{"/blog/a-denver-it-firm’s-case-for-helium-plus":{"version":1,"title":"A Denver IT Firm’s case for Helium Plus - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["A Denver IT Firm’s case for Helium Plus"],"h2":["Mile-High Wi-Fi extends coverage to gyms, medical offices and shelters by overlaying Helium Plus onto the Wi-Fi networks already in place.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Thursday, May 21, 2026","When David Reeb introduces Mile-High Wi-Fi to a prospective client, he already knows that the client’s first order of business is solving their connectivity problem. So that’s where he starts.","He addresses their limited bandwidth problem, or their guest-network friction, or the dead zones their staff has learned to work around. Connectivity, he has learned, is something most small businesses notice only when it fails.","That instinct, leading with the business problem rather than the advanced technological solution, has shaped how the Denver firm has scaled. Founded in early 2025, Mile-High Wi-Fi now operates roughly 200 Helium Plus locations and 20 standalone Helium Hotspots across the metro area. It also runs a handful of donated deployments at local nonprofits, including a shelter on Denver’s Colfax Avenue and a swim school for children with disabilities.","The firm grew out of Reeb’s career in IT infrastructure, where he had spent years building servers, email systems, and storage networks for small and mid-sized businesses. He had been watching the Helium Network since 2023, but the opportunity became more practical once he partnered with another IT operator whose customer base already included veterinary, dental, and medical offices.","Instead of building entirely new infrastructure, Mile-High Wi-Fi began extending Helium Plus coverage through networks those customers already operated.","Helium Plus is a software upgrade that turns existing Wi-Fi infrastructure into part of the Helium Network. Businesses can enable the service through their existing routers, allowing mobile traffic from participating carriers to automatically connect indoors where traditional macro coverage often struggles. In exchange, venues earn HNT tokens tied to the carrier data moving through their network.","In layman’s terms, a business’s Wi-Fi can now function like a mini cell tower, filling coverage gaps that couldn’t be solved otherwise.","For MSPs (Managed Service Providers), this overlay model changes the economics of deployment. Existing Wi-Fi infrastructure, existing customer relationships, and existing service agreements all become part of the expansion strategy.","The 20 standalone Hotspots are installed in places where the math favors a purpose-built deployment, typically high-traffic commercial venues. Gyms have emerged as the most consistent of these.","The community-facing work has grown alongside the commercial business. Revenue from paid deployments has helped fund nonprofit installations, including additional mesh equipment at the Colfax shelter and the swim school. Reeb describes those deployments less as standalone revenue opportunities and more as an extension of the firm’s local relationships.","That approach may be the clearest takeaway for other MSPs evaluating Helium Plus.","Most small businesses are not looking for a lesson in wireless or crypto infrastructure. They want reliable indoor coverage, predictable billing, and someone local who can solve problems when they arise. Mile-High Wi-Fi’s growth has come from treating their client’s connectivity problem first, and positioning the Helium Network as the solution.","To work directly with Mile-High Wi-Fi, reach out to david@milehighwifi.net.","To learn more about Helium, email us at business@helium.com.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/a-denver-it-firm’s-case-for-helium-plus"},"/blog/introducing-premium-support-for-helium-plus":{"version":1,"title":"Introducing Premium Support for Helium Plus - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Introducing Premium Support for Helium Plus"],"h2":["New tiered support plans give Helium Plus Deployers and Channel Partners faster access to the Helium team as Network deployments continue to scale.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Monday, June 1, 2026","Helium has always taken two paths toward network growth. Individual Deployers have added Hotspots to homes, cafés, and small businesses, bringing coverage to locations big telco couldn’t. At the same time, professional Channel Partners have brought Helium into hotels, retail chains, schools, and municipal venues by converting Wi-Fi that already exists into Network coverage at scale.","Today, hundreds of Channel Partners are now approaching enterprise venues with a working business proposition: keep the Wi-Fi you already pay for, layer Helium Plus on top, and turn a costly monthly bill into a coverage service that pays for itself. In many cases, it even becomes a revenue stream. Meanwhile, the individual Deployers who built the foundation of the Network are still adding sites every week.","Enterprise and Individual Deployers have different support needs. For IT directors evaluating Helium across a fleet of 200 venues, an airport, or a hospital, they now have access to Premium Support, a service scaled for their network usage.","Introducing Premium Support","The new plans are designed to give Deployers and Channel Partners clearer support pathways based on deployment size, operational complexity, and response needs.","Premium Support includes four tiers:","Free: for testing, one-off questions, and smaller deployments","Basic: for active Deployers who need faster response times and expanded support access","Growth: for teams managing larger deployments and tracking earnings across multiple venues","Enterprise: for Channel Partners and large Helium Plus operators managing deployments at scale","Depending on the tier, Premium Support includes:","Faster response targets","Live chat and phone support","Expanded onboarding assistance","Earnings analysis support","Deployment audits and appeals assistance","Private Slack access","End-customer support for Channel Partners","Premium Support customers will have access to a secure portal at plus.helium.com. This is an authenticated portal where all support tickets will be filed, and customers can see their plan details.","For larger operators, the Enterprise tier is designed to be an extension of their operational support stack, helping teams troubleshoot issues faster, reduce downtime, and support deployments across multiple venues with greater confidence.","The launch also introduces expanded Pro Services for custom deployments, integrations, audits, and complex rollout support. That includes direct access to Helium engineers for projects requiring more hands-on implementation support.","Premium Support: Powering the next phase of Network Expansion","Premium Support is designed to support the operators and partners building the next phase of the Network.","A growing number of Helium Plus deployments now come from businesses upgrading existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to improve indoor coverage and support carrier offload, without requiring entirely new network buildouts.","For Channel Partners, that creates a straightforward business proposition: improve connectivity, reduce deployment friction, and create recurring revenue opportunities from infrastructure that already exists.","See plans and pricing at helium.com/premiumsupport","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/introducing-premium-support-for-helium-plus"},"/blog/the-next-era-of-the-helium-network":{"version":1,"title":"The Next Era of the Helium Network - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["The Next Era of the Helium Network"],"h2":["From coverage solution to intelligent enablement platform. Helium's next chapter starts now.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Thursday, June 4, 2026","Hello Helium community. My name is Mario Di Dio and today I’m honored and humbled to step in as CEO of Helium.","Amir Haleem dreamed up a better way to connect the world, spent a decade building it, and grew Helium into a Network that millions of people rely on every day. I’m grateful to Amir as he transitions to Chairman while I focus on executing a refreshed vision for Helium.","I’ve been at Helium for several years running the Network side of the business across carrier partnerships and Wi-Fi infrastructure. Before that, I spent all of my career in enterprise telecom. I came to Helium because I saw what this Network could become, and the opportunity is bigger than any of us expected.","On Tuesday, we shared that Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile is acquiring the Helium Mobile Carrier, our consumer wireless carrier business. This is a milestone worth celebrating since Helium Mobile proved decentralized infrastructure was truly carrier-grade, and Noble Mobile is the right partner to carry that forward. Every Noble Mobile subscriber will now be able to connect through the Helium Network in addition to Noble’s 5G partner. For the deployers who power the Helium Network, carrier traffic now includes Noble, which continues to burn HNT. Your role as the infrastructure backbone of this Network isn’t just preserved, it’s still the foundation everything ahead is built on.","With this transition, our consumer brand goes to the right operator to serve those customers and Helium is entirely focused on its Network platform. Today, we’re publishing a governance proposal that charts the course for what comes next.","Press enter or click to view image in full size","The global wireless industry spends over $300 billion a year building and maintaining network infrastructure. That number is facing cuts annually from large carriers, while every year brings more devices, more density, and more demand for high volume connectivity. Most of that demand falls in places that macro towers were never designed to reach: stadiums, transit hubs, hospitals, apartment buildings, along with entire communities the industry deems uneconomical. No single carrier can solve this alone and the capital model that built the last generation of wireless infrastructure cannot build the next one.","Helium solves the global gap in connectivity with an infrastructure layer built and operated by many people instead of a few corporations. What started as a coverage solution is now an intelligent enablement platform. Helium brings real-time quality-of-service intelligence, multi-network interoperability, and AI-driven analytics that no legacy vendor is incentivized to build. We bring carriers tools that never existed to be more efficient with how and where connectivity is delivered while consumers get better coverage and costs come down. It’s a remarkable thing.","We’ve flipped a century-old model to one where people deploy, operate, and get compensated for powering wireless infrastructure. We’ve built what the wireless industry can’t build for itself, and we’re just getting started on an opportunity that’s measured in hundreds of billions of dollars.","Helium is operating at carrier scale today, millions of daily active users and hundreds of terabytes of carrier data routed daily. We have major carrier partnerships active in the United States and Mexico, with international expansion underway in Brazil and the UK. When hundreds of thousands of people hit New Orleans for Mardi Gras, the Network absorbed a 5x traffic surge because deployers had already built the coverage, and similarly for the Big Game in the Bay Area. The Helium Network is no longer trying to prove it belongs in the telco conversation. It is the conversation.","Every day, millions of people scroll, text, and call their loved ones through a people-powered Network most have never heard of. That’s exactly how connectivity is supposed to work: ubiquitously, reliably, at scale. Now, with Noble Mobile joining as a Network partner, alongside several other major carriers, we validate something even bigger. Helium goes beyond carrier offload to a platform that other wireless services can build on.","Carriers need dense, affordable, intelligent coverage and Helium delivers it at a fraction of the cost with real-time intelligence and interoperability that no legacy vendor offers. This isn’t an incremental improvement, it’s an entirely new infrastructure model that scales horizontally across every carrier and market in the world.","This is the telco industry’s AWS moment. When enterprises couldn’t justify building and maintaining their own data centers, Amazon built AWS and converted fixed capital expenditure into variable, usage-based infrastructure. The same structural shift is happening in wireless, and Helium is positioned at the center of it.","Building infrastructure at this scale requires resources. Every serious infrastructure network faces a moment where demand outpaces deployment. The question is how the protocol funds the next wave of growth while keeping incentives aligned with the community that builds it.","Today, we’re proposing Helium’s version of that. HNT is a network utility token. It’s earned by deployers who carry real carrier traffic, burned by carriers who use the Network, and governed by the community that builds it. The proposal we’re publishing today introduces new transparency and accountability mechanisms alongside a resourcing plan that go beyond what most infrastructure platforms offer.","Helium’s economic model was designed for a world where carrier adoption happened faster than it did. Now that we have real data on how carriers actually adopt, we can fix the model to match reality. This is an informed correction on an opportunity that isn’t a niche. Carrier capex is declining globally while 5G densification demands and early 6G planning require more infrastructure in more places than ever. A trillion-dollar industry is actively searching for a new model that we’re already delivering.","The economic model underneath the Network hasn’t kept pace with it. The $0.50/GB target earn rate has compressed to roughly $0.10/GB as traffic grew 4x while HNT issuance stayed fixed and the dollar-equivalent value of deployer compensation declined with broader market conditions. Proof-of-Coverage (PoC) still pays Hotspots for existing rather than for being useful. Today’s proposal fixes all of it.","Here are the key points of the proposal, but I encourage you to read it in its entirety:","Utility replaces Proof-of-Coverage. Hotspots earn when they carry real carrier traffic. No more rewards just for being plugged in. We’re restructuring how emissions are distributed so a larger share goes directly to the deployers who are actually serving the Network’s users. This applies across both Mobile and IoT: if your Hotspot is useful, you earn more.","A deployer earnings floor tied to real carrier revenue. It’s important to be honest about what this means. The Network has historically subsidized deployer payouts at the protocol rate of $.50, versus the commercial rate carriers actually pay. That subsidy isn’t sustainable and this proposal phases it out. Ahead of the vote, we’re resetting the carrier-paid rate to reflect what carriers actually pay today. The new deployer floor and the larger data pool are the cushion built to soften that reset. The floor we’re introducing is anchored to real carrier revenue, not subsidized rates. It’s an honest adjustment and a short-term one. It matters because the floor moves with the market. As carrier revenue grows and rates improve, the floor rises with it. It also removes a ceiling by untethering deployers from the $.50/GB rate. The foundation is real economics, not artificial support, and it’s designed to improve with Network growth.","Operations and network growth. Every infrastructure company faces a moment where demand outpaces deployment capacity. Our proposal is a structured HNT mint into a publicly visible on-chain vault that tapers over time and funds what the Network’s growth demands: international carrier expansion, deployer incentive programs, and the intelligent connectivity platform carriers are already asking for. Every outflow is observable and the community can terminate it at any time.","Advisory Council. A new governance body of 7 seats, 5 community-elected, with real visibility into how network resources are allocated. Monthly and quarterly disclosures, everything on-chain, and direct engagement with the Helium core team on strategy, spending, and Network priorities. This is a level of transparency and community governance that reflects how decentralized networks should operate.","The full proposal details the mechanics, timeline, and implementation. Please read it. Challenge every assumption and ask the hard questions.","We expect the questions to come fast so we’ll be available for the first wave of questions today at 3pm ET. Once everyone has had time to fully digest the proposal, we’ll host a second Q&A next week with others to follow. We’ll also be in Discord throughout the deliberation period, answering questions and engaging directly.","HNT holders govern this decision. You participate in the Network that millions of people connect through every day, and this proposal determines how that network rewards the people who build and maintain it. The proposal we’re publishing today resources the next phase.","To the deployers who showed up before there were millions connecting. To the carriers who took a chance. To the Helium Mobile subscribers who proved the thesis with every call and every scroll. Thank you.","I came to Helium because I believe this is the most important infrastructure project being built right now. I’m asking you to read this proposal, engage with it seriously, and help us get it right.","Let’s build what comes next, together.","Read the full proposal","Review the abridged proposal explainer","Join the conversation on Discord","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-next-era-of-the-helium-network"},"/blog/expansion-zones-where-carriers-need-the-helium-network-most":{"version":1,"title":"Expansion Zones: Where Carriers Need the Helium Network Most - Helium","description":"Now live in Helium World: new Expansion Zones, which ","keywords":"","h1":["Expansion Zones: Where Carriers Need the Helium Network Most"],"h2":["Now live in Helium World: new Expansion Zones, which show exactly where carriers want more coverage and, by extension, exactly where your next Hotspot should go.","What Are Expansion Zones?","Why Expansion Zones Matter for Builders","How to Use Expansion Zones","The Bigger Picture","New Expansion Zones Drop Each Week","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":["Expansion Zones change that calculus significantly. Here’s why:"],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Thursday, May 14, 2026","Expansion Zones are geographic areas in Helium World where carriers have identified unmet demand for mobile coverage. In other words, the places where people are trying to text, call, and stay connected, and their networks aren’t keeping up.","For a carrier, building a cell tower to serve every high-need location isn’t always profitable, efficient, or practical. Expansion Zones mark exactly those gaps: areas where carriers have identified demand but are looking to the highly efficient, people-built Helium Network to fill it. For builders, that’s a direct signal: this is where a Hotspot belongs.","Recent industry news reports that carriers are pulling back on how much they spend to build their own network infrastructure.","Every builder of the Helium Network wants the same thing: a Hotspot that earns. The biggest variable in that equation has always been location placement. Specifically, whether that placement is useful for mobile users and somewhere carriers are actively trying to offload data traffic from their own customers.","Demand is already confirmed. These aren’t speculative coverage gaps. Carriers have analyzed their data and identified these areas as high-priority. That means the mobile traffic is already there. The Helium Network just needs to be deployed.","Hotspots set up inside Expansion Zones are more likely to be rapidly selected for carriers to offload subscribers. More offload means more data transfer. More data transfer means the potential to earn more HNT rewards.","The Helium Network is people-built infrastructure that serves real carriers with real subscriber bases. Expansion Zones give the builder community direct visibility into exactly where carriers need coverage most.","Check out Helium World and look for Expansion Zones on the map.","If you’re evaluating a Hotspot deployment location, check whether it falls inside an Expansion Zone. And, especially if you’re just starting to explore the Helium Network as a builder, this is a good place to begin: you’ve got a specific, carrier-informed answer to the question every Helium builder should ask first: where is the Helium Network actually needed?","The Helium Network was built on a simple idea: wireless infrastructure doesn’t have to be centralized, capital-intensive, and slow. A people-built, HNT-incentivized network can fill gaps that traditional carriers can’t. And, increasingly, those carriers are proving it by offloading real subscriber data across Helium Hotspots every day.","Expansion Zones deepen that relationship. They create a tighter feedback loop between what carriers need and where the Helium community deploys. The Network becomes more useful to carriers. Builders get clearer direction. Data transfer goes up across the board.","That’s the flywheel. Expansion Zones are how we turn it faster.","Each week, roughly 1,000 new Expansion Zones drop in Helium World. Follow us to stay in the loop and get first look at where to deploy next.","So, are you ready to deploy your next Hotspot?","Follow Helium on X","Follow Helium on Instagram","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/expansion-zones-where-carriers-need-the-helium-network-most"},"/blog/telecom-buildout-is-slowing-demand-for-coverage-isn’t":{"version":1,"title":"Telecom buildout is slowing; demand for coverage isn’t  - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Telecom buildout is slowing; demand for coverage isn’t"],"h2":["As telecom capex contracts, the industry is being forced into a more efficient model. Some networks are already operating that way.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Wednesday, May 13, 2026","For the past decade, the telecom industry has been in a buildout cycle. Carriers have spent heavily to expand coverage, upgrade networks, and roll out 5G. Now, that cycle is slowing down.","Ericsson told investors that its North American sales were down 10% year-over-year and that North America “will be less important” to its business. For context, Ericsson sells the equipment that makes mobile networks work. When its sales slow, it’s usually because carriers themselves are spending less to build and expand their networks.","They are: Verizon recently reduced its 2026 capital expenditure guidance. And according to industry analysts, global telecom capex is expected to decline this year and continue trending down over time. In simple terms: the industry is pulling back on how much it spends to build network infrastructure.","Real connectivity challenges are facing the industry just as capex is winding down. And that raises a question the industry has mostly avoided: what happens to the parts of the network that never got adequate coverage to begin with, especially those in dense, high-traffic areas? These are areas where investment for coverage is critical, where redundancy and resiliency are much needed.","Coverage gap persists","Di Dio – for coverage and resiliency","For a while, the industry assumed the next phase of growth would come from new demand drivers, like generative AI. The assumption was that more infrastructure builds would follow more data and more usage. But the reality is different. Generative AI traffic today is roughly one sixteen-hundredth of what the network carries on any given day. That’s not the demand surge that resets an investment cycle.","That leads to a different conclusion, grounded in this new reality, and the one Ericsson put into its earnings call: growth has to come from use cases, mission-critical, enterprise, indoor, not from another round of nationwide buildout.","And under traditional tower-driven economics, the math for delivering those use cases no longer works.","AWS moment for telecom","Fifteen years ago, every Fortune 100 company ran its own data center. They owned the buildings, managed the servers, and ran everything themselves. Then cloud infrastructure changed the model. Amazon Web Services arrived, and everything flipped: pay for exactly what you use, scale when you need to, let someone else own that data center and its servers. Once a more capital-efficient model existed, capital followed.","Wireless is in the early innings of the same transition. The question isn’t whether carriers stop building: Verizon will still put up a tower in midtown Manhattan, and should. The question is what happens to every other location: the dense building, the underserved neighborhood, the stadium, the corner coffee shop, the community center that needs reliable indoor coverage.","The locations that used to be line items in a capex plan and, under the new economics, won’t be. That space needs a different deployment model. One where infrastructure is built by the people closest to the demand, paid for on a usage basis, and available to the carriers that can’t justify the build themselves.","The rebalancing","The capex pullback is a reckoning for how connectivity gets delivered. Carriers are already telling the market, in earnings calls and capex guidance, that the old model can’t sustain itself, even as demand for connectivity keeps growing.","Stefan Pongratz at Dell’Oro has put it plainly: the operators best positioned to scale back capex are the ones not investing heavily beyond their known use cases. The traditional model will not fund the gap it’s facing.","The industry is being pushed toward a model it has resisted for years: distributed, usage-based, and built closer to where demand actually lives. The carriers that figure out how to participate in that shift, rather than wait for another build cycle that may not come, will be the ones that close the coverage gap.","Mario Di Dio is the GM of Network at Helium, overseeing the development and lifecycles of network products that contribute to the Helium network and driving the roadmap for future technologies. With a focus on communication standards like LTE, 5G, and Wi-Fi, Mario works to enhance end-user connectivity experiences and increase network efficiency.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/telecom-buildout-is-slowing-demand-for-coverage-isn’t"},"/blog/helium-rises-to-meet-demand-for-coverage-as-telco-buildout-slows-down":{"version":1,"title":"Helium Rises to Meet Demand for Coverage as Telco Buildout Slows Down - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Helium Rises to Meet Demand for Coverage as Telco Buildout Slows Down"],"h2":["For the past decade, the telecom industry has been in a buildout cycle. Carriers spent heavily to expand coverage, upgrade networks, and roll out 5G. Now, that cycle is slowing down.","The Old Economic Model Doesn’t Work","The AWS Moment for Telecom","Helium at the Center of the Shift","The Rebalancing","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Tuesday, April 28, 2026","Ericsson recently reported a 10% year-over-year drop in sales, with North America showing particular weakness. Carriers are pulling back on capital expenditures, and the vendors that depend on that spending are feeling it.","In simple terms: the industry is pulling back on how much it spends to build network infrastructure.","But demand for connectivity has not slowed down. If anything, it’s becoming harder to serve the places it’s needed most, like dense indoor environments and high-traffic venues like airports and arenas.","For years, the assumption was that new demand would restart the build cycle. Generative AI was supposed to bring on a new surge in data demand. But the reality is that generative AI traffic is roughly one sixteen-hundredth of what the network carries on any given day.","So where’s the growth opportunity? It’s shifting toward specific, high-value use cases, for enterprise, indoor coverage, and mission-critical connectivity.","When a business cost becomes too expensive, it gets outsourced. It’s happened before, in the case of cloud infrastructure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS).","The question facing the telco industry today is how to serve the locations where the demand is high, but it is not profitable or reasonable to build out a new tower.","The good news: a more capital efficient model already exists.","Coverage is already getting more built-out, more efficiently,through the people-powered Hotspots on the Helium Network.","Today, the Helium Network serves nearly 3.5 million people daily across the United States. Individuals and businesses deploy small, low-cost Hotspots in homes, storefronts, offices, and public spaces. These nodes extend real wireless coverage in places traditional infrastructure often skips.","When subscribers from major carriers connect through that coverage, data flows across the network just like it would anywhere else. But instead of requiring a new capex cycle, that coverage is already in place.","What makes the model sustainable is the incentive structure underneath it.","HNT is the native token and fuel behind the Network. As real traffic flows across the Network, the people building coverage earn HNT.","That creates a flywheel: demand drives usage, usage funds expansion, and coverage grows where it’s actually needed.","This complements existing infrastructure rather than replacing it. Carriers focus on the coverage they can still economically justify, and communities fill the rest.","The capex pullback is a reckoning for how connectivity gets delivered. Carriers are already telling the market, in earnings calls and capex guidance, that the old model can’t sustain itself, even as demand for connectivity keeps growing.","Dell’Oro’s Stefan Pongratz has put it plainly: the operators best positioned to scale back capex are the ones not investing heavily beyond their known use cases. The traditional model will not fund the gap it’s facing.","So while the rest of the industry looks for its next funding model, the one already meeting this demand and carrying millions of users every day is Helium.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/helium-rises-to-meet-demand-for-coverage-as-telco-buildout-slows-down"},"/blog/helium-network-the-new-secret-weapon-for-internet-service-providers-in-mexico":{"version":1,"title":"Helium Network: The New Secret Weapon for Internet Service Providers in Mexico - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Helium Network: The New Secret Weapon for Internet Service Providers in Mexico"],"h2":["Now Mexican ISPs can extend wireless coverage without the burden of high capital expenditure.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Wednesday, June 3, 2026","Regional Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Mexico are already familiar with the coverage gap.","Their customers love the fiber or fixed-wireless connection at home. But the moment those customers walk out the door, they’re back on whatever mobile coverage the big carriers happen to have built. Outside the major metros, that usually isn’t much.","The country has four operators running nationwide, and the demand for better wireless connectivity is there. But no one is investing in or building the infrastructure needed to support it.","For local Mexican ISPs, this has meant that they are powerless to bring better connectivity to their customers. Until today.","What is Helium?","Helium is a decentralized wireless network built from the bottom up. Instead of giant cell towers built by a single carrier, coverage comes from two paths. Helium Plus converts existing Wi-Fi infrastructure (gear from Aruba, Cisco Meraki, Extreme, Fortinet, Ruckus, and Ubiquiti) into part of the Network with a software update, no new hardware required. Purpose-built Helium Hotspots add coverage where new infrastructure is needed. Together they form a coverage layer that carriers can offload onto and end users can connect to.","In Mexico, that coverage layer is already live. Hundreds of Hotspots and converted networks are running today, onboarded by local hosts, and the rollout is accelerating.","How Mexican ISPs can use Helium","For ISPs managing Wi-Fi networks at large venues (hotels, hospitals, stadiums, etc.), Helium Plus is a natural starting point.","Existing Wi-Fi access points can be converted into part of the Network through a software update, which keeps setup costs minimal. Every gigabyte that offloads through the converted network generates rewards for the operator.","Where new coverage is needed, ISPs can also host purpose-built Helium Hotspots. These can be installed on rooftops, windows or other areas in the space with a clear line-of-sight.","For ISPs already running fixed wireless, Helium can act as a complement to point-to-multipoint coverage in dense areas, absorbing indoor and pedestrian-grade traffic that fixed wireless was never designed for.","The outcome across all of these is consistent. Customers see better coverage in their neighborhoods, the operator extends its brand into wireless without selling a wireless plan, and a new revenue line opens up against existing fiber assets.","What’s the catch?","For Helium Hotspots, deployment requires capable hosts and strategic placement. For both Hotspots and Helium Plus, rewards depend on actual data carried, which depends on subscribers in range.","The advantage is that ISPs don’t have to fund the Network, and carriers are already offloading onto it. ISPs participate by hosting, providing coverage, or by being the local operator that knows the streets, the businesses, and the property owners better than anyone in their community.","What’s next","Mexican ISPs interested in exploring a Helium partnership can reach out to mexico@helium.com. That includes operators curious about hosting their first Hotspots, offering Helium-backed coverage to customers, or just interested in the economics.","The wireless gap in Mexico isn’t going to close itself, and carriers won’t close it alone. But the ISPs who already serve these communities, paired with a network like Helium, have the power to start significantly improving coverage today.","Have a specific question or scenario for us to cover? Email us at mexico@helium.com.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/helium-network-the-new-secret-weapon-for-internet-service-providers-in-mexico"},"/blog/utility-meets-opportunity-how-to-make-the-most-out-of-extra-bandwidth":{"version":1,"title":"Utility Meets Opportunity: How to Make the Most Out Of Extra Bandwidth - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Utility Meets Opportunity: How to Make the Most Out Of Extra Bandwidth"],"h2":["How two entrepreneurs turned underutilized bandwidth into a business","The Model","Who’s It For?","The Bottom Line","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Wednesday, April 15, 2026","In 2020, Shawn Hlookoff’s touring schedule went dark during the pandemic. A multi-platinum recording artist and songwriter who had spent 15 years between Los Angeles and Canada, he found himself at home with time to think.","The stillness suited him. Hlookoff had trained as an engineer before music (first at Selkirk College in British Columbia, then at the Art Institute of Vancouver) and had a passion for the science of signal flow and audio architecture. When he started learning about the concept of decentralized wireless networks, something clicked.","He began to build out early Helium Network deployments across Western Canada and California. A few years later, he knew he needed a partner to scale. He called David Hudson.","Hudson, based in Montecito, CA, had spent years in short-term rental management. When Hlookoff sent him the pitch deck, he was in immediately. Between Hlookoff’s technical fluency and Hudson’s skill for establishing trust in business relationships, the company took off.","About six months ago, Hudson House shifted focus entirely to Helium deployments and began building on existing infrastructure rather than building from scratch. “That’s when utility met opportunity,” Hlookoff said. The model is deliberately low-friction: no capital expenditure for the venue, a half-hour implementation, and Hudson House manages everything, sending participating locations a monthly monetization check while improving their connectivity.","The monetization checks come from the carrier offload mechanic at the heart of the Helium Network. When a venue’s guests connect through the Helium Network, major wireless carriers pay per gigabyte of data offloaded through that connection. For venues already paying for bandwidth they aren’t fully utilizing, that throughput potentially becomes a source of income rather than a sunk cost.","Hudson frames the pitch as an extension of the real estate relationship. The conversation with landlords goes something like this: you have an underutilized asset, we’ll manage it, here’s what you get out of it. “It’s really about being transparent, personable, and trustworthy,” he says. Some prospects need convincing: the model can sound, as he puts it, “like talking to people about the internet in 1997.” Not every venue signs, but for a business already paying for bandwidth it isn’t fully using, a bill offset and better guest coverage tend to make for an attractive offer.","For larger venues like a medical facility, concert hall, or restaurant group, the calculus is simple. Eliminating dead zones, Hlookoff notes, improves dwell time and removes a friction point that operators often didn’t realize they were absorbing.","Hudson House currently works with partners across hospitality, food service, higher education, and medical real estate, including Palmetto Superfoods, Fire Wings, the Montesano Group’s restaurant portfolio (Lucky’s Steakhouse and Tre Lune), and Finney’s Crafthouse. A larger, unnamed partner with more than 400 U.S. locations is currently in a pilot phase. The company’s goal is to have at least 5,000 locations in its portfolio before the end of the summer.","“The utility and the opportunity make sense,” Hlookoff says. “We’re actually providing something real.”","To work directly with Hudson House, reach out to david@hudsonhouse.io.","To learn more about Helium, email us at business@helium.com.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/utility-meets-opportunity-how-to-make-the-most-out-of-extra-bandwidth"},"/blog/bringing-the-signal-to-band-camp-how-ace-tomato-kept-the-music-playing":{"version":1,"title":"Bringing the Signal to Band Camp: How Ace Tomato Kept the Music Playing - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Bringing the Signal to Band Camp: How Ace Tomato Kept the Music Playing"],"h2":["How 13 permanent Hotspots handled a 33x surge at one of Florida's biggest music festivals.","Establishing the Baseline","The Inflection Point","What the Numbers Show","What Made It Work","What It Means","Learn more","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Wednesday, April 8, 2026","Every spring, tens of thousands of people converge on a plot of land in central Florida for four days of music, heat, and very poor cellular service.","Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival is a large event in a small town. And when the festival crowds arrive, the connectivity demand is sudden, dense, and unrelenting: streaming sets, navigating the grounds, posting in real time, RFID badges, vendor sales, and all the other invisible infrastructure that makes a festival run smoothly","This year, Helium’s data tells a different story.","The 13 Hotspots deployed at the Okeechobee festival grounds aren’t temporary deployments. They are year-round, permanent installations that run through the off-season, serving the low-level but consistent connectivity needs of a rural community.","The numbers show that the week before the festival, traffic was pretty light. On Monday, March 16th, the Network served 197 unique subscribers. Tuesday that rose to 312, and 542 by Wednesday. A steady, unremarkable baseline: exactly the kind of low-traffic environment that makes what followed more striking.","Thursday, March 19, 2026 was opening day.","Overnight, as the festival crowd arrived, unique subscribers connecting to the Helium Network jumped 469%, from 542 to 3,084.","By Friday, the Network had nearly doubled again, reaching 6,225 unique subscribers and processing 599.6 GB of data in a single day. Saturday peaked at 6,620. Sunday held at 6,361.","Across all three peak days, the Network sustained between 6,200 and 6,600 daily unique subscribers without degradation.","While traffic spiked, the connectivity held up consistently.","From a Monday baseline of 197 to a Saturday peak of 6,620, the Network scaled 33.6 times over the course of a week.","Total unique subscribers across the event window reached 9,500. Total data processed over the four festival days exceeded 1,900 GB.","By post-festival Monday, unique subscribers had already begun winding down to 4,368 as attendees departed. The sharp symmetry of the buildup and cooldown reflects what the data consistently shows at large events: demand is event-driven, and it moves fast in both directions.","The Hotspots at Okeechobee belong to Ace Tomato, a managed wireless deployer with many years of experience building networks for high-density, high-variability environments.","Because the infrastructure was already in place, the Network didn’t have to catch up to demand. It was ready when Thursday arrived.","That permanence is the point. Year-round Hotspots generate year-round data, year-round coverage, and year-round utility. The festival was the stress test, and the Network passed it.","Large events compress weeks of network demand into days. The question isn’t whether demand will spike, it’s whether the infrastructure underneath can absorb it.","At Okeechobee, 13 Hotspots handled a 33x surge across four continuous days of peak traffic. Each session represents a data credit consumed, a deployer rewarded, and a phone that stayed connected when it otherwise might not have.","To learn more about Helium, visit world.helium.com or email business@helium.com.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/bringing-the-signal-to-band-camp-how-ace-tomato-kept-the-music-playing"},"/blog/deployers-rejoice-helium-world-is-getting-a-major-upgrade.":{"version":1,"title":"Deployers, Rejoice! Helium World Is Getting a Major Upgrade. - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Deployers, Rejoice! Helium World Is Getting a Major Upgrade."],"h2":["The Helium community has spoken, and the Helium World team has been listening.