Helium
Intelligent Wireless Networks. Powered by People.
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.
The Network at a Glance.
Operating at scale, in partnership with several international carriers.
3 Million+ Daily Users
122 TB+ Daily Data Transferred
140,000+ Community-deployed Hotspots
25K Movies Streamed Today
USA + Mexico Live Carrier Partnerships
Brazil + International Expansion Underway
The Opportunity
Telecom's AWS Moment.
Carriers spend more than $300B 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
Daily Data Carried Has Grown Roughly Fivefold in a Year.
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.
Daily Active Users
Scaled to 3.4M+ daily users at carrier scale
- Q2 25: 1.4M
- Q3 25: 2.0M
- Q4 25: 2.8M
- Q1 26: 3.4M
Daily Data Carried
Roughly a 5× increase in carrier traffic over the past year
- Jun 2025 — ~24 TB/day
- May 2026 — ~128 TB/day
Wireless Coverage Built by People, Used by Carriers.
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.
Coverage that Holds Up Under Pressure.
Because deployers built the coverage ahead of time, the network absorbs huge, sudden demand at marquee events.
Big Game Weekend Powered by the People
At this year's Big Game near San Francisco, 113,000+ people connected through Helium on the peak day.
Fat Tuesday, Thin Signal? Not This Year
Helium’s New Orleans footprint absorbed a 550% Fat Tuesday surge, with more than 100,000 daily unique subscribers sustained for Carnival Weekend.
Powered by HNT.
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.
Contact Helium
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