The largest retailer-owned grocery co-op in the US just turned its store Wi-Fi into a revenue stream. Wakefern is a $20.7B business with 48 member companies and ~365 supermarkets across nine states. ShopRite, Price Rite, The Fresh Grocer, Fairway Market, Gourmet Garage. The first stores are now live on the Helium Network, with more to follow. Supermarkets are brutal for cell signal. Concrete, steel racking, rows of freezers. The traditional fix is a DAS, and the math rarely works for a grocery store. So Wakefern is using what it already owns. Shoppers’ phones hop onto store Wi-Fi automatically. No app, no sign-in. The stores earn as carrier traffic moves over. helium.com/blog/wakefern-gro…

Ensuring mobile users have quality service. Launching a new wireless service. Keeping every customer who enters your venue connected. Different problems, one platform. HeliumOS is intelligent software for any business providing connectivity. It natively integrates with the Helium Network, the world's largest decentralized Wi-Fi network.

Waimea Valley in Hawaii now has reliable mobile coverage, and without disturbing a single leaf within this designated conservation area. A local Helium deployer was able to convert existing hardware and seamlessly add coverage, rather than a traditional macro tower navigating bureaucracy and a protected ecosystem. Read more as Helium continues to expand its footprint and solve coverage gaps in some of the hardest to reach spaces. helium.com/blog/waimea-valle…

Celina, TX grew 25% in 1 year. You can’t build cell towers fast enough to keep up with that kind of growth. Celina turned its own city-wide Wi-Fi networks into carrier coverage on the Helium Network. 100 GB/day, automatic on residents’ phones. No towers necessary.

🗳️ Voting is LIVE for HIP-150: Mobile Deployer Prioritization This proposal is about aligning rewards to where coverage is most valued and making sure Hotspot deployers are rewarded in a way that scales with the Network. Three changes, one vote: 📍 High-value venues can get approved for a rewards multiplier 📈 The deployer reward floor jumps from 50% to 80%, temporarily for approximately 1-2 years 🤝 Helium is redirecting rewards it would normally earn to instead top up deployer data rewards, through mid-2027 (possibly longer).

.@SpaceX just spent $19.6B on 65 MHz of spectrum and said it will build its mobile network with small cells on rooftops instead of towers, saying explicitly, “you deploy that as you need it.” Sound familiar? The most valuable private company in the world looked at the macro tower model and...passed. Their plan? Distributed radios on buildings, deployed incrementally, close to where people actually use data. It’s an endorsement of decentralized networks by the biggest challenger to traditional telco. Do satellites solve the universal connectivity problem? Not entirely on their own. Satellites are are good at covering things like oceans, highways, rural dead zones, and disaster areas. But what physics will not let them do is deliver capacity indoors, where most mobile data is actually consumed. Satellite signals do not pass through buildings, and 65 MHz stretched across a continent cannot carry a city at rush hour. Indoor connectivity has to be built from the ground up. Radio by radio, building by building, by people who are already there. It is the hardest part of wireless to replicate and the one part satellites fall short. So to @SpaceX @Starlink @Gwynne_Shotwell, welcome to decentralized wireless infrastructure! You handle the sky and when your customers walk inside, the @helium Network is already there for a smooth handoff 🤝. Source: fierce-network.com/wireless/…