Operators Can Mitigate SMS Scams

Richard Edmonds . August 30, 2024

Did you know malicious URLs have been attributed to 77% of global ransomware attacks[i]? Not only is...

Network Visibility Requirements for IoT - and the Questions CSPs Need to Ask

Network Visibility Requirements for IoT - and the Questions CSPs Need to Ask

Miguel Carames . August 1, 2024

As the IoT population looks to surpass the number of non-IoT devices by the end of the decade, it’s ...

Revolutionizing Connectivity: The Game-Changing Impact of eSIM Technology

Revolutionizing Connectivity: The Game-Changing Impact of eSIM Technology

Ariel Vergara . July 19, 2024

Embedded SIM (eSIM) technology has become a hot topic in the telecommunications industry. The recent...

Do We Really Need to Worry About Security for 5G Standalone?

Do We Really Need to Worry About Security for 5G Standalone?

Rajeev Chaurasia . June 21, 2024

— 3 Reasons to Remain Vigilant, and 4 Ways to Protect Your Network As the 5th generation of wireless...

Are SIM Boxes and Bypass Fraud Still a Thing in 2024?

Are SIM Boxes and Bypass Fraud Still a Thing in 2024?

Carlos Marques . April 19, 2024

In my role as a product manager at Mobileum, I frequently receive requests to craft blog posts that ...

Why 5G Standalone Raises the Stakes for End-to-End Testing

Why 5G Standalone Raises the Stakes for End-to-End Testing

Vishal Gandhi . April 12, 2024

According to the latest outlook from the GSMA, momentum is building for 5G Standalone (SA) as CSPs l...

Flash Call Authentication – Converting a Threat into an Opportunity

Flash Call Authentication – Converting a Threat into an Opportunity

Amit Jain . April 5, 2024

Flash calls represent a double-edged sword. While presenting an opportunity for a swift, economical,...

Lessons qualified professional staff should learn from the Post Office Scandal

Lessons qualified professional staff should learn from the Post Office Scandal

Stephen Ornadel . March 27, 2024

Welcome back to my fourth blog on the scandal of the Post Office’s Horizon system and the devastatin...

In the Spotlight: Telecom Professionals, the “Heroes” That Keep Us All Connected

In the Spotlight: Telecom Professionals, the “Heroes” That Keep Us All Connected

Bernardo Lucas . March 22, 2024

This month, Mobileum launched a global campaign putting the spotlight on the professionals behind as...

Are 5G's security improvements enough to protect our networks?

Are 5G's security improvements enough to protect our networks?

Miguel Carames . March 15, 2024

2024 is set to be the year when 5G will earn its stripes. According to Juniper Research, operators w...

3 Ways to Stop the Rise of SMS Phishing (Smishing)

3 Ways to Stop the Rise of SMS Phishing (Smishing)

Richard Edmonds . February 23, 2024

SMS phishing (Smishing) continues to be one of the top 10 security threats for the telecom industry....

The Post Office Scandal – what can Fraud, Revenue Assurance professionals learn from it?

The Post Office Scandal – what can Fraud, Revenue Assurance professionals learn from it?

Stephen Ornadel . February 15, 2024

My previous blogs on the Post Office introduced you to the most widespread miscarriage of justice in...

How the lack of leadership and values created the Post Office IT Scandal

How the lack of leadership and values created the Post Office IT Scandal

Stephen Ornadel . January 26, 2024

Last week, I published my first blog on the scandal of the UK’s Post Office IT Scandal. I described ...

Seamless Roaming Experience During Large-Scale Events

Seamless Roaming Experience During Large-Scale Events

Ariel Vergara . January 19, 2024

In 2024, sports enthusiasts around the world can look forward to the electrifying action of two monu...

The £1bn Post Office IT System Scandal – Lessons for Telecommunications Professionals

The £1bn Post Office IT System Scandal – Lessons for Telecommunications Professionals

Stephen Ornadel . January 15, 2024

At the time of publication, there is no bigger story in the United Kingdom than the IT Scandal that ...

The Growing Threat of Bots in Wangiri 2.0 Attacks

The Growing Threat of Bots in Wangiri 2.0 Attacks

Nilesh Sengupta . November 17, 2023

In today's digital landscape, contact forms are an integral component of any company's digital strat...

Revenue Assurance's Role in Current Financial Reporting Complexity

Revenue Assurance's Role in Current Financial Reporting Complexity

Carlos Marques . October 20, 2023

— IFRS 15 compliance reporting for telecommunication companies During the recent Apple Event, the co...

An Appreciation Letter to All Those Working on Revenue Assurance

An Appreciation Letter to All Those Working on Revenue Assurance

Carlos Marques . September 8, 2023

Why some of us should review our way of working Data and analytics are pivotal in risk management, c...

