Fundamentals — where to start if you're new to wholesale wireless
If your business plan includes the word "MVNO" and you're not entirely sure what that means, this is where to begin. The pieces in this section assume nothing.
Welcome to Denali Llama
There are plenty of places to read about telecom. Industry conferences produce decks. Trade publications produce news. What I’ve never seen enough of is the perspective from inside the operator’s…
The Regulatory Checklist Every MVNO Ignores Until It's Too Late
Regulatory compliance is not a phase you complete before launch and then forget about. It is a permanent operational function that, when neglected, creates the kind of risk that shuts businesses down.
Five Rate Plan Mistakes That Are Killing Your MVNO Margins
The margin lives in the gap between the customer-facing plan and the wholesale plan it sits on. Most MVNOs are leaving money in that gap.
The Operator — dedicated to the people who have to make this work
Running an MVNO is twelve months of decisions made under time pressure with imperfect information. This section is for the people making them.
The Aggregator — the layer most people don't understand
MVNAs sit between MVNOs and the carriers, doing work that's hard to see and harder to price. This section is for the people who buy from them, sell to them, or are them.
The Enabler — the platform side of wholesale wireless
MVNEs build and operate the platforms everyone else's MVNO runs on. This section writes for them — and for the operators trying to evaluate what they're buying.
C-Suite Series Part 6: The MVNO CTO is not a software engineering leader - They are a technology operations leader in a telecom context
This is the final article in The Post-Startup C-Suite series. The rest of the C-Suite relies on technology the CTO is obligated to deliver.
C-Suite Series Part 5: The Operator of Operators - Why Your MVNO's COO Is the Role Nobody Understands and Everybody Needs
Who makes sure the CRO, the CFO and the CPO — and every other function in the MVNO — are actually operating in concert? The COO.