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":["What’s new","Reward splitting, built in","What about existing deployers?","Try it!"],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Tuesday, March 17, 2026","The Helium community has spoken, and the Helium World team has been listening.","For a long time, deployers have said that managing Hotspots shouldn’t require a background in crypto. Seed phrases were confusing. Interfaces were clunky. Splitting rewards with venue partners was a manual headache.","To address these issues, the Helium World team rebuilt the deployer experience from the ground up. Those changes are now live.","For new deployers, the biggest shift is how accounts are created: just an email, no seed phrases required. The 24-word seed phrase (long a source of lost accounts and support tickets) is gone. In its place, Helium World uses Privy for authentication, with passkey support that makes signing in nearly invisible across all your devices.","For existing deployers, the biggest change is being able to manage Hotspots from a full web-based platform on desktop or mobile. The new dashboard provides clear status indicators, reduced crypto jargon, and the ability to onboard Hotspots directly from a computer. Detailed fleet reports are also on the way.","One of the most requested features is now part of the platform. Hotspot owners can split rewards with venue hosts by sharing a QR code. When the host scans it, Helium World automatically creates an account for them. Both the deployer and the host see the same dashboard: what the Hotspot is earning, how it’s performing, and where the rewards are going. Splits are fully adjustable and can be edited at any time.","For deployers managing relationships across multiple venues, this removes one of the biggest operational headaches: generating separate reports and coordinating payouts manually.","A migration tool is now live to make transferring existing Hotspots to the new platform straightforward. Existing Builder app users will be prompted to migrate their Hotspots when they next log in. In the meantime, new Hotspots can be onboarded directly through Helium World. The platform supports both Mobile and IoT Hotspots.","Check out the updates now at world.helium.com.","Reach out to business@helium.com for more information.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/deployers-rejoice-helium-world-is-getting-a-major-upgrade."},"/blog/hosting-a-mid-sized-festival-with-70-000-people-you’re-gonna-need-helium-for-that":{"version":1,"title":"Hosting a Mid-sized Festival With 70,000 People? You’re Gonna Need Helium for That - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Hosting a Mid-sized Festival With 70,000 People? You’re Gonna Need Helium for That"],"h2":["The Helium community has spoken, and the Helium World team has been listening.","Building Networks for Festivals and Brick-and-Mortar Venues","Moving away from guest Wi-Fi networks to Carrier Offload","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Tuesday, March 3, 2026","When you walk into a major music festival and scan your RFID wristband to buy a drink, you probably aren’t thinking about VLAN architecture, DHCP scopes, or fiber backhaul.","Chad Wachs is.","Wachs and his longtime business partner Tom Porter, both founders of Ace Tomato, have spent decades building high-powered networks in places where infrastructure doesn’t exist, or simply isn’t robust enough to handle a huge influx of visitors.","Take Wachs’ current home base of Golden, Colorado, for example. On February 7, the town of 22,000 had 20,000 visitors (and 4,000 golden retrievers) during its annual Goldens in Golden festival. On its own, the local cellular network would be too overwhelmed to support that many visitors. Without reliable connectivity, critical systems such as RFID wristbands, point-of-sale systems for vendors, lighting controls from the sound stage to the walking paths, and communications with security personnel can malfunction or grind to a halt.","Helium deployments kept tails wagging and made sure the event continued to function without a hitch. At peak traffic, a single Helium access point was handling just under 1,000 simultaneous device offloads from local cellular and Wi-Fi networks. That meant phones, wearables, and other connected devices were using the Helium Network to send and receive data when the overloaded cell towers and guest Wi-Fi systems could not keep up.","Wachs and Porter got their respective starts in the wireless industry building two different kinds of networks. Porter has been building temporary networks for major music festivals since the late 90s, including events like Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and the Chicago Marathon. Wachs ran a wireless internet service provider in Golden for ten years before exiting, retaining a large portfolio of smaller businesses in fixed locations.","Together they’ve built a business that spans both worlds: temporary networks for festivals and pop-up events, plus year-round deployments at coffee shops, bars, and restaurants.","The festival work can get especially technical. For a three-weekend event in Golden Gate Park, Porter’s team deploys roughly 250 access points across hundreds of acres in Golden Gate Park. The network supports real-time RFID security lookups, point-of-sale systems for vendors, lighting control systems, and video transport. The setup takes three weeks, and once the network is up, it has to work flawlessly. There’s no room for downtime when tens of thousands of attendees are scanning RFID bracelets to move through security or buy food.","For larger festivals, cellular carriers deploy COWs (“Cell on Wheels,” temporary cell towers on trailers with dedicated fiber backhaul). But for medium-sized festivals in the 10,000 to 70,000 range, carriers don’t see the ROI.","That’s where Helium fits.","Ace Tomato already builds vendor Wi-Fi networks for these events. By integrating Helium into those deployments, they add an additional layer of connectivity that can absorb excess device traffic when guest Wi-Fi and overloaded cell towers fall short. This approach provides scalability without requiring a completely separate network build.","Over the years, Wachs has watched guest Wi-Fi usage decline. “Ten years ago, everyone would log into guest Wi-Fi,” he says. “Now, with 5G, people don’t switch networks. They stay on their carrier.”","Here’s the problem: even when phones stay “on network” with their carrier, dense crowds can overwhelm macro cellular systems. Users don’t consciously connect to guest Wi-Fi anymore, but they do need somewhere for their data to go when tens of thousands of devices compete for limited bandwidth.","Helium infrastructure operates in the background and allows capable devices to offload data automatically without user intervention. The result is less congestion on carrier systems, smoother connectivity for festivalgoers and patrons, and a better overall experience without asking users to choose a Wi-Fi network mid-event.","As the connectivity landscape continues to evolve, Ace Tomato’s dual experience in fixed facilities and temporary deployments gives them an edge. Restaurants, bars, and coffee shops are increasingly seeing more offload traffic than traditional guest Wi-Fi connections. Gyms and hotels, Chad notes, are emerging as powerful venues for Helium offload because users stay connected without toggling networks.","For festival planners and business owners alike, Helium isn’t a novelty. It’s a practical tool layered on existing infrastructure that eases congestion, improves user experience, and unlocks better connectivity where it matters most.","To work with Ace Tomato directly, reach out to Chad Walchs at chad@acetomato.cc.","Interested in deploying Helium in your region? Contact us at business@helium.com.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hosting-a-mid-sized-festival-with-70-000-people-you’re-gonna-need-helium-for-that"},"/blog/fat-tuesday-thin-signal":{"version":1,"title":"Fat Tuesday, Thin Signal? Not This Year - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Fat Tuesday, Thin Signal? Not This Year"],"h2":["Helium’s New Orleans footprint absorbed a 550% Fat Tuesday surge, with more than 100,000 daily unique subscribers sustained for Carnival Weekend.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":["Establishing the Baseline","The Four-Week Surge","The Daily Buildup","What Made It Work","What It Means"],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Thursday, February 19, 2026","Tens of thousands of visitors filled New Orleans this week, streaming parades, posting videos from Bourbon Street balconies, refreshing ride-share apps, and checking parade routes in real time.","When traffic compresses this quickly, carrier networks feel it.","Helium’s New Orleans footprint felt it too. And the data shows exactly how.","Months before 2026’s Mardi Gras celebrations, deployers Josh Heller and David Key of LongFi rolled out a massive Helium-powered Wi-Fi infrastructure project in the French Quarter.","That groundwork set the stage for what the data revealed once Carnival began.","In a typical week, traffic follows a pattern: Across the three Sundays leading up to Mardi Gras, Helium’s New Orleans network averaged 48,000 unique subscribers. Mondays averaged 24,000. Tuesdays averaged just 22,000.","Here’s what happened once Carnival week began to build.","Comparing Sun–Mon–Tue across four consecutive weeks reveals the event’s impact.","During Mardi Gras week, Sunday reached 144,000 unique subscribers, compared to a typical Sunday average of 48,000. Nearly three times higher.","Monday (known locally as Lundi Gras) surged to 130,000 unique subscribers. That’s more than a 430% uplift over the prior three-week average.","Fat Tuesday transformed a normally quiet weekday into a peak-level traffic day, reaching 143,000 unique subscribers. That’s more than a 550% increase over the average Tuesday baseline.","What is typically one of the lightest days of the week became one of the heaviest.","Zooming in on the final stretch shows how quickly demand accelerated.","By the start of Mardi Gras week, daily unique subscribers were already climbing. By Sunday, daily unique subscribers had surged into six figures and stayed there through Fat Tuesday.","On Ash Wednesday, traffic fell by more than 50% overnight, a sharp reset that underscored just how event-driven the spike had been.","The surge was not gradual organic growth. It was event-driven compression, building rapidly and releasing just as quickly.","Much of this New Orleans coverage is powered by LongFi, a Helium deployer with a concentrated footprint across the French Quarter and surrounding hospitality corridors.","In the weeks leading up to peak season, the team expanded coverage along major parade routes and high-traffic hospitality blocks, ensuring the network could handle sudden density spikes.","As visitor density increased, the network absorbed the load.","For users, the experience remained seamless. For hospitality partners, connectivity held during one of the highest-pressure weeks of the year.","“Historically during Mardi Gras, you just can’t connect,” says David Key of LongFi. “Calls fail. Texts stall. Data doesn’t load. This year, people are already seeing something different.”","Large-scale events compress weeks of network demand into days.","Mardi Gras week in New Orleans demonstrates how decentralized infrastructure scales under pressure. Carrier traffic can be offloaded onto community-deployed Hotspots, preserving continuity in the moments when demand spikes most.","More traffic also means more Data Credits consumed, more HNT burned, and more rewards flowing to deployers who built the coverage in advance.","From late January to Fat Tuesday, Helium’s New Orleans network didn’t just handle growth.","It absorbed a five-fold surge and sustained more than 100,000 daily unique subscribers through the city’s biggest week of the year.","To learn more about Helium, visit world.helium.com and email business@helium.com.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/fat-tuesday-thin-signal"},"/blog/little-fish-big-fish-how-one-deployer-scaled-from-barbershops-to-airports":{"version":1,"title":"Little Fish, Big Fish: How One Deployer Scaled From Barbershops to Airports - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Little Fish, Big Fish: How One Deployer Scaled From Barbershops to Airports"],"h2":["Decentralized LLC now spans four U.S. regions and offloads 80+ terabytes monthly by focusing on the businesses inside high-traffic venues.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":["The Model: Little Fish Catch Big Fish","Why Small Business Still Matters","What Comes Next","Helium Builders Bootcamp — Washington, D.C."],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Thursday, February 5, 2026","Before founding Decentralized LLC, Omar Henry built a successful career in traditional finance, first as a banker, then as a financial advisor running his own practice. In 2021, he exited a logistics company he’d built and turned his attention to blockchain.","His next chapter began in 2023 with Helium Mobile Hotspots. Henry started deploying in small businesses: barbershops, salons, gas stations. The economics were simple. The returns were measurable. And the demand was real.","Today, Henry is the founder of Decentralized LLC, a deployment operation spanning the Northeast, Southeast, West Coast, and Midwest. The company supports 6 members and offloads approximately 80 to 85 terabytes of mobile data per month — equivalent to tens of thousands of hours of HD streaming, the kind of sustained usage typically seen in airports and transit hubs.","That makes sense, given that’s where Decentralized likes to operate.","Henry’s approach to growth is a little counterintuitive. Rather than pursuing top-down deals with large venues, he targets businesses inside those venues. A barbershop in a mall. A concession stand in a terminal. These operators already benefit from heavy foot traffic, and they’re often more receptive to a pitch that offers improved connectivity with no upfront cost, and some revenue.","“I don’t need a deal with Walmart,” Henry says. “I can get a deal with the barbershop that’s in the Walmart.”","That philosophy led to a turning point. After seeing Helium deployments appear at Baltimore-Washington International, Henry mentioned to a sales associate that airports weren’t out of reach. The associate found a barbershop inside Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson terminal. Henry drove down, got a haircut, and installed a Hotspot the same day.","Within three months, Decentralized had expanded to LAX and begun conversations with concessionaires about a nationwide rollout to additional airports and train stations.","Even as the company scales into larger venues, Henry remains focused on independent hosts. For a neighborhood barbershop, an extra hundred dollars a month can offset a utility bill. It’s one less thing to worry about.","Decentralized shares revenue with every host and provides visibility into performance data. Crypto enters the picture only when relevant. Hosts can choose to be paid in fiat or tokens. That transparency goes a long way to foster trust in his professional relationships with his clients.","In 2026, Decentralized is focused on scaling high-traffic infrastructure while maintaining its base of small business hosts. Henry’s story reflects a growing segment of the Helium community: deployers building real-world utility, one location at a time, starting with the little fish.","Omar Henry will be a guest speaker at an upcoming Helium Builders Bootcamp in Washington, D.C., a hands-on event for deployers at every stage.","Wednesday, February 11, 20265:30–9:30 p.m. ESTRegister: luma.com/BuildersCamp","Sign up for the event here.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/little-fish-big-fish-how-one-deployer-scaled-from-barbershops-to-airports"},"/blog/big-game-weekend-powered-by-the-people":{"version":1,"title":"Big Game Weekend Powered by the People - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Big Game Weekend Powered by the People"],"h2":["At this year's Big Game near San Francisco, 113,000+ people connected through Helium on the peak day.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":["The Numbers Tell the Story","Here’s what the data shows:","What’s Behind These Numbers","Why This Matters for HNT","Nearly 3 Million Daily Connections on Helium"],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Tuesday, February 10, 2026","Tens of thousands of fans packed the Bay Area last week, filling hotels in San Francisco, bars in San Jose, and every street around Levi’s Stadium. Every single one of them was on their phone, whether they were on Helium Mobile or any other major carrier.","When demand spikes like this, carriers need more coverage, fast. That’s where Helium comes in.","Thousands of community-deployed Hotspots were already live across the Bay Area, sitting in restaurants, storefronts, and offices. These Hotspots were capturing real carrier traffic, keeping connectivity seamless for every fan walking through the door, and earning HNT for it.","We watched it all happen in real time. Here are the numbers.","We tracked total data traffic across Helium Hotspots in the Bay Area over a four-week window, from January 16 through game day on February 8, 2026.","Helium Network Total Traffic In Bay Area, California 1/16/26–2/8/26","First, the baseline. In a normal week, traffic follows a rhythm. Weekends climb to 80K–100K daily unique subscribers on Helium.","The Big Game WiFi Offload Surge: Helium Network in the Bay Area saw a 15% subscriber surge as visitors flooded SF, San Jose, and Oakland. Saturday hit a record 113K unique subscribers across the Network, the highest single day in the four-week window. San Jose saw the most impact with +32% more unique subscribers on Sunday, staying connected through game day. Friday and Saturday both set new highs (+20% and +12%, respectively).","Carriers route subscriber traffic through community-deployed Helium Hotspots (mini cell towers installed by regular people) in offices, restaurants, and storefronts across the Bay Area. The experience is seamless for users. The carrier avoids building expensive infrastructure. The coverage is already there because the Helium community built it.","Check out Helium coverage in these Bay Area cities: San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Fremont, Mountain View, Vallejo, and Martinez on Helium World.","More traffic on the Network means more demand for HNT. Here’s why:","Carriers and businesses use the Helium Network. All usage is settled in Data Credits (DC).","DCs are created by burning HNT, permanently removing it from circulation.","More usage means more burn, which reduces HNT supply.","Hotspot deployers earn HNT for the data they transfer.","A traffic surge like Big Game Weekend translates directly into increased Network usage, increased HNT burn, and increased rewards for the people who deployed the coverage.","Helium Network just reached over 2.9 million phone connections daily, moving real carrier traffic through decentralized infrastructure.","Big Game Weekend showed what makes Helium different. All powered by HNT.","Check out live Helium coverage: world.helium.com","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/big-game-weekend-powered-by-the-people"},"/blog/turning-indoor-connectivity-into-community-funding":{"version":1,"title":"Turning Indoor Connectivity Into Community Funding - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Turning Indoor Connectivity Into Community Funding"],"h2":["Rooftop Digital Income partners with Helium to help businesses improve cellular coverage while giving back to local organizations.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":["A Model Built on Solving Real Problems","Scaling Through Multi-Location Businesses","Enterprise Validation Opens Doors","Keeping the Pitch Simple","Infrastructure Where People Already Are"],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Monday, January 12, 2026","Part of the pride that comes with being a business owner is contributing to your local community: sponsoring youth sports teams, funding school athletic programs, and contributing to charitable causes, for example. But budget constraints are real, and carving out a few thousand dollars annually for donations isn’t always easy, especially for small and mid-sized operators.","David Bannister, founder of Rooftop Digital Income (RDI), saw this tension play out repeatedly during his career working with college and high school athletic programs. Business owners wanted to give, but writing another check wasn’t always feasible. When Bannister learned about Helium’s approach to carrier offload through existing Wi-Fi infrastructure, he recognized its potential to solve two problems at once for businesses: improving indoor cellular coverage and supporting their local communities.","“It’s easier to convince a business owner to give money from this additional potential resource than to ask them to give from their existing pocket,” Bannister said.","RDI works with businesses that already own physical locations like restaurants, convenience stores, hotels, gyms, and onboards them onto the Helium Network using Helium Hotspots and their existing Wi-Fi networks. These locations are strategic, and need reliable connectivity for point-of-sale systems and to meet guest expectations: customers working out at a gym, eating at a restaurant, or spending the night at a hotel count on reliable connectivity.","RDI handles installation end-to-end, integrating Helium into existing Wi-Fi infrastructure without disrupting operations. Businesses receive detailed usage reports showing carrier offload activity and have the potential to earn token rewards based on network performance. Many choose to direct those earnings toward local organizations, creating a tax-advantaged way to support their communities while improving service quality.","The infrastructure was already in place, customers were already present, and connectivity needs were already there. RDI simply connected those elements.","Rather than pursuing individual deployments one location at a time, RDI focuses on organizations that already operate at scale. The company is currently deploying Helium Hotspots across 272 Jack’s Restaurants throughout the Southeast and 88 Green Valley Grocery locations in Las Vegas. A local YMCA deployment in Birmingham has since expanded, with RDI securing a national agreement to prepare YMCA facilities for Helium connectivity.","RDI has also established partnerships with the Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AHOA) and the Asian American Store Owners Association (ASOA), trade groups whose members collectively operate tens of thousands of hotels and convenience stores nationwide. These operators typically manage portfolios of 20 to 30 locations, making it possible to aggregate modest per-site earnings into more meaningful community contributions.","“When owners operate dozens or hundreds of sites, that’s when it starts to add up,” Bannister said.","This multi-location franchise model mirrors deployment strategies that other institutional players, like Parami Investors, have found effective: identify businesses with existing infrastructure, real connectivity problems, and multiple sites, then deploy systematically.","Bannister’s go-to-market strategy relies on securing commitments from recognized brands first.","“No one wants to be first,” he explained. “But then everybody wants to be the next 20.”","By landing agreements with nationally known restaurant chains, hotel groups, and community organizations early, RDI created proof points that make subsequent conversations easier. When Fortune 500-level companies commit, smaller operators see that as validation.","Early on, RDI tried explaining Helium in technical detail, walking prospects through lengthy presentations. That approach didn’t work. Now, the pitch is condensed: Helium improves indoor cellular service, deployment is turnkey, and businesses receive transparent monthly reporting.","Onboarding has been streamlined to a single online form. Bannister compares it to signing up for a retail rewards program: quick, clear value, minimal friction.","Crypto doesn’t lead the conversation. For most blue-chip clients, unfamiliarity with digital assets creates unnecessary questions. RDI focuses on connectivity improvement and USD-based reporting. The option to explore token holdings exists for business owners who are interested, but it’s not part of the initial pitch.","“When we go to pay out, you get a detailed usage report and a revenue report in USD,” Bannister said. “They don’t really ask anything after that.”","Bannister views Helium as part of a broader shift away from traditional tower-based infrastructure. As mobile data demand continues growing thanks to mobile payments, app usage, and everyday connectivity expectations, indoor coverage is becoming essential rather than supplementary.","By deploying Helium Hotspots in hotels, restaurants, convenience stores, and community centers, RDI is building connectivity infrastructure into the places where people already spend their time. It’s a model that scales not by constructing new towers, but by leveraging the already existing footprint of real businesses, frequented by real people and customers.","For businesses hosting those deployments, the benefit extends beyond connectivity. They improve customer experience, address a real operational challenge, and create a potential mechanism for ongoing community support, all without requiring capital expenditure or ongoing management.","Want to bring Helium connectivity to your nonprofit or business?Reach out to business@helium.com to learn how your organization can participate.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/turning-indoor-connectivity-into-community-funding"},"/blog/why-one-firm-believes-in-the-utility-of-the-helium-network":{"version":1,"title":"Why One Firm Believes in the Utility of the Helium Network - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Why One Firm Believes in the Utility of the Helium Network"],"h2":["Parami isn’t a telecom vendor in the traditional sense. It’s a blockchain investment firm that believes the strength of the Helium Network.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":["A Crypto Model for the Real World","Strategy, Data, and Good Old Fashioned Networking","The Human Element at the Heart of Decentralization","A Network That Scales","Want to bring Helium connectivity to your properties?"],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Tuesday, November 11, 2025","At a Marriott Inn in a North Texas suburb, an install crew threads cabling up five stories to a rooftop access point. Down below, guests check in, scroll their phones, and upload photos without thinking twice about what’s keeping them connected. For Parami, that’s exactly the point.","Parami isn’t a telecom vendor in the traditional sense. It’s a blockchain investment firm that believes the strength of the Helium Network and its underlying token, HNT, stems from the real-world coverage it delivers to people and their devices, wherever they are. Their approach is pragmatic: deploy Helium Hotspots in legitimate venues, create reliable connectivity where it’s needed most, and share the earnings with the property owners who host them.","Parami first entered the Helium ecosystem in 2021. When Helium doubled down on mobile coverage and data offloading, Parami saw an opportunity to leverage their relationships with owners and operators of national restaurant and hotel franchises like Marriott, KFC, Taco Bell, and Rent-A-Center, businesses that see regular foot traffic and high mobile traffic. Parami’s team began deploying Helium Hotspots in 2024, and since then has installed more than 1,300 Hotspots, with plans to deploy 500 more in the coming weeks.","Parami carefully evaluates each site based on observed demand, focusing on areas where people are likely to spend time on their phones rather than simply passing through. This strategic placement helps maximize offload potential and ensures each Hotspot contributes meaningfully to network performance.","Parami’s team evaluates each site for signal strength, power access, and coverage quality before unspooling a single cable. Using tools like the Helium Builder App, Helium World, and Google Earth, the team preplans and models coverage zones and installation build-outs before each project.","As critical as these steps are to selling to clients, no project would ever reach completion without solid partnerships in place. It’s common for the Parami team to coordinate with outside partners like managed service providers (MSPs), facility managers, and property GMs to open ports and configure VLANS, so that project completion stays on schedule.","Smooth communications and relationship building are as valuable to Parami’s business model and deployment strategy as data analytics and strategy. When Parami’s crews are onsite, they’re interfacing with property managers and IT teams who may not have heard of Helium. Leading with crypto can slow the conversation and install process. Leading with connectivity keeps the conversation going.","Each deployment is therefore framed in practical terms: better coverage, stronger signal, and fewer complaints from customers. The revenue-share and crypto details come later, negotiated between Parami’s business team and the property owners.","This combination of IT credibility and innovative financial incentives makes Parami’s model unique. Decentralization is as much about shared opportunity as it is open networks. And when coverage expands, everyone involved benefits.","In just over a year, Parami honed their process into a repeatable, scalable deployment engine. Their deployment sites in familiar, high-traffic areas support real users and businesses, improve connectivity, and prove Helium’s ability to offload carrier data through a decentralized infrastructure layer.","Parami’s leadership sees this as a long-term project as the Helium Network continues to prove its utility and real-world data offload increases.","As Helium’s coverage map expands, stories like Parami’s demonstrate how institutional firms are recognizing the Helium Network’s true value: not speculation, but service.","Reach out to business@nova-labs.com to learn how your organization can participate.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/why-one-firm-believes-in-the-utility-of-the-helium-network"},"/blog/helium-2025-year-in-review":{"version":1,"title":"Helium 2025: Year in Review - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Helium 2025: Year in Review"],"h2":["Connectivity, Rebuilt.","Beyond Legacy Telco","Own It","2025 By The Numbers","Notable Highlights","Looking Ahead: Expansion in 2026","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":["Awards & Recognition","Community Deployments","Product Updates","Global Presence"],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Friday, December 19, 2025","Helium rebuilds connectivity as a global wireless network owned by people and powered by HNT. In 2025, this idea became impossible to ignore because the Network did more. More usage. More coverage. More utility. This year proved that people-powered infrastructure can outperform legacy models and enable anyone to participate in the trillion dollar telco industry.","Connectivity demand from AI, streaming, and smart devices is exploding. Legacy telco is built on slow, expensive infrastructure that cannot scale fast enough. The answer is coverage that expands where people gather and need it most without waiting years for buildouts. Helium replaces massive cell towers with Hotspots hosted by everyday people, creating a decentralized network that grows with its users.","Participation is the point. When people deploy and use Helium, coverage grows faster than centralized infrastructure. In 2025, that ownership expanded across the U.S. and Mexico, with Brazil lighting up next, as businesses and individuals turned connectivity into a ubiquitous network.","The People’s Network delivered real utility at scale.","15.72 Petabytes (PB) Data Transferred: That’s enough to stream over 3 million HD movies.","2M+ Daily Active Users: We started 2025 with 250K daily users and ended the year connecting over 2 million people every single day. Nearly 10x growth.","600K+ Helium Mobile Sign Ups: And over $75 million in savings when customers switch to Helium Mobile.","120K+ Active Hotspots: Providing mobile connectivity across the U.S. and Mexico.","Major Partnerships: Mambo WiFi, AT&T, Movistar, and more.","Check out Helium coverage in your area and find a Hotspot. The Helium Network is likely already on your block.","2025 brought well-deserved recognition for Helium and its community:","Fierce Network Innovation Award: Helium Mobile won the 2025 Fierce Network Innovation Award for Mobile Evolution.","WCA Social Contribution Award: Helium received the Social Contribution Award from the Wireless Communications Alliance for our disruptive model of flipping the traditional telecom model by empowering individuals to become network builders.","WBA Best Wi-Fi Innovation Award: Helium won the Best Wi-Fi Innovation Award at the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) Awards 2025.","WiFi NOW Affordable Connectivity Award: Helium won the 2025 WiFi NOW Award for Affordable Connectivity for Helium Plus!","a16z crypto Recognition: a16z crypto spotlighted Helium as the leading DePIN example in telecom: “Helium, for example, is one of the defining DePIN companies and the first at-scale decentralized telecom network.” — a16z crypto","From airports to wine country, the community expanded the Network:","Madison Airport: Helium expansion at Dane County Regional Airport (MSN)","Sausalito & Wine Country: Bringing connectivity to Northern California","Pine Mountain Club: Coverage in California’s mountain communities","Universidad del Sagrado Corazón: Expanding the Network in Puerto Rico","LongFi Deployments: Expanding Helium in Mexico","Helium Plus: A major milestone, Helium Plus enables even more people to join the Network with existing Wi-Fi. No new hardware needed. This opens the door to massive expansion by lowering the barrier to entry. Learn more","Helium World Upgrades: The home for Hotspot deployers got a major upgrade:","Wallet Views: Track an entire Hotspot fleet or zoom into your own. See locations, stats, and balances, the first step toward a full logged-in experience where you can send HNT tokens, onboard Hotspots, and manage it all in one place.","Reimagined Landings: The landing page and sidebar have been reworked to highlight the most important stats. Navigation is smoother across desktop and mobile.","Refreshed Navigation: Subnetwork navigation and map layers (like data traffic) are now easier to access.","Demand Sampling Data : Demand sampling data is now live on Helium World. New Hotspots added to the Network will automatically start serving traffic for major US carriers (for free) so they can learn which locations reach a lot of users and should be switched to paid.","The Helium team showed up around the world for events in 2025: Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Hong Kong, New York City, Vancouver, Mexico City, San Francisco, and more.","2025 was the proof. 2026 is the expansion.","Here’s what’s coming:","New US Cities: Helium is taking over in new markets across the United States. Stay tuned.","Simpler Hotspot Onboarding: Getting a Hotspot up and running gets even easier in 2026.","New Management Dashboards: Powerful on-chain tools for deployers, minus the crypto friction.","Easier Hotspot Sharing: New ways to share coverage and rewards.","Builder Bootcamps: Hands-on programs to onboard the next wave of deployers and grow the Network faster.","Global Expansion Partnerships: New partnerships to bring Helium to more countries and carriers worldwide. Sign up for the Global Waitlist to bring Helium to your country.","Helium Mobile Product Updates: New features to bring affordable connectivity to even more people.","New All-Time Highs: With real utility driving demand, the Network is positioned for growth.","HNT fuels this engine, flipping the legacy model so people own the future. This is an invitation. Deploy a Hotspot. Earn HNT. The future of connectivity is not owned by the few. It’s built by the many.","LFG! 🎈","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/helium-2025-year-in-review"},"/blog/expanding-helium-to-brazil-through-partnership-with-mambo-wifi-international-waitlist-now-live":{"version":1,"title":"Expanding Helium to Brazil Through Partnership with Mambo WiFi & International Waitlist Now Live - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Expanding Helium to Brazil Through Partnership with Mambo WiFi & International Waitlist Now Live"],"h2":["We’re excited to announce a new joint venture with leading Brazilian WiFi company Mambo WiFi","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Wednesday, December 10, 2025","Today we’re excited to announce a new joint venture with leading Brazilian WiFi company Mambo WiFi to bring the people-powered Helium Network to millions of mobile users in Brazil, marking a major step in Helium’s global expansion. With this announcement, we’re also unveiling an International Waitlist for communities and organizations interested in bringing people-powered mobile coverage to their country.","Helium’s people-powered model turns traditional telco infrastructure on its head, enabling everyday people and businesses to deploy Hotspots, small devices that act as mini cell towers, extending mobile coverage and helping offload data from major carriers. The Helium Network spans over 120,000 Hotspots across the U.S. and Mexico, serving up to 2 million mobile users daily, with Brazil coming online next.","Despite being the largest country in South America, more than half of Brazil remains under-connected, unable to access quality internet service, with over 100 million users relying on shared or public Wi-Fi as their primary way to get online. Mambo WiFi’s 40,000 access points already support major telco carriers nationwide for captive portals and ads services and will serve as a powerful foundation for adding carrier offload and expanding the Helium Network to millions of mobile users across Brazil as local carriers adopt this people-powered model.","“Our collaboration with Mambo represents a significant milestone in expanding the Helium Network internationally. Together, we’re tackling the telco market in Brazil and pioneering a new model where people-powered networks deliver affordable, reliable coverage at scale. Mambo’s deep carrier experience and national footprint make them the perfect partner to accelerate this shift, while setting the stage for future carrier collaborations internationally.” — Mario Di Dio, GM of Network at Helium","The collaboration shows how people-powered networks can enter and scale in new regions faster and at a fraction of the cost of the traditional telco model. As additional regions come online, Helium plans to collaborate with local carriers to seamlessly boost coverage for subscribers through carrier offload, while reducing infrastructure costs.","“Through this collaboration, Mambo and Helium are bringing cutting-edge wireless technology to Brazil’s telco market. Our 40,000 access points will serve as a foundation for the Helium Network, enabling local carriers to adopt this people-powered model to close Brazil’s longstanding connectivity gap, bringing reliable and accessible connectivity to millions of users across the country.” — Katie Angelo Pierozzi, Co-founder and CEO of Mambo WiFi","As part of Helium’s global efforts, we’re also opening up an International Waitlist, welcoming communities, enterprises, and deployment partners worldwide to share their interest in bringing the Helium Network to their region. The waitlist will help guide the next phase of mobile expansion, prioritizing locations where demand and community readiness are highest.","To share interest in bringing Helium to your country, sign up for the International Waitlist here and stay tuned for updates. Your country could be next!","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/expanding-helium-to-brazil-through-partnership-with-mambo-wifi-international-waitlist-now-live"},"/blog/bringing-better-connectivity-to-new-orleans’-historic-french-quarter":{"version":1,"title":"Bringing better connectivity to New Orleans’ Historic French Quarter - Helium","description":"Learn how Helium deployers improved mobile connectivity in New Orleans’ Historic French Quarter while preserving the neighborhood’s cultural character.","keywords":"","h1":["Bringing better connectivity to New Orleans’ Historic French Quarter"],"h2":["Two deployers take on the challenge of bringing world-class connectivity to the world-famous neighborhood.","The Helium Approach","For Love of the City","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Thursday, December 18, 2025","New Orleans’ French Quarter is a living, breathing cultural landmark. For locals, it’s sacred ground, and for the people who protect and preserve it, every change is scrutinized with care. So when David Key and Josh Heller of LongFi Solutions began the work to improve connectivity in the neighborhood, they knew that doing it right meant doing it invisibly, without altering the district’s character.","Key, a native of New Orleans, had this to say about the connectivity issues facing the French Quarter: “Ask anyone in New Orleans about cell service in the Quarter, and you’ll get the same answer: it’s unpredictable on a good day, and nearly unusable during major events.”","The Quarter draws millions of people every year for major events like Mardi Gras, Halloween, Red Dress Run, and Decadence. The uptick puts a huge strain on network bandwidth, as visitors, businesses, and first responders all compete for the same limited capacity. Even on an ordinary Saturday night, download speeds dip and calls struggle to connect.","Everyone in the district has a story about it: payments that won’t go through unless you bring the card reader outside; a parking app that wouldn’t load (and a car getting booted as a result); rideshare requests that time out; or a call to a friend, family member, or the police getting dropped.","Key and Heller reasoned that the solution to the French Quarter’s connectivity problem had to be culturally sensitive and subtle.","“You can’t just put a cell tower in the middle of a historic district,” Key said.","Heller had successfully been doing this kind of work earlier this year, bringing decentralized wireless networks to UNESCO World Heritage sites in Oaxaca, Mexico. Their goal was simple: improve the experience for every tourist, local, and business in the French Quarter without disturbing what makes it special.","To pull it off, Key and Heller focused on strengthening the existing networks in the neighborhood rather than adding outdoor equipment to the historic buildings.","Using Helium Plus, they’ve been able to integrate with the existing Wi-Fi networks that many restaurants, bars, and hotels are already using, quietly extending coverage where people are actually spending their time.","The improved connectivity has a ripple effect: better connectivity at a bar or restaurant could lead patrons to linger over their drinks and order a second one. They might even take a picture of it, upload it to social media, and tag the business.","Since they began deploying Helium Plus throughout the French Quarter back in June, Key and Heller estimate they’ve improved connectivity to roughly 75% of the area. Going block by block, they’ve seen for themselves what better connectivity has meant for the neighborhood.","Visitors can text friends and upload photos more easily, pay for parking or order rideshares without a hiccup, and have more confidence safely navigating the neighborhood.","Workers and businesses benefit too. They can process payments with fewer interruptions, digital point-of-sale systems stay online during peak hours, and content creators can more easily share the beauty of New Orleans.","The decentralized, low-impact nature of the infrastructure doesn’t just make the connectivity possible. It makes it easier to appreciate the neighborhood itself.","To learn more about how Helium can support connectivity to culturally or architecturally sensitive districts, reach out to business@helium.com.