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A new era of connectivity starts today.
Introducing HeliumOS, the full-stack operating system for the business of connectivity.
For decades, telecom's playbook was simple: build more. That playbook is breaking. The winners now are whoever can intelligently use the best available network, not just the biggest one.
HeliumOS is the platform built for this moment.
Real-time Wi-Fi control for venues.
Agentic analytics through HeliumAI for operators.
Automatic Wi-Fi for consumer apps.
Full carrier enablement for carriers and MVNOs.
Quality connectivity that just works, driving the retention and revenue that come with it.
HeliumOS integrates natively with the Helium Network, the world's largest decentralized wireless network, built by communities incentivized by solana:hntyVP6YFm1Hg25TN9WGLqM12b8TQmcknKrdu1oxWux. That Network already serves millions of mobile users each day in places traditional telecom can't reach.
Read the full announcement 🔗 helium.com/blog/introducing-…
Hotels, stadiums, grocery stores and hospitals are using their existing Wi-Fi to fix indoor coverage, and the Helium Network pays them for verified service. That’s not an investment, it’s work. Chief Legal Officer Sarah Aberg asked the SEC to say so in its proposed crypto rule.
Yesterday I filed comments re Regulation Crypto Assets. Short version: @helium and other DePIN participants are paid for service, not investing. The rule needs to say this out loud. Read our comments: sec.gov/comments/S7-2026-27/…
Full bars, no service. That’s daily life in parts of Boulder County right now.
axios.com/local/boulder/2026…
Redondo Beach dealt with the same problem on its pier until it turned its existing Wi-Fi into a second layer of coverage, now serving 2,000+ people a day. The infrastructure to fill gaps like this is often already installed.
helium.com/blog/redondobeach…
Last week the first 6G field call tested how signal gets through walls and windows. This week a new multi-year 6G research program kicked off to help networks track robots and drones inside airports, factories and ports.
The industry keeps circling back to the same place: indoors.
Helium offload is already there, connecting more than a million people a day.
helium.com/snapshot
The first 6G call was made last week, outdoors in a parking lot. That’s where cellular shines, but concrete walls and energy-efficient glass can block 99% or more of the signal before it ever gets inside.
6G handles the outside, Wi-Fi already covers the inside, and Helium offload bridges the two, connecting more than a million people a day.
helium.com/snapshot
1M+ people a day connect through Helium and most of them have no idea.
Best kind of network. The invisible kind.
helium.com/snapshot
Somewhere in a network planning meeting, someone is still saying “you can’t trust Wi-Fi.”
Helium is proving them wrong every day.
helium.com/network-integrati…
DAS Series, Part 2 📶
A DAS (distributed antenna system) is the network of antennas that keeps phones working inside large venues. Most were built around 2011, and upgrading one now costs millions.
Who covers that bill, the venue or the carriers, is still unsettled. The answer might already be in the ceiling.
helium.com/blog/das-networks…
Missed Part 1? helium.com/blog/full-bars-no…
Managed services, wireless convergence, and a future where nobody’s checking their bars.
LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi. The tech fades into the background. As carriers focus on Quality of Service, seamless performance is all that matters.
Thanks @WBAlliance, see you at the next one 🤝
Most of the Wi-Fi you walk past every day is sitting idle.
Grocery stores, hotels, stadiums, hospitals. They all paid for solid networks, and most of that capacity goes unused.
Meanwhile, the phones in those same buildings are struggling for signal.
Helium connects the two. Venue Wi-Fi joins the Helium Network, and carrier phones hop on automatically. No app, no password, no sign-in. When you leave, they hand back to cellular.
The venue gets more out of what it already owns. Carriers get indoor coverage without building a thing. And people just have a phone that works.
Thousands of locations are already doing it.
Helium puts idle Wi-Fi to work.
Learn how you can get involved at helium.com
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Helium🎈 retweeted
Every. Single. Panel. At NetworkX this year.
We are shaking an industry.
It will not happen overnight but it IS happening right before our own eyes.
Can't stop, won't stop!
Every QoS panel this year: “Here’s what this could look like.”
Helium: here’s what it looks like.
Wifi quality of service (QoS) is the hottest topic in telecom right now. Every conference, every working group, every panel is asking the same question: how do you offload phones onto wifi without making the experience worse?
Because that’s the real problem. Carriers want to move more traffic to wifi. It’s cheaper, it’s already deployed, and it’s everywhere. But nobody wants their customers stuck on a bad connection that looks fine on paper.
Most of the industry is still in research mode.
Helium already turned it into a product. Before a phone ever commits to a network, Helium checks the connection quality in real time. Good wifi? It connects. Weak wifi? It gets skipped.
