Contributors
Wholesale wireless is too complex a market for any single voice to cover credibly. Denali Llama publishes guest contributors alongside the principal writing — operators, platform leaders, and policy specialists with firsthand experience inside parts of the market that no one person can represent.
What gets published here
The aim is to surface perspectives the trade press and the conference circuit consistently underweight:
- MVNO operators writing from inside the work — founders, COOs, and CTOs on launch realities, second-year economics, carrier relationship management, and the operational decisions that do not show up in deck form.
- MVNE leadership on platform strategy, commercial structuring, and the operational discipline of running infrastructure that other companies depend on.
- MVNA principals on multi-carrier aggregation as a business — economics, sourcing, the trade-offs operators weigh when evaluating an aggregator.
- Carrier-side strategists and former carrier executives on what the Tier-1 side is actually thinking, and why it acts the way it does in the wholesale market.
- Regulatory and compliance specialists on framework changes that affect operator decisions before most operators know those changes are coming.
The bar
Three things matter for any guest piece:
- Real operational specificity. Not "trends in the wireless market." Not "the future of MVNOs." Something concrete you have actually had to figure out, written with the texture that only comes from doing the work.
- A voice. The writing on this site reads like a person, not a press release. Guest pieces have to do the same.
- No vendor sales pieces. If the conclusion is "and that is why you should buy our product," it is a marketing asset, not a piece for Denali Llama.
If that describes something you would write, get in touch. Pitches go to editor@denalillama.com — a couple of sentences on the idea is enough.
On editorial process
Pieces are edited before they run, usually lightly. The edit is for length, voice consistency, and clarity. Authors keep their own voice. Bylines and bios stay with the author, with a link to wherever readers can find more of their work.