The 5G Standalone revolution starts in the lab

The 5G Standalone revolution starts in the lab

Carla Araujo Scholz . July 7, 2023

Networks are currently undergoing a vast transformation, and with it comes new challenges and opport...

5G Ecosystem Security Analysis: 6 Threats to Watch For

5G Ecosystem Security Analysis: 6 Threats to Watch For

Imran Saleem . June 7, 2023

Unlike previous generations of networks, 5G introduces a new enterprise-oriented architecture that r...

Why self-service app excellence is not optional

Why self-service app excellence is not optional

Carla Araujo Scholz . April 28, 2023

In 2000, witnessing a senior citizen in Brazil talk about buying Skype credits to make interstate an...

Why CSPs Need to Close the Loop on Risk Management

Why CSPs Need to Close the Loop on Risk Management

Carlos Marques . February 8, 2023

Risk management has evolved since its inception, where risk was assessed and mitigated in silos. Wit...

Develop, test, deploy, repeat!

Develop, test, deploy, repeat!

Carla Araujo Scholz . January 18, 2023

Surprisingly, it is estimated that today only 39% of network problems are detected by operators, whi...

How CSPs without VoLTE Roaming can avoid 2G/3G Sunset Disruption

How CSPs without VoLTE Roaming can avoid 2G/3G Sunset Disruption

Miguel Carames . November 14, 2022

The world is close to reaching an inflection point as we transition from circuit switch calling to V...

The Rising Security Threat of Global Title Leasing

The Rising Security Threat of Global Title Leasing

Saverio Vardaro . November 7, 2022

Global Title leasing has been a widespread practice whereby service provides lease access to their G...

Back to the Roaming Future – part III

Back to the Roaming Future – part III

Stephen Ornadel . October 3, 2022

As with the film Back to the Future, this blog comes in three parts. If you missed part 1 or part 2,...

Back to the Roaming Future – part II

Back to the Roaming Future – part II

Stephen Ornadel . September 22, 2022

In my last blog, I shared some insights and material from a roaming conference that took place in 19...

Back to the Roaming Future – part I

Back to the Roaming Future – part I

Stephen Ornadel . September 16, 2022

It has been a long time since I wrote my last blog, partly because work has been hectic. Now that I ...

Entertainment 10 X Roaming 0 — An unthinkable scenario for VIP roamers attending the World Cup 2022

Entertainment 10 X Roaming 0 — An unthinkable scenario for VIP roamers attending the World Cup 2022

Carla Araujo Scholz . September 9, 2022

The world’s most prestigious football tournament in Qatar is set to be the most expensive FIFA World...

Emergency services down… Every second counts!

Emergency services down… Every second counts!

Carla Araujo Scholz . July 8, 2022

On November 11, 2021, both fire and police emergency numbers completely failed in major cities in Ge...

A CSPs checklist to protecting your network and subscribers from the next FluBot attack

A CSPs checklist to protecting your network and subscribers from the next FluBot attack

Bernardo Lucas . June 10, 2022

Fraud scams continue to go from strength to strength, particularly as we see the spike in FluBot sca...

Why Operators Need Voice Firewalls as Flash Calling Authentication Adoption Increases

Why Operators Need Voice Firewalls as Flash Calling Authentication Adoption Increases

Richard Edmonds . May 17, 2022

According to a recent report by Juniper Networks, the adoption of Flash Calling Authentication (FCA)...

Why 5G is a Game Changer for Service Assurance

Why 5G is a Game Changer for Service Assurance

Steve Brooks . May 12, 2022

According to an industry survey, more than 61% of network issues are discovered first by end-users c...

How Fraudsters Are Exploiting the Exponential Rise in Data Traffic

How Fraudsters Are Exploiting the Exponential Rise in Data Traffic

Pedro Fidalgo . March 31, 2022

It feels like just a few years ago, we were discussing how to incentivize consumers and businesses t...

Lab Testing, Get it right first time

Lab Testing, Get it right first time

Steve Brooks . February 23, 2022

As ideas and innovations evolve at a rampant pace, a tremendous amount of hype and expectation arise...

Being Smart about the Smart City

Being Smart about the Smart City

Mobileum . February 3, 2022

For telcos, capturing the smart city opportunity means retreating to old basics, but in new ways. Th...

Can your signaling firewall stand up to the threats of 2022?

Can your signaling firewall stand up to the threats of 2022?

Richard Edmonds . January 26, 2022

When the COVID-19 pandemic caused shock waves across the globe, consumers and businesses, especially...

How to Fast Track Roaming’s COVID-19 Recovery

How to Fast Track Roaming’s COVID-19 Recovery

Tim Hatt & Deep Basu . December 7, 2021

Prior to 2020, roaming revenues were a safe bet. It typically accounted for 5–10% of mobile revenues...