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/bringing-better-connectivity-to-new-orleans’-historic-french-quarter"},"/blog/unspoken-words-blankets-sausalito-and-california-wine-country-with-helium":{"version":1,"title":"Unspoken Words Blankets Sausalito and California Wine Country with Helium - Helium","description":"Unspoken Words brings reliable Helium-powered connectivity to Sausalito and California Wine Country, serving rural and coastal communities overlooked by traditional networks.","keywords":"","h1":["Unspoken Words Blankets Sausalito and California Wine Country with Helium"],"h2":["In Anderson Valley and Sausalito, CA, Unspoken Words combines decades of networking expertise with Helium’s decentralized model to deliver reliable connectivity where it matters.","Necessity: The mother of connection","The Helium Opportunity","Expanding Possibilities, Looking Ahead","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Thursday, November 20, 2025","When most people think of the Northern California tech scene, glassy sprawling campuses and venture capitalists come to mind. But long before all that, Unspoken Words was helping small businesses get online and thrive.","The company started out in 1989, supporting local research firms, small corporate offices and neighborhood entrepreneurs. Over the years, founder Steven Ulrich built a reputation for solving connectivity problems for rural and coastal communities, which were frequently overlooked by larger ISPs.","“We’ve been connecting people for decades,” Ulrich said. “It’s just what we do.”","In the early 2000s, Ulrich received a personal request that would change the course of his business. A close friend was dying from melanoma, and wanted to spend his final days on his boat in Sausalito. To help him stay in touch with his family, Ulrich rigged a wireless link to the marina, creating the town’s first waterfront network.","Word spread quickly, and before long, boat owners, restaurants, and shops up and down the harbor were requesting service.","A few years later, Ulrich brought that same ingenuity to the Anderson Valley winemaking district and found a new opportunity with local vineyards, bringing them online and enhancing their overall connectivity. A few connections grew into a small, private network that now supports dozens of wineries and businesses across the region. By 2018, Unspoken Words had built multiple fiber circuits into Anderson Valley to meet rising demand. When the pandemic hit two years later, that network was essential.","Today, the company manages seven fiber links across dozens of sites in Northern California and continues to expand its footprint. Residents and businesses in those communities depend on the redundancy that only a dedicated network can provide.","In September this year, Unspoken Words upgraded its networks with Helium Plus in Sausalito and Anderson Valley, initially as an experiment.","“I just wanted to get a little more revenue out of these,” Ulrich said with a laugh.","The results were fast. Rather than installing new hardware, Unspoken Words layered Helium Plus onto its existing 121 third-party Wi-Fi access points (66 in Anderson Valley, 55 in Sausalito). According to data on Helium World, the Sausalito network alone serves 2,300 users a day.","Integration was seamless: Using Helium Plus and the network’s existing Ubiquiti infrastructure, it was easy to extend coverage without replacing or rebuilding anything.","“We had no idea what we were getting into, but the usage spoke for itself,” Ulrich said.","For Ulrich, Helium’s value is simple: it works.","The Network provides an additional layer of connectivity that complements fiber and satellite links. Having an extra redundancy layer combined with measurable usage and easy integration turned Ulrich from a cautious experimenter into a firm believer.","Ulrich plans to explore more use cases for the Helium Network. In Anderson Valley, he’s looking at smart vineyard applications like tracking grape bins, tractors, and temperature sensors. In Sausalito, he’s in talks with the city about upgrading its aging parking meters, which currently run on legacy cellular connections. Replacing those systems with Helium SIMs could make them more efficient and easier to maintain.","“Helium opens up possibilities we couldn’t touch before, whether that’s tracking assets across farmland or solving connectivity problems for a city block.”","Unspoken Words is even looking for opportunities beyond California. The company now supports a French winery group with two dozen vineyards across six countries, managing all their North American facilities. Helium will soon be helping with that part of their broader portfolio.","For Ulrich, people-powered connectivity is just the next logical step in a long history of solving real-world network problems.","“Helium gives us a new way to do what we’ve done for the last 35 years,” Ulrich said. “Connecting people, wherever they are.”","Ready to onboard with Helium? Reach out to business@nova-labs.com to learn more.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/unspoken-words-blankets-sausalito-and-california-wine-country-with-helium"},"/blog/how-a-california-mountain-town-improved-connectivity-for-its-community":{"version":1,"title":"How a California Mountain Town Improved Connectivity for Its Community - Helium","description":"See how Pine Mountain Club, California improved reliable mobile coverage for residents and local businesses through Helium’s carrier offload network.","keywords":"","h1":["How a California Mountain Town Improved Connectivity for Its Community"],"h2":["Until their partnership with Helium, Pine Mountain Club residents struggled with spotty cell coverage.","Rural Connectivity: A Unique Challenge","The Decentralized Wireless Solution","Connectivity by the Community, for the Community","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Friday, November 7, 2025","Like many rural areas, Pine Mountain Club’s geography in the Los Padres national forest meant coverage was often inconsistent. Depending on the carrier, residents could have strong service in one spot and none at all a few feet away. For local merchants, that meant difficulties processing payments, communicating with customers, and keeping businesses running smoothly.","That’s now beginning to change.","Through a new partnership between Helium, Pine Mountain Properties, and CR Construction, the town’s central business district has received a significant connectivity upgrade by deploying Helium Plus through their existing DAS equipment to provide seamless coverage for calls, texts, and data across a wider range of major carriers that residents rely on daily.","Pine Mountain Club began providing residents with free public Wi-Fi in 2022, through a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) network originally built and maintained by CR Construction. A DAS network is a type of on-premise cellular network that enhances signal performance through strategically placed antennas. Spotty network coverage, however, remained a problem, as it does for most remote, rural communities. Problems like physical distance from cellular infrastructure along with rugged, mountainous terrain and harsh weather conditions create barriers to wide-spread are hard enough to overcome with tradition DAS alone.","Connectivity problems have real downstream effects: out-of-town visitors driving to rental properties at night in the mountains would have to navigate in the dark, without any network coverage. Frustrated and unable to find their rental, they would turn around and go home — which meant lost tourism dollars for the community.","Thanks to Helium, today, about 83% of Pine Mountain Club’s merchant center enjoys strong, consistent coverage. It’s a big improvement for merchants who want to better serve their customers, and for the community at large. As more rural communities adopt Helium’s approach, reliable coverage is expanding more areas that traditional infrastructure just can’t reach.","For Pine Mountain Club, partnering with Helium meant taking their connectivity challenges into their own hands. Their local initiative combined with Helium’s technology demonstrates how rural communities can solve their connectivity issues and expand their reach without waiting for conventional carriers to close the gap.","Want to bring Helium Mobile to your community? Reach out to business@helium.com to learn how.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/how-a-california-mountain-town-improved-connectivity-for-its-community"},"/blog/connectivity-rebuilt":{"version":1,"title":"Connectivity, Rebuilt - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Connectivity, Rebuilt"],"h2":["$1 Million in Helium Grants Funded and a Trillion-Dollar Industry Shifts.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":["Built for the Long Term","The New Currency of Connectivity","Rising to Meet Demand","Join the Movement to Rebuild Connectivity"],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Wednesday, October 29, 2025","This past May, Helium committed $50 million in grants to accelerate a simple but powerful idea: wireless connectivity shouldn’t be owned by a few corporations — it should be built by everyone.","That idea is taking hold. Since May, over $1 million in Helium grants have already been funded, empowering builders, deployers, and innovators to expand coverage, improve performance, and deliver affordable connectivity to more people. When the coverage grant program started, the Helium Mobile Network had just crossed 1 million daily active users (DAUs). Today, we’re approaching 2 million — doubling in record time.","Helium is proving that decentralized, community-owned and operated infrastructure can meet real-world demand and scale faster than traditional telecom, while complementing and supporting legacy carriers along the way.","The legacy model isn’t scaling. Unsightly cell towers cost billions in capital expenditure every year, followed by eye-popping monthly bills that get passed directly to consumers. Each new generation of wireless promises more, but somehow we just end up paying more too. It’s time for the model to evolve.","Helium is connectivity, rebuilt. Instead of infrastructure dictated from the top down, Helium is built from the ground up, by people. As the Network grows, costs go down, and participants are rewarded. It’s wireless infrastructure owned by many, not few.","As Helium grows, so does its economy. HNT is more than just a token — it’s the currency of connectivity, representing real participation in a trillion-dollar global industry being reimagined for the people who use it.","Each new Hotspot deployment and each new subscriber moves us closer to a future where connectivity is open, efficient, and truly shared. It’s not just about better coverage, it’s about ownership.","The momentum across the Helium ecosystem has never been stronger. We launched the grant program to meet that rising demand. Today, the Helium Mobile Network serves roaming activity from six enterprise carriers, including global giants AT&T and Telefonica, alongside coverage for a fast-growing subscriber base at Helium Mobile.","We’re supporting Helium builders and deployers driving the next wave of wireless innovation. They share our belief that wireless is not just a static service to consume, but rather a living and evolving system that communities can shape and improve to meet their own needs. As Helium grows, these contributors remain at the heart of everything that makes the Helium Network more resilient, flexible, and scalable than anything that came before it.","Helium is more than a network, it’s a movement to rebuild how the world connects.","Explore grant opportunities to fund your next deployment. Or own a piece of the Network through HNT, the new currency of connectivity.","This is a trillion-dollar industry being rebuilt in real time — one that touches every person, every device, and every corner of the planet. Helium is proving that the power to connect the world doesn’t belong to a few corporations, it belongs to all of us.","Join us. Build it. Own it. Shape the future of connectivity.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/connectivity-rebuilt"},"/blog/how-universidad-del-sagrado-corazón-is-building-a-more-resilient-network-with-helium":{"version":1,"title":"How Universidad del Sagrado Corazón Is Building a More Resilient Network with Helium - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["How Universidad del Sagrado Corazón Is Building a More Resilient Network with Helium"],"h2":["Puerto Rico’s oldest educational project is paving the way the future of decentralized wireless connectivity.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":["Modernizing the Campus with Helium","Redundancy for Stronger Networks","Why Helium’s Partnership Makes Sense","A More Resilient Future"],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Tuesday, March 11, 2025","Puerto Rico’s oldest educational project is paving the way the future of decentralized wireless connectivity.","The historic tree-lined courtyards and century-old architecture of Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico have been the backdrop for generations of students. Today, Sagrado’s leaders are blending tradition and stewardship with innovation, building a decentralized, community-powered network to keep the campus and its neighbors connected–and resilient.","Since 1880, Sagrado has been a cultural and educational institution in San Juan’s Santurce district. Chief Information Officer Raúl Rosado Pagán joined the staff three years ago with a clear mandate to update the campus’ technology. With 15 years of experience in IT and finance, Rosado Pagán understood the importance of reliable infrastructure. His first project at Sagrado was a $3 million modernization effort, replacing outdated systems and laying the groundwork for a more robust network.","“We finished the infrastructure refresh last year,” he said. “Now, we’re able to leverage it, not just for the students, but for the broader community around us.”","The modernization effort included bringing the university online to the Helium Network via Helium Plus. The integration extends reliable coverage throughout classrooms, dorms, and open green spaces across the campus. Coverage also extends throughout the neighborhood, serving homes, small businesses and even a local sports complex.","By partnering with Helium, Sagrado turned its upgraded wireless campus infrastructure into a resilient, community-wide connectivity layer.","In Puerto Rico, building redundancy — that is, backup systems or duplicate connections that ensure continuity when one component fails — into network connectivity projects is critical. The island’s long hurricane season, fragile power grid, and limited fiber footprint make continuous connectivity challenging. When Hurricane Maria hit in 2017, many communities lost access to the internet and cellular networks for months.","Redundancy requires building multiple layers of connectivity. That’s why Sagrado is setting up multiple fiber lines into the university, as well as deploying Helium Hotspots and implementing Helium Plus across the campus. By offloading carrier data through decentralized Hotspots, the university gains an additional pathway for connectivity when traditional systems falter.","As an active member of the Puerto Rican Blockchain Association, Rosado Pagán was already familiar with Helium.","“I’m a tech guy, and I like to test new technology,” he said. “I saw that Helium had good reception through partnerships with major carriers, and I immediately understood its potential.”","His personal curiosity soon evolved into a campus-wide initiative. Today, Sagrado is one of the first higher-education institutions in Puerto Rico to integrate Helium Plus at scale. It’s an early proof-point for how blockchain-based infrastructure can deliver real-world value.","“Understanding blockchain or how network rewards work is hard, and people are skeptical,” he said. “But when the asset [HNT] is tied directly to the utility of the network, and users see that, it changes everything. When the cloud was new, people didn’t trust it. Now it’s everywhere. I see the same pattern with decentralized connectivity. It’s only a matter of time before it becomes the norm.”","Sagrado’s IT team continues to expand Helium access across outdoor spaces and community hubs, using the university’s upgraded infrastructure as a platform for experimentation.","“We’re building for the long term,” Rosado Pagán said. “For us, it’s not just about technology. It’s about service. The more we can keep our students and neighbors connected, the stronger the whole community becomes.”","Email us today to bring Helium to your campus or large venue.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/how-universidad-del-sagrado-corazón-is-building-a-more-resilient-network-with-helium"},"/blog/introducing-helium-plus-monetize-existing-wi-fi-and-join-the-people’s-network":{"version":1,"title":"Introducing Helium Plus: Monetize Existing Wi-Fi and Join The People’s Network - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Introducing Helium Plus: Monetize Existing Wi-Fi and Join The People’s Network"],"h2":["Monetize Existing Wi-Fi, and join the People's Network","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":["A Breakthrough in Network Participation","Powering a New Era of Connectivity"],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Thursday, July 31, 2025","The next evolution in decentralized wireless is here. Today we’re excited to announce the official launch of Helium Plus, a transformative new service that empowers any business or public Wi-Fi provider to join and expand Helium coverage. This feature is set to accelerate the growth of reliable, community-driven wireless coverage across the U.S. and Mexico while creating monetization opportunities for participants.","Until now, contributing to the people-powered Helium Network involved setting up physical Hotspots. Helium Plus revolutionizes this process. Now, businesses can seamlessly integrate into the Helium Network with their existing infrastructure. From local cafes to large shopping malls, any venue can now begin providing coverage through a simple, self-served software upgrade to their current Wi-Fi routers. This pivotal update removes the need to purchase any additional hardware, dramatically lowering the barrier to entry.","The Helium Network is experiencing explosive growth, and Helium Plus is set to accelerate it. In June, the network paid out over $300K+ for carrier offload data, with rewards growing a staggering 20% month-over-month. Now, Helium Plus invites hundreds of thousands of new contributors to share in this success, earning HNT or USD simply by using their existing Wi-Fi.","“Helium Plus represents a major leap forward in how businesses can contribute to the Helium Network,” said Mario Di Dio, Network General Manager at Helium. “It offers instant, low-cost wireless integration, reducing infrastructure costs while creating new revenue streams and improving connectivity. The simplicity of our process is key to unlocking the full potential of this expansion.”","Beyond creating value for individual businesses, Helium Plus is designed to supercharge the entire Helium ecosystem. It directly fuels the Helium Network’s powerful carrier offload capability, which enables major U.S. carriers to route customer data through The People’s Network, enhancing their coverage and cutting operational costs.","The results already speak for themselves: since launching carrier offload, the Helium Network has soared past one million daily users, proving its remarkable scale.","Helium Plus represents the next major leap in building a stronger, more accessible network for everyone.","Join the new wireless economy and learn how Helium Plus can create value for your business by visiting the Helium website.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/introducing-helium-plus-monetize-existing-wi-fi-and-join-the-people’s-network"},"/blog/helium-network-brings-wi-fi-connectivity-to-at-t-at-thousands-of-locations-across-america":{"version":1,"title":"Helium Network Brings Wi-Fi Connectivity to AT&T at Thousands of Locations Across America - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Helium Network Brings Wi-Fi Connectivity to AT&T at Thousands of Locations Across America"],"h2":["A collaboration that brings the Helium Network to AT&T subscribers across America","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Thursday, April 24, 2025","Helium announced a collaboration that brings the Helium Network to AT&T subscribers across America. Through this collaboration, AT&T subscribers can connect to Helium’s community-built Wi-Fi network, expanding coverage and enhancing mobile service. As a part of their broader wireless convergence strategy, AT&T becomes an early adopter to utilize a set of real-time coverage quality metrics pioneered by Helium.","The Helium Network is a wireless network built by individuals and businesses who deploy “mini cell towers,” known as Hotspots, and earn rewards for helping to build the network and providing coverage to nearby devices. This decentralized, people-powered model is a robust, cost-efficient alternative to traditional wireless infrastructure. With over 62,000 Hotspots deployed and a rapidly growing presence in the U.S. and Mexico, Helium continues to expand affordable and accessible connectivity.","This strategic integration with the Helium Network marks a pivotal advancement in wireless convergence technology and enables Wi-Fi authentication via Passpoint, incorporating a decentralized infrastructure alongside traditional networks and leveraging Helium’s coverage and quality metrics to make subscriber experience data visible, transparent, and actionable.","This forward-thinking approach sets the industry standard for the wireless convergence experience and overcomes conventional connectivity challenges in locations where traditional networks face significant economic and physical hurdles. The result is a more robust, seamless experience for mobile users wherever they are located.","Helium has already demonstrated the effectiveness of its decentralized model, with more than 800,000 daily users benefitting from its network. AT&T joins major carriers such as Telefónica’s Movistar and other Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) that are leveraging the Helium Network to enhance coverage and reduce operational costs.","This news follows major milestones for Helium, including Helium Mobile’s launch of the Zero Plan, the first free phone plan in the U.S., and a partnership with Telefónica’s Movistar, which is expanding the Helium Network to over two million users in Mexico. This announcement further underscores the growing role of decentralized wireless networks in the future of mobile communications.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/helium-network-brings-wi-fi-connectivity-to-at-t-at-thousands-of-locations-across-america"},"/blog/redondobeachhelium":{"version":1,"title":"City of Redondo Beach Leverages Helium Network to Solve Waterfront Connectivity Dead Zone - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["City of Redondo Beach Leverages Helium Network to Solve Waterfront Connectivity Dead Zone"],"h2":["Helium is now connecting over 2,000 daily users from major US carriers using their existing Wi-Fi infrastructure.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":["About Helium","About Talus Communications"],"p":["Tuesday, June 23, 2026","Helium, a leader in decentralized wireless communications, today announced that the City of Redondo Beach is now powered by the Helium Network.","The pier, which draws more than 1 million visitors annually, has had near-zero cellular coverage for years. High-rise condominiums between the waterfront and nearby carrier towers block signals before they reach sea level, leaving residents, concertgoers, and emergency responders without reliable service.","Talus Communications (Talus) solved this problem by enabling Helium on the city's existing Wi-Fi infrastructure and activating carrier offload, a feature major US carriers use when cell towers are congested or out of reach. This brought Helium coverage to the waterfront with no new hardware and no capital expenditure from the city. Now, more than 2,000 users per day are staying connected through the Helium Network at the city’s waterfront pier district, with that number increasing as summer foot traffic builds.","“The pier has been a connectivity blind spot for as long as I've been in this role; we knew it was a problem, but we couldn't justify the cost of fixing it the traditional way via a DAS or other means,” said Mike Cook, Redondo Beach IT Director. “Carrier offload through the Helium Network gave us a path we hadn't considered. No new infrastructure, no impact on our capital budget, and the coverage data we're seeing three months in has exceeded everything we projected. I am thrilled, and we have already expanded the service at the police department basement, and are considering future sites.\"","The Helium Network is built by individuals and businesses like Talus, who deploy Hotspots and update existing enterprise Wi-Fi systems in high-foot-traffic areas. With limited budgets, the ability to provide cellular service without the expense of complex DAS, or pLTE Neutral Host solutions and use existing infrastructure is a winner.","“Access to reliable connectivity shouldn't depend on whether a carrier thinks your neighborhood, campus, or city is profitable enough to invest in,” said Mario Di Dio, CEO of Helium. “For years, the Redondo Beach pier was a dead zone, not because the technology to fix it didn't exist, but because the business case for traditional infrastructure didn’t pencil out. Helium changes that equation. What Talus delivered here is exactly the future we're building toward.”","“We've deployed connectivity solutions across dozens of cities, but Redondo Beach stands out because the impact was immediate and visible,\" said Steve Rovarino, President at Talus Communications. “When you can walk onto a pier that's been a dead zone for years and watch your phone connect without touching a setting, that's the power of the Helium Network in action. We did this by working with what the city already had, without the need for additional or expensive spectrum licensing agreements. That's the model we want to bring everywhere.”","Talus has successfully deployed several Helium-enabled networks for cities, colleges, universities, K-12 districts and expanding into medical centers.","Helium’s model is now growing internationally, most recently through a partnership with Mambo Wi-Fi that will serve as a foundation for network expansion across Brazil with more than 40,000 access points across the country. Currently, the Helium Network has nearly 140,000 Hotspots deployed in the United States, with more than 3 million daily users utilizing the people-powered network for affordable, reliable connectivity.","View Helium coverage","Helium is on a mission to revolutionize connectivity by empowering people to help build a more open, secure, and affordable network. Through its global decentralized network, anyone can create wireless coverage for their community and earn rewards for participating. Together, we’re shaping a future where affordable connectivity and access to information are within reach for everyone, everywhere.","Learn More","Get in Touch","Talus is a wireless broadband service provider that supports the unique needs of clients, specializing in wireless broadband solutions including WIFI, Point-to-Point, Point-to-Multipoint and private LTE solutions. Talus can assist in the design, architecture and implementation of your unique network needs. Learn more at taluscommunications.com.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/redondobeachhelium"},"/blog/faster-connectivity-for-fast-food-restaurants":{"version":1,"title":"Faster connectivity for Fast Food Restaurants - Helium","description":"Learn how 34 national fast-food brands use the Helium Network to deliver reliable connectivity, support loyalty apps, and close coverage gaps cost-effectively.","keywords":"","h1":["Faster connectivity for Fast Food Restaurants"],"h2":["How 34 national brands are meeting the demand for high-quality connectivity on the Helium Network.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":["Why Franchises and Chain Restaurants Need Wi-Fi Offload","The restaurant footprint, by the numbers","The efficiency model","The footprint model","What this means for quick-serve restaurants","Get started"],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Friday, July 17, 2026","Fast food has become one of the most connected industries in retail: Quick-service and chain restaurants rely on apps and connected customers to run loyalty programs, deploy incentives, and keep customers coming back for seconds. Helium Network data shows what that shift looks like in practice, and how national chains can close the coverage gap without breaking the bank.","The modern fast food order starts on a phone. Customers browse the menu in an app, claim the app-only deal, pay through a loyalty account, and pull up a QR code at the counter. Chains spent the past decade engineering this shift because digital orders are larger, faster to fulfill, and richer in customer data. The strategy worked. It also created a dependency that most locations were never built to support: every one of those transactions requires a fast and responsive internet connection inside the restaurant.","That is harder than it sounds. Over the course of a lunch rush, a quick-service restaurant cycles a steady stream of connected devices through a few thousand square feet, often in an area where the nearest cell tower is also serving a highway, a shopping center, and a dozen drive-thrus at once. Macro networks were designed for broad coverage, not for indoor demand that spikes twice a day in the same buildings. When the network chokes, the app spins, the order stalls, and the line backs up. For a business model built on throughput, weak indoor connectivity cuts straight into revenue.","This is where Helium Carrier Offload comes in: Helium routes mobile traffic from congested cellular networks onto local wireless coverage inside the venue. And on the Helium Network, the fast food industry is already demonstrating what that looks like at national scale.","The Helium Network now includes coverage at 34 national restaurant chains, spanning nearly 2,500 deployment sites across the United States. In a single month, those sites offloaded more than 274,000 GB of mobile data. The roster reads like a beloved mall food court: Taco Bell, KFC, McDonald's, Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, Sonic, Dunkin', Chipotle, Wendy's, and dozens more.","Two patterns stand out in the data, and they point to two different ways a deployment can succeed.","There are only 34 Chick-fil-A locations on the network, but they lead every other chain in total traffic. Each site offloaded roughly 1,100 GB over the month, about 38 GB every day, and roughly ten times the restaurant-wide average. Taken together, Chick-fil-A's monthly total works out to the equivalent of streaming around 6,400 movies in HD.The explanation is not mysterious. Chick-fil-A runs some of the busiest per-store volumes in the industry, and busy stores full of app-ordering customers generate offload demand to match.","Smaller footprints show the same effect. Five Guys has six locations on the network, but each one averages 525 GB for the month. Raising Cane's shows seven locations at 361 GB apiece. A single well-placed deployment in a high-traffic restaurant can carry meaningful traffic on its own.","At the other end of the spectrum, KFC and Taco Bell have the two largest deployments in the dataset, at 586 and 539 locations respectively. Scale compounds: a portfolio of ordinary locations, aggregated, produces traffic volumes that rival the busiest single-brand deployments.","Category patterns reinforce the point. Coffee shops, where customers linger, average around 218 GB per site for the month, roughly double the quick-service average, where the business model discourages dwell time. Starbucks alone moved 32,774 GB across 90 locations.","For franchise operators and the people who manage their networks, the appeal is practical. Offload coverage works alongside the connectivity a restaurant already has, and it addresses the problems that now sit closest to revenue, like mobile orders that complete on the first try, loyalty apps that load at the counter, and payment systems that do not stall during the rush. Helium offers restaurants a cashflow positive path to the connectivity they need to operate in 2026, without a construction project or a carrier contract negotiation.","The data suggests the industry has noticed. Thirty-four national chains did not end up on the same network by coincidence. Fast food went digital years ago; its connectivity is catching up now, one location at a time.","Do you have access to a fast food restaurant's wireless network?","Get Started","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/faster-connectivity-for-fast-food-restaurants"},"/blog/hola-mexico-movistar-is-bringing-2-million-subscribers-to-the-helium-network":{"version":1,"title":"Hola, Mexico: Movistar is Bringing 2 Million Subscribers to the Helium Network - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Hola, Mexico: Movistar is Bringing 2 Million Subscribers to the Helium Network"],"h2":["Movistar, Telefónica’s mobile flagship carrier in Mexico, and Helium have partnered to bring the Helium Network to 2.3 million subscribers in Mexico!","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Thursday, February 20, 2025","Movistar, Telefónica’s mobile flagship carrier in Mexico, and Helium have partnered to bring the Helium Network to 2.3 million subscribers in Mexico! Through this partnership, Movistar subscribers will be able to seamlessly connect their phones to the decentralized people-built network where it’s available, accelerating the mass adoption of the Helium Network across the country.","The Helium Network’s decentralized model provides wireless coverage differently than traditional cell towers. Helium relies on individual-owned Hotspots, which act as mini cell towers that can be set up in shops, venues, or businesses. The Hotspots provide coverage to nearby devices while rewarding owners with crypto for every byte of data their Hotspot transfers.","Pilot programs in 2024 proved the concept with Movistar customers: the carrier was able to offload mobile data traffic onto the Helium Network, and Movistar subscribers enjoyed seamless connectivity to the Helium Network.","Helium is quickly becoming a go-to solution for reliable, flexible connectivity, with its novel approach to deploying Hotspots and working with existing cell towers to offload data. And now, Movistar customers in Mexico can be part of this Network. Check out Movistar target sites in the Helium World Explorer here.","During the initial phase, Helium Mobile Hotspots can be purchased by emailing us at mexico@helium.com. In the coming months, it will be possible to purchase Hotspots on the Helium website and in Movistar retail stores and online channels.","As part of this collaboration, Movistar will also be able to resell Helium coverage to other local MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators), enabling others in the industry to utilize a network owned and operated by the people.","The Movistar and Helium partnership isn’t about deploying fancy new tech for the sake of it, or papering over the problem of increasing data demands. It’s about democratizing access to wireless coverage with a product that works:","More Hotspots mean more coverage, especially in areas where traditional towers don’t reach.","Decentralized networks reduce infrastructure costs, helping keep prices affordable.","Individuals who set up Hotspots earn crypto rewards, creating a win-win for businesses and consumers.","Together, Helium and Movistar are flipping traditional telco on its head with a bold new business model that leverages network infrastructure powered by individuals rather than centrally-operated cell towers. This model slashes overhead infrastructure costs for carriers like Movistar while improving coverage for consumers. As a major player in the telco industry, Movistar’s embrace of this model demonstrates the potential of decentralized wireless and puts Mexico at the forefront of cutting-edge technology.","“Helium is on a mission to make connectivity more affordable for the masses,” said Mario Di Dio, GM of Network at Helium. “Collaborating with Movistar amplifies our vision of decentralized connectivity, inviting millions of their subscribers to use the Helium Network.”","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hola-mexico-movistar-is-bringing-2-million-subscribers-to-the-helium-network"},"/blog/5-places-to-visit-and-enjoy-free-helium-coverage":{"version":1,"title":"5 Places to Visit and Enjoy Free Helium Coverage - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["5 Places to Visit and Enjoy Free Helium Coverage"],"h2":["The Helium Network connects nearly 2.5 million people daily, from the Las Vegas Strip to Miami Beach. Here are five spots across the U.S. where you can experience free Helium coverage in action.","🌴 Florida","🗽 New York","3. 🎬 Los Angeles","4. 🏛️ Washington DC","5. 🎰 Las Vegas","How to Check Coverage Before You Go","Pro Tips for Enjoying Helium Coverage","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Thursday, January 15, 2026","Why visit: Helium Mobile launched its first pilot city right here in Miami-Dade County, and the community has been building coverage ever since. From the Art Deco architecture of South Beach to the vibrant street murals of Wynwood, Miami's most iconic neighborhoods are blanketed with Helium coverage perfect for sharing your adventures in real-time.","Best spots to check out:","BrickellMiami's financial hub and hottest dining scene serves up 2,947 average daily users with seamless connectivity. View on Helium World","Bayfront ParkDowntown Miami's waterfront gem connects 2,846 daily users enjoying concerts, festivals, and bay views. View on Helium World","The Square, Key BiscayneThis upscale village center near the beach sees 673 average daily users connecting to Helium. View on Helium World","Wynwood WallsThe world-famous outdoor street art museum connects 699 daily users while they snap photos of incredible murals. View on Helium World","Why visit: With over 8,000 Hotspots across New York State, the city that never sleeps also never loses connection. NYC's legendary neighborhoods from the bright lights of Broadway to the sandy boardwalks of Coney Island are powered by people-built coverage. Whether you're catching a show, exploring world-class museums, or hunting for the perfect slice, Helium keeps you connected.","Times SquareThe Crossroads of the World serves an incredible 6,190 average daily users, one of the highest-traffic locations anywhere. View on Helium World","Coney IslandBrooklyn's legendary beach and amusement park connects 1,567 daily users enjoying Nathan's Famous. View on Helium World","Greenwich VillageThe historic heart of NYC's bohemian culture connects 1,734 daily users exploring jazz clubs and cafes. View on Helium World","Jackson HeightsQueens' most diverse neighborhood serves 1,616 daily users discovering incredible global cuisine. View on Helium World","Resorts World Casino NYCQueens' premier entertainment destination serves 1,196 daily users with reliable indoor coverage.View on Helium World","Why visit: From the star-studded sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard to the free-spirited boardwalk of Venice Beach, LA's most Instagrammable spots are connected by Helium, so you can livestream your celebrity sighting or sunset skate session without missing a beat.","South Figueroa Street (DTLA)The heart of Downtown LA serves 1,438 average daily users near LA Live, Staples Center, and the Convention Center. View on Helium World","Hollywood Walk of FameHunt for your favorite celebrity stars while 704 daily users stay connected on this iconic stretch. View on Helium World","Venice BeachSkateboarders, street performers, and beach lovers. 686 daily users enjoy free connectivity on this legendary boardwalk. View on Helium World","Santa Monica PierThe iconic pier and Pacific Park connect 488 daily users catching sunsets over the Pacific. View on Helium World","Why visit: The nation's capital isn't just home to monuments and museums, it's also home to thriving Helium coverage. DC's vibrant neighborhoods like Logan Circle and 14th Street are packed with trendy restaurants, rooftop bars, and boutique shops, all while Helium keeps visitors and locals connected as they explore the city's rich history and buzzing nightlife.","Logan CircleThis historic neighborhood serves 1,231 daily users enjoying Victorian architecture, local cafes, and the beautiful circle park. View on Helium World","14th Street CorridorDC's hottest dining and nightlife strip connects 508 average daily users hopping between cocktail bars and farm-to-table restaurants. View on Helium World","Why visit: What happens in Vegas... gets shared on social media, and Helium makes sure you've got the coverage to do it. From the dazzling casino floors to the iconic Fremont Street Experience, Las Vegas's 24/7 entertainment district is powered by people-built coverage. Whether you're watching the Bellagio fountains or exploring downtown's vintage neon, stay connected to share every moment.","Fremont Street ExperienceDowntown's legendary LED canopy attracts 4,272 average daily users, one of our busiest locations nationwide. View on Helium World","Downtown SummerlinThis upscale outdoor shopping district serves 2,223 daily users enjoying restaurants, shops, and entertainment. View on Helium World","The Las Vegas StripNear MGM Grand, 716 daily users stay connected while exploring the world's most famous boulevard. View on Helium World","Before visiting any location, use Helium World at world.helium.com to see real-time Network coverage. The map shows active Hotspot locations, coverage zones, signal strength, and real usage data. With 120K+ Hotspots deployed across the country, chances are your favorite neighborhood is already covered.","Enable WiFi on your phone while you explore. Helium Mobile subscribers and supported carrier users will automatically connect to Helium Hotspots.","Indoor Hotspots are often deployed in cafes, restaurants, and shops. Great for grabbing a coffee and staying connected.","Check for updates. The Network grows daily as builders deploy new Hotspots in neighborhoods everywhere.","The Helium Network is the world's largest decentralized wireless network, putting connectivity in the hands of communities rather than big telcos. With coverage nationwide and growing every day, there's never been a better time to experience the people-powered Network.","Want to deploy a Helium Hotspot in your neighborhood? Join thousands of builders earning HNT rewards while providing coverage to your community. Get started at helium.com.","Have a favorite Helium-covered spot we missed? Share it with the community on X and tag @helium!","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/5-places-to-visit-and-enjoy-free-helium-coverage"},"/blog/hotel-casino-wifi-monetization":{"version":1,"title":"Hotels and Casinos Are Partnering with Helium To Get More Utility Out Of Their Existing Wi-Fi Networks - Helium","description":"See how hotels and casinos use the Helium Network to monetize existing Wi‑Fi, improve indoor mobile coverage, and support connected guests.","keywords":"","h1":["Hotels and Casinos Are Partnering with Helium To Get More Utility Out Of Their Existing Wi-Fi Networks"],"h2":["The Hospitality industry spent two decades building robust Wi-Fi coverage. Now carriers need that coverage, and 30 days of Helium Network data show its value.