How the world crisis affects telecoms? What tricks can you expect and how is it possible to protect yourself from them? We decided to talk about it with Daniel, executive manager of www.voipfraud.net – so far the most reliable anti-fraud web-portal concerning VoIP business. He noted that during the last month the number of publications about cases of fraud on www.voipfraud.net increased by about 20 percent against the previous month. “We had 5 companies added only during the last two days” – he says, - “the number of registered users on our portal has essentially increased as well. We believe, it shows that people are concerned about the situation on telecommunications’ market and they are trying to get as much information, as they can, to protect themselves.”

The worst if that fraud companies create a chain reaction, which can affect 3-4 or even more companies at a time. The company, that run into some major fraud in crisis period, may become a defaulter itself, so now its’ partners will not get expected earnings and may be forced to freeze their payments as well. So, now we are facing the situation when even honest company may become a threat for your business.

What can be done in this situation? Credit checks are not always 100% reliable, are they? Of course, the most obvious answer is to stop giving any credits and work only on pre-paid terms, but it would destroy most of small and middle telecoms and, correspondingly, weaken even powerful corporations.

Speedflow Communications has worked out trade-off decision intended for securing ourselves from defaulters and frauds as well as for preserving convenient conditions of partnership. In the nearest time all contracts with our partners will be reviewed with corrections in mutual credit lines. It will assure that all circumstances of current situation are taken into consideration and companies did their best to ensure themselves from risk of unreasonably big credits.

Taking all necessary measures so that our partners and clients don’t feel any pressure of this complicated situation, our major priorities now are to keep the quality of our services at the highest level and to make collaborating with us comfortable and mutually beneficial. We believe that having joined to live through hard times, we will strengthen partnering and continue growing together.