Content Piracy: What you don’t know can hurt you

Content Piracy: What you don’t know can hurt you

Carlos Marques . August 26, 2021

We’ve all heard the phrase; you don’t know what you don’t know. This holds true for many things, inc...

My hero Steve Carrell just called me with a clear message – we must fight the robocalling plague!!!

My hero Steve Carrell just called me with a clear message – we must fight the robocalling plague!!!

Stephen Ornadel . July 21, 2021

Last year I wrote a blog about “Britney Spears and the Fight Against Signaling Hackers”. Of course t...

Some thoughts from MWC and the role of 5G security

Some thoughts from MWC and the role of 5G security

Stephen Ornadel . July 2, 2021

I am writing this blog from the inside of a British Airways plane, waiting to take off from Barcelon...

The entangled world of the Internet of Things. Will it deliver on its promise?

The entangled world of the Internet of Things. Will it deliver on its promise?

Goce Talaganov . May 18, 2021

It is undeniable that the Internet of Things (IoT) is booming. Indication of that is the installed b...

Protecting the two-factor authentication system with signaling security

Protecting the two-factor authentication system with signaling security

Stephen Ornadel . April 16, 2021

5G, a network of superlatives in a world of sky-high expectations. Securing your enterprise has neve...

Mobile Money is big. Big risk.

Mobile Money is big. Big risk.

Kenneth Mouton . April 8, 2021

Nearly 700. That was the number of distinct event types we counted in a one-day data dump from a sma...

Securing 5G Roaming Without Compromising Global Connectivity

Securing 5G Roaming Without Compromising Global Connectivity

Michele Zarri . March 26, 2021

The growing market share of connecting flights on intercontinental routes is largely due to the succ...

5G success relies on QoE perfection

5G success relies on QoE perfection

Gabriel Chiriacescu . March 10, 2021

In 5G standalone (SA), operators will need to monitor and manage QoE across user devices, radio acce...

Safely navigating the world of Signaling Security - why Threat Intelligence is critical?

Safely navigating the world of Signaling Security - why Threat Intelligence is critical?

Stephen Ornadel . March 3, 2021

Mobileum has recently launched its signaling security Threat Intelligence service. Needless to say, ...

Take the Sting Out of Subscription Fraud

Take the Sting Out of Subscription Fraud

Amit Jain . February 25, 2021

With the growth in digital services, the telecom market is becoming highly saturated with very high ...

Assuring Telco’s Digital Transformation by Unearthing Hidden Next Gen Risk Challenges

Assuring Telco’s Digital Transformation by Unearthing Hidden Next Gen Risk Challenges

Amit Jain . February 11, 2021

With the recent technological enhancements in the telecom landscape, the CSPs are all tuned and read...

“Sugar and Spice and all things nice” – the Perfect Recipe for your Roaming Business

“Sugar and Spice and all things nice” – the Perfect Recipe for your Roaming Business

Stephen Ornadel . February 3, 2021

Sugar and spice and all things nice Kisses sweeter than wine Sugar and spice and all things nice You...

Three Reasons for Fighting SMS Fraud - Before it’s Too Late

Three Reasons for Fighting SMS Fraud - Before it’s Too Late

Richard Edmonds . January 20, 2021

Today, over 5 billion people globally send and receive text messages. That’s an astonishing 65% of t...

Fighting Voice Fraud is a Game of Strategy

Fighting Voice Fraud is a Game of Strategy

Nishant Sharma . January 12, 2021

The game of chess has evolved over its 1,500+ year history. The positional style, which became popul...

The Battle to Protect our Subscribers against “Cyber Weapons”

The Battle to Protect our Subscribers against “Cyber Weapons”

Stephen Ornadel . January 7, 2021

In today’s world, privacy and cyber security are headline-grabbing issues. Asides from COVID-19, the...

Lessons from 2020 that we can take into 2021

Lessons from 2020 that we can take into 2021

Bernardo Lucas . December 17, 2020

I’m sure that we can all agree that we are ready to say farewell to 2020 and look ahead to 2021 with...

Integrated Risk Management to Support the Digital Economy

Integrated Risk Management to Support the Digital Economy

Carlos Marques . November 12, 2020

5G presents an opportunity for telecom operators to capture new revenue streams from industrial digi...

Britney Spears and the Fight Against Signaling Hackers

Britney Spears and the Fight Against Signaling Hackers

Stephen Ornadel . October 22, 2020

For anyone who has written blogs, you will know that one of the most challenging issues is writing t...

Mobileum partnering with Carnegie Mellon, INESC TEC and University of Coimbra to build the future of 5G risk management

Mobileum partnering with Carnegie Mellon, INESC TEC and University of Coimbra to build the future of 5G risk management

Carlos Martins . September 24, 2020

Consortium was awarded a $2 Million investment grant from European Union to evolve Mobileum’s risk m...

du and Vodafone Albania Share their Tips to Manage Collections During COVID-19

du and Vodafone Albania Share their Tips to Manage Collections During COVID-19

Paulo Sargento . September 10, 2020

As COVID-19 sent health shockwaves across the globe, communications service providers were praised f...