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Friday, July 31, 2026","Hotels run enterprise-grade Wi-Fi for a simple reason: guests demand reliable connectivity, the kind of connectivity carriers can’t provide indoors. Cellular signal weakens at the building exterior, and concrete floors, coated glass, and rooms far from the nearest cell tower make it worse. So hotels built and paid for their own coverage, justified it on guest satisfaction, and treated it as a cost of doing business.","That is starting to change. Data from 243 hospitality properties actively offloading on the Helium Network shows a consistent pattern: the properties moving the most mobile data are the ones where guests stay longest and where the surrounding cellular network is weakest.","Carriers Need What Hotels Already Have","The indoor coverage problem hotels solved for themselves is the one carriers still can't. No carrier can justify building tower capacity for the inside of every hotel in America, and the cost of traditional in-building systems like distributed antenna systems (DAS) can be difficult for all but the largest properties to absorb. Yet nearly every hotel already runs what carriers need: a wireless network built for density, sized for full occupancy, and designed to reach every room.","Carrier offload is how cellular providers solve this connectivity problem. When a cellular network is congested or out of range, major carriers route mobile traffic onto local wireless coverage instead. Through the Helium Network, a hotel's existing Wi-Fi can carry that traffic, and carriers pay for the capacity. The signal hotels built as an amenity is the signal carriers now need, and there is finally a direct way to supply it.","Offload is invisible to the guest. It happens automatically, with no captive portal, no login screen, and no password, so it serves every device on the property, including the many guests who never join hotel Wi-Fi.","Bringing a property onto the network is largely a software step: through Helium Plus, a hotel's existing access points are enabled for offload with no new hardware. The data bears this out. Eight of the ten highest-throughput hospitality properties in this 30-day window are conversions of equipment the properties already owned.","The Footprint, By The NumbersHospitality is already one of the largest venue categories on the network. Over a single 30-day window, 243 hotels, resorts, casinos, motels, inns and other lodging properties handled 15,174,689 connection sessions and offloaded 211,547 GB of mobile data, nearly 212 terabytes. The properties range from full-service flagships in Manhattan and Chicago to beachfront hotels in Miami Beach, airport hotels in Atlanta and SeaTac, and roadside inns across the Dakotas.","What a full-property conversion looks like","Bar Harbor, Maine, the gateway to Acadia National Park, has famously strained coverage in summer. There, the Holiday Inn Resort enabled 81 existing access points for Helium coverage. The Days Inn next door adds about 15 more.","Together, the two turned one stretch of Eden Street into one of the busiest hospitality corridors on the network during peak season, offloading nearly 12,000 GB in the 30-day window. No trenching, no towers, no construction. The equipment was already installed.","Casinos and resorts push the pattern to its limit","If hotels show that hours indoors drive offload, casinos and resorts are the extreme case. Guests don't just sleep there; they spend whole days on the property, and the networks were sized for it.","The concentration is striking. Casino properties generated more than a fifth of all hospitality traffic from about three percent of the venues.","The busiest is Resorts World New York City in Queens, offloading the equivalent of streaming roughly 6,000 movies in HD. Prairie Band Casino & Resort in Kansas posted nearly 784,000 sessions. Hutchinson Shores Resort & Spa on Florida's Treasure Coast logged 480,000 sessions and over 4,100 GB.","A side hustle for an asset hotels already ownNone of this asks hoteliers to buy anything. The network already exists, justified years ago on guest experience, and that remains its first job: streaming that works in every room, mobile keys that open on the first tap, a signal that holds up at full occupancy.","Offload gives the same network a second job, absorbing the indoor mobile demand carriers can't serve, without construction or a new draw on capital budgets.","Hospitality solved indoor connectivity for itself because no one else would. Nearly 212 terabytes in a month suggests that solution has become infrastructure the wider mobile ecosystem needs. The properties turning it on are simply the first to be paid for what their networks could already do.","Bring your hospitality properties onto the Helium Network today.","Get Started","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hotel-casino-wifi-monetization"},"/blog/clarity_act":{"version":1,"title":"Helium’s Case for Clear Rules with the CLARITY Act  - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Helium’s Case for Clear Rules with the CLARITY Act"],"h2":["How regulatory ambiguity stalls innovation–and American businesses are paying the price","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Monday, July 20, 2026","On Friday, July 17, I testified before the House Financial Services Committee's Subcommittee on Digital Assets in support of the CLARITY Act, the market structure bill that would draw a clear line between digital assets that function as investments and tokens that power working networks.","My argument was clear: without that line, we are setting this industry and companies like Helium up to fail, and not in the abstract. The failure lands on the builders trying to comply, on the communities served by what they build, and on the country's ability to keep innovators building here. The Helium Network’s recent history shows exactly what is at stake.","Crypto mythology vs. crypto reality","When people hear \"crypto company,\" many picture a Wild West: speculation, volatility, all risk and no accountability. Here is what I asked the Committee to picture instead: wireless access points, deployed in communities across America, providing real coverage to real people every day.","The Helium Network is a physical telecommunications infrastructure. Over 140,000 active Hotspots, deployed not by a carrier spending billions on capex, but by individuals, businesses, and property operators who installed equipment and connected it to the internet service they already had. Nova Labs operates in all fifty states, with an FCC authorization for interstate and international service. Carriers, including T-Mobile and AT&T, use the network to carry traffic for millions of their subscribers daily.","Blockchain is the technology that makes this coordination possible. It verifies that each Hotspot is actually delivering the coverage it claims, without a central intermediary checking the work. And the token, HNT, is the incentive mechanism: when a Hotspot moves data for a carrier subscriber, the protocol automatically compensates the deployer based on measured volume and quality of service. No company decides who gets paid. The protocol does.","The network has already proven itself","I did not ask the Committee to take this on faith. The record is verified fact.","When Hurricane Helene knocked out 80 percent of cell towers in the hardest-hit parts of western North Carolina, portable Helium beacons running on satellite backhaul reconnected tens of thousands of devices for residents and first responders.","In Redondo Beach, CA, a waterfront district that draws more than a million visitors a year had gone without usable cellular coverage for years; the city enabled Helium offload on its existing Wi-Fi equipment and now connects more than 2,000 daily users, with no new hardware and no new capital spending.","During Mardi Gras in New Orleans, community-deployed infrastructure absorbed a 550 percent cellular traffic surge. The pattern repeats at Super Bowl weekends and small-town festivals alike: when the cellular network is congested, broken, or blocked, the community-built layer carries the load.","That same infrastructure is now the basis for work I described to the Committee on two public policy problems: improving indoor 911 location accuracy, where less than one percent of wireless emergency calls today deliver a dispatchable address, and bringing affordable broadband to public housing, where the Helium Foundation is in early conversations with housing authorities in California and pursuing pilot opportunities with NYCHA.","The cost of ambiguity","Nova Labs knows the cost of unclear rules firsthand. In January 2025, the SEC sued the company, alleging that selling functional wireless hardware that distributed tokens for verified network service was an unregistered securities offering. Three months later, the Commission dismissed every one of its digital asset claims with prejudice.","Nothing about our network or our conduct changed in those three months. What changed was how the same rules were being read. When the legality of a working telecommunications network depends on who is doing the reading, that is not a regulatory framework. It is a coin flip. And while the coin was in the air, we spent years and significant resources defending claims the government ultimately abandoned. Those were resources not spent deploying Hotspots, building emergency communications capability, or expanding broadband access.","We could (barely) afford that fight. Most early-stage builders cannot. Ambiguity does not protect investors; it filters out compliant companies while leaving bad actors (who never intended to comply) untouched. The public image of this industry is understandably a Wild West because regulation remains ambiguous: the builders who want rules cannot get them, and the ones who ignore rules do not need them.","What CLARITY would fix","The CLARITY Act addresses this directly. It would treat programmatic, automatic token distributions, the kind that compensate Helium deployers for verified service delivery, as what they are: payment for work performed on a functional network, not an investment contract. It assigns oversight accordingly, and it makes that treatment a matter of statute rather than something a company has to establish through litigation.","The House passed this bill a year ago. The infrastructure it would protect is already built, already serving millions of people, and already proving that communities can own the networks they rely on.","Clear rules and smart regulation will only protect and strengthen this industry, not hinder it.","Sarah Aberg is Chief Legal Officer of Nova Labs, the company that created and supports the Helium Network.","Watch the Full Testimony","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/clarity_act"},"/blog/talus-communications":{"version":1,"title":"Quality Connectivity from Piers to Sports Arenas - Helium","description":"See how Talus Communications uses the Helium Network to deliver reliable mobile coverage for piers, sports arenas, and other high-traffic venues.","keywords":"","h1":["Quality Connectivity from Piers to Sports Arenas"],"h2":["Talus Communications LLC builds their business by building connectivity in major venues.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":["From wireless integrator to Helium deployer","Schools: building coverage in steel and stucco","Proving it at Redondo Beach"],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Thursday, August 6, 2026","For years, the answer to bad indoor cell coverage was a distributed antenna system (DAS), provided someone was willing to pay for it. Increasingly, no one is. Industry reporting shows major US carriers pulling back from funding venue DAS outside the very largest stadiums and event venues, leaving mid-sized cities, school districts, and regional venues to solve coverage problems on their own dime.","And yet, that gap is where Talus Communications has built its business.","Talus is a wireless broadband service provider with a long track record designing and deploying pLTE and Wi-Fi networks for cities, colleges, universities, and K-12 districts. Partnering with Helium makes their pitch straightforward: rather than installing new radio infrastructure, Talus enables the Helium Network using Wi-Fi equipment a facility already owns, and then activates carrier offload, the feature major US carriers use when their towers are congested or out of reach. Coverage improves without a construction project and without touching the client's capital budget.","Talus's next deployment is in Texas at a major stadium in the Dallas area, where the infield has no cell service on the field itself. With a major concert scheduled for September, Wi-Fi equipment is slated for installation in August, with carrier offload enabled ahead of the event.","Education has become the most active vertical for Talus Communications. Modern construction standards, while providing energy-efficient buildings, suffer from poor indoor cell service.  At Mendocino Community College, a rural community college where steel building materials block what little carrier signal reaches the area, five campuses  are now live on the Helium Network.","Talus is working with multiple school districts in California, where pilot buildings are already carrying live traffic from major US carriers. More buildings are coming online as the school year starts. A district in Oklahoma has committed to 12 sites and a major school district in Utah has roughly 21 sites in the works. Both districts plan to be deployed late summer.","These deployment sites face similar obstacles: public institutions with tight budgets, building materials that block outdoor signal, and no realistic path to a traditional DAS.","Redondo Beach’s pier draws more than 1 million visitors a year, but sits in a coverage dead zone created by high-rise condominiums that blocked carrier signal from reaching the beach. Talus enabled Helium on the city's existing Wi-Fi infrastructure. Today more than 2,000 users per day connect through the Helium Network at the waterfront.","The city has since extended service to the police department basement, a single access point covering a space that previously had no cell service at all, and parking garages are in planning for the city's 2027 fiscal year. Deployments like this tend to have a domino effect: solve one dead zone, and the next one gets easier to justify.","Talus's growth suggests the market for indoor coverage has split in two. The largest venues will keep getting carrier-funded infrastructure via DAS. Everyone else in the mid-market needs a model that works with the infrastructure and budgets they already have. Talus is demonstrating that the Helium Network can be that model, one city hall, campus, and stadium at a time.","Learn more about how to bring Wi-Fi offload and indoor connectivity to major venues and reach out to business@helium.com.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/talus-communications"},"/blog/why-mnos-hate-wi-fi":{"version":1,"title":"Why MNOs Hate Wi-Fi - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Why MNOs Hate Wi-Fi"],"h2":["And what the Helium Network is doing about it","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Wednesday, October 23, 2024","After 20+ years of Wi-Fi offload trials, we are still waiting for the rise of a global, successful, and scalable platform for mobile carriers, also known as Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), to use carrier Wi-Fi. Many platforms have made promises, but none have succeeded in their quest for market leadership.","As many Helium followers will know, Nova Labs have been venturing into the world of Carrier Offload. In doing so, we are learning what carriers need through our discussions with potential offload carrier partners and in the working groups of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), where Nova Labs is an active member.","Carrier Offload enables cellular service providers to enhance their subscriber connectivity by using partner networks when appropriate. This approach allows carriers to optimize their network resources and improve the overall user experience while maintaining a high quality of service.","Visibility Leads to Comfort","The carriers we’ve spoken with operate well-engineered and highly capable networks, so they want to ensure that, if they do offload a subscriber connection, they are moving that subscriber to a network that will improve the user’s experience. Past carrier offload networks did not provide MNOs with any visibility into the quality of the Wi-Fi network. This left MNOs guessing, or hoping, that when they offloaded a subscriber connection to Wi-Fi, the quality would improve.","But that is going to change. Nova Labs is developing a health metrics engine in our APs that will give carrier offload partners a real-time view of the Wi-Fi network’s health at the time of offload. This blog will be a two-part series. The first part covers the backhaul metrics reported by Helium radios. The second part will go in-depth into the radio interface metrics being implemented. Together, the backhaul and radio interface metrics will provide unprecedented visibility to offload partners about the network they are offloading into.","Backhaul Metrics: The Foundation of a Good User Experience","The Helium offload network’s Wi-Fi APs connect to the internet via a backhaul connection. These backhaul connections are provided by a community of radio hosts. Helium Hotspots periodically measure the quality of the backhaul connection to ensure hosts provide a connection capable of delivering a quality user experience. Helium blockchain sets quality thresholds that affect the rewards earned by radio hosts, incentivizing the use of high-quality backhaul connections.","The backhaul metrics collected include the following:","All of these metrics are collected and presented on a publicly accessible dashboard and can also be shared with offload partners in real time. Here is a snapshot of the current health of the fleet:","As shown, about 90% of the community deployed Hotspots are measuring “Acceptable” for backhaul speeds and latency.","With real-time backhaul metrics during offload decisions, Helium Network partners can make informed decisions about whether or not to offload a customer connection, eliminating guesswork.","Stay tuned for the second installment of this blog series, where we will detail the metrics available on the air interface.","If you are interested in exploring the best carrier offload in the industry, send us an email at business@nova-labs.com.","By Joey Padden, VP of Network Architecture at Nova Labs","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/why-mnos-hate-wi-fi"},"/blog/fcc-direct-to-device-satellite-spectrum":{"version":1,"title":"The End of the Macro Monopoly? - Helium","description":"The FCC’s docket 26-169 proposes letting unlicensed devices connect directly to satellites. Why layered connectivity and standardized QoS metrics win either way.","keywords":"","h1":["The End of the Macro Monopoly?"],"h2":["FCC Opens Unlicensed Spectrum for Satellite D2D: What It Means","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":["What is FCC docket 26-169?","What is direct-to-device (D2D) satellite connectivity?","Does satellite D2D compete with Wi-Fi offload?"],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":["Why the FCC’s direct-to-device proposal matters","Wi-Fi Offload already works at carrier scale","The Coexistence Problem: which network should serve the device in real time?","Why this validates the Helium Network’s bet","Further Notes"],"h6":[],"p":["Monday, August 10, 2026","The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted unanimously on August 6,2026, to explore whether unlicensed consumer devices, like your phone or your Wi-Fi router, should be allowed to communicate directly with satellites (ET Docket No. 26-169 “Unleashing Unlicensed Spectrum for Direct-to-Device”). If adopted, the proposal would open up roughly 200 megahertz of unlicensed spectrum across the 2.4 GHz and 5.8 Ghz bands for direct-to-device (D2D) satellite use.","This makes it clear that regulators are asking the same question the telecom industry is grappling with: does connectivity have to keep coming from macro towers, the big cell sites that anchor traditional carrier networks?","Helium’s answer? No. And the Helium Network has the data to prove it. Reliable connectivity comes from layers working together, not one access technology carrying the whole load. The Helium Network was built on that model. Now regulators are catching up to it.","Unlicensed spectrum","Carriers spend billions at FCC auctions for their own private slice of the airwaves. The 2021 C-band auction alone raised more than $81 Billion (FCC Auction 107). Unlicensed spectrum is not owned by anyone. It’s open for public use. It's already what runs your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The FCC is exploring whether this open, no-cost spectrum should also let your phone or router talk directly to satellites.","The FCC proposal joins a growing pattern that includes Starlink's direct-to-device ambitions, small-cells and neutral-host networks, and the continued adoption of carrier-grade Wi-Fi offload at scale. Regulators and markets alike are confronting the same question: what if connectivity didn't have to come from ever-more macro towers?","Direct-to-device satellite signal alone won't answer that question, but the pattern is the point: multiple industries are independently building around the same gap in macro coverage.The implicit consensus forming across the industry is that more towers from carriers simply doesn't scale to where demand is going. And the money agrees: industry projections show declining capital investment on infrastructure. Connectivity will be delivered by a portfolio of layers, not a single architecture.","Chances are your phone has connected to the Helium Network and you didn’t even know it. Tens of thousands of existing Helium sites carry live commercial carrier traffic today. Major US carriers connect their subscribers through the Helium Network’s distributed, incentive-driven Wi-Fi infrastructure. Why? Because macro towers can’t deliver reliable indoor cellular coverage, especially in crowded spaces.","Mobile devices are going to be faced with various networks simultaneously. This includes macro cellular, satellite signal, indoor Wi-Fi, and potentially a legacy distributed antenna system (DAS) or small cell all at the same time. Which connection is going to serve the device best?","Distributed Antenna System (DAS)","A network of small indoor antennas that relay a carrier's signal throughout a building, used to fix indoor coverage gaps that a single outdoor tower can't reach.","Signal strength only measures one network at a time, and static priority lists (fixed rules like “always prefer Wi-Fi”) can't adjust to real conditions. Neither approach can compare quality across network types in the moment, so devices end up connected to what's available, not what performs best. That's poor quality of service, or what we call “QoS.”Poor quality of service (QoS) in actionEver been in an airport, seen full bars of service on your phone, but still not been able to get data? That's the problem in action. Your phone measured signal strength, saw four bars, and stopped looking. What it didn't measure was the hundred other phones on that same tower fighting for the same congested spectrum. Full bars told you the connection existed. It said nothing about whether the connection could actually carry your data.The best solution is to dynamically route traffic based on measured QoS, per network, per moment.","Measuring Wi-Fi quality of service and making it actionable for carriers is exactly what  Helium offers today. As your device’s best connection increasingly jumps between networks, the ability to measure and steer that connection only becomes more valuable.","Whatever the FCC decides on direct-to-device satellite, connectivity is already converging across layers. A growing number of networks is not a solution for reliable connectivity. It's whether your device works across all of them. Helium is already doing what's necessary to make that happen: measuring quality metrics and steering across networks in real time.","ET Docket No. 26-169, \"Unleashing Unlicensed Spectrum for Direct-to-Device,\" is a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking the FCC adopted unanimously on August 6, 2026. It proposes allowing unlicensed devices operating in the 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz bands to communicate directly with FCC-authorized satellites on a non-interference basis. Initial public comments are due 30 days after Federal Register publication, with replies due at 60 days.","Direct-to-device means a standard phone or consumer device connects to a satellite without any special hardware, extending coverage to places no terrestrial network reaches.","They serve different physics. Satellite reaches outdoor, remote, and rural gaps. Carrier Wi-Fi offload serves dense indoor demand that neither macro towers nor satellites can carry. A converged network needs both, plus standardized quality of service (QoS) metrics to steer between them.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/fcc-direct-to-device-satellite-spectrum"},"/blog/earnings-safety-net":{"version":1,"title":"New Earnings Safety Net for Helium Deployers  - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["New Earnings Safety Net for Helium Deployers"],"h2":["Introducing a minimum per-gigabyte earn rate for venue partners and deployers to protect against market downturns.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Friday, August 7, 2026","The Helium community recently passed HIP-149 and it’s one of the more comprehensive economic changes for the Network, including a key benefit for anyone deploying coverage: the notion of an earnings safety net.","A new target minimum for what deployers earn","Every deployment starts with someone who knows where connectivity falls short, whether the venue owner, the MSP, or an operator already running Wi-Fi on site. Deployers fill in the gaps where carriers can't build economically or feasibly. Carriers pay to route their subscriber traffic through Helium coverage, and deployers earn HNT tied to what carriers pay. Now, with the changes from HIP-149, there's an established rate with a target minimum regardless of how HNT moves in the market.","Today, based on current commercial rates, $0.05 is the target minimum a Helium deployer earns per gigabyte of data their sites carry, even if the price of HNT price drops. For new venues and sites, that floor turns earnings ambiguity into a number that can be planned against.","Here’s how the safety net works:","Deployers are paid from the Network’s regular daily rewards, which means the dollar value of those rewards moves with the HNT price. When the value falls below the $0.05 target, the protocol makes up the difference. It doesn’t print extra HNT, it re-emits a portion of the HNT that was already burned to pay for that same data, so the safety net adds nothing to the total supply. It simply recycles what the Network already earned.","On the upside, earnings climb with HNT's price all the way up to three times what carriers pay, $0.30/GB today. Beyond that, the excess flows to the Network's long-term stakers. Earnings maintain alignment to carrier revenue and that is what makes deployment income something a business can actually underwrite,  with both ends of the range rising as commercial rates improve.","A few things worth knowing:","At the price of HNT as of the publishing of this article, this floor is already the thing keeping Helium deployer earnings up. Without it, earnings would be lower right now.","The minimum earnings are a target, not a bulletproof guarantee. If HNT's price drops fast, the top-up can lag for a week or two until enough recently-burned HNT is available to fully cover it.","The floor and the math behind it sit outside anyone's administrative discretion. Changing them takes a full Helium community vote.","Before HIP-149, deployers were earning closer to $0.03 per gigabyte. The protocol raises that minimum and ties it to USD, ensuring stability regardless of where HNT trades. On other offload networks, earnings are diluted as the network grows: more participants splitting the same pool means each deployer's share shrinks over time. Helium's floor works the opposite way, holding the minimum steady per gigabyte no matter how large the Network gets. As a reminder, Helium Plus deployers choose how they get paid: HNT, USDC, or USD.","The bottom line, HIP-149 adds an important safety net earning rate for venue partners and deployers of the Helium Network to ensure stability of coverage and stronger economics for the people building this Network.","To learn more about onboarding venues to the Helium Network, email the team at business@helium.com.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/earnings-safety-net"},"/blog/spacex-satellite-indoor-connectivity":{"version":1,"title":"What SpaceX’s Wireless Plan Gets Right, and the 80% It Leaves Out - Helium","description":"SpaceX Wireless Plan: What It Gets Right and the 80% It Leaves Out | Helium\"; meta description: \"SpaceX is pairing Starlink direct-to-cell satellites with terrestrial small cells. But 80% of mobile data is used indoors, where satellites can't reach. How carrier-grade Wi-Fi offload fills the gap.","keywords":"","h1":["What SpaceX’s Wireless Plan Gets Right, and the 80% It Leaves Out"],"h2":["Direct-to-cell satellite coverage closes gaps towers never could, across oceans, rural areas, and supply lines. But 80% of mobile data lives indoors, where signals from space can fail.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":["Satellite is reaching more places than ever, but it’s not a silver bullet for quality service","Wi-Fi offload through Helium builds visibility into user experience","Helium poised to work hand in hand with satellite operators"],"h6":[],"p":["Friday, August 7, 2026","SpaceX is entering the US wireless market. After acquiring 65Mhz of spectrum, the company says it will pair its satellite network with distributed wireless infrastructure on Earth. Sound familiar?","As Fierce Network recently reported, SpaceX is planning a terrestrial network of small cellular base stations installed at homes and businesses, alongside existing Starlink dishes. Starlink could provide backhaul to those sites, while satellites extend coverage beyond them.","Satellite connectivity, specifically direct-to-cell, is the most efficient answer wireless has ever had for places where macro towers were never economical or viable, like rural areas, shipping and trucking routes, and oceans. Satellite brings a new network type to the wireless ecosystem, working alongside macro towers, not necessarily replacing them.","But the reality is that indoor connectivity, where those macro towers fall short, isn’t completely solved by satellites either. About 70-80% of mobile traffic lives indoors and satellite operators have been clear about this limitation. Most service disclaimers note “outdoors with a clear view of the sky” or that coverage “may not be available inside buildings.”","Think about a hospital during a mass-casualty event. Emergency rooms, ICUs, and imaging suites sit behind steel, concrete, and shielded walls. No satellite constellation reaches a physician pulling up a patient's chart three floors down, no matter how many are in orbit. That gap has never been a space problem. It's a building problem, and it gets solved from inside the building.","That's the layer satellites were never built to reach, and it's exactly where Wi-Fi offload and distributed indoor infrastructure with Helium take over.","Satellite has been a breakthrough in delivering coverage to remote zones, but rarely can it get through the front door. Most mobile data is consumed in airports, arenas, conference centers, campuses, buildings, or other dense commercial areas. So, indoor coverage has to confront:(1) Congestion that erodes service. In other words, lots of people trying to get signal at the same time; and (2) Inaccessible or inadequate Wi-Fi networks.","The truth is, there’s no single type of network that solves all wireless connectivity. The carrier playbook is shifting from who builds and owns the biggest network to who can intelligently and efficiently use the best available network.","This is what Helium has brought to the industry.","Wi-Fi is already everywhere, especially inside the buildings where cellular networks often struggle most. The problem is that carriers couldn't trust it, because from their point of view, it was a black box. Historically, carriers had no controls to optimize subscribers' experience on indoor Wi-Fi and no way to enforce a standard for quality of service.","Enter Helium, which built the tools to ensure seamless interoperability and quality of experience for mobile operators handing off their subscribers, whether from satellites in the sky, macro towers on the ground, or Wi-Fi networks indoors.","InteroperabilityInteroperability means different systems, devices, or networks can work together and exchange information smoothly, even if they weren't built by the same company or using the same standards.","Carriers that once relied solely on macro towers to deliver coverage are now routing subscribers onto Helium's decentralized Wi-Fi Network. Helium can do the same for a satellite-first carrier.","See Helium coverage","The Helium Network produces more than 50 million quality of service (QoS) metrics every day across tens of thousands of Helium sites, which give any operator (spectrum or satellite- based) the indoor visibility and control they need to trust complementary Wi-Fi networks. Integrated standards like Passpoint make the connections automatic and secure.","The same architecture that’s already carrying millions of users for MNOs and MVNOs on Helium today can extend to satellite. Whether a subscriber arrives from a macro network or from orbit, the indoor handoff lands on infrastructure carriers can trust and is already deployed, or as SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell put it, “as you need it.”","For most of wireless history, scale came from owning more infrastructure. The next generation will achieve scale by making more infrastructure usable. SpaceX is moving in that direction.","With the Helium model already built, validated, and growing, satellite’s formal arrival only hardens the decentralized approach and the need for better visibility, control, and seamless handoffs between networks. For now, we say keep the extra-terrestrial developments coming and Helium is ready to take you inside.","To learn more, reach out to business@helium.com.","Contact the Team","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/spacex-satellite-indoor-connectivity"},"/blog/helium-plus-no-fee-program":{"version":1,"title":"Helium Plus Deployer Fees Are Now Zero - Helium","description":"Helium Plus deployers now keep 100% of what they earn. No connect fees on USD, USDC, or HNT payouts. See how the No Fee Program works.","keywords":"","h1":["Helium Plus Deployer Fees Are Now Zero"],"h2":["A new No Fee Program means no connect fees for deployers of Helium Plus","A New Opportunity for Every Helium Plus Deployer","Premium Support for Deployers Carrying the Most Traffic","Join Helium Plus at No Cost","FAQs","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":["Wi-Fi Offload, Explained","What is a deployer?","What is a channel partner?","How long does the No Fee Program last?"],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Tuesday, August 18, 2026","It’s notoriously expensive to build mobile networks the traditional way. Carriers buy spectrum and build towers; they make the decisions about where coverage deserves to get built and whether it justifies the cost.","The Helium Network is built differently: businesses and Wi-Fi network operators are empowered to use infrastructure they already own to add coverage where people actually need it. And they are rewarded for the mobile traffic their networks carry.","Now, through the new No Fee Program, deployers of Helium Plus will not pay any connect fees on the rewards they earn from the Helium Network. Whether you're paid in USD, USDC, or HNT, if you’re a Helium Plus deployer, you keep what you earn through the program.","Helium Plus lets businesses use Wi-Fi infrastructure they already own to provide mobile coverage, without buying new hardware.","Once enabled, the existing Wi-Fi network can carry offload traffic from participating carriers. The Helium Plus deployer gets paid for the data their venue transfers.","Wi-Fi offload (carrier offload) is how mobile carriers move data traffic from cellular networks onto Wi-Fi, especially indoors, where most mobile data is used and cellular signal struggles most. It relieves network congestion, cuts infrastructure spending, and gives people faster indoor connectivity. Helium delivers Wi-Fi offload through its people-built, decentralized Network, not a single-company build-out.","That means hotels, neighborhoods, quick service and fast food restaurants, stadiums and other venues can get more value out of infrastructure they are already paying for.","The program applies to every Helium Plus deployer on the Network, whether they just started deploying today or have been deploying for years. HNT, USD and USDC payouts carry the same zero fee, with no minimum volume of data transferred through the site required and no premium for getting paid in a stable currency. If you’re a Helium Plus deployer, the change will show up automatically in your payout.","Premium Support is also free right now for the deployers carrying the most traffic. If your Helium Plus deployment carries more than 1000 GB per month, you'll get priority access to the Helium Plus core team: faster answers, hands-on help, and a direct line when something needs attention.","Lastly, all one-time onboarding fees are currently waived. Interested venues or interested deployers should reach out directly to business@helium.com to learn more.","This is a bet on the people doing the work. Coverage doesn’t magically appear because some carrier approved a budget and gave it a green light. It’s built site by site, by deployers who bring more venues online. Helium Plus is the tool and the reward mechanism that makes sure the full value of that expansion goes to the folks making it happen.","The change is effective Tuesday, August 18, 2026 and runs until further notice. If you're already deploying Helium Plus, you'll see it in your next payout.","A deployer is someone who creates coverage on the Helium Network, either through hardware (Hotspots) or through Helium Plus (venues with existing Wi-Fi infrastructure enabled for the Helium Network).","Through the No Fee Program, Helium Plus deployers pay no connect fees, which are the ongoing fees for staying active on the Helium Network. The one-time onboarding fee is waived as well.","A channel partner is someone who introduces a venue to Helium. In exchange for that referral, the channel partner receives a percentage of the earnings on the data transferred through that Helium Plus deployment. The No Fee Program does not change or reduce channel partner earnings.","The No Fee Program for Helium Plus deployers goes into effect on August 18, 2026, and lasts until further notice.","Learn more","To learn more or start deploying today, email business@helium.com.","The No Fee Program does not alter any other terms of your agreement with Nova Labs, Inc., dba Helium. Deployers and venues remain subject to their existing agreement in full.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/helium-plus-no-fee-program"},"/blog/nirvana-tech-helium-network":{"version":1,"title":"Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage. - Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h2":["How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":["Solving Indoor Connectivity for Business that Can’t","The Subscription Model","How The Network Proved It's Value","What’s Next for Nirvana"],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Sunday, August 30, 2026","Nirvana Tech’s first customer was a diner: the CEO was eating lunch with his family when the owner stopped by his table. He pointed out to the owner that the food was great, but the cell service was nonexistent.","The owner knew. The restaurant was in an old cinder-block building, which was excellent at being a building and considerably less useful at letting a cellular signal through.","The future founder of Nirvana Tech had an idea, and installed Helium-powered equipment behind the register. More than two years later, it’s still there.","“It fixed their problem,” he said.","Not exactly the beginning of a telecom empire. But it gave him and Nirvana Tech’s other co-founder and CTO a useful insight: there were a lot of buildings out there with bad indoor coverage and very few realistic ways to fix it.","You’ve heard us say it before, and we’ll say it again: Indoor connectivity is telco’s most persistent problem that no one wants to solve.","A distributed antenna system runs $500,000 to $1 million or more per building, and involves major construction. Ceilings open up, cable gets pulled, and the work takes months.","The onerous task of bringing indoor connectivity to these buildings that were never designed for it usually falls on the businesses operating inside of them. Nirvana works with businesses like senior living communities and hospitals— businesses that work with sensitive populations and cannot split their focus between day-to-day operations and troubleshooting connectivity that should just work.","These businesses would be set back by the drilling, dust, and a crew working the corridors for weeks or months at a time. More often than not, they are forced to learn to live with spotty, poor connectivity.","Rather than selling a deployment into the Helium Network, Nirvana sells a subscription.","Nirvana Connect provides fully-managed indoor connectivity for a monthly fee. They handle the RF survey, the circuits, the equipment, the installation, the firmware updates, the replacements when something fails, and the monitoring after everyone has gone home. Its NirvanaIQ platform gives the customer a single view of coverage and support activity across every location they own. If a site degrades at 2 a.m., that is Nirvana's problem, not the facility director's.","Customers don’t necessarily need to buy new hardware. Nirvana can layer over infrastructure already in place, or manage the equipment and connectivity needed to support it. Customers do not need to understand how the offload works or care where the coverage comes from. They buy coverage, and they get an invoice in dollars.","That means they are not entering a revenue share agreement that asks a venue operator to become a participant in someone else's network economics. For venue operators who just want their internet to work so that they can get back to work, it’s a life saver. A monthly service fee is a line item they already know how to approve. By layering coverage over existing wireless infrastructure rather than building a DAS from scratch, Nirvana puts the cost at roughly 90% below a comparable DAS build.","The coverage is enabled by the wireless network the building already paid for. No new cabling, no construction, and multiple carriers supported, so residents, staff, families, and vendors all benefit without anyone changing a phone or a plan.","Commonwealth Senior Living operates 35 communities. Nirvana Connect is live at 33 of them.","The deployment went the way good deployments go: successfully and with no disruption. Residents stopped dropping calls, staff stayed connected moving through the buildings, and vendors could work unimpeded. Quickly, reliable indoor coverage was no longer a missing feature. It was just there, keeping things running.","When a hardware refresh took the largest community offline, the complaints arrived immediately, from every direction at once.","When Nirvana Connect went down during the hardware refresh, we heard about it immediately, from residents, from staff, from every direction,” said Ralf Mann, Commonwealth's Director of IT. “That's when we realized how well it had been running in the background all along. Coverage had become part of what everyone expected the building to deliver”\"","Nirvana turned that incident into its own customer story. The outage was the strongest use case they had.","“It's hard for customers to quantify the solution until it stops working,” the Nirvana Tech CEO said.","Nirvana is moving into food distribution, where heavy warehouse construction materials also block cellular signals, and where a workforce running handhelds and scanners cannot afford dead zones. Larger venues are on the list too.","It’s a different industry, but the proposition is the same. Nirvana doesn’t ask its customers to become telecom operators. It gives them a solution to a problem they couldn’t solve on their own, at a reasonable price.","Which, for a service that started with a little piece of equipment behind a diner register, is a pretty good business to have found.","To learn more about using Helium to solve persistent indoor connectivity problems, reach out to business@helium.com.