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🗓️ 4 August 2025
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Frank Mong of Helium reveals how blockchain-powered hotspots and shared infrastructure are disrupting traditional telecom to build a decentralized, user-owned wireless network.
In this episode of Gen C, Frank Mong, COO of Helium, unpacks how blockchain, crypto incentives and shared infrastructure are transforming global connectivity. From early IoT use cases and crypto hotspots to major telco partnerships, Helium is decentralizing the internet one user owned network at a time. Their approach is creating an open, affordable and community-driven wireless network that puts power back in users hands.
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0:53.3 | What if we could convince everyone to share their internet with everyone's phones so that regardless of where you are, whether you're walking in a park or let's say you go into a building environment in the heart of Manhattan. And I think some people have experienced this. Like if you're at a restaurant in a basement of a building, it's kind of hard to get a cell signal in there. You're blocked by metal by cyberglass or these like metal tinted glass or thick brick environment. Your phone's not going to work in there unless there was Wi-Fi. |
1:30.3 | All right. I remember probably three or four years ago, I'm in one of my chat groups. |
1:35.3 | And a buddy of mine says, hey, is anyone using the helium hotspot and just earning money off of your bandwidth? |
1:43.3 | So I bought one of these devices. |
1:45.7 | This is a minted device, which I talked to Frank about in our interview, |
1:49.8 | attach it to my Wi-Fi. |
1:51.3 | And every couple of days, I'm checking my app, |
1:53.6 | and I'm just seeing more of this helium token hitting it |
1:56.2 | as people are utilizing my bandwidth to get, I think it was IoT service, |
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