It’s live. 1.5M+ people ride on Helium every day, and most of them never notice. That’s the point.
The question isn’t whether QoS becomes the standard for offload. It’s who’s already running it at scale.
Every QoS panel this year: “Here’s what this could look like.”
Helium: here’s what it looks like.
Wifi quality of service (QoS) is the hottest topic in telecom right now. Every conference, every working group, every panel is asking the same question: how do you offload phones onto wifi without making the experience worse?
Because that’s the real problem. Carriers want to move more traffic to wifi. It’s cheaper, it’s already deployed, and it’s everywhere. But nobody wants their customers stuck on a bad connection that looks fine on paper.
Most of the industry is still in research mode.
Helium already turned it into a product. Before a phone ever commits to a network, Helium checks the connection quality in real time. Good wifi? It connects. Weak wifi? It gets skipped.
It’s live. 1.5M+ people ride on Helium every day, and most of them never notice. That’s the point.
The question isn’t whether QoS becomes the standard for offload. It’s who’s already running it at scale.
Notice: Helium network data just got an upgrade.
If you pull Mobile network data from the old S3 files, you’ll need to switch over before November 1, 2026.
The upside: the data is now queryable with SQL and free to read.
Details here👇
helium.com/blog/rebuilding-h…
$8 billion for spectrum. A three-carrier pact to share satellites. Market caps swinging over outdoor dead zones.
Meanwhile 70 to 80 percent of mobile data happens indoors, where none of that spending can reach.
The indoor network already exists. 50,000+ locations and counting.
Read more here:
helium.com/blog/billions-inv…
We’re at Wireless Global Congress EMEA 2026 showing how the Helium Network fills indoor coverage gaps in stadiums, hotels, hospitals, and more.
Then HeliumOS makes sure subscribers only move to Wi-Fi when the experience is actually better ✅.
#NetworkX
ALT Wireless Global Congress EMEA
Helium🎈 retweeted
I’m in Vienna this week for Wireless Global Congress EMEA and Network X.
If you’re here for the conference, come to the panel “Beyond Connectivity: Are Managed Services the Next Telecom Growth Engine?” on October 15 at 12:35 PM CEST.
We’ve certainly gone beyond connectivity with @helium OS, our intelligent stack for telecom. Our Wi-Fi Offload Experience (WOX) turns Wi-Fi from a black box into carrier-grade infrastructure. Operators get live visibility into every offload session, so they can see what’s happening and set standards to control subscriber experience across cellular and Wi-Fi. While carriers may not have built these Wi-Fi networks, the WOX solution lets them trust them as if they did.
I’m in town through Thursday. If you’re a carrier, MVNO, venue operator, or rethinking your own connectivity stack, send me a message and let’s find time to talk.
#WGCEMEA | @WBAlliance | @NetworkXEvent
Cell networks get crowded. Wi-Fi is already everywhere. Offload connects the two.
Here’s how it works:
1. Crowds strain the cell network
2. Phones join the local Wi-Fi automagically, with no app or sign-in
3. The carrier gets room to breathe
3. The business earns from Wi-Fi it already owns
Helium connects businesses and carriers to make it happen.
Got Wi-Fi at your business? [email protected]
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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…
Why Helium is worth paying attention to:
Carriers have a coverage problem. Phones use more data every year, most of it indoors, and building new towers and antenna systems is slow and expensive.
Helium takes a smarter route. It turns the Wi-Fi that’s already in place into carrier-grade coverage.
That’s already happening.
100,000 fans at Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Stadium on game day, with phones moving onto the stadium Wi-Fi automatically. No app, no sign-in.
Celina, Texas, one of the fastest-growing cities in the country. Ocean Properties, a hotel portfolio that skipped the antenna build and used the Wi-Fi it already owned.
No new towers. No construction. Just infrastructure that’s already in place, finally getting used.
Manage a venue, hotel, or campus with Wi-Fi? It can carry carrier traffic and earn from it. Contact us at [email protected]
helium.com/network-integrati…
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Carriers don't need more towers everywhere. They need capacity in the specific places people actually use their phones.
That's the problem offload solves, and it's why a community-built network gets more valuable with every hotspot that comes online.
Coverage follows demand, and demand is already here.
Read more about the problems Helium is solving on our blog: helium.com/blog
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This is a reminder that the Helium Community Call is happening Today at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT, live on Discord.
The team will cover what's next for the network and take your questions.
Submit your questions in advance: ama.helium.com/helium-commun…
Join the event: discord.gg/ddf7PrDBs?event=1…
See you there!