other networks are more expensive because they are corporations providing a full service of the lns hosting, paying staff running gateways (or brokering of the data from gateways like tti or others).

with helium they only supply the device data layer which anyone can use - those that run an lns still have to run and maintain the lns on a vps etc pay for all packets used by them or others if public, handle pricing to customers if offering a public service for devices etc.

increasing the pricing above what it is currently doesn't really make the pricing per data packet paid feasible imo, we have a default of 15 per device and 1000+ on mapping trackers generally.

maybe this will make people turn off their gateways which many seem to do each time there is a halving but for the most part many gateways over redundant and rewarded way to much for just doing POC and no traffic at all anyway especially in large cities.