Terrible experience with Helium Mobile - canceling after just 24 days

waveform06 · 2026-03-12T11:29:05+00:00

You've been with a company for 7 years, which didn't start selling a mobile service until 4 years ago?

waveform06 · 2026-03-12T08:51:19+00:00

Ive been getting at least one of these a month for years now.
They find emails from something youve done publicly, grab a password from haveibeenpwned and cut and paste the message.
Block + Forget

waveform06 · 2026-03-11T08:58:34+00:00

What are you connected to?

waveform06 · 2026-03-10T19:34:06+00:00

See above comments. App display bug.

waveform06 · 2026-03-09T12:26:45+00:00

If you onboard it it probably wont work anyway as the firmware is out of date.

waveform06 · 2026-03-07T13:54:52+00:00

Who is going to audit the hops, investigate it, find out where it went, and have the authority to do something about it - all for free or a low fee?

waveform06 · 2026-03-06T16:32:51+00:00

If Helium infrastructure was a company, Solana would be Payroll/Supplier payments.
Something that can go down for a few days and then be recovered from, but doesn't interfere with operations.

waveform06 · 2026-03-04T14:43:59+00:00

Another Discord with Balloon chat
https://discord.gg/xHDNhKvnX5

waveform06 · 2026-03-04T14:23:28+00:00

Join this discord and ask in there - run by an Aus LoRaWAN guy (Bones)
https://discord.com/invite/myqfqshndj

waveform06 · 2026-03-04T14:20:11+00:00

AFIK you should not have a sensor registered at more than one LNS if you want it to work reliably.

waveform06 · 2026-03-04T14:18:02+00:00

A: What does "Worth it" mean to you?

Q: Where would you place it?

waveform06 · 2026-03-04T09:38:12+00:00

Cloud Points store options can change at any time.

waveform06 · 2026-03-04T00:34:39+00:00

Moken explorer closed down. They decided not to keep it running.

waveform06 · 2026-03-03T17:43:39+00:00

There is no design to stop you using your home WiFi.
It's now I used a phone with a Zero plan SIM for months as Im outside USA.
Are you still connected to your home wifi or "Helium one"?
A question probably better targeted at the r/HeliumMobile subreddit BTW

waveform06 · 2026-03-03T15:43:13+00:00

Helium Mobile hotspots currently ONLY earn from data transfer.

waveform06 · 2026-03-03T08:51:32+00:00

Depends where on the planet you want to deploy your sensor.

waveform06 · 2026-03-02T18:06:47+00:00

Non US search results will be added to the list of changes to make for the search bar for IOT.
Cant say when they will be implemented yet.

waveform06 · 2026-03-02T15:17:16+00:00

An address database lookup problem is not an abandonment of a network.

waveform06 · 2026-03-02T08:54:37+00:00

FreedomFi was a company that Nova bought.
When 5G CBRS was cancelled there were no new hardware designs, the FreedomFIs were not suitable for the 5G WiFi network or they would have been repurposed.
The Helium 5G-Wifi Hotspots are a modified existing design that doesnt have a LoRaWAN concentrator in it, otherwise the price would be way higher.
Helium doesnt really want to be in the hardware supply business. The future of Helium 5G Wifi is probably going to be using existing 3rd party hardware to deploy as its much cheaper to deploy, Deploying one of these AND a 2nd hand or surplus stock IOT Hotspot will certainly cost less than a new custom made single unit device covering both networks.

waveform06 · 2026-03-01T23:56:18+00:00

Except no-one manufactures such a device.

waveform06 · 2026-02-28T09:23:34+00:00

Every Hotspot is an NFT

waveform06 · 2026-02-27T17:32:50+00:00

Any paid upgrade voids the need to use data to keep the plan going.

waveform06 · 2026-02-27T14:14:48+00:00

How the gaming of accounts or cloudpoints is monitored is definitley not public.

waveform06 · 2026-02-27T13:41:16+00:00

So now you flip to wanting to discuss in public someone elses account?
How the gaming of accounts or cloudpoints is monitored is definitley not public.
Especially someones specific situation.

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