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/nirvana-tech-helium-network"},"/blog/celina-texas-helium":{"version":1,"title":"America's Fastest-Growing City Chooses Helium to Keep Its Residents Connected - Helium","description":"Celina, TX, America's fastest-growing city, turned Wi-Fi it already owns into carrier-grade mobile coverage on the Helium Network, with no new towers required.","keywords":"","h1":["America's Fastest-Growing City Chooses Helium to Keep Its Residents Connected"],"h2":["Celina, Texas is adding neighborhoods faster than anyone can build cell towers. So the city turned Wi-Fi already running across its public buildings and downtown into carrier-grade coverage, live on the Helium Network today.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Friday, August 28, 2026","The fastest-growing city in America isn't Austin, Miami, or Phoenix. It's Celina, Texas, which added more than 12,700 residents in a single year, more than Seattle or Houston added, growing 24.6 percent. That's the highest growth rate of any U.S. city with more than 20,000 residents, according to Census Bureau estimates released in May.","Rapid growth has been the norm here for years. New schools, new fire stations, and new neighborhoods keep going up where pastures used to be.","Cell towers can rarely keep pace. A new tower means planning, permitting, and millions in capital, on timelines measured in years. For a city growing the way Celina is, waiting for a carrier to decide a zip code is populated enough to justify new infrastructure is not a real option.","And even a well-resourced tower struggles to push signal through modern building materials. Coverage that looks solid on a map can disappear the moment someone walks indoors.","That's why Celina, whose tagline is fittingly \"Life Connected,\" worked with Helium to enable carrier offload on Wi-Fi already running across the city: public buildings like the Celina Public Library and the Ralph O'Dell Senior Center, alongside participating businesses downtown. When residents and visitors come within range, their phones connect automatically through the Helium Network. No app, no sign-in, no settings.","The network is already carrying about 100 GB per day across Celina, with additional locations scheduled to come online this fall.","\"Celina is growing faster than any city in America, and our infrastructure has to work as hard as our community does,\" said Amy Alexander, Director of Information Technology for the City of Celina. \"Helium let us turn Wi-Fi we already own into coverage our residents' phones use automatically, without spending a dollar on new towers.\"","\"When a city grows 25 percent in a year, demand for connectivity doesn't wait for new towers to be permitted and built,\" said Mario Di Dio, CEO of Helium. \"Celina proves there's a faster path. The infrastructure cities already own can carry carrier traffic today. This is what the future of coverage looks like in high-growth America.\"","Celina joins a growing roster of cities, including Redondo Beach, CA, New Orleans, LA, and Sausalito, CA, using the Helium Network to close coverage gaps without new capital spend. The Helium Network now spans more than 42,000 locations across the U.S., serving more than 2.5 million people every day.","Want to bring Helium to your city or township? Reach out to business@helium.com.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/celina-texas-helium"},"/blog/industrial-shifts-aren’t-linear-a-metrics-update":{"version":1,"title":"Industrial Shifts Aren’t Linear: A Metrics Update - Helium","description":"Industrial Shifts Aren’t Linear: A Metrics Update | by Mario Di Dio","keywords":"","h1":["Industrial Shifts Aren’t Linear: A Metrics Update"],"h2":["Using Wi-Fi for carrier offload is a paradigm shift. Our metrics will fluctuate while we win it.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Friday, August 28, 2026","By Mario Di Dio, CEO","On Monday, a pilot with a third-party integrator that routes traffic from a US carrier will disconnect, and our daily active user count will drop. I'd rather you hear that from me directly than notice it on a dashboard.","Why? The reality is, \"you can't trust Wi-Fi,\" is a line I’ve heard for over a dozen years in telecom. For some seasoned industry executives, licensed spectrum is the real network and Wi-Fi is the fallback, an afterthought behind small cells and macro towers. If you dig in, you’ll get the same answers that are a decade old: no visibility, no control, no way to guarantee the experience once a subscriber leaves the cellular network.","That skepticism was fair in the past. Until Helium, Wi-Fi offload was effectively a black box. Carriers handed subscribers to access points they couldn't see, couldn't measure, and couldn't manage. Sessions dropped, service suffered, and the carrier took the blame.","Meanwhile, Helium is proving this old perspective wrong every day, giving carriers the visibility, control, and enforceable standards they were told Wi-Fi could never offer. We’ve seen this before in other infrastructure shifts. Twenty years ago, no serious enterprise would run its business on someone else's servers; then the “Cloud” quietly became the default and workloads shifted to the more efficient model. Wi-Fi offload is inevitable for similar cost and efficiency reasons.","To be clear, this news doesn't change any other carrier relationship. What this disconnect reflects is the industry belief I just described. Some decision makers in the telecom world still treat Wi-Fi as second tier no matter what the field data says. The technical achievements and undeniable growth of Helium will be the thing that wins skeptics over in the long run. AT&T, Telefónica, and other carriers in the pipeline already understand this and we’re excited to continue growing those relationships. Wi-Fi closes gaps at the last mile, serves businesses and communities the traditional model can’t, and does it at a fraction of the cost.","Helium delivers cellular-grade discipline applied to Wi-Fi, the precise things whose absence created the mistrust in the first place. It works and carriers across multiple countries are paying to route subscribers through the Helium Network every day.","Paradigm shifts in this industry aren't linear. Some operators will move early and quickly, some will hold to the old view until the data leaves no room for it. Our headline numbers will ebb and flow with each of those decisions. What I watch is whether Helium is working more each quarter and strengthening the case for trusting Wi-Fi. It does. Somewhere in a network planning meeting, someone is still saying Wi-Fi can't be trusted. That sentence will get harder to say, and we’ll prove it to the industry every quarter.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/industrial-shifts-aren’t-linear-a-metrics-update"},"/blog/back-to-school-and-back-online":{"version":1,"title":"Back to school and back online - Helium","description":"When students returned to Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, carrier traffic on campus jumped 5×, showing how Helium helps universities handle back-to-school connectivity demand.","keywords":"","h1":["Back to school and back online"],"h2":["With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":["The State Of Coverage for K-12 Schools","The Campus Footprint, By the Numbers","What's Next For Education"],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Wednesday, September 9, 2026","Every campus absorbs that back-to-school spike in August. Summer ends, students arrive en masse, and the network strain is obvious on day one. On most campuses the surge lands on cell towers that were already struggling to push signal through concrete, steel, and modern glass, which is why coverage that looks fine on a map disappears the moment someone walks into a lecture hall.","More than 30 K-12 school systems across 17 states have now onboarded networks with Helium, and the newest ones are lighting up in step with the school calendar.","Mustang Public Schools, in the western Oklahoma City metro, brought 14 sites onto the Helium Network in the two weeks before classes started, including Mustang High School and the elementary schools. On Friday, August 28, the high school alone served 2,067 people and moved 636 GB, its biggest day on the network yet.","Mustang's sites went from zero traffic at the beginning of August to more than 3.4 TB across roughly 65,000 sessions by month's end. The traffic keeps school hours: weekdays run between 65 and 240 GB, and most weekend days drop to a few GB.","In California, Folsom Cordova Unified came online over the summer and more than quintupled its July volume in August.","A school district is public infrastructure, and this is the same playbook Celina, Texas is running citywide. America's fastest-growing city turned Wi-Fi it already owned, at the public library, the senior center, and downtown, into carrier coverage that now moves about 100 GB a day. A district's network is often the largest publicly owned network in town, and like Celina's, it was bought and paid for long before anyone thought of it as coverage. Behind the districts already live, more are onboarded and working toward activation now. Fontana Unified and Kern County schools in California came aboard this spring through the same deployer that built Mustang, new school agreements were added as recently as this month in Indiana and South Florida, and a longer roster has onboarded through partners, from Santee School District outside San Diego to Zapata County ISD in Texas to Newport News Public Schools in Virginia.","The Helium Network now includes coverage at more than 30 college and university venues across 14 states, Washington, DC, and Mexico. The roster runs from Morehouse College in Atlanta, where the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel is among the busiest education venues on the network, to Holmes Community College in Mississippi.","Campus demand keeps a unique schedule. In April, mid-semester, those venues moved 3.8 TB of mobile data across more than 270,000 connection sessions, averaging just under 3,800 users a day. In July, with students gone, the same venues averaged just under 2,000 users and moved 2.2 TB. Demand that doubles every September is exactly what a fixed construction project handles badly and a Wi-Fi network the school already owns handles for free.","For anyone weighing a campus deployment, the timing is unusually good. Helium just published over 5,000 new expansion zones covering universities, colleges, and K-12 schools across the country. An expansion zone marks an area where a carrier has told us it wants Helium coverage, and a deployment inside a published zone moves faster through the offload approval process than one outside it.","Zone in World.Helium","Location","Size","Texas A&M University","College Station, TX","22.5 km²","Michigan State University","East Lansing, MI","20.9 km²","UC Davis","Davis, CA","15.6 km²","Liberty University","Lynchburg, VA","13.6 km²","University of Alaska Fairbanks","Fairbanks, AK","12.5 km²","With the recent approval and passing of HIP 150, sites in expansion zones can apply for a higher reward multiplier. Anyone considering a campus build should read HIP 150 before deciding where to point their effort.","Want to bring Helium to a college campus near you? Email business@helium.com.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/back-to-school-and-back-online"},"/blog/waimea-valley-helium-network":{"version":1,"title":"Tasa Hawai'i connects Waimea Valley to the Helium Network - Helium","description":"Tasa Hawai‘i brings reliable mobile coverage to Waimea Valley’s conservation landscape without new cell towers or disruptive construction.","keywords":"","h1":["Tasa Hawai'i connects Waimea Valley to the Helium Network"],"h2":["Tasa Hawai’i brings coverage to one of the most ecologically sensitive sites on the islands, and keeps it running in a challenging environment.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":["Tasa’s Background","Building Through the Valley","The New State Of Coverage in Waimea Valley","From Waimea Valley to Waimea Bay"],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Saturday, August 29, 2026","Waimea Valley is an intact ahupuaʻa, the traditional Hawaiian land division running from mountain to sea. It stretches across 1,800 acres of Oahu’s North Shore, and its botanical gardens contain more than 5,000 species. At the end of a three-quarter mile trail is a 45-foot waterfall.","Waimea Valley welcomes more than a thousand visitors a day. Until Tasa Hawai‘i began its deployment, once they passed through the gates, they largely lost cell service.","The Valley stayed disconnected for good reason. Building a tower or small-cell site inside a conservation easement owned by a Native Hawaiian nonprofit would mean permitting, environmental and cultural review, extensive construction and millions of dollars in capital. All of that would have to be justified by traffic generated primarily from visitors who spend a few hours in the valley and then leave.","For a traditional carrier, the economics of building out reliable coverage in a culturally and environmentally sensitive location like Waimea Valley never made much sense.","That’s where Tasa Hawai’i stepped in.","Tasa Hawai’i is a two-man operation led by Viktor Savchenko and William Todd. Savchenko evaluates locations , engineers the network architecture, and designs deployments, while William manages materials, logistics, and much of the physical work required to turn those designs into functioning networks.","Savchenko started his career as a data center technician in New York City before moving into systems administration, network engineering and fiber optic deployments. He also wrote the MikroTik conversion guide distributed by Helium to help other deployers convert and configure compatible MikroTik equipment for use with the Helium Network.","As a network engineer, he looks for places where Helium’s technology and a different infrastructure model can solve connectivity problems that conventional cellular deployments cannot economically address. Waimea Valley was exactly that kind of place.","And Waimea is not Tasa’s only large-scale deployment.","Tasa has also launched a massive carrier-offload site in downtown Honolulu that now offloads nearly 600 GB of cellular data every day, demonstrating that the same underlying model can work at the opposite end of the spectrum: from a remote, environmentally sensitive valley with virtually no cellular coverage to one of Hawai‘i’s densest urban environments.","Savchenko’s first step at Waimea Valley was to bring fiber deep into the property, along the length of the tail. The deployment reused approximately 30-year-old conduit wherever possible and transitioned between underground and above-ground infrastructure where the terrain required it.","Because the Valley is culturally and environmentally protected, the network could not simply be installed wherever it was easiest. Infrastructure had to be carefully integrated into the existing environment and made as unobtrusive as possible.","The initial build took roughly three months. Much of it happened after visitors had gone home for the day, sometimes stretching past midnight.","Maintaining infrastructure in Waimea Valley can be just as challenging. The area receives substantial rainfall, and tropical weather, moisture, and vegetation continually test equipment, fiber, cabling, and supporting infrastructure.","Over the past couple of years, Tasa’s infrastructure in the Valley has suffered significant damage on multiple occasions, including damage caused by severe weather and storms, and even an incident of vandalism.","Each time, the network has been repaired and brought back online.","Tasa keeps going because Waimea Valley and its visitors have come to rely on the connectivity the network provides. What began as an effort to bring service into an area with little usable cellular coverage has become part of the Valley’s everyday infrastructure.","Today, 14 active Helium Plus access points provide coverage along the route from the visitor center to the falls.","“We transitioned from Helium Hotspot deployments to Helium Plus across all of our coverage areas and that allowed us to get a significant boost by tailoring the operation according to the location's needs,” Savchenko said.","That tailoring included one feature aimed at the valley's geography. Coverage runs three-quarters of a mile from the visitor center to the falls, so a visitor's phone passes through several access points on the walk, and the network hands it off between them without dropping the connection.","\"One reason we are fully migrated to Helium Plus is to offer 802.11r fast transition, to allow visitors and employees to roam without interruption,\" Savchenko said. \"That's very important to have on such a stretch of the property.\"","Waimea Valley sees about 1,200 to 1,300 visitors on a typical day.","Over a recent 30-day period, an average of roughly 1,206 devices per day connected through the Valley’s network, meaning the network is touching a substantial portion of the Valley’s daily visitor population.","When Savchenko began deploying on the Helium Network, much of the opportunity centered on carrier offload. Waimea Valley presented almost the inverse problem. There was very little cellular coverage available to offload in the first place.","Instead, Savchenko saw an opportunity to bring connectivity to a popular part of the island that traditional network economics had effectively written off.","Carriers have to prioritize where they invest, and those decisions naturally favor locations  with enough population density, traffic and revenue to justify the cost of construction. Locations that fall below that threshold can remain underserved for years. State parks, fairgrounds, stretches of coastline, or hiking trails, coastlines and other outdoor recreational locations are common examples.","Waimea Valley did not need a multimillion-dollar cellular tower.","It needed fiber, months of difficult field work, carefully placed wireless infrastructure, and a network model that made building there economically possible.","The latest expansion brings Tasa’s network closer than ever to Waimea Bay, one of the most recognizable surfing locations in the world.","Waimea Bay is also home to The Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational, the legendary big-wave surfing event that can draw enormous crowds to the North Shore when conditions are right.","If Tasa can bring the same model beyond the Valley and toward the beach, the project could demonstrate something much larger than a successful deployment at a single attraction: that community-scale wireless infrastructure can bring meaningful cellular connectivity to places where building another traditional tower is impractical, uneconomical, or simply not an option.","Learn more about deploying Helium Plus and reach out to business@helium.com.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/waimea-valley-helium-network"},"/blog/hip-150-higher-earnings":{"version":1,"title":"HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues - Helium","description":"HIP 150 reshapes Helium Network rewards by paying more for mobile data delivered in high-demand venues, from airports to stadiums.","keywords":"","h1":["HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues"],"h2":["Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":["When the peak is what you build for, the peak should set the rate.","Why a smart multiplier beats a new rate","What the community voted for","How Multipliers Are Granted","Raising the floor for everyone","Paying What Data Is Worth"],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Friday, September 4, 2026","A gigabyte served inside a packed airport costs far more to deliver than a gigabyte at a small coffee shop, and carriers pay more for it. Now, so does the Helium Network.","High-value venues have to support huge numbers of devices at once and absorb sudden spikes in traffic. And when service degrades inside an airport or stadium, the carrier has a much bigger problem than it does at a typical retail location. These venues cost more to build and more to run, and carriers are willing to pay more for them. As of August 31st, following the community’s approval of  HIP-150, the Helium Network now supports a per-site reward multiplier.","Traffic at these venues doesn't spread out across the week. It arrives in a few hours and can drop off just as fast. During the week of August 24, 2026, the average day across high-value locations carried about eight times what the median day did. One concert venue on the network took in roughly a third of an entire month's rewarded data on a single night in June.","A premium deployment is built for the crowd it has to be ready for, whether or not that crowd shows up. Now the network pays for being ready.","A per-site reward multiplier increases what the network pays for a site’s rewardable data and what its deployer earns from it. It is calculated from the base rate, so when the HNT goes up, every qualified premium site changes with it. If HNT goes down, the target minimum, or floor, kicks in and Deployer earnings are protected.","The pay rate is set by Nova Labs under HIP-143, and it is $0.10 per GB as of writing. A site carrying a multiplier of 5 earns $0.50 per GB against it, and the carrier pays $0.50 for that same data.","Because Carriers pay more for data in strategic venues, the multiplier funds itself. The carrier pays more for the hardest traffic, the kind that arrives all at once in a packed venue, and that additional amount flows straight to the site that earned it, without reducing earnings elsewhere on the Network.","The vote established the rules of the program and capped the multiplier at 5. Individual locations and their multipliers are handled commercially by Nova Labs based on expected traffic, deployment characteristics, and commercial agreement..","Nova Labs expects to open the program with two starting multipliers between 1 and 5, and to negotiate individual locations anywhere between 1 and the maximum based on expected traffic, density and concurrency, backhaul and radio setup, deployment complexity, and strategic value. Any venue groupings or example values are illustrations of how the program is expected to open. Final multipliers will depend on the individual location and commercial agreement.","Multipliers are determined by Nova Labs after receiving indications of interest from carriers. Carriers determine which sites are more valuable than others, and Nova Labs takes that information and uses it to determine appropriate multipliers. Sites that are enrolled in Helium Plus are eligible to apply for multipliers. As described in HIP-150, multipliers, even once granted, are not guaranteed and are subject to reduction on thirty days’ notice or immediate revocation for program abuse.  Simply asserting a location, changing its venue type, or generating traffic does not qualify a site, and if someone abuses the program, Nova Labs has an agreement it can enforce.","Every multiplier is issued as a publicly recorded ticket, so anyone can audit which sites carry one. Multipliers apply prospectively, never retroactively. And if an access point is relocated, its multiplier returns to 1 until the new location is approved through the application process.","In addition to the multiplier, HIP-150 passed two other measures:","One raises the target minimum from 50% to 80% of what payers paid for rewardable data, for one year from activation, with a second year pre-authorized by the same vote. This is a target minimum under earnings, and it applies to rewardable data across the network, not only at premium sites. The pay rate and the target minimum are different numbers. The pay rate is the per-gigabyte price used to calculate data credit burns for rewardable data, $0.10 as of this writing. The target minimum is the share of that amount a deployer is targeted to receive. HIP-150 raises that share from 50% to 80%, moving the target minimum from $0.05 per GB to $0.08 per GB.","The second is what pays for it. Nova Labs contributes its Service Provider Rewards to the Deployer Data Reward Pool, growing that pool from 70% to 94%. That contribution is what makes the higher target minimum possible without taking it from anywhere else.","Carriers pay differently for different venues, and the network's economics now reflect it. Premium sites are paid what their traffic is worth, every site earns against a higher floor, and both sides of every transaction move together, so the additional cost is carried by the carriers buying the data, not by other deployers.","For high-demand venues, that makes the hardest sites worth building. Infrastructure sized for the busiest night of the year now earns like it. And for every deployer on the network, the floor just went up by more than half.","Want to learn what your sites could earn? Email business@helium.com.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hip-150-higher-earnings"},"/blog/introducing-heliumos":{"version":1,"title":"Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity - Helium","description":"HeliumOS is the operating system for connectivity: one platform for subscriber management, Wi-Fi offload, visibility and control over indoor Wi-Fi networks, and AI analytics for carriers, MVNOs, and brands. ","keywords":"","h1":["Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity"],"h2":["HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","Why Today’s Telecom Infrastructure Is Falling Behind","Why HeliumOS?","One Platform, Built for Every Kind of Business in Telecom","Already Live, Already Working","HeliumOS Gives Businesses the Edge","Frequently Asked Questions","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Tuesday, September 1, 2026","Since the Helium Network first went live, we've been shattering the status quo of traditional telecom and proving there’s another way to build wireless infrastructure: a carrier-grade network built by people and businesses, deployed locally, rather than the top-down, capital intensive model. Today, we're taking that further with HeliumOS, the operating system for the business of connectivity, built for carriers, Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs), and large indoor venues like airports, arenas, schools, and shopping centers. Their customers expect reliable connectivity without having to think about how they get it. For some businesses, connectivity is the product. For others, it's the experience. HeliumOS is the platform that runs both.","Telecom is caught in a squeeze. Demand for data keeps climbing while capital to build networks keeps shrinking. Wi-Fi, satellite, and cellular have largely operated as separate systems, never built to handle today's density or work together. For decades, the answer was to build more: more towers, more spectrum, more infrastructure, owned and managed by one corporation end to end. That gives control, but it's unsustainable as capex tightens. Global carriers spend more than $200 billion a year on network infrastructure, and industry analysts project the spend will continue to decline.","Building more isn't the answer. Carriers already have access to every network architecture they need: Wi-Fi, satellite, cellular. What's missing is an intelligent, interoperable platform to see across disparate networks, monitor, control, and maintain standards for the optimal mobile experience.","HeliumOS is that missing piece. It gives carriers, MVNOs, and large indoor venues the tools they need to launch, operate, and scale a connectivity business faster and smarter, all in one customizable platform.","Helium began with a simple belief: anyone can build connectivity, not just big corporations, and be able to access it. That launched the Helium Network, a wireless network powered by everyday people.","HeliumOS is the most efficient way to access and leverage the Helium Network, built to perform right alongside macro networks. It pairs turnkey back-office enablement with Wi-Fi that finally meets carrier-grade standards, something traditional networks have never been able to guarantee.","\"People don't think about how they're connected. They simply expect reliable connectivity wherever they are,\" said Mario Di Dio, CEO of Helium. \"For decades, connectivity meant building and owning the largest network of macro cell towers. The future of wireless is distributed infrastructure and convergence, with cellular, satellite, and Wi-Fi working together, intelligently routing traffic across every available connection to deliver the best experience for users while helping operators scale more efficiently. HeliumOS is how we do that.\"","HeliumOS is more than a platform launch, it’s part of a structural shift in telco that’s already underway. The same way enterprises stopped building and maintaining their own data centers and migrated to the cloud, now, carriers can rely on coverage created by others. They no longer need to own every tower to deliver the quality connectivity subscribers expect, they just need HeliumOS.","No two businesses in telecom run the same way, so HeliumOS flexes to fit yours. Whether it’s the back office that powers your customers, or the front line where your customers need robust, reliable connectivity.","Carrier Enablement Platform: Full MVNE (mobile virtual network enabler) capabilities: subscriber management, billing, SIM activation, provisioning, customer support, and carrier integrations, all in one place.","WOX (Wi-Fi Offload Experience): Visibility into real-time user sessions and experience, providing the control to decide whether a connection should happen, not just whether it can happen.","Intelligent Analytics: Agentic, no-code access to Helium Network data through HeliumAI. Pull metrics, generate dashboards instantly to share with your team, or plug straight into your own AI stack.","Wi-Fi Toolkit: Passpoint-based offload (the industry standards for automatic, secure Wi-Fi connections), built right into your consumer-facing app. Your customers stay connected automatically across stores, venues, and campuses. No passwords. No extra infrastructure costs.","Helium Network Integration: A direct line to the largest community-built wireless network, and a real way to lower what it costs you to deliver mobile data.","You don't have to adopt every piece on day one. Every part of HeliumOS is built to work together, so you can layer in more as needed, without building infrastructure from scratch.","Learn More","This isn't a roadmap. HeliumOS is live today, with Affiniti Ventures, the company behind Noble Mobile and Helium Mobile, as its first customer.","As data demand continues to climb, HeliumOS gives telecom businesses the edge they need, whether it's real-time visibility through the WOX solution, intelligent analytics through HeliumAI, or everything required to launch and run a carrier from the ground up. Spend less time piecing together infrastructure and systems, and more time delivering quality connectivity your customers actually notice.","Ready to see what HeliumOS can do for your business?","Visit the HeliumOS page at helium.com/os to explore the full platform.","Talk to our team to see which solutions fits your needs, from Carrier Enablement, to WOX (Wi-Fi Offload Experience), to full Helium Network integration.","Launch on your timeline. Start with what you need, add on as you grow, and skip the infrastructure buildout entirely.","Book a Demo","Head to helium.com/os to learn more. Below are some FAQs.","What is HeliumOS?HeliumOS is the operating system for the business of connectivity. It's a software platform that gives carriers, MVNOs, and retail brands the tools to launch, operate, and scale a connectivity business. HeliumOS solutions include subscriber management, intelligent analytics, Wi-Fi offload and user experience, and native integration with the Helium Network. All in one customizable platform.","What is the Helium Network?The Helium Network is the largest community-built wireless network, with real physical infrastructure that spans tens of thousands of access points across the United States and expanding into Mexico and Brazil. It's built and maintained by people and businesses closest to data demand, closing coverage gaps carriers struggle to reach. The Helium Network already operates at carrier scale, serving millions of mobile users each day.","What is the difference between the Helium Network and HeliumOS?The Helium Network is physical community-built wireless infrastructure: a network delivering carrier-grade mobile coverage, built by people and businesses who get rewarded for phone users connecting to their deployments. HeliumOS is a software layer for carriers and other telecom businesses, delivering visibility, control, and tools to actually put network infrastructure to work—whether that’s the Helium Network, other Wi-Fi networks, or macro cellular towers.","What problems does HeliumOS solve?HeliumOS solves the core challenge facing telecom today: networks that weren't built to handle today's density or work together, at a time when building more infrastructure is getting harder to justify as capex tightens. HeliumOS fills in those gaps, giving businesses an intelligent, interoperable platform to see, control, and use the connectivity that already exists, without owning every tower. Solutions include: Carrier Enablement, WOX (Wi-Fi Offload Experience), Intelligent Analytics with HeliumAI, Wi-Fi Toolkit (Passpoint-Wi-Fi), and native Helium Network integration as another lever to deliver quality indoor coverage to customers.","Who is HeliumOS for?HeliumOS is a software platform built for any business that delivers connectivity, including carriers, MVNOs, network operators, and large indoor venues like airports, arenas, schools, and shopping centers. It lets these businesses launch or scale a connectivity business without stitching together systems or building new infrastructure.","How can I learn more about HeliumOS?Visit helium.com/os to explore the full platform, or talk to the Helium team to see which solutions fit your network.","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/introducing-heliumos"},"/snapshot":{"version":1,"title":"Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":[],"h2":["Intelligent Wireless Networks.Powered by People.","The Network at a Glance.","1 Million+","49 TB+","40,000+","10K Movies","USA + Mexico","Brazil +","140,000+","Telecom's AWS Moment.","Daily Data Carried Has Grown Roughly Fivefold in a Year.","Wireless Coverage Built by People, Used by Carriers.","Coverage that Holds Up Under Pressure.","Powered by HNT.","Helium Mobile acquired by Andrew Yang's Nobile Mobile","Contact Helium"],"h3":["Daily Active Users","Daily Data Carried"],"h4":["Big Game Weekend Powered by the People","Fat Tuesday, Thin Signal? Not This Year"],"h5":[],"h6":["JUNE 2, 2026"],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","Wireless is struggling to scale. Data is bottlenecked as cell towers become congested and indoor coverage is often unreliable.","Large mobile carriers use Helium to extend their coverage thanks to thousands of community-deployed Hotspots that help millions of people stay connected.","Explore the Network","About HNT","The network","Operating at scale, in partnership with several international carriers.","DDD8FF","Daily Users","Daily Data Transferred","Active Access Points","Streamed today","Live carrier partnerships","International expansion underway","Community-deployed","Helium Sites","See the network live","The opportunity","Carriers spend more than $200B annually on infrastructure, yet coverage gaps remain. Helium turns fixed infrastructure spend into a pay-per-use coverage model.","The Old Model","Expensive Capital Expenditure","Centralized infrastructure","Hard-to-reach dense & indoor areas","Slow to scale","The Helium Model","Pay only for traffic use","Distributed people-powered coverage","Built for dense & indoor areas","Scalable without massive upfront cost","Read more about Helium","FROM AN IDEA TO CARRIER SCALE","From about 24 TB a day to roughly 128 TB a day, as carriers moved real subscriber traffic onto the network. Not speculation, coverage carriers chose to route through.","Scaled to 3.4M+ daily users at carrier scale","Q2 2025 — 1.4M","Q1 2026 — 3.4M","Roughly a 5× increase in carrier traffic over the past year","Jun 2025 — ~24 TB/day","Jun 2025","~24 TB/day","May 2026 — ~128 TB/day","May 2026","~128 TB/day","Scaled to 3.4M+ daily users and holding at carrier scale","Built by people","People deploy Hotspots where coverage is weak. Carriers pay to use the Network, while validated traffic permanently burns HNT. Today, Helium powers wireless infrastructure for some of the world's largest carriers.","Proven under load","Because deployers built the coverage ahead of time, the network absorbs huge, sudden demand at marquee events.","At this year's Big Game near San Francisco, 113,000+ people connected through Helium on the peak day.","Read More →","Helium’s New Orleans footprint absorbed a 550% Fat Tuesday surge, with more than 100,000 daily unique subscribers sustained for Carnival Weekend.","THE TOKEN","HNT is a use-backed token. It must be burned for Network use and rewards deployers for providing useful wireless coverage.","Usage Burns Supply","Every gigabyte of verified carrier data routed across the Network permanently removes HNT from circulation. More real-world usage means more HNT burned.","Deployers Earn from Utility","Hotspot operators earn HNT for carrying real traffic, aligning coverage with the demand that uses it.","Learn more about HNT","Mobile","Helium Mobile was acquired by Noble Mobile, bringing every Noble subscriber onto the Helium Network. The Helium team is now focused exclusively on the carrier infrastructure platform.","Official Announcement","Coverage in Fortune","get in touch","Reach out to our team members with questions.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/snapshot"},"/blog/sec-dismisses-case-nova-labs-helium":{"version":1,"title":"SEC Dismisses Case Against Nova Labs: A Win for Helium - Helium","description":"The SEC has dismissed with prejudice its case against Nova Labs, confirming HNT is not a securitie. A major win for Helium.","keywords":"","h1":["SEC Dismisses Case Against Nova Labs: A Win for Helium","Back to Our Mission: Fighting for the Freedom to Connect"],"h2":["The SEC has dismissed its case against Nova Labs with prejudice, confirming Helium Hotspots and HNT distribution are not securities.","Related Articles","Back to Blog"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Thursday, April 10, 2025","Today marks a major win for Helium and The People’s Network. Nova Labs, the founding team behind Helium, confirms the SEC has agreed to dismiss with prejudice its claims that Nova Labs sold unregistered securities. With this dismissal, we can now definitively say that all compatible Helium Hotspots and the distribution of HNT, IOT, and MOBILE tokens through the Helium Network are not securities.","After the prior leadership at the SEC sued Nova Labs on the literal eve of the incoming administration, this landmark outcome is a pivotal turning point for the Helium community and the entire crypto industry, removing legal uncertainty for DePIN projects that use crypto incentives to build real-world infrastructure. With the dismissal of the SEC’s unregistered securities claims with prejudice, the outcome establishes that selling hardware and distributing tokens for network growth does not automatically make them securities in the eyes of the SEC. It also means that the SEC cannot bring these charges against Helium again.","We thank the new leadership at the SEC for finally providing clarity and look forward to a new era where innovation can truly thrive.","With this chapter finally closed, Helium and the community can now move forward with full confidence, accelerating adoption and real-world innovation in decentralized wireless and crypto-powered infrastructure.","Helium has always been on a mission to make connectivity affordable and accessible for all by putting power in the hands of the people.","With everyday expenses soaring, many are forced to make tough financial choices and reliable connectivity should never be one of those sacrifices. Together, we’ll fight for a future where everyone and everything can connect — without the barriers of inflated costs or gatekeepers standing in the way.","We are more committed than ever to making this vision a reality, and we invite you to be part of the movement that challenges the status quo and embraces a future where the world connects more freely for generations to come.","Learn more about Helium: helium.comJoin the conversation on Discord: discord.gg/helium","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/sec-dismisses-case-nova-labs-helium"},"/proposal":{"version":1,"title":"Helium","description":"The Next Era of the
