#HeliumHouse NYC Recap: Helium Mobile + T-Mobile, IoT Stars, HIP 70, & More🎈!

Helium House NYC 🏠 just wrapped up on September 20th, and we’re here to fill you in on the highlights. After a day of exciting programming at The Altman Building, the community celebrated in the city that never sleeps with an after party at Jungle Bird. It was a blast to connect with members of the Helium ecosystem. Big thank you to everyone who made the journey to celebrate The People’s Network!

If you weren’t able to make it, don’t worry: you can watch the full livestream and check out the highlights below.

Here are a few highlights:

Nova Labs is officially out of stealth and launching the world’s first cryptocarrier with T-Mobile. Helium Mobile will bring the power of The People’s Network right to your phone with affordable mobile plans that enable subscribers to browse, text, and mine crypto. To ensure nationwide coverage, Helium Mobile will use the Helium 5G network by default and use T-Mobile if there’s insufficient Helium 5G coverage.

Get on the waitlist to be first in line to experience Helium Mobile, and watch the fireside chat with T-Mobile at Helium House.

The results are in: the community officially passed HIP 70! Check out the conversation at Helium House between Amir Haleem, CEO & Founder of Nova Labs, and Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-Founder of Solana, that covers why Solana was selected as the new L1 in the proposal and how this move benefits the entire Helium ecosystem. Want to know more about HIP 70? Read the full proposal here and check out this tl;dr blog.

Senet is one of the leading carrier-grade onramps to Helium’s global network. With over 1 billion transactions processed annually, Senet brings an impressive roster of enterprise customers and large-scale IoT deployments to Helium. Hear from Senet’s CTO & COO on how a network