Mobileum Named Reference Vendor for 5G Security in Gartner Hype Cycle for Identity and Access Management

Mobileum Named Reference Vendor for 5G Security in Gartner Hype Cycle for Identity and Access Management

Bernardo Lucas . September 3, 2020

Mobileum Inc. ("Mobileum"), a leading global provider of analytics-based roaming, telco security, ri...

How Mobile Operators Can Combat COVID’s Financial Impact on Mobile Roaming

How Mobile Operators Can Combat COVID’s Financial Impact on Mobile Roaming

Kishore Vangipuram . August 18, 2020

As we approach the six-month anniversary of when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-...

Three Questions Network Operators Should Ask about IoT Security

Three Questions Network Operators Should Ask about IoT Security

Stephen Buck . July 22, 2020

There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic put the reliability and security of communications netw...

Mobileum Acquires SIGOS

Mobileum Acquires SIGOS

Bobby Srinivasan . July 15, 2020

We are excited to announce the acquisition of SIGOS, which marks another important milestone in Mobi...

3 Strategies to Accelerate ROI from Digital Transformation

3 Strategies to Accelerate ROI from Digital Transformation

Bernardo Lucas . June 2, 2020

As the communications industry’s digital transformation takes shape, and the limelight shifts from c...

The Changing Outlook of Wholesale Roaming

The Changing Outlook of Wholesale Roaming

Nikhil Rao . May 26, 2020

Just a few short months ago, it was hard to imagine the transformational turn our lives were about t...

6 Tips to Improve Your Business’ Bottom Line

6 Tips to Improve Your Business’ Bottom Line

Álvaro Ribeiro . May 19, 2020

Communication Service Providers (CSPs) have been facing increasing competition and shrinking margins...

Why a Signalling Firewall is the start and not the end to protecting your subscribers

Why a Signalling Firewall is the start and not the end to protecting your subscribers

Stephen Ornadel . May 12, 2020

Imagine you receive a letter from your bank informing you that attempts have been made to hack into ...

Ask the Expert on Wangiri - An interview with CFCA

Ask the Expert on Wangiri - An interview with CFCA

Amit Jain . April 28, 2020

Ask the Experts is a feature in CFCA newsletter, The Communicator, where they ask three CFCA members...

Dealing with Spam, Smishing, Fraud and Hacking – a Roaming Manager’s side job?

Dealing with Spam, Smishing, Fraud and Hacking – a Roaming Manager’s side job?

Stephen Ornadel . April 7, 2020

When I first started my journey in in the world of roaming, back in 2002 at T-Mobile UK, my job real...

Taking Action on COVID-19

Taking Action on COVID-19

Amit Jain . April 2, 2020

Scammers – and scammy companies – are using illegal robocalls to profit from Coronavirus-related fea...

Why you need to prepare your signaling firewall for 5G today

Why you need to prepare your signaling firewall for 5G today

Stephen Buck . March 17, 2020

With 5G networks now live in 24 markets around the world, things are beginning to take off. The GSMA...

How Mobile operators can help fight Coronavirus

How Mobile operators can help fight Coronavirus

Tarun Sethi . March 5, 2020

The spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus has travelers around the world on edge. People across the wor...

A History of Revenue Assurance

A History of Revenue Assurance

Rui Paiva . February 19, 2020

The past 20+ years have been an evolution – and an education - for communications service providers ...

Why ‘winging it’ with Wangiri won‘t work

Why ‘winging it’ with Wangiri won‘t work

João Barbosa . February 4, 2020

Perhaps it is simply curiosity, or the fear of missing out on something, that provokes us to respond...

Fraudsters using ‘deepfakes’ definitely not faking!

Fraudsters using ‘deepfakes’ definitely not faking!

Tony Poulos . January 30, 2020

Wikipedia describes ‘deepfakes’ as media that take a person in an existing image or video and replac...

Trends that will shape Roaming in 2020 and Beyond

Trends that will shape Roaming in 2020 and Beyond

Vishal Gandhi . December 18, 2019

As we approach the end of the decade, so much has changed for the telco (especially mobile) and roam...

5G network slices create greater assurance complexity

5G network slices create greater assurance complexity

5G

Bernardo Lucas . December 17, 2019

The promise of 5G is just around the corner as we see network deployments accelerating across the gl...

Four Ways to Reduce the Threat of Robocalls

Four Ways to Reduce the Threat of Robocalls

Thomas Steagall . December 11, 2019

While regulation and standards bodies are increasingly tightening the screws on scammers using roboc...