Helium Network","keywords":"","h1":["The wireless industry is breaking.Helium is the repair."],"h2":["Helium started with IoT and the idea of The People's Network in 2019. That model proved a decentralized network, built and owned by its community, can actually work at scale. Today that same model carries real carrier traffic for millions of people every day.The last two years brought real validation from carrier demand, but Helium's original economic framework hasn't kept up. This proposal fixes the economics for the long term, so the people who built this Network can reliably earn from the impact it's having on a 150-year-old industry. This proposal has been refined through three weeks of community deliberation, including town halls, Discord engagement, and direct collaboration with community contributors who co-authored the governance framework.","Advisory Council Election Vote Results","What you Missed","130K+","Millions","~128TB","5x","So why a Proposal now?","The proposal, in four moves","What it means if it passes"],"h3":[],"h4":["James Fayal","Samuel Andrews, MD","Jacob Brady","Eric Eife","Chris Ferebee"],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","VOTE HAS PASSED","Read the Approved Proposal","Join the Discussion","Status: Advisory Council Members have been elected.","Implementation Status:","Advisory Council Nominations Live Until Sunday 12 July.","Elected by veHNT holders in the HIP-149 Advisory Council Election. Voting closed Jul 20, 2026.","@jmf1","@andrewsmd","@jhbr821","@eme0967","@ferebee","Join the Discussion On Discord","View the Votes Breakdown","01","The global wireless industry spends over $300 billion a year building network infrastructure, and that number is now declining while demand for coverage keeps climbing. Carriers need more capacity in more hard places, stadiums, transit hubs, dense indoor, underserved communities, with less capital to build it. No single company can close that gap alone.","Helium flips the model. Instead of one carrier funding every tower, thousands of independent deployers build coverage where demand actually is, own the infrastructure, and earn from the traffic that flows through it. This is telco's AWS moment: fixed capital expense converted into pay-per-use infrastructure","Helium,  ~2 years ago","Helium,","~2 years ago","Hotspots earned for providing coverage, whether or not anyone used it","IoT in active use, Mobile still in early pilots","Proving the model could work","Helium,  TODAY","Carrier-grade wireless at scale, used by millions daily","Real carrier traffic across the US and Mexico, expanding internationally","An intelligent connectivity platform carriers are asking to build on","Hotspots across major airports, casinos, and city centers","Daily active users, sustained at scale","Carrier data routed every day","Traffic surge absorbed during Mardi Gras and the Super Bowl","Here is the part that matters for HNT holders: HNT is not a meme. It is an infrastructure share, a use-backed asset where verified carrier usage permanently burns HNT, and where the community that builds the Network governs its supply. The more the Network is used, the more HNT leaves circulation.","02","Helium's original economic framework was built for a faster carrier-adoption curve than reality delivered. That is not a failure to hide, it is the reason a clean correction is possible now: we finally have real data on how carriers actually adopt. Three pressures have built up, and this proposal resolves them in a single move.","The earn rate drifted","The protocol rate of $0.50/GB was unsustainable based on carrier paid rates: traffic grew about 4x, HNT issuance stayed fixed, and the token price more than halved. Earnings need to anchor to what carriers actually pay, not an outdated target.","Proof of Coverage did its job","PoC was the tool that built coverage before any demand existed, and it worked. Now that real traffic is here, paying Hotspots for simply existing diverts rewards from the deployers actually serving users. The bootstrap succeeded, so now the tool retires.","Proof of coverage did its job","The moment to capitalize","Carrier demand is proven. Reaching scale means funding international expansion and the intelligence platform now, while carriers shop for new models and Helium is the only one filling the gap. But today's emissions fund rewards, not growth. Every infrastructure company hits the moment where proven demand outruns its capital model. This is ours, and we close it with a finite, on-chain capitalization.","03","1","A deployer earnings floor","A safety net under deployer earnings","The problem: deployer earnings have been exposed to HNT price swings, with no guaranteed floor in dollars.","This fixes it. Deployers earn HNT worth at least 50% of what carriers actually pay, every epoch. If HNT falls far enough that normal rewards dip below that floor, the protocol tops them back up. When HNT rises, deployers earn more, up to 3x the carrier burn rate, which keeps the model sustainable while giving deployers meaningful room on the upside. Both the floor and the cap rise automatically as carrier rates improve.","Earnings are a share of carrier demand, not a fixed slice of a pie. More adoption means more traffic flowing through the Network, which grows what deployers can earn.","2","Capitalize operations and growth","Fuel to expand, on-chain and capped","A capped HNT mint into a public on-chain vault: one authorization, about 141M HNT, paid out over about 36 months and ending on its own. Yes, this increases HNT supply. It is finite and bounded.","Two reasons it is needed now. First, the Network has been subsidizing the gap between the protocol rate and what carriers commercially pay, and that subsidy is not sustainable. Second, reaching carrier scale takes capital that the fixed issuance schedule cannot provide. Demand is proven and now is the time to invest.","New issuance runs flat for the first 12 months, then tapers to zero over the following 24 months and stops on its own, no future vote required. The mint does not begin until two weeks after the Advisory Council is seated and has completed initial diligence. Every dollar funds Network growth: international carrier expansion, deployer programs, and the carrier platform. None of it flows to on-chain Hotspot rewards. Every outflow is visible on-chain in real time, overseen by the Community Advisory Council, and the community can vote to shut it off at any point.","3","A Community Advisory Council","Oversight and a kill switch","A 7-seat council provides real oversight on capitalization: 5 seats community-elected, 2 from Nova. Nova recuses its veHNT positions from voting on community seats. The Council receives 1.25% of the mint funding for independent legal counsel and operations.","The Council receives quarterly financial and operational disclosures. It can demand additional information, publish dissent, and trigger a community vote to reduce, pause, or halt the mint at any time. Nova's two seats cannot trigger that vote, and cannot block it either.","This is more transparency than most public companies give shareholders.","4","Retire Proof-of-Coverage","Earn for being useful","Hotspots stop earning just for being plugged in. They earn for carrying real carrier traffic.","This applies to both the Mobile and IoT networks. A 20% larger data pool flows immediately to the deployers actually serving users. The more useful a Hotspot, the more its deployer earns.","04","What changes with this Proposal","Deployers earn from real utility, with a dollar-anchored floor protecting the downside with a sustainable cap.","The Network gets capital to expand internationally and ship the carrier platform.","HNT reads more clearly as a use-backed asset: rewards track real demand, not an outdated target.","The community gains a standing oversight body with disclosure rights and a kill switch.","The model moves toward self-sustaining economics as carrier revenue scales.","What does NOT change with this Proposal","The halving schedule, preserved","veHNT lockups, multipliers, and voting","The 6% delegator allocation","The Data Credit burn mechanism","Helium's Next EraStarts Now.","This proposal contains four significant changes which are being proposed in parallel because they all depend on each other. The council exists to oversee the capitalization, the floor protects deployers through growth, and utility rewards graduate Helium from proof to sustainability. Read the full proposal, challenge the assumptions, and bring the hard questions.","Join the conversation in Discord.","Read the full Proposal","Vote has Passed! The community has voted. This proposal is now moving into implementation.","Vote has Passed!","Thank you to everyone who participated. This proposal is now moving into implementation.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/proposal"},"/blog":{"version":1,"title":"Helium","description":"The Helium Blog. Explore how Helium is reshaping connectivity for everyone.","keywords":"","h1":["The Helium Blog"],"h2":["Latest articles","Follow Us on Socials"],"h3":[],"h4":["Back to school and back online","HIP-150: Higher Earnings for Deployers, Premium Rates for High-Demand Venues","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Nirvana Tech Doesn’t Sell Helium. They Sell Better Coverage.","Tasa Hawai'i connects Waimea Valley to the Helium Network","America's Fastest-Growing City Chooses Helium to Keep Its Residents Connected","Industrial Shifts Aren’t Linear: A Metrics Update","Helium Plus Deployer Fees Are Now Zero","The End of the Macro Monopoly?","What SpaceX’s Wireless Plan Gets Right, and the 80% It Leaves Out","New Earnings Safety Net for Helium Deployers","Quality Connectivity from Piers to Sports Arenas","Hotels and Casinos Are Partnering with Helium To Get More Utility Out Of Their Existing Wi-Fi Networks","Helium’s Case for Clear Rules with the CLARITY Act","Faster connectivity for Fast Food Restaurants","City of Redondo Beach Leverages Helium Network to Solve Waterfront Connectivity Dead Zone","The Next Era of the Helium Network","Helium Network: The New Secret Weapon for Internet Service Providers in Mexico","Introducing Premium Support for Helium Plus","A Denver IT Firm’s case for Helium Plus","Expansion Zones: Where Carriers Need the Helium Network Most","Telecom buildout is slowing; demand for coverage isn’t","Helium Rises to Meet Demand for Coverage as Telco Buildout Slows Down","Utility Meets Opportunity: How to Make the Most Out Of Extra Bandwidth","Bringing the Signal to Band Camp: How Ace Tomato Kept the Music Playing","Deployers, Rejoice! Helium World Is Getting a Major Upgrade.","Hosting a Mid-sized Festival With 70,000 People? You’re Gonna Need Helium for That","Fat Tuesday, Thin Signal? Not This Year","Big Game Weekend Powered by the People","Little Fish, Big Fish: How One Deployer Scaled From Barbershops to Airports","5 Places to Visit and Enjoy Free Helium Coverage","Turning Indoor Connectivity Into Community Funding","Helium 2025: Year in Review","Bringing better connectivity to New Orleans’ Historic French Quarter","Expanding Helium to Brazil Through Partnership with Mambo WiFi & International Waitlist Now Live","Unspoken Words Blankets Sausalito and California Wine Country with Helium","Why One Firm Believes in the Utility of the Helium Network","How a California Mountain Town Improved Connectivity for Its Community","Connectivity, Rebuilt","Introducing Helium Plus: Monetize Existing Wi-Fi and Join The People’s Network","Helium Network Brings Wi-Fi Connectivity to AT&T at Thousands of Locations Across America","SEC Dismisses Case Against Nova Labs: A Win for Helium","How Universidad del Sagrado Corazón Is Building a More Resilient Network with Helium","Hola, Mexico: Movistar is Bringing 2 Million Subscribers to the Helium Network","Why MNOs Hate Wi-Fi"],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Explore how Helium is reshaping connectivity for everyone.","All","Solutions","Network","Community","News","International","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Sep 9, 2026","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","Sep 4, 2026","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","Sep 1, 2026","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","Aug 30, 2026","Tasa Hawai’i brings coverage to one of the most ecologically sensitive sites on the islands, and keeps it running in a challenging environment.","Aug 29, 2026","Celina, Texas is adding neighborhoods faster than anyone can build cell towers. So the city turned Wi-Fi already running across its public buildings and downtown into carrier-grade coverage, live on the Helium Network today.","Aug 28, 2026","Using Wi-Fi for carrier offload is a paradigm shift. Our metrics will fluctuate while we win it.","A new No Fee Program means no connect fees for deployers of Helium Plus","Aug 18, 2026","FCC Opens Unlicensed Spectrum for Satellite D2D: What It Means","Aug 10, 2026","Direct-to-cell satellite coverage closes gaps towers never could, across oceans, rural areas, and supply lines. But 80% of mobile data lives indoors, where signals from space can fail.","Aug 7, 2026","Introducing a minimum per-gigabyte earn rate for venue partners and deployers to protect against market downturns.","Talus Communications LLC builds their business by building connectivity in major venues.","Aug 6, 2026","The Hospitality industry spent two decades building robust Wi-Fi coverage. Now carriers need that coverage, and 30 days of Helium Network data show its value.","Jul 31, 2026","How regulatory ambiguity stalls innovation–and American businesses are paying the price","Jul 20, 2026","How 34 national brands are meeting the demand for high-quality connectivity on the Helium Network.","Jul 17, 2026","Helium is now connecting over 2,000 daily users from major US carriers using their existing Wi-Fi infrastructure.","Jun 23, 2026","From coverage solution to intelligent enablement platform. Helium's next chapter starts now.","Jun 4, 2026","Now Mexican ISPs can extend wireless coverage without the burden of high capital expenditure.","Jun 3, 2026","New tiered support plans give Helium Plus Deployers and Channel Partners faster access to the Helium team as Network deployments continue to scale.","Jun 1, 2026","Mile-High Wi-Fi extends coverage to gyms, medical offices and shelters by overlaying Helium Plus onto the Wi-Fi networks already in place.","May 21, 2026","Now live in Helium World: new Expansion Zones, which show exactly where carriers want more coverage and, by extension, exactly where your next Hotspot should go.","May 14, 2026","As telecom capex contracts, the industry is being forced into a more efficient model. Some networks are already operating that way.","May 13, 2026","For the past decade, the telecom industry has been in a buildout cycle. Carriers spent heavily to expand coverage, upgrade networks, and roll out 5G. Now, that cycle is slowing down.","Apr 28, 2026","How two entrepreneurs turned underutilized bandwidth into a business","Apr 15, 2026","How 13 permanent Hotspots handled a 33x surge at one of Florida's biggest music festivals.","Apr 8, 2026","The Helium community has spoken, and the Helium World team has been listening.","Mar 17, 2026","Mar 3, 2026","Helium’s New Orleans footprint absorbed a 550% Fat Tuesday surge, with more than 100,000 daily unique subscribers sustained for Carnival Weekend.","Feb 19, 2026","At this year's Big Game near San Francisco, 113,000+ people connected through Helium on the peak day.","Feb 10, 2026","Decentralized LLC now spans four U.S. regions and offloads 80+ terabytes monthly by focusing on the businesses inside high-traffic venues.","Feb 5, 2026","The Helium Network connects nearly 2.5 million people daily, from the Las Vegas Strip to Miami Beach. Here are five spots across the U.S. where you can experience free Helium coverage in action.","Jan 15, 2026","Rooftop Digital Income partners with Helium to help businesses improve cellular coverage while giving back to local organizations.","Jan 12, 2026","Connectivity, Rebuilt.","Dec 19, 2025","Two deployers take on the challenge of bringing world-class connectivity to the world-famous neighborhood.","Dec 18, 2025","We’re excited to announce a new joint venture with leading Brazilian WiFi company Mambo WiFi","Dec 10, 2025","In Anderson Valley and Sausalito, CA, Unspoken Words combines decades of networking expertise with Helium’s decentralized model to deliver reliable connectivity where it matters.","Nov 20, 2025","Parami isn’t a telecom vendor in the traditional sense. It’s a blockchain investment firm that believes the strength of the Helium Network.","Nov 11, 2025","Until their partnership with Helium, Pine Mountain Club residents struggled with spotty cell coverage.","Nov 7, 2025","$1 Million in Helium Grants Funded and a Trillion-Dollar Industry Shifts.","Oct 29, 2025","Monetize Existing Wi-Fi, and join the People's Network","Jul 31, 2025","A collaboration that brings the Helium Network to AT&T subscribers across America","Apr 24, 2025","The SEC has dismissed its case against Nova Labs with prejudice, confirming Helium Hotspots and HNT distribution are not securities.","Apr 10, 2025","Puerto Rico’s oldest educational project is paving the way the future of decentralized wireless connectivity.","Mar 11, 2025","Movistar, Telefónica’s mobile flagship carrier in Mexico, and Helium have partnered to bring the Helium Network to 2.3 million subscribers in Mexico!","Feb 20, 2025","And what the Helium Network is doing about it","Oct 23, 2024","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","Stay up to date on all things Helium.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog"},"/legal/wi-fi-terms":{"version":1,"title":"The Path to Simplicity","description":"Helium is returning to its roots with a unified vision under HIP 138, emphasizing simplicity and unity in the ecosystem.","keywords":"","h1":["Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"h2":[],"h3":["Access to Wi-Fi","Privacy and Security","Your Responsibilities; Proper Use","Termination","Content Disclaimer","Disclaimer of Warranties","Indemnity","Miscellaneous Provisions"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","EFFECTIVE SINCE","July 3, 2023","LAST UPDATED","August 13, 2025","This Helium Free Wi-Fi service is a free public non-commercial Wi-Fi service offered in certain locations throughout the United States (“Helium Wi-Fi”). The Helium Wi-Fi equipment and services are voluntarily provided by individual Helium Mobile Hotspot owners (“Owners”) and enabled through technology provided by Nova Labs, Inc., dba Helium Mobile, located at 2261 Market Street, Suite 10194, San Francisco, CA 94114, United States (“Helium Mobile”).","By using Helium Wi-Fi, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions below (the “Wi-Fi Terms of Service”).  In addition to the language below, the Wi-Fi Terms of Service include applicable provisions of Helium Mobile’s Terms and Conditions and Helium Mobile’s Privacy Notice.  The Helium Mobile Terms and Conditions and Privacy Notice apply to your use of Helium Wi-Fi as if the terms “Nova Labs, Inc.,” “we,” “us,” and “Company” in the Helium Mobile Terms and Conditions and Privacy Notice meant Helium Mobile and the term “Company Services” and “Services” meant Helium Wi-Fi.  In the event anything in the Helium Terms and Conditions and Privacy Notice conflicts with any of the Wi-Fi Terms of Service below, the Wi-Fi Terms of Service take priority.  Together, the Wi-Fi Terms of Service and Helium Mobile Terms and Conditions and Privacy Notice are referred to herein as the “Terms.”","Your access to Helium Wi-Fi is completely at the discretion of the Owners and Helium Mobile, and your access to Helium Wi-Fi may be blocked, suspended, or terminated at any time for any reason including, but not limited to, violation of the Terms, actions that may lead to liability for the Owners and/or Helium Mobile, disruption of access to other users or networks, or violation of applicable laws or regulations. Helium Mobile may revise the Terms at any time.","You must accept the Terms each time you use Helium Wi-Fi and it is your responsibility to review it for any changes each time.","This is an open wireless network. No network communication is 100% secure.  Please remember:","NO network communication should be considered private or protected. All communication over Helium Wi-Fi is subject to monitoring.","If you choose to use other services (such as an application or website) while using Helium Wi-Fi, your use of those services will be governed by the terms and conditions provided to you in association with those services.","The Owners and/or Helium Mobile reserve the right to reduce throughput or access as need be.","Except as provided in “Disclaimer of Warranties” below, nothing in these Terms will be deemed to confer any third-party rights or benefits.","Helium Mobile may collect information about your usage of Helium Wi-Fi, such as when and for how long you use the network and the frequency and size of data transfers.  Helium Mobile may also collect information about the geographic locations of Helium Wi-Fi nodes through which you connect to the network.  For more information about how Helium Mobile collects, uses and shares information, please see the Helium Mobile Privacy Policy.","You understand that Helium Wi-Fi, which utilizes wireless technologies, is not inherently secure and that wireless communications may not remain private or free of interception or access by others.  Helium Mobile will not be liable to you or any other party for any lack of security that may result from your use of Helium Wi-Fi, and you agree that you are solely responsible for implementing and maintaining appropriate technological and other safeguards to ensure the safety and security of your device and anything stored on, or transmitted by, your device.","Helium Mobile does not exercise control over other services you may use while using Helium Wi-Fi.  These third-party services may place their own cookies or other files on your computer or device, collect data, or solicit information from you. For more information, consult the applicable privacy policies for those services.","You must have a wireless-enabled device to connect to Helium Wi-Fi.","You must provide your name, email address, and residential zip code in order to access Helium Wi-Fi.","Helium Mobile will assign you a temporary IP address each time you access Helium Wi-Fi. You may not program any other IP or MAC address into your device that accesses Helium Wi-Fi.","You may not use Helium Wi-Fi for improper activities. Examples of improper activities include, without limitation:","modifying, adapting, translating, or reverse engineering any portion of Helium Wi-Fi;","reselling, renting, sharing or distributing any aspect of Helium Wi-Fi;","attempting to break security, access, tamper with or use any unauthorized parts of Helium Wi-Fi or any third party devices, accounts, equipment or networks;","removing any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on Helium Wi-Fi;","attempting to collect or maintain any information about other users of Helium Wi-Fi (including usernames and/or email addresses) or other third parties for unauthorized purposes;","logging onto Helium Wi-Fi under false or fraudulent pretenses;","creating or transmitting unwanted electronic communications such as “spam,” or chain letters to other users or otherwise interfering with other users’ enjoyment of Helium Wi-Fi;","using Helium Wi-Fi to transfer technology, software or other materials in violation of applicable export laws and regulations;","transmitting content that falsely expresses or implies that it is sponsored or endorsed by Helium Mobile, that infringes, misappropriates or violates the intellectual property, publicity, privacy or other proprietary rights of any party, or that is defamatory, unlawful or promotes or encourages illegal activity;","transmitting any software, firmware, and/or hardware viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses or other items of a destructive nature;","using Helium Wi-Fi to advertise, solicit, transmit, store, post, display or otherwise make available obscene or indecent images or other materials; or","using Helium Wi-Fi for any unlawful, harassing, abusive, criminal or fraudulent purpose, including, without limitation, hacking, spamming, and accessing illegal content.","You are responsible for your conduct and the conduct of anyone who uses Helium Wi-Fi via your device.  Helium Mobile reserves the right to monitor, intercept and disclose any transmissions over or using our facilities, and to provide user information, or use records, and other related information under certain circumstances (for example, in response to lawful process, orders, subpoenas, or warrants, or to protect Helium Mobile or any other person from harm).  For more information, see the Helium Mobile Privacy Policy.","Helium Mobile reserves the right to terminate access to Helium Wi-Fi- and/or your use of Helium Wi-Fi, at any time and for any reason, with or without notice. Upon any such termination, any and all rights granted by Helium Mobile to you herein will terminate.","Helium Mobile does not control and is not responsible for third-party data, content, services, or products that you access or download through Helium Wi-Fi. Helium Mobile may, but is not obliged to, block data transmissions to protect Helium Mobile, Helium Wi-Fi network, or the public.","Helium Mobile, the Owners, their employees, affiliates, suppliers and licensors (the “Disclaiming Parties”) disclaim any and all responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, completeness, legality, reliability, operability or availability of information or material displayed in or accessible through Helium Wi-Fi. The Disclaiming Parties disclaim any responsibility for the deletion, failure to store, misdelivery, or untimely delivery of any information or material. The Disclaiming Parties disclaim any responsibility for any harm resulting from downloading or accessing any information or material on the Internet through Helium Wi-Fi.","YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT (A) HELIUM Wi-Fi WILL NOT BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, (B) THERE IS NO WARRANTY OR GUARANTEE REGARDING THE COVERAGE, SPEED OR QUALITY OF HELIUM Wi-Fi, (C) THE DISCLAIMING PARTIES HAVE NO CONTROL OVER THIRD PARTY NETWORKS OR SITES YOU MAY ACCESS IN THE COURSE OF YOUR USE OF HELIUM Wi-Fi, AND (D) YOU DOWNLOAD OR OTHERWISE OBTAIN MATERIAL OR DATA THROUGH THE USE OF HELIUM Wi-Fi AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF SUCH MATERIAL OR DATA.","Without limiting the foregoing, under no circumstances will the Disclaiming Parties be held liable for any delay or failure in performance resulting directly or indirectly from acts of nature, forces, or causes beyond their reasonable control, including, without limitation, Internet failures, computer equipment failures, telecommunication equipment failures, other equipment failures, electrical power failures, strikes, labor disputes, riots, insurrections, civil disturbances, shortages of labor or materials, fires, floods, storms, explosions, acts of God, war, governmental actions, orders of domestic or foreign courts or tribunals, non-performance of third parties, or loss of or fluctuations in heat, light, or air conditioning.","You agree to hold harmless and indemnify the Disclaiming Parties from and against any third party claim arising from or in any way related to any breach of these Terms and/or your use of Helium Wi-Fi, including any liability or expense arising from all claims, losses, damages (actual and consequential), suits, judgments, litigation costs and attorneys’ fees, of every kind and nature. In such a case, Helium Mobile will provide you with written notice of such claim, suit or action.","These Terms will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to its conflict of laws provisions or your actual state or country of residence. You and Helium Mobile agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of New York to resolve any legal matter arising from these Terms or Helium Wi-Fi.  If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision or portion of the Terms to be unenforceable, the remainder of the Terms will continue in full force and effect.","These Terms (including Helium Mobile’s Terms of Service) constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and replaces all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding such subject matter. Any waiver of any provision of the Terms will be effective only if in writing and signed by Helium Mobile.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/legal/wi-fi-terms"},"/os":{"version":1,"title":"HeliumOS | Powering the Business of Connectivity","description":"HeliumOS is Helium's telecom operating system, bringing subscriber management, intelligent analytics, and Wi-Fi offload onto one platform. Book a demo.","keywords":"","h1":["One Platform","to","Your Carrier","One Platform to"],"h2":["Built to Close Gaps.","Every Session, Controlled. Every Network, Connected.","Intelligent Operations. Total Visibility. Less on Your Plate.","Complement Your Coverage.","Trusted by Industry Innovators.","Talk to the Helium Team.","A Few Terms, Explained."],"h3":[],"h4":["WOX (Wi-Fi Offload Experience)","HeliumAI","Wi-Fi Toolkit","Carrier Enablement Platform","Helium Network Integration"],"h5":["A wireless brand, live fast","Seamless Wi-Fi, built in","The right network, every time","Data questions: answered","Coverage without buildout"],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","Telecom's truly intelligent operating system. HeliumOS powers the business of connectivity.","Talk to the team","Read the announcement","Powering the Business of Connectivity","Data Transferred 24H","Use cases","HeliumOS is the missing layer in telecom infrastructure.","Telecom runs on fragmented systems and disconnected vendors. HeliumOS closes that gap, bringing subscriber management, intelligent analytics, and Wi-Fi offload together on one platform. Full control and visibility over the end-user experience.","Talk to us","For MVNOs and consumer brands who want to launch a mobile carrier or manage a subscriber base. No stack to stitch together.","Provisioning","Plan rates","Lifecycle management","Taxes","Compliance","For operators and businesses who want Wi-Fi offload built into their own app, not a separate login screen.","Passpoint made easy","SDK Provisioning","Turnkey AAA & PKI","For carriers who treat quality as the edge: not just whether a user can connect, but whether they should.","QoS (quality of service)","Real-time session control","Efficiency across networks","For teams who want a straight answer about coverage, QoS, or deployments.","Generate dashboards","Query coverage","AI-driven","For carriers who'd rather close a coverage gap with the Helium Network than build new towers.","Carrier-grade","Cost-efficient","Ever-expanding","Why HeliumOS","Visibility, control, and standards that carriers and retailers need to leverage existing Wi-Fi infrastructure and meet growing demand.","Carrier-grade control","Set your standards. HeliumOS holds every network to it.","Full visibility into every connection","Every connection measured and reported back intelligently.","Seamless handoff","Subscribers connect to the best network available, wherever they are.","Build your HeliumOS","HeliumOS handles the operational load of running a carrier, subscriber management, and Wi-Fi offload, while giving your team live visibility and control over every layer. Take what you need, leave what you don't.","Book a demo","The real-time decision layer for smarter network connections that ensure quality of service.","User's Device","Wireless Network 1","Wireless Network 2","Learn more","Agentic, no-code access to network data. Query coverage, QoS, and deployment data, or connect via MCP into your own AI stack.","Customer","Helium AI","Connect your app users to other Wi-Fi networks without re-architecting anything.","Connect your users to other networks without re-architecting anything.","A complete BSS/OSS platform for carriers, including subscriber management, billing, provisioning, compliance, and support in one place.","Julia","Unlimited Plan Subscriber","David","Base Plan Subscriber","Emma","Chris","Trial Subscriber","Sophie","Jhonny","Access to quality indoor coverage for your subscribers.","HeliumOS natively integrates with the Helium Network, the world's largest decentralized Wi-Fi network.","Community-deployed","An army of deployers ready to build coverage where you need it.","A Lever on Cost","Route data through the Helium Network and cut your blended cost.","Deployer incentives keep coverage carrier-grade, with full visibility and control over offload.","View Helium Network coverage","HeliumOS in action","HeliumOS gives us the subscriber management, Wi-Fi control, and analytics we need without building the infrastructure ourselves, so we can offload to the Helium Network with confidence and focus on delivering better connectivity to our customers.","Andrew Yang","CEO of Noble Mobile and Helium Mobile","Official Announcement","Whether you're a carrier, MVNO, municipality, retailer, hospitality group, large venue, or just care about connectivity for your customers, let's talk about the right HeliumOS solution for you.","FAQ","Things to know before getting started.","What is an MVNO?","What does \"Wi-Fi offload\" mean?","What is Passpoint?","What is the difference between HeliumOS and the Helium Network","What's a sandbox?","What is WOX?","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/os"},"/iot":{"version":1,"title":"Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Every Thing Connected.","Join over 358k active Hotspots."],"h2":["Thousands of Solutions.","Billions of Devices.","Asset Tracking& Management","Smart Agriculture & Environmental Monitoring","Smart Cities & Infrastructure","Industrial IoT & Predictive Maintenance","Supply Chain & Logistics Optimization","Healthcare & Remote Patient Monitoring","A World of Hotspots."],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["The Helium IoT Network is the world's largest contiguous wireless network, connecting hundreds of thousands of sensors, devices, and machines.","Learn More","Build Coverage","Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","Hundreds of companies and thousands of developers are already building on The People's Network, the world's largest LoRaWAN network and fastest growing cellular network.","Thousands of existing solutions, sensors, devices and gateways can be easily configured to run on both the Helium cellular and global LoRaWAN networks.","Helium Showcase","IoT Coverage","Enhance asset tracking with Helium’s long-range, low-power network. Monitor valuable assets in real-time over vast areas without high cellular costs. Building on Helium offers scalable solutions that boost efficiency and reduce losses.","Use Helium’s IoT network to deploy sensors monitoring soil, temperature, and crop health. Affordable, wide-area coverage helps farmers make data-driven decisions to increase yield and promote sustainability.","Implement smart city solutions on the Helium Network to manage lighting, parking, and traffic more efficiently. Helium’s decentralized connectivity allows cost-effective deployment of city-wide IoT applications, improving services and reducing environmental impact.","Monitor equipment health and energy usage in real-time with Helium-enabled devices. Building on Helium enables predictive maintenance strategies, cutting downtime and costs while boosting safety and productivity.","Streamline supply chains with real-time tracking on Helium. Monitor shipments and storage conditions from origin to destination. Helium’s extensive coverage provides greater visibility and control over logistics operations.","Enhance patient care with connected health solutions on Helium. Deploy devices that transmit critical health data securely. Building on Helium extends care to remote areas, improving overall health outcomes.","Helium IoT Hotspots come in a variety of models, from the Helium Ecosystem of hardware suppliers that have passed Helium Improvement Proposal 19.","Please note: Inclusion on this list, however, does not constitute endorsement from Helium, or Nova Labs.","World","Wireless World","Explore the world’s largest decentralized wireless network.","Explore Helium World","Share your internet and earn.","Mobile Hotspots","IoT Hotspots","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/iot"},"/legal/website-terms":{"version":1,"title":"The Path to Simplicity","description":"Helium is returning to its roots with a unified vision under HIP 138, emphasizing simplicity and unity in the ecosystem.","keywords":"","h1":["Website, Hotspot, & AppTerms of Use"],"h2":[],"h3":["Binding Arbitration; Waiver of Jury Trial","Privacy","Ownership of the Site","Site Access and Restrictions","Accounts; Passwords","Site Accuracy","Third-Party Tools and Websites","Mobile Application","Disclaimer of Warranties","LIMITATION OF LIABILITY","Indemnification","Export Policy and Restrictions","Governing Law","Arbitration Agreement","Termination","Other Terms","Assignment","Miscellaneous","Helium Store"],"h4":["Token Rewards and Anti-Gaming","Digital Assets Notice"],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","EFFECTIVE SINCE","July 3, 2023","LAST UPDATED","March 11, 2025","These terms and conditions of use (the “Terms”) govern your use of our online interfaces and properties (e.g., Helium websites and mobile applications, together, the “Site”), your purchase and use of any products, including Helium Mobile Hotspots (“Hotspots”), and your interactions with us. Please read these Terms carefully before using this Site. The Site is owned or controlled by Nova Labs, Inc. (“we”, “us”, or “the Company”). By accessing the Site in any way, including, without limitation, browsing the Site, purchasing products and Hotspots from the Site, using any information, and/or submitting information to Company, you agree to and are bound by the terms, conditions, policies, and notices contained in the Terms. From time to time, we may update this Site and these Terms.  Your use of  Site after we post any changes to these Terms constitutes your agreement to those changes. The Site is offered and available to users who are at least 18 years or older (or over the legal age of majority in your jurisdiction). By using the Site, you represent and warrant that you meet all of the foregoing eligibility requirements. If you do not meet all of these requirements, you must not access or use the Site.","These Terms provide that all disputes, controversies, or claims arising between you and Company will be resolved by BINDING AND FINAL ARBITRATION. ACCORDINGLY, YOU AGREE TO GIVE UP YOUR RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND/OR TO OTHERWISE GO TO COURT (INCLUDING IN A CLASS ACTION PROCEEDING) to assert or defend your rights (except for matters that may be taken to small claims court or as it relates to provisional or injunctive relief). Your rights will be determined by a NEUTRAL ARBITRATOR and NOT a judge or jury and your claims cannot be brought as a class action. Please review the Section below entitled Arbitration Agreement for additional details regarding your agreement to arbitrate any and all disputes with the Company.","Please also consult our Privacy Notice for a description of our privacy practices and policies. Our Privacy Notice is a part of these Terms, and you agree to our use and sharing of the information we collect about you as described here and in our Privacy Notice.","Content, software, and services on the Site that is provided by Company or its licensors, including certain graphics, photographs, images, screen shots, text, digitally downloadable files, trademarks, logos, product and program names, slogans, and the compilation of the foregoing (\"Company Content\") is the property of Company and its licensors, and is protected in the U.S. and internationally under trademark, copyright, and other intellectual property laws. We reserve all of our rights in the Company Content. If any service on the Site includes the provision of a specific IP address, URL or other designation for your use, you acknowledge and agree that you will not receive any proprietary or ownership rights in such designation, and that we may change your IP address, URL or other designation at any time.","You agree not to download, display or use any Company Content located on the Site for use in any publications, in public performances, on websites other than the Site for any other commercial purpose, in connection with products or services that are not those of Company, in any other manner that is likely to cause confusion among consumers, that disparages or discredits Company and/or its licensors, that dilutes the strength of Company’s or its licensor's property, or that otherwise infringes Company’s or its licensors’ intellectual property rights. You further agree to in no other way misuse any Company Content or third-party Content that appears on the Site.","The following requirements apply to your use of the Site or our Products: (a) you will not use the Site or our Products for any purpose that is unlawful, tortious, abusive, intrusive on another's privacy, harassing, libelous, defamatory, embarrassing, obscene, threatening, or hateful; (b) you will not upload, post, reproduce, or distribute any information, software, or other material protected by copyright or any other intellectual property right (as well as rights of publicity and privacy) without first obtaining the permission of the owner of such rights; (c) you will not collect or store personal data about other users; (d) you will not use the Site or our Products for any commercial purpose not expressly approved by Company in writing; (e) you will not upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit any advertising or promotional materials or any other form of solicitation or unauthorized communication; (f) you will not upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit any material that contains viruses or any other computer code, files, or programs which might interrupt, limit, or interfere with the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.","You may not use any scraper, crawler, spider, robot, or other automated means of any kind to access or copy data on the Site, deep-link to any feature or content on the Site, bypass our robot exclusion headers or other measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Site.","Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. Company will investigate occurrences that may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations. You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any activity being conducted on the Site.","If a particular feature or service offered on the Site requires you to open an account, you must complete the specified registration process by providing us with current, complete, and accurate information as requested by the applicable registration form. It is your responsibility to maintain current, complete, and accurate registration data and any loss or harm caused by your failure to do so is your responsibility. After you have fully completed the registration form, you may be asked to choose a password and a user-name. It is entirely your responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of your password and account. The Company does not maintain or have access to your account password. Additionally, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account. You further agree not to email, post, or otherwise disseminate any user-name, password, or other account information which provides you access to the Site. The company is not liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account, either with or without your knowledge.","Although we intend to provide accurate and timely information on the Site, the Site (including, without limitation, the Company Content) may not always be entirely accurate, complete, or current and may also include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. The information published on the Site, exclusive of these Terms and any other terms and conditions, is provided as a convenience to our customers and is provided for informational or transactional purposes only. In an effort to continue to provide you with as complete and accurate information as possible, information may be changed or updated from time to time without notice, including without limitation information regarding our policies, products and services. Accordingly, you should verify all information before relying on it, and all decisions based on information contained in the Site are your sole responsibility and we shall have no liability for such decisions.","This Site may hyperlink to sites or tools not maintained by or related to the Company. Hyperlinks are provided as a service to users and are not sponsored by or affiliated with this Site or Company, and Company makes no representations or warranties about the content, completeness, or accuracy of those third-party sites. Information you submit at a third-party site accessible from this Site is subject to the terms of that site's privacy policy, and Company has no control over how your information is collected, used, or otherwise handled.","The use of Company mobile applications (“Apps”) requires use of a mobile device and wireless mobile data service, which must be obtained from your wireless carrier, and may require internet access, which must be obtained from your service provider; you are responsible for obtaining and paying for such additional services and obtaining a suitable device, including without limitation all usage charges related thereto. You are required to send and receive, at your cost, electronic communications related to the App, including without limitation, administrative messages, service announcements, diagnostic data reports, and App updates, from Company, your mobile carrier or third-party service providers. If you do not have an unlimited wireless mobile data plan, you may incur additional charges from your wireless service provider in connection with your use of the App. You are solely responsible for obtaining any additional subscription or connectivity services or equipment necessary to access the App, including but not limited to payment of all fees associated therewith, including fees or information sent to or through the App. Company does not warrant that the App will be compatible with your mobile device. If you download the App, you may have access to special offers and messages that are integrated features of the App. These integrated in-App offers may have specific terms and conditions outlined in the offer.. If you download the App, with your permission, we may also push notifications to your device. You will be able to opt out of push notifications in your device’s settings.","Additionally, when you delete your Account, Nova retains certain telecommunications billing data as required by law. Specifically, Nova will retain: the name, address, and telephone number of the caller; telephone number called; and, the date, time and length of the call.","THE SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN \"AS IS, AS AVAILABLE\" BASIS. NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THOSE OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ARE MADE WITH RESPECT TO THE SITE OR ANY INFORMATION OR SOFTWARE THEREIN. Company makes no representations about the reliability of the features of the Site, the Company Content, or any other Site feature, and disclaims all liability in the event of any service failure. You acknowledge that any reliance on such material or systems will be at your own risk. Company makes no representations regarding the amount of time that any Company Content will be preserved.","YOU ASSUME TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR YOUR USE OF THE SITE, SITE-RELATED SERVICES, AND LINKED WEBSITES. COMPANY DOES NOT WARRANT THAT FILES AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES, WORMS, TROJAN HORSES, OR OTHER DESTRUCTIVE PROGRAMMING. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR IMPLEMENTING PROCEDURES SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY YOUR NEEDS FOR DATA BACK UP AND SECURITY.","WARRANTIES RELATING TO PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OFFERED, SOLD AND DISTRIBUTED BY COMPANY ARE SUBJECT TO SEPARATE WARRANTY TERMS AND CONDITIONS, IF ANY, PROVIDED WITH OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE APPLICABLE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES.","UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, SHALL COMPANY BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS SITE, NOR SHALL COMPANY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER THAT RESULT FROM MISTAKES, OMISSIONS, INTERRUPTIONS, DELETION OF FILES, ERRORS, DEFECTS, DELAYS IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, OR ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE WHETHER OR NOT CAUSED BY EVENTS BEYOND COMPANY’S REASONABLE CONTROL, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ACTS OF GOD, COMMUNICATIONS LINE FAILURE, THEFT, DESTRUCTION, OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO THIS SITE'S RECORDS, PROGRAMS, OR SERVICES. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO A NEGLIGENT ACT, WILL COMPANY OR ITS AFFILIATES OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OF ANY KIND THAT RESULTS FROM THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THE SITE, EVEN IF COMPANY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.  SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES; AS A RESULT, THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.","You agree to indemnify and hold Company, its parents, subsidiaries, officers, employees, agents and each of their officers, employees and agents harmless from any claims, damages and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs, related to (i) your violation of these Terms, including the Privacy Policy, (ii) your use of the Site or Company products, or (iii) your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.","You acknowledge that the products and Company Content which are sold or licensed on the Site, which may include technology, hardware, and software, are subject to the customs and export control laws and regulations of the United States of America and may also be subject to the customs and export laws and regulations of the country in which the products are manufactured and/or received. HELIUM MOBILE HOTSPOTS ARE CURRENTLY FOR SALE AND USE ONLY IN THE UNITED STATES AND MAY NOT BE LEGALLY USED IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY ABSENT PRIOR WRITTEN APPROVAL BY COMPANY.  By purchasing, downloading, or using technology, hardware, or software from the Site, you agree to abide by the applicable laws, rules and regulations - including, but not limited to the Export Administration Act and the Arms Export Control Act - and you represent and warrant that you will not transfer, by electronic transmission or otherwise, the software or technology to a foreign national or a foreign destination in violation of the law. By purchasing any products, you agree that you will not use any products, or provide products to any person, who is forbidden from receiving the product under the Export Administration Regulations or any economic sanctions  maintained by the U.S. Department of Treasury. U.S. antiboycott regulations, or U.S. economic sanctions, including the export and antiboycott restrictions found in the Export Administration Regulations or the sanctions regulations administered by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control. You shall indemnify and hold harmless Company from all claims, demands, damages, costs, fines, penalties, attorneys’ fees and all other expenses arising from your failure to comply with this provision and/or applicable export control, antiboycott, or economic sanctions laws and regulations.HELIUM MOBILE HOTSPOTS ARE CURRENTLY FOR SALE AND USE ONLY IN THE UNITED STATES AND MAY NOT BE LEGALLY USED IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY ABSENT PRIOR WRITTEN APPROVAL BY HELIUM MOBILE.","These Terms will be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of New York without regard to conflicts of laws principles.  By using this site, you hereby agree that any and all disputes regarding these Terms will be subject to the courts located in New York County, New York.  YOU AGREE THAT, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL DISPUTES, CLAIMS, AND CAUSES OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR CONNECTED WITH THIS SITE AND/OR THESE TERMS, WILL BE RESOLVED INDIVIDUALLY, WITHOUT RESORT TO ANY FORM OF CLASS ACTION.  These Terms operate to the fullest extent permissible by law.","Agreement to Arbitrate All Disputes.  Except as it relates to qualifying small claims and injunctive relief as explained below, you and the Company agree that any and all disputes, controversies, or claims arising between you and Company (each a “Claim” and collectively “Claims”), including but not limited to Claims arising out of or relating to the Site, use of the Site, these Terms and/or the Privacy Policy, shall be settled by binding and final arbitration in accordance with the then prevailing Commercial Dispute Resolution Procedures and the Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes (collectively, “AAA Rules”) of the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”). The AAA Rules and filing forms are available online at www.adr.org, by calling the AAA at 1-800-778-7879. The arbitration will be heard and determined by a single arbitrator, who shall be selected pursuant to the AAA Rules. The arbitrator’s decision, judgment, or award in any such arbitration will be final and binding upon the parties and may be entered and enforced in any court having jurisdiction thereof. The Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) and federal arbitration law apply to this agreement. The arbitrator shall apply New York law consistent with the FAA and applicable statutes of limitations and shall honor all claims of privilege recognized at law.  For the avoidance of doubt, the arbitrator, and not any federal, state, or local court or agency, shall have the exclusive authority to resolve any dispute relating to the arbitrability of any Claims, the scope, applicability, interpretation, and enforcement of this arbitration agreement, and the interpretation, applicability, enforcement, formation of these Terms and/or the Privacy Policy.","Small Claims and Injunctive Relief.  This arbitration agreement does not preclude you or the Company from pursuing qualifying small claims in small claims court. If your Claims qualify for small claims court, you may still assert your Claims in small claims court so long as the matter remains in such court and advances only on an individual (non-class, non-representative) basis. In addition, you and Company both retain the right to apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for provisional or injunctive relief, including for pre-arbitral attachments or preliminary injunctions, and any such request shall not be deemed incompatible with these Terms, nor a waiver of the right to have disputes submitted to arbitration as provided in these Terms.","Class Waiver.  You may not act as a class representative or private attorney general or participate as a member of a class of claimants with respect to any Claim. Claims may not be arbitrated on a class or representative basis. The arbitrator can decide only your individual Claims. The arbitrator may not consolidate or join the Claims of other persons or parties who may be similarly situated.","Arbitration Costs and Procedures. If you initiate arbitration against the Company, and you are able to demonstrate that the costs of arbitration will be cost-prohibitive as compared to the costs of litigation, Company will pay as much of your filing and hearing fees in connection with the arbitration as the arbitrator deems necessary to prevent the cost of the arbitration from being cost-prohibitive. In the final award, the arbitrator may apportion the costs of arbitration and the compensation of the arbitrator among the parties in such amounts as the arbitrator deems appropriate. Pursuant to the AAA Rules and Procedures, the arbitration shall proceed in a location determined by the arbitrator (provided that such location is reasonably convenient for you), or at such other location as may be mutually agreed upon by the parties.","Enforcement and Invalidity. If any part of this arbitration provision is deemed to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal (other than that claims will not be arbitrated on a class or representative basis), or otherwise conflicts with the rules and procedures established by AAA, then the balance of this arbitration provision shall remain in effect and shall be construed in accordance with its terms as if the invalid, unenforceable, illegal or conflicting provision were not contained herein. If, however, the portion that is deemed invalid, unenforceable or illegal is that claims will not be arbitrated on a class or representative basis, then the entirety of this arbitration provision shall be null and void, and neither claimant nor Company shall be entitled to arbitrate their dispute.","THIS SECTION LIMITS CERTAIN RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO MAINTAIN A COURT ACTION, THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL, THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY FORM OF CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE CLAIM, THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN DISCOVERY EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN THE AAA RULES AND PROCEDURES, AND THE RIGHT TO CERTAIN REMEDIES AND FORMS OF RELIEF.  OTHER RIGHTS THAT YOU OR COMPANY WOULD HAVE IN COURT ALSO MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE IN ARBITRATION.","Company may, in its sole discretion, and at any time, discontinue this Site or any part thereof, with or without notice, or may prevent your use of this Site with or without notice to you.  You agree that you do not have any rights in this Site and that Company will have no liability to you if this Site is discontinued or your ability to access the Site or any content you may have posted on the Site is terminated.","Any other terms of sale or return and warranty policies on our Site are hereby incorporated by reference into these Terms.","Company may assign this agreement, in whole or in part, at any time with or without notice to you. You may not assign this agreement, or any part of it, to any other person. Any attempt by you to do so is void.","These Terms constitute a binding agreement between you and Company and are accepted by you upon your use of the Site, your purchase of any products or services from the Site, or use of your account.  Both you and Company acknowledge and agree that no partnership is formed and neither of you nor Company has the power or the authority to obligate or bind the other. If Company fails to act with respect to your breach or anyone else's breach on any occasion, Company is not waiving its right to act with respect to future or similar breaches. If any provision of these Terms shall be unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these terms of use and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.","The Helium Mobile Store (the “Store”) is a service available through the Site and the App.   Hotspots purchased in the Store are subject to our Hotspot and Handsets Returns and Warranty.","Typographical Errors and Incorrect Pricing. In the event a product or service on the Store is listed at an incorrect price due to typographical error or error in pricing information received from our suppliers, we shall have the right to refuse or cancel any orders placed for the product or service listed at an incorrect price. We shall have the right to refuse or cancel any such orders whether or not the order has been confirmed and your credit or debit card charged. If your credit or debit card has already been charged for the purchase and your order is canceled, we shall promptly issue a credit to your credit or debit card account in the amount of the incorrect price.","Order Acceptance. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to refuse or cancel any order for any product or service listed on the Site for any reason. Your account on the Site may also be restricted or terminated for any reason, at our sole discretion. Some situations that may result in your order being canceled include limitations on quantities available for purchase, inaccuracies or errors in product or pricing information, or suspected fraud, Gaming (as defined below), or other payment card issues. We may also require additional verifications or information before accepting any order. We will contact you if all or any portion of your order is canceled or if additional information is required to accept your order. Company reserves the right, at our sole discretion, to limit the quantity of products and services purchased per person, per household, and/or per order. These restrictions may be applicable to orders placed by the same account, the same credit card, and also to orders that use the same billing and/or shipping address. Reselling of any Company products or services are prohibited absent the explicit written permission of the Company.  For purposes of these Terms, reselling shall be defined as purchasing or intending to purchase any product(s) or service(s)  from Company for the purpose of engaging in a commercial sale of that same product(s) or service(s) with a third party.","Online Payments; Credit Cards; Pay with Crypto. You can purchase products and/or services on the Site. For items purchased on HelloHelium.com and the App, we accept credit and debit cards issued by U.S. banks. When you make a payment to Company with a credit card, the Store utilizes Shopify, Inc.’s payment processing platform, and by purchasing Company’s Products or Services you consent to Shopify, Inc.’s terms of service. If a credit card account is being used for a transaction, we may obtain pre-approval for an amount up to the amount of the payment. If you want to designate a different credit card or if there is a change in your credit card, you must promptly change your information online. This may temporarily delay your ability to make online payments while we verify your new payment information.","YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT IF YOU ARE MAKING ONLINE PAYMENTS THAT: (A) ANY CREDIT CARD, DEBIT CARD AND BANK ACCOUNT INFORMATION YOU SUPPLY IS TRUE, CORRECT AND COMPLETE; (B) CHARGES INCURRED BY YOU WILL BE HONORED BY YOUR CREDIT/DEBIT CARD COMPANY OR BANK; (C) YOU WILL PAY THE CHARGES INCURRED BY YOU IN THE AMOUNTS POSTED, INCLUDING ANY APPLICABLE TAXES; AND (D) YOU ARE THE PERSON IN WHOSE NAME THE CARD WAS ISSUED AND YOU ARE AUTHORIZED TO MAKE A PURCHASE OR OTHER TRANSACTION WITH THE RELEVANT CREDIT CARD AND CREDIT CARD INFORMATION.","Customers have the option to pay for Store items in the App with supported digital assets. If applicable the Helium Mobile App displays the digital asset equivalent of the $US price of the item. We use Pyth to display the estimated prices, which are subject to change from moment to moment due to changes (slippage) in the exchange rate/spot price of the digital asset. Upon your confirmation of the sale, the transaction will be executed at the spot price of the selected digital asset as determined by Jupiter. ALL ITEMS PURCHASED WITH SUPPORTED DIGITAL ASSETS ARE NONREFUNDABLE.","Company Access to Hotspots. Company reserves the right to deactivate Customer’s Helium Mobile Hotspot in the event that the Company identifies or suspects any of the following regarding a Customer’s Helium Mobile Hotspot order or usage:","Chargeback, fraudulent payment, or other action or omission resulting in the cancellation of payment for Customer's Helium Mobile Hotspot order;","Customer's Helium Mobile Hotspot is lost or stolen during delivery, or otherwise fails to be delivered to Customer;","Customer's Helium Mobile Hotspot is deployed outside the United States of America;","Gaming; and/or","Fraud.","Additionally, Company reserves the right to access Customer’s Helium Mobile Hotspot for the purpose of Helium Network maintenance and stability to perform certain functions, including, but not limited to:","Access, review, and download logs from Customer’s Helium Mobile Hotspot and/or CBRS Radios;","Access, review, and download logs from Customer’s Helium Mobile Hotspot;","Perform critical software/firmware updates to Customer’s Helium Mobile Hotspot for the purpose of Helium Network stability and security; and","Ban Hotspots suspected of Gaming or fraudulent activity.","Digital Asset rewards are issued under the authority of Helium Improvement Protocols.  Company, as a Service Provider to the Helium Network, can incentivize Helium Mobile subscribers and community deployers through the offer of rewards, either directly or indirectly, in exchange for contributions to the Helium Network, including wireless coverage and subscriber location data (“Token Rewards”).  As a Service Provider, Company supports Token Rewards in its sole discretion.  Company has the right to discontinue support for Token Rewards and/or change the status of any discretionary Token Reward criteria without notice, for any reason.","Token Rewards are designed to reward materially positive contributions to the Helium Network, through enhancing either network performance, network utility, or both. Token Rewards are not intended to reward self-serving activity that has no material benefit to the Helium Network (“Gaming”).  The Company, as a Service Provider, is committed to identifying and preventing Gaming wherever and whenever possible.","Any Gaming, or failure to follow these and/or any other applicable terms and conditions, any violation of law, rule, or regulation, any conduct detrimental to the interests of the Company, any fraudulent activity or attempted fraudulent activity, any dissemination of information designed to defraud the Company, or any misrepresentation of any information furnished to the Company or its affiliates by any hotspot deployer, builder, Helium Mobile Subscriber, or any third party (collectively, “Prohibited Conduct”), may result in the Company exercising any and all available remedies (“Company’s Remedies”), with or without notice.","Token Rewards may have no value and the Company makes no promises or warranties as to the value of any rewards. You understand that any Token Rewards or other rewards you may be eligible to earn from any activity are not guaranteed and may vary depending on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, individual activities, Helium Network usage, app configuration, technical and/or operational issues, and Helium Network governance. Token Rewards are a function of Helium Network governance and design and are subject to change without notice.  The Company is not responsible for providing, guaranteeing, and/or refunding any rewards or changes to award eligibility due to subscriber behavior, app permissions, Helium Network usage, Helium Network outages, service outages, outages related to the Solana blockchain, or any other factors that may impact rewards.","IN NO EVENT SHALL NOVA LABS, INC. BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST REVENUE OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF THE ACTS OR OMISSIONS OF NOVA LABS, INC. IN CONNECTION WITH TOKEN REWARDS, OR COSTS OR ATTORNEYS’ FEES.","HNT Tokens. HNT (“Digital Asset”) is the native token of the Helium Network. The Helium Network community has determined that hotspot deployers may earn HNT Rewards for providing coverage for the Helium Mobile Network. Company is not responsible for ensuring HNT rewards are accurately calculated, distributed, or stored. Company reserves the right, in its sole and ultimate discretion, to deactivate rewards for any Helium Mobile Hotspot engaging in suspicious activity, gaming, utilizing the Services primarily for earning rewards rather than good faith use of the Services, and/or attempting to earn HNT or other rewards in any manner that does not comport with the stated goals of the applicable HIPs, any and all as solely determined by Helium Mobile.","Company is not responsible for ensuring HNT Rewards for any rewards-eligible activity are accurately calculated, distributed, or stored. Company does not issue, pay out, or otherwise distribute HNT Rewards except as expressly authorized by the applicable HIPs.  Earning HNT Rewards is not guaranteed and may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to, individual activities, network usage, app configuration, technical and/or operational issues, and network governance. HNT Rewards are subject to and a function of Helium Network governance and design and are subject to change without notice.  HNT and any other Helium Network tokens may have no value, and Company makes no promises, guarantees, or warranties as to the value of HNT tokens.","IN NO EVENT SHALL NOVA LABS, INC. BE LIABLE TO A CURRENT OR FORMER HOTSPOT OWNER OR DEPLOYER , OR ANYONE ACTING ON THE HOTSPOT OWNER’S OR DEPLOYER’S BEHALF, FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST REVENUE OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF THE ACTS OR OMISSIONS OF NOVA LABS, INC. IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROGRAM, OR COSTS OR ATTORNEYS’ FEES.","You understand that any HNT you may be eligible to earn from any rewardable activity are not guaranteed and may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to, individual activities, network usage, app configuration, technical and/or operational issues, and network governance. HNT rewards are a function of network governance and design and are subject to change without notice.  Company is not responsible for calculating, distributing, providing, guaranteeing, and/or refunding any rewards or changes to award eligibility due to subscriber behavior, app permissions, network usage, network outages, service outages, outages related to the Solana blockchain, or any other factors that may impact rewards. HNT and any other network tokens may have no value, and Company makes no promises, guarantees, or warranties as to the value of HNT tokens.","Digital Assets. DIGITAL ASSETS MAY HAVE NO VALUE.  You have carefully reviewed and understand the following risks, as well as all other risks associated with the Digital Assets and the Helium network, all of which could render the Digital Assets worthless or of little value.","No Claim, Loan, or Ownership Interest You acknowledge that owning or holding the Digital Assets does not provide you with rights of any form with respect to the Company or its revenues or assets, including without limitation any voting, redemption, liquidation, proprietary (including all forms of intellectual property) or other financial rights, and Digital Assets do not provide you with any ownership, equity, or other interest in Company.  You acknowledge and agree that the Company. does not own or otherwise control the Helium Network and that the Digital Assets have no rights or attributes other than as implemented on the Helium network.","No Other Representations or Warranties.  Company does not make and expressly disclaims all representations and warranties, express, implied or statutory with respect to Digital Assets.  Company specifically does not represent or warrant and expressly disclaims any representation or warranty, express, implied, or statutory, including without limitation, any representations or warranties of title, non-infringement, merchantability, usage, suitability or fitness for any particular purpose, or as to the workmanship or technical coding thereof, or the absence of any defects therein, whether latent or patent.","New Technology.  The technology associated with the Helium Network is new and may not function as intended, or at all.  The Helium Network may not be capable of consistent operation or operation in perpetuity.  The Helium Network might not function as intended and any Digital Assets associated with the Helium Network may not have functionality that is desirable or valuable. Technology changes rapidly, and the Helium Network and any Digital Assets may become outdated.","Lack of Interest.  The ongoing success of the Helium Network and any Digital Assets relies on the interest and participation of third parties. The Helium Network may fail to attract sufficient interest from third parties and there can be no assurance or guarantee that there will be sufficient interest or use of the Helium network and the Digital Assets may have no value.","Ability to Transact or Resell. There is no guarantee or representation of liquidity and transferability of Digital Assets.","Volatility. The value of Digital Assets has been subject to, and may again in the future experience, extreme volatility, which can be influenced by a variety of unpredictable factors (often with no clear indication of what is driving such volatility).  You understand there can be no assurance that the Digital Assets will maintain their present value in the future, or that they will have any value at all.","Source Code. You acknowledge that Company does not control the source code underpinning the Digital Assets and the Helium Network.  Such source code may contain flaws, bugs, defects or inconsistencies that could compromise the predictability, usability, functionality, stability of the Digital Assets and the Helium Network.","Security. Digital Assets related to the Helium network may be subject to expropriation and/or theft, intentional or unintentional bugs or weaknesses or cyber-attacks that may negatively affect the Digital Assets or result in loss or ability to access Digital Assets.","Access to Private Keys.  Loss of private key(s) associated with the digital wallet storing the Digital Assets will result in loss of such Digital Assets.  Moreover, any party that gains access to such private key(s), including by gaining access to login credentials of a hosted wallet or vault service you use to store the Digital Assets may be able to misappropriate your Digital Assets.  Company is not responsible for any such losses.","Effect of Applicable Laws, Uncertain Regulatory Framework and Risk of Government Action.  You acknowledge that Company does not administer the Helium Network and that the Helium Network is subject to various laws governing all aspects of the Helium Network and the Digital Assets. The regulatory status of cryptographic tokens, digital assets and blockchain technology is unclear or unsettled in many jurisdictions.  It is difficult to predict how or whether governmental authorities will regulate such technologies. It is likewise difficult to predict how or whether any governmental authority may make changes to existing laws, regulations and/or rules that will affect cryptographic tokens, digital assets, blockchain technology and its applications. Such changes could negatively impact the Digital Assets in various ways that may render certain aspects thereof unlawful or commercially undesirable. Additionally, governmental authorities may apply regulatory limits or restrictions on the holding, transfer or taxation of the Digital Assets.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/legal/website-terms"},"/legal/privacy":{"version":1,"title":"The Path to Simplicity","description":"Helium is returning to its roots with a unified vision under HIP 138, emphasizing simplicity and unity in the ecosystem.","keywords":"","h1":["Privacy Policy"],"h2":[],"h3":["Applicability","What Information We Collect","How We Use Information","How We Collect Information","We Combine Information","When We Share Information","Your Choices","Our Cookie and Ad Policy","You May Have Certain Additional Rights","We Store Information in the United States","Children’s Privacy","How We Protect Information","Third-Party Services and Sites","Updates","How To Contact Us"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","EFFECTIVE SINCE","July 3, 2023","LAST UPDATED","July 20, 2024","This Privacy Notice explains how Nova Labs, Inc. and our subsidiaries and affiliates collect and use personal information. It applies to our Helium Mobile website, mobile app, and any other of our products, hardware and services (collectively, “Services”) that directly link to this Notice. This Notice does not apply where it is not linked. This Notice does not apply to our employees or contractors.","Depending on the nature of our relationship with you and how you choose to use the Services, we may collect the following information:","We collect account information. We collect information relating to your account. For example, we collect basic registration details like name, address and email address. We also collect your telephone number and username when you create an account.","We collect transaction and billing information. When you buy a product or purchase a subscription we collect billing information. This includes your form of payment and billing address. We collect other information about your use of your digital asset wallet. This includes information about digital asset types and balances. It may also include information about your wallet address and destination wallet.","We collect location information. We collect your zip code and state. Based on your IP address, we may also derive location information. If you enable certain features through the Services such as Discovery Mapping or other mapping Services, we collect precise location. This information helps support the Helium Network. We may also collect precise location information about your devices when you request troubleshooting or technical support for those devices.","We collect customer proprietary network information (CPNI). As a reseller of cellular services, certain information is generated by your use of our voice Services. This is information that relates to the type, quantity, destination, technical configuration, location, and amount of use of the voice Services. For example, this information includes the numbers called and date and time of calls. It also includes number of minutes on a call or information on your bill that relates to your voice Services. This information constitutes \"CPNI.\" For more information on how we use CPNI and your choices, read the \"Your Choices\" section below.","We collect information about your usage of the Services and network. We collect information about your interactions with the Services. For example, for data sessions, when you send an SMS we collect source, destination, size, and date and time.","We collect device and performance information. We collect information about your device. This includes information about any connected third-party devices. The information we collect may include Internet speed, signal strength, error rates, length of connection time and other performance information. We may collect information about the quality of the wireless networks in your area. We may collect product serial numbers and other device identifiers such as IMEI numbers. For example, this might include your operating system and hardware model. We collect information about the browser or device you are using. This may include battery strength and other device analytics. We may look at what site you came from, or what site you visit when you leave us.","We collect feedback and other voluntarily provided information. We collect information that you give us when you complete a survey or participate in a contest or promotion. This includes when you write a review or make a suggestion. It also includes your communications with our customer service team.","We collect job application information. If you apply for a job, we collect information about you, your prior education and work history. We collect your resume and information about your skills and qualifications for the position.","Now that you know what we collect, we want to tell you why and what we do with that information. Below we explain how we use information:","We use information to communicate with you. We use information to respond to your questions, including questions about our Services or your relationship with us. We also use information to communicate with you about this Notice or our Terms. We may also contact you about your feedback. We use information to send you alerts and other notifications. If you apply for a job with us, we use that information to process your application.","We use information to provide and improve our Services. We use information to process your order and to provide the Services. For example, to connect you to the network and route communications. We also use information to develop and improve our Services. For example, by saving certain preferences you choose. This information helps to customize your experience and analyze trends.","We use some information for marketing purposes. Where permitted by law, we use your information to share updates about new products and special offers, including promotions, surveys, and contests. This may include new features and updates. These might be our own offers or products or select third-party offers or products we think you might find interesting. This includes serving you with content on our platforms or on social media platforms. This may occur after you leave our sites or platforms and may encourage you to return. We may also serve ads that we think are relevant to you based on your browsing habits.","We use information to protect our company and users. We use information to protect our company and users, for example to identify fraud and secure, protect accounts, and protect Nova. This includes looking into potentially prohibited or illegal activity. We also use information to verify your identity.","We also use information as otherwise permitted by law or as we describe to you.","Like many other companies, there are different ways that we collect information. We have outlined them below:","We collect information directly from you. You might provide us information in several ways. For example, we collect information when you create an account or register a device. We also collect information when you make a purchase, contact us, or participate in a survey. We collect any other information you voluntarily provide to us when using the Services.","We collect information passively. We collect information about users over time and across different websites and apps. We also work with third parties that collect personal information this way. We may use several common tracking tools to collect information. Tracking tools include browser cookies and web beacons. To learn more about cookies visit the FTC's Online Tracking page. We may work with others to gather information on our platforms and elsewhere. We may do this on our websites and in emails that we send to you.","We collect information about you from others. Business partners may provide information about you to us. We may also collect information about you from other account holders and subscribers.","We combine information that we have collected offline with information that we collect online as permitted by law. We combine information we have collected across other third-party sites. We combine information collected across devices, such as computers and mobile devices. We also combine information that we get from a third party with information we already have.","You may not use any scraper, crawler, spider, robot, or other automated means of any kind to access or copy data on the Site, deep-link to any feature or content on the Site, bypass our robot exclusion headers or other measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Site.","Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. Company will investigate occurrences that may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations. You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this Site or any activity being conducted on this Site.","As part of our business there are times that we share information with others. You can find out more about that here:","We share information within our family of companies. This includes current and future affiliates and subsidiaries.","We share information with our service providers. We may share information with trusted companies who serve as our vendors and help us deliver and operate our Services. Examples of service providers include sending marketing communications, sales support, and customer support. Certain anonymized information (including, but not limited to, coarse location) may be shared with these kinds of vendors for purposes of providing the Services. These Vendors will not resell or use your data other than for the purpose of providing the services.","We will share information if we think we have to in order to comply with the law or to protect ourselves. For example, we will share information to respond to a court order or subpoena or if a U.S. or non-U.S. law enforcement agency, government agency, or investigatory body requests it. We may also share information we collect when we investigate potential fraud, abuse, or other similar violations of our terms. We may need to share information in an emergency.","We may share information with any successor to all or part of our business. If all or part of our business is sold, we're part of a merger or acquisition, or there is financing or bankruptcy, we may share information as part of that transaction.","We may also share information for other reasons we may describe to you or as permitted under law.","You have certain choices about how we use your information. Those are described here:","You can opt out of certain marketing. To stop receiving our promotional emails follow the instructions in any promotional message you get from us. If you opt out of getting marketing messages, you will continue to receive non-marketing messages from us about your relationship with us where permitted by law. For example, messages about technical updates and security.","Your choices around CPNI information. Under federal law, you have the choice to approve or disapprove certain uses of your CPNI (defined above) that are outside the scope of Nova's use for ordinary business operations, fraud prevention, or legal compliance. We may use CPNI for marketing our other Services to you. We may also share your CPNI among our affiliates or subsidiaries to offer you services different from the services you currently purchased. If you don't want your CPNI used for the affiliate and subsidiary sharing purposes described here, or for marketing of our other Services, please notify us by contacting Customer Service or by sending a written notice to support@hellohelium.com. Unless you notify us in one of these ways, we may use your CPNI as described above beginning 30 days after the first time we notify you of this CPNI policy. This would be 30 days after you purchase a subscription for voice Services. Your choice will remain valid until you notify us that you wish to change your selection. Your decision about use of your CPNI will not affect the provision of any services you currently have with us.","You can control certain settings on your mobile device or account settings. For example, you can turn off the location services or push notifications on your phone. To modify the push notifications you get from us, you can change your preferences in settings. To stop sharing your location and stop earning MOBILE, turn off the \"Mapping\" feature in the Helium app. You also can modify app level permissions, such as location collection, through your device settings. If you turn off \"Mapping\" in the Helium app, location services may still be through your device settings unless you change your device settings.","You can control cookies and tracking tools. Your browser may give you the ability to control cookies or other tracking tools. How you do so depends on the type of tool. Certain browsers can be set to reject browser cookies. The Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising provides consumers with the ability to manage certain choices online here and provides a tool for managing mobile choices here. If you block cookies, certain features on our sites may not work. If you block or reject cookies, not all of the tracking described here will stop.","Our Do Not Track Policy: Some browsers have “do not track” features that allow you to tell a website not to track you. These features are not all uniform. We do not currently respond to those signals. If you block cookies, certain features on our sites may not work. If you block or reject cookies, not all of the tracking described here will stop. Options you select are browser and device specific.","In some places laws grant residents certain additional rights. You can reach us using the contact information listed in the “contact us” section below.","Right to inquire and request deletions. Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights related to the information we collect about you. This includes the right to ask us what information we collect and use. It also includes the right to ask us to delete information we have collected from you. If you delete your account, you may not be able to use the Services. To exercise these rights, contact us at support@nova-labs.com. We will verify your request by matching information you provide us with information we have about you. If you are submitting on someone else’s behalf we may ask for additional information. This may include providing a signed letter verifying your right to make this request.","Information we collect is stored in the United States. The Services are intended for people who are in the United States. If you live outside of the United States and choose to use the Services you understand that it is at your own risk. If you live outside of the US, you understand and agree that we may transfer your information to the US. Our sites and businesses are subject to US laws, which may not afford the same level of protection as those in your country. By submitting your information, you agree to the processing of it in the US.","The places where this notice appears are meant for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or legal guardian and think your child has given us information, you can write to us or email us at the addresses provided at the end of this notice. Please mark your inquiries “Parental Information Request.” Parents, you can learn more about how to protect children’s privacy here.","We use reasonable security measures as required by relevant law. As a carrier under federal law, you have the right, and we have a duty, to protect the confidentiality of your CPNI. The Internet is not 100% secure. We cannot promise that your use of our sites will be completely safe. We encourage you to use caution when using the Internet.","We may link to third-party sites. Third party apps or platforms may also feature our services. Our sites may also include third party content that collects information. We do not control these third parties. This Policy does not apply to the privacy practices of those entities. Please read their privacy policies carefully. We are not responsible for the practices of these third-parties.","From time to time we may change our privacy notice. We will notify you of any material changes to our notice as required by law. We will also post an updated copy on the places where this appears. Please check periodically for updates.","To learn more about our privacy practices or this notice, please contact us at hello@hellohelium.com.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/legal/privacy"},"/legal/returns":{"version":1,"title":"The Path to Simplicity","description":"Helium is returning to its roots with a unified vision under HIP 138, emphasizing simplicity and unity in the ecosystem.","keywords":"","h1":["Helium Mobile Hotspot Returns & Warranty"],"h2":["Helium Mobile Hotspots"],"h3":[],"h4":["Product Return Policy","Product Limited Warranty","Product Limited Warranty Terms"],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","EFFECTIVE DATE","November 25, 2025","Unless otherwise indicated at the point of sale, purchases of Helium Mobile hotspots (the “Product”) through Nova Labs, Inc. (DBA Helium Mobile) cannot be returned or refunded. Replacements may be made in accordance with the warranty conditions for devices deemed defective.","Our Products come with a standard limited warranty (the “Warranty”). Before using our Warranty, please carefully read and understand the conditions outlined below.","Warranty Provider: Nova Labs, Inc., herein referred to as \"Manufacturer.\"","Warranty Period: This Warranty is valid for a period of 12-months from the original date of purchase by the original end-user purchaser (the “Warranty Period”). A copy of the original proof of purchase must be presented to validate the date of purchase.","Coverage: This Warranty covers defects in materials and workmanship in the Product under normal use and conditions. Products must be purchased as new from Nova-Labs or an authorized reseller. This Warranty only applies to the original purchaser of the Product and will be voided if transferred. Products purchased secondhand or used, or from auction sites, are not covered by this Warranty.","What We Will Do: If a covered defect arises and a valid claim is received within the Warranty Period, the Manufacturer, at its sole option and discretion, will either (1) repair the Product at no charge, using new or refurbished replacement parts, or (2) replace the Product with a new or refurbished Product.  We will not refund the purchase price of the Product. Products provided as replacements will continue under the original Product's Warranty at the original start date. The Warranty date will not change or reset due to any repair or replacement service performed.","How to Obtain Warranty Service: To obtain Warranty Service, the original end-user purchaser must contact the Manufacturer's customer service and follow the instructions provided. The purchaser will be required to furnish proof of purchase details and comply with registration requirements before receiving Warranty service.","Exclusions: This Warranty does not cover:","Damage resulting from misuse, abuse, unauthorized modification or repair, or failure to follow the Product's instruction manual.","Damage resulting from improper installation or connection to incompatible equipment, including third-party software.","Wear and tear from normal use.","Damage caused by accidents, natural disasters, or other external causes beyond the Manufacturer's control.","Products without proof of purchase or that have been resold or transferred.","Products obtained through promotions, contests, giveaways, or sponsorships.","Limitation of Liability:","YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, MANUFACTURER AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES (COLLECTIVELY, “MANUFACTURER PARTIES”) SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY (WHETHER CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), BREACH OR FAILURE OF ANY WARRANTY OR OTHERWISE) FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES THAT MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU IN CONNECTION WITH THE PRODUCT OR THESE TERMS, INCLUDING ANY LOSS OF DATA, WHETHER OR NOT A MANUFACTURER PARTY OR ITS REPRESENTATIVES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH LOSSES ARISING.","YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE MANUFACTURER PARTIES’ TOTAL LIABILITY IN CONNECTION WITH THE PRODUCT OR THIS LIMITED WARRANTY WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU ACTUALLY PAID AT RETAIL FOR THE PRODUCT.","MANUFACTURER IS NOT YOUR INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER (“ISP”). YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOUR USE OF THE PRODUCT WILL NOT BREACH ANY AGREEMENT YOU HAVE WITH ANY THIRD PARTY, INCLUDING YOUR ISP.  TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, MANUFACTURER SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY BREACH, NON-PERFORMANCE, OR NON- COMPLIANCE WITH ANY OBLIGATIONS OR ANY OTHER VIOLATIONS OF THE TERMS OF ANY AGREEMENTS OR CONTRACTS YOU MAY HAVE WITH ANY THIRD PARTY, INCLUDING YOUR ISP. MANUFACTURER IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ANY BREACH, NON-PERFORMANCE, OR NON-COMPLIANCE WITH ANY OBLIGATIONS OR ANY OTHER VIOLATIONS OF THE TERMS OF ANY AGREEMENTS OR CONTRACTS YOU MAY HAVE WITH ANY ISP OR UNDER ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY.  MANUFACTURER IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR COMPLIANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE LAWS OR REGULATIONS AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OR OPERATION OF THE PRODUCT, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY APPLICABLE REGULATIONS OF THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION.","Some states, provinces or territories do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.","Governing Law: This Warranty shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of New York.","No Other Warranties: THE LIMITED WARRANTY WRITTEN ABOVE IS THE ONLY EXPRESS WARRANTY MANUFACTURER PROVIDES FOR THE PRODUCT, AND THE ABOVE REMEDY IS YOUR SOLE REMEDY. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, MANUFACTURER EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL OTHER WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER STATUTORY OR IMPLIED, ARISING FROM COURSE OF CONDUCT OR OTHERWISE, REGARDING THE PRODUCT, EXCEPT THAT ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT THAT CANNOT BE DISCLAIMED ARE LIMITED IN DURATION TO THE PERIOD OF THE WARRANTY DESCRIBED ABOVE.   NO MANUFACTURER EMPLOYEE, AGENT, OR RESELLER IS AUTHORIZED TO MAKE ANY MODIFICATION, EXTENSION, OR ADDITION TO THE LIMITED WARRANTY DESCRIBED ABOVE.","Your Rights Under Law: This Warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may also have other rights which vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts, so the above limitations may not apply to you.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/legal/returns"},"/wox":{"version":1,"title":"WOX - Wi-Fi Offload Experience | HeliumOS","description":"WOX gives carrier operators real-time visibility and control over Wi-Fi offload, so subscribers always connect to the best network. Book a demo.","keywords":"","h1":["WOX Wi-Fi Offload Experience","Wi-Fi Offload Experience"],"h2":["Your Edge: Visibility into Wi-Fi Offload.","How WOX Makes Decisions.","Working with WOX.","Championed by the Wireless Broadband Alliance.","Talk to the Helium Team.","Back to HeliumOS"],"h3":["Wi-Fi offload is a black box.","Visible experience."],"h4":["Collect","Compare","Decide","Connect"],"h5":["Drop-in integration","Full-control dashboard","Wi-Fi performance"],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","WOX decides in real time whether a connection should happen, not just whether it can, so subscribers always land on the best network available.","Learn more","Book a demo","Learn More","Book a Demo","Why it Matters","WOX gives network operators live visibility into every Wi-Fi offload session, so you can see what's happening and improve subscriber experience across converged networks.","The problem","Offload decisions are a blind yes or no: operators can't see if the Wi-Fi signal is strong enough before a subscriber connects. When it's not, they pay for it in quality of experience.","The solution","WOX Gateway checks signal quality in real time and only connects a subscriber to the Wi-Fi network when it meets the KPIs you set. That's real control, not just a yes-or-no gate.","The Process","Intelligent, real-time decision layer for quality connections. Like your own personal Wi-Fi traffic cop.","Read Docs","WOX reads live signal quality from the cell tower and the Wi-Fi access point, using the same standards set by 3GPP, WBA, and IETF, no new hardware required.","Quality-of-experience scoring across cellular and Wi-Fi, evaluated side by side for each connection.","WOX Gateway's policy engine accepts or rejects the offload session based on the requirements set by the carrier.","A seamless, smart, and transparent handoff to whichever network—cellular or Wi-Fi—actually serves the subscriber best.","By Role","Whether you're engineering the integration, setting policy, or hosting a Wi-Fi network, WOX has you covered.","Ship it without new hardware. WOX speaks standard RADIUS (including CoA) as a passthrough proxy.","For engineers","Set policies and KPIs, then see exactly how offload is performing against them, live.","For operators","See exactly how your Wi-Fi is performing for offload, so you can improve deployments.","For venues","Get in touch","Recognition","By enabling operators to use Wi-Fi to augment coverage and capacity where it is needed most, Helium is helping accelerate the role of Wi-Fi as a true carrier-grade asset. We’re pleased to see that leadership from an active member translating into solutions that give operators greater visibility and control as they converge Wi-Fi into their networks.","Tiago Rodrigues","President & CEO of the WBA","Talk to the team","Whether you're a carrier, MVNO, municipality, retailer, hospitality group, large venue, or just care about connectivity for your customers, let's talk about the right HeliumOS solution for you.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/wox"},"/premiumsupport":{"version":1,"title":"Premium Support","description":"Premium Support for Helium fleet operators. Faster resolutions, less downtime, more peace of mind.","keywords":"","h1":["Expert Help,When It Matters Most."],"h2":["Pick your Plan","Pro Services","Talk to Us","FAQ","Common Questions"],"h3":["Premium Support gives growing deployers unprecedented access to the Helium team when they need it most. Provide world-class support to your hosts, and keep your fleet running at peak performance."],"h4":["Monthly","Annual","$0/","mo","$50","/mo","$250","Full package","$29","$199"],"h5":["FREE","BASIC","GROWTH","ENTERPRISE"],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","NEW","View Plans & Pricing","For Helium Plus deployers upgrading existing Wi-Fi networks. All new Helium Plus deployments include a 90-day free trial of the Basic plan at sign up.","For Helium Plus deployers upgrading existing Wi-Fi networks.  All new Helium Plus deployments include a 90-day free trial of the Basic plan at sign up.","No credit card required. Just deploy and you're in.","No credit card required.Just deploy and you're in.","Save up to 42%","For trying things out and one-off questions.","Start here","Get started","1 ticket / month","3 business day turnaround","Intercom chat","1 seat","Earnings analysis","Live chat or calls","For active deployers who need fast answers.","Billed month-to-month","3 tickets / month","1 business day turnaround","Intercom + Live chat (when available)","3 seats","Email-based onboarding support","Phone calls","MOST POPULAR","For teams scaling and tracking earnings closely.","Unlimited tickets","6 business hour turnaround","10 seats","Phone calls + Intercom","30-min onboarding call per venue","End-customer support","For channel partners and large Helium Plus operators.","Pricing based on venue count","Inquire","Unlimited Tickets","2 business hour response time","Vertex appeals","Carrier Throttling Audits (10/mo)","Carrier Throttling Appeals (3/mo)","Enterprise Level onboarding support","End-customer support included","Private Slack channel","Billed $348/yr, save $252","Billed $2,388/yr, save $612","Earnings analysis included","Intercom only","Unlimited seats","1hr+ onboarding calls + senior engineers","Contact Our Team","For custom solutions that go beyond a support plan. Get direct access to Helium engineers for complex deployments, bespoke integrations, and projects that need real hands-on work.","Find answers to common questions about our support tiers, response times, and specialized services.","What counts as a ticket?","What's actually free vs. paid?","Can I upgrade, downgrade, or cancel anytime?","What's a Carrier Throttling audit?","What's a Carrier Throttling appeal?","Are response times guaranteed?","How is this different from the support I already get?","Got more questions? Contact our Team.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/premiumsupport"},"/network-integration":{"version":1,"title":"Indoor Wi-Fi Coverage, Already Live | Helium Network","description":"Connect to Helium's distributed, carrier-grade Wi-Fi network, already covering the indoor spaces macro cellular networks can't reach. No infrastructure buildout.","keywords":"","h1":["Helium Network Integration"],"h2":["Why Carriers Are Choosing Helium Over Building More.","Helium Network at a Glance.","1 Million+","49 TB+","40,000+","10K Movies","USA + Mexico","Brazil+","140,000+","Brazil +","Talk to the Helium Team.","Back to HeliumOS"],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","HeliumOS natively integrates with the world's largest community-built wireless network. Deliver quality indoor coverage to your subscribers.","Get started","View the Network live","Traditional infrastructure takes capital and time. The Helium Network is already live, powered by a community of deployers ready to build coverage more where you need it.","Talk to us","Operating at scale, in partnership global carriers.","DDD8FF","Daily active users","Daily data transferred","Community-deployed access points","Streamed today","Live carrier partnerships","International expansion underway","Daily Users","Daily Data Transferred","Community-deployed Hotspots","See the Network Live","Whether you're a carrier, MVNO, municipality, retailer, hospitality group, large venue, or just care about connectivity for your customers, let's talk about the right HeliumOS solution for you.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service","This month averaged around 4.55M daily active users.","Daily active users across all carriers this month","Ask Helium AI a question...","HeliumAI","Talk to the Team"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/network-integration"},"/plus":{"version":1,"title":"Unlock the full potential of your network","description":"Monetize unused network capacity with crypto or USD payouts when visitors from participating carriers automatically and securely connect to your Wi-Fi network.","keywords":"","h1":[],"h2":["Plus","Unlock the full potential of your network.","How does it work?","Empower Your Clients.","Enhance Your Value.","Connect Your Guests.","Add New Revenues.","Contact Us"],"h3":[],"h4":["No Additional Hardware","Turnkey Solution","Earn & Grow"],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","Helium Plus enables the monetization of unused network capacity with crypto or USD payouts* when visitors from participating mobile carriers automatically and securely connect to your Wi-Fi network.","How does it work?","Join Plus Today","COMPATIBLE WITH","The merchants listed are not affiliated in any way with Helium. All logos or other marks are trademarked and owned by the merchant.","Helium Plus makes it simple to enable Helium on your existing Passpoint-enabled networks. The Helium Network is a distributed wireless network that allows individual service providers to get paid for sharing their extra network capacity.","Sample Docs Ubiquiti","Get in Touch","Helium integrates seamlessly into existing Wi-Fi networks.","Enable Carrier Offload on your network with a simple software configuration.","Monetize unused network capacity with crypto or USD payouts for data transferred on your network","Managed Service Providers","Managed Service Providers can now offer clients an innovative upgrade to their networks. Upgrade your existing Wi-Fi network into a revenue-generating asset that Helium's carrier partners will pay you to use.","Connect with us","Carrier Offload Capabilities","Offer seamless, secure, and frictionless connections for users.","Increase Earning Potential*","Unlock earnings from deployed hardware, enabling venues to monetize connectivity.","Future-Proof Technology","Stay ahead with cutting-edge solutions compatible with top devices.","VENUE OWNERS","Venues can turn connectivity into a competitive edge while unlocking additional revenue streams. Whether you’re a restaurant, gym, concert venue, or hotel, Helium brings a multitude of benefits.","Effortless Connectivity","Automatically connect customers and guests without sharing passwords.","Seamless Security","Offer secure, high-quality internet, enhancing the customer experience.","Revenue Made Simple","Earn revenue from your network, all while enhancing your operational efficiency.","Upgrade your network to boost service, attract customers, and earn rewards.","*Crypto Earning Terms & Conditions available at Helium Mobile","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/plus"},"/ai":{"version":1,"title":"Network Data for Carrier Strategic Advantage | HeliumAI","description":"Turn network data into the pricing and yield edge carriers need to compete. 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No coding or data science background required.","Book a demo","Learn more about the Helium Network","This month averaged around 4.55M daily active users.","Daily active users across all carriers this month","Ask Helium AI a question...","HeliumAI","Straight from the Helium Network's own RADIUS data: performance, demand by geography, how usage shifts over time.","Daily active users","Daily data transferred","Community-deployed access points","Streamed today","Live carrier partnerships","International expansion underway","Daily Users","Daily Data Transferred","Community-deployed Helium Sites","Talk to the team","View the Network live","This is the data operators, engineers, and leadership all make decisions from, now available the moment someone asks, not weeks later in a report.","Ask HeliumAI for exactly the view you need. Usage trends, ROI calculators, coverage maps, and more. Then share it with your team or external stakeholders.","See what's live, pending, or stalled before it becomes your problem. Catch it before your subscribers feel it.","See demand mapped to geography, then find where subscribers are underserved—and where the Helium Network already closes the gap.","Connect Helium AI to your existing AI stack via MCP server. Don't change how your team works, just give every one of them the edge.","The Helium Network is decentralized wireless infrastructure: a network delivering carrier-grade mobile coverage via Wi-Fi, built by people and enterprises who get rewarded in HNT, USDC, or USD for the amount of mobile traffic flowing through their deployments.","The Network is used as a Wi-Fi offload solution for where carriers lack cellular coverage for their subscribers, often indoors, where 70 to 80% of mobile traffic lives.","Offload subscribers","Build coverage","Whether you're a carrier, MVNO, municipality, retailer, hospitality group, large venue, or just care about connectivity for your customers, let's talk about the right HeliumOS solution for you.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service","Live answers from your actual subscriber, billing, and network data, in the dashboard or straight from the API."],"codeblock":[],"url":"/ai"},"/error":{"version":1,"title":"Error","description":"That doesnt seem to have worked.","keywords":"","h1":["Uh oh!"],"h2":[],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","Something went wrong. Please try that action again in a few minutes.","Return Home","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/error"},"/contact":{"version":1,"title":"Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":[],"h2":["Contact Helium"],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","get in touch","Reach out to our team members with questions.","Return Home","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/contact"},"/success":{"version":1,"title":"Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Thanks!"],"h2":[],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","We'll be in touch soon.","Return Home","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/success"},"/mobile/hotspotoutdoor":{"version":1,"title":"Helium Hotspot Outdoor - Only $499","description":"Hotspots earn HNT when they join the Helium Network, and provide local connectivity to Helium Mobile subscribers.","keywords":"","h1":[],"h2":["Hotspot Outdoor"],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","Hotspots earn HNT when they join the Helium Network, and provide local connectivity to Helium Mobile subscribers.","Built to be fully weather-resistant, this Hotspot keeps subscribers seamlessly connected wherever they gather, such as parks, venues, and cafes.","Setup Guide","Hotspot Specs","Range","Up to 800 ft with line of sight","BEST PLACED","Parks, beaches, streets, rooftops","Mounting","Mount externally on pole","Power","Power over ethernet required","Only $499","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/mobile/hotspotoutdoor"},"/mobile/hotspotindoor":{"version":1,"title":"Helium Hotspot - Only $249","description":"Hotspots earn HNT when they join the Helium Network, and provide local connectivity to Helium Mobile subscribers.","keywords":"","h1":[],"h2":["Hotspot Indoor"],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","Hotspots earn HNT when they join the Helium Network, and provide local connectivity to Helium Mobile subscribers.","Optimized for indoor performance, this Hotspot keeps subscribers seamlessly connected in a variety of venues, such as gyms, cafes and shops.","Setup Guide","Hotspot Specs","Range","Up to 150 ft indoors, and approximately 3,305 sq ft","BEST PLACED","Cafes, shops, restaurants, shopping centers","Mounting","Mount on a ceiling or wall","Power","Power over ethernet supported","Only $249","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/mobile/hotspotindoor"},"/simple":{"version":1,"title":"The Path to Simplicity","description":"Helium is returning to its roots with a unified vision under HIP 138, emphasizing simplicity and unity in the ecosystem.","keywords":"","h1":["A Path to Simplicity."],"h2":["Unified Rewards","Legacy Support"],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","Helium is returning to its roots with a unified vision under HIP 138, emphasizing simplicity and unity in the ecosystem. By consolidating all rewards back to HNT, Helium is making it easier for everyone to understand, engage, and benefit from the network.","Read HIP 138","All participants, regardless of whether they deploy IoT or Mobile Hotspots, will now earn HNT, simplifying the reward structure and making it more accessible for new and existing users.","From implementation date, HNT emissions will bypass MOBILE and IOT treasuries and go directly as rewards instead.","Until the full implementation of HIP 138, participants in the network will continue to be rewarded in IOT and MOBILE tokens. These tokens will  continue to be tradable and redeemable for HNT on Solana.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/simple"},"/mobile/beacon":{"version":1,"title":"Helium Beacon","description":"Helium Beacon is a fully-configured hardware solution that delivers reliable connectivity for hundreds of phones and devices, especially in areas where traditional cell coverage is disrupted or unavailable. 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With versatile power options, it begins offering connectivity to Helium Mobile subscribers and most other major US carriers immediately upon setup, with no additional configuration needed.","In addition, it advertises a “Helium Free WiFi” network accessible to all devices, ensuring everyone stays connected without extra subscriptions or services.","Contact Mark Phillips to discuss site requirements, or if you'd like to donate Helium Beacons to areas in crisis.","Inquire about Hotspot Beacon","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/mobile/beacon"},"/mobile/smallbusiness":{"version":1,"title":"Poor Signal at work?","description":"Struggling with poor reception inside your business? Helium Hotspots bring outdoor mobile signal indoors, ensuring your customers and staff stay connected when it matters most.","keywords":"","h1":["Boost Connectivity.","Earn New Revenue."],"h2":["Why Businesses choose Helium.","How it works.","Install.","Wi-Fi.","Offload.","Earn.","Case Studies","Contact us to bring Helium to your Business."],"h3":["Step 1","Step 2","Step 3","Step 4"],"h4":["Better customer experiences.","Earn from your network.","Easy to deploy.","No passwords.No friction.","How Local Businesses Are Quietly Powering the Future of Wireless","Bringing better connectivity to New Orleans’ Historic French Quarter","How Universidad del Sagrado Corazón Is Building a More Resilient Network with Helium"],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","Fast, reliable connectivity isn’t a 'nice to have' anymore. It's expected.","Helium is a people-powered wireless network that helps businesses improve connectivity, attract more customers, and earn a new revenue stream.","Get in Touch","Stronger connectivity means happier customers, longer visits, and more repeat business.","Get rewarded when mobile devices connect.","Simple setup with minimal impact on your day-to-day operations.","Customers connect automatically without Wi-Fi logins or complicated credentials.","Helium is live in thousands of venues around the country. Simple. Reliable. Trusted by major carriers.","Set up a small device called a Helium Hotspot or simply upgrade your existing Wi-Fi Network.","Provide seamless and secure wireless coverage for your customers, no passwords needed.","Major carriers offload their subscribers* to Helium, ensuring reliable connectivity.","Earn rewards in USD or crypto for every device that connects.","*Conditional to Carrier Offload selection with Helium Plus","From major enterprises to small businesses, learn how Helium is being used to improve connectivity.","See all Case Studies","They set out to fix spotty indoor service –and joined a people-powered wireless network growing nationwide.","Learn more","Two deployers take on the challenge of bringing world-class connectivity to the world-famous neighborhood.","Puerto Rico’s oldest educational project is paving the way the future of decentralized wireless connectivity.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/mobile/smallbusiness"},"/mobile/signal":{"version":1,"title":"Poor Signal at work?","description":"Struggling with poor reception inside your business? Helium Hotspots bring outdoor mobile signal indoors, ensuring your customers and staff stay connected when it matters most.","keywords":"","h1":["Signal, Solved."],"h2":["Outdoor Signal,Indoors.","Contact us to bring Helium to your Business."],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","Struggling with poor reception inside your business? Helium Hotspots bring outdoor mobile signal indoors, ensuring your customers and staff stay connected when it matters most.","How does it work?","Get in Touch","Helium Hotspots make it easy to extend carrier offload indoors. Whether you run a café, retail store, or office, you can improve reception while supporting the world’s largest decentralized wireless network.","Boost my Cell Signal","Enhance Customer Experience","Eliminate dropped calls and slow data speeds for your guests and clients.","Boost Staff Productivity","Keep your team connected with reliable coverage in every corner of your business.","Be a Connectivity Hero","Transform your space into a signal-friendly zone that everyone appreciates.","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/mobile/signal"},"/mobile":{"version":1,"title":"Helium","description":"Connectivity, Rebuilt.","keywords":"","h1":["Wireless for the People.","Join over 358k active Hotspots."],"h2":["For the many.","Not the few.","Crowd-built Cellular.","Unlock the full potential of your network.","Don't have a compatible existing network?"],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":["Indoor Hotspot","Outdoor Hotspot"],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","The Helium Mobile Network radically shifts the power and ownership of connectivity into the hands of the people.","Join Helium","The Helium Mobile Network puts the power of connectivity into the hands of communities - away from Big Telco. Hotspots can be deployed anywhere lots of people visit, providing Carrier Offload services.","The Helium Mobile Network is an expanse of people-owned Hotspots and existing Wi-Fi networks that provide cellular services to phones and other devices in exchange for HNT or USD.","Helium is used by many major US carriers as an offload solution for when faster, better, or more affordable coverage is needed.","Learn about HNT","HELIUM PLUS","The Helium Mobile Network can be built using any Passpoint-capable access point. Monetize your existing deployments, and extend outside cellular signal into your premises with Helium Plus.","Learn about Helium Plus","Helium Mobile Hotspots allow anyone to create Helium Network coverage anywhere.","Indoor Hotspots are great for filling an indoor space with Helium Mobile coverage. Ideal locations are restaurants, shops, and gyms.","Learn More","->","Outdoor Hotspots create outdoor Helium Mobile coverage. Ideal locations are plazas, stadiums, and city streets.","World","Wireless World","Explore the world’s largest decentralized wireless network.","Explore Helium World","Share your internet and earn.","Mobile Hotspots","IoT Hotspots","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/mobile"},"/tradeup":{"version":1,"title":"Helium - CBRS to Wi-Fi Trade-Up","description":"For eligible radios, this program offers an opportunity to receive Helium Hotspots while retaining existing CBRS equipment.","keywords":"","h1":["CBRS to Wi-Fi Trade-Up"],"h2":["The CBRS Trade-Up Program has ended.","Common Questions"],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","UPDATE","CBRS Trade-Up Program has ended.","Read More","->","As outlined in HIP 139, the Helium community has reached an outcome for the handling of CBRS on the Mobile Network. For eligible radios, this program offers an opportunity to receive Helium Hotspots while retaining existing CBRS equipment.","Read HIP 139","As of February 28, 2025, and we’re no longer accepting new trade-up requests. If you’ve already submitted a request and have questions about its status, our support team is happy to assist you.","How long will my CBRS Radios continue to work?","What can I do with my CBRS radio after March 1st, 2025?","What happens if I paid SAS fee’s past the CBRS shut-off date?","Will my FreedomFi Gateway continue to work?","How do I know if my radio qualifies for the Hotspot trade-up program?","I've applied for my trade-up, when will my Hotspot be shipped?","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/tradeup"},"/waitlist":{"version":1,"title":"Helium - Own the Air","description":"Helium allows anyone to build and own massive wireless networks. ","keywords":"","h1":[],"h2":["Helium goes Global."],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":["JOIN THE WAITLIST"],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","Helium is bringing mobile access to millions more, around the globe. Interested in building the world's largest people-powered network in your country?","Sign up for the waitlist and be the first to know where Helium will go live next.","Email","Location","Submit","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/waitlist"},"/":{"version":1,"title":"Helium - Own the Air","description":"Helium allows anyone to build and own massive wireless networks. 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They Sell Better Coverage."],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Solutions","Products","Helium Network","Resources","Contact","Helium World","Helium represents the intelligent infrastructure that lets anyone build wireless connectivity, and the software that puts it to work.","Get Started","Checkout HeliumOS","New!","Introducing HeliumOS: The Operating System for the Business of Connectivity","Read More","Traditional networks struggle to reach the places people actually are — inside buildings, dense urban blocks, and areas carriers can't justify building for. The Helium Network closes that gap.","Built by a community of deployers incentivized by HNT, the Network provides connectivity to locations that need it most. No towers to build, no capital-intensive rollout. Wi-Fi access points deployed locally, creating distributed coverage across the globe.","The Network operates at carrier-scale today, serving millions of mobile users each day.","Explore the Network","About HNT","The intelligent operating system for the business of connectivity. Built for carriers, Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs), and large indoor venues like airports, arenas, schools, and shopping centers. Customers expect reliable connectivity without having to think about how they get it. For some businesses, connectivity is the product. For others, it's the experience. HeliumOS is the platform that runs both.","Telecom has never had a truly intelligent operating system. Until now. HeliumOS powers the business of connectivity.","Learn more about HeliumOS","Powering the Business of Connectivity","Data Transferred 24H","Anyone can build connectivity and put it to work.","The Operating System for Connectivity.","World","Explore the Network.","HNT is the currency of connectivity and the economic engine that fuels Helium. Instead of monopolies controlling the trillion dollar telco industry, HNT flips the legacy model on its head and empowers anyone to own a piece of the future.From major carriers and enterprises to small businesses and individuals, HNT drives affordable, people-powered connectivity for millions.","Learn more about HNT","From major enterprises to small businesses, learn how Helium is being used to improve connectivity.","See the Full Blog","With thousands of new education expansion zones going live, more campuses are primed and ready to do the same.","Sep 9, 2026","Just approved, HIP-150 raises the deployer earnings target minimum and adds per-site reward multipliers at venues that carry the Network's heaviest traffic.","Sep 4, 2026","HeliumOS | The Operating System for Connectivity","Sep 1, 2026","How one MSP turned the Helium Network into a solution for businesses that need indoor connectivity without a major physical overhaul.","Aug 30, 2026","Designed to float above the rest","See store","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","HNT","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/"},"/hnt":{"version":1,"title":"HNT - from Helium","description":"HNT is the core cryptocurrency of the Helium ecosystem, acting as its store of value, its governance rights, and its financial engine.","keywords":"","h1":[],"h2":["HNTThe Currency ForConnectivity.","Building Wireless the Old Way Costs a Fortune.","HNT Is the Center of a New Wireless Economy.","The Network at a Glance.","1 Million+","49 TB+","10K Movies","Earn, Buy, or Sell HNT.","The Tokenomics.","No Pre-mine","2-Year Halving Schedule","M HNT","Growing","$","K","Deployer Stories.","Resources"],"h3":["Earn.","Buy, Sell, Exchange.","Hard Cap","Data Demand","Burn Rate","Documentation","CoinMarketCap","Community"],"h4":["Coverage is deployed","Carriers offload subscribers onto the Network","HNT gets burned","Builders of the Network earn from real usage","Quality Connectivity from Piers to Sports Arenas","Little Fish, Big Fish: How One Deployer Scaled From Barbershops to Airports","Hosting a Mid-sized Festival With 70,000 People? 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They only build where they know the returns are guaranteed.","Carrier capex is shrinking, not growing","Major US carriers have been cutting infrastructure spend for years while demand for connectivity is exploding.","People affected by coverage gaps can't fix them","They know where coverage fails, but can't do anything about it.","the solution","HNT is the digital asset powering supply and demand for next-gen wireless, it rewards Builders of the Network and gets burned every time the Network is used, giving everyone a reason to participate.","Individuals set up Helium Hotspots or enable Helium on existing Wi-Fi equipment through Helium Plus.","Carriers automatically route subscribers to the Helium Network when available.","Every gigabyte of verified carrier data routed across the Network removes HNT from circulation. More real-world usage means more HNT burned.","The people who build and operate Helium deployments earn HNT for carrying real data and providing connectivity.","Build the Network","the network behind HNT","Major telecom carriers, global enterprises, local businesses, and everyday consumers all rely on the Helium Network for connectivity. HNT incentivizes individuals grow coverage.","Daily Users","Daily Data Transferred","Streamed per Day","World","Explore the Live Network","Go to Helium World","HNT","about HNT","HNT can be earned directly when you build the Network, or is available on several major exchanges and platforms.*","Build coverage. Earn HNT directly to your Helium Wallet. Deploy a Hotspot or convert your existing Wi-Fi with Helium Plus — and earn every time a carrier offloads subscribers onto your network.","Earn HNT","HNT is available on major exchanges like Coinbase, Phantom, Kraken, as well as Solana-native wallets. Buy, sell, or swap HNT with USD, USDT, and more.","Buy or sell HNT","+","*Availability can vary by country,","let's run the numbers","HNT was launched with the Helium Network in 2019. There was no pre-mine.","HNT follows a predictable 2-year halving schedule, reducing emissions over time.","HNT is currently deflationary, with a hard cap of 223M HNT.","As more devices connect across networks","HNT burned during the last day","Max Supply 223M HNT","Inflation Rate","0 years","25 years","50 years","ABOUT HNT","Stores from real people who used HNT.","Talus Communications LLC builds their business by building connectivity in major venues.","Read More →","Decentralized LLC now spans four U.S. regions and offloads 80+ terabytes monthly by focusing on the businesses inside high-traffic venues.","The Helium community has spoken, and the Helium World team has been listening.","How two entrepreneurs turned underutilized bandwidth into a business","Read more about Helium","Technical details about HNT","Learn more about HNT","Join the Helium community","HELIUM","Mobile Network","IoT Network","Global Waitlist","BUSINESS","Helium Plus +","Convert your Wi-Fi Network","Carrier Offload with Helium","Helium Blog","Deploying in Mexico?","ABOUT","Blog","Support","Explorer","Status","Careers","Privacy Policy","Terms & Conditions","Hotspot Returns & Warranty","Wi-Fi Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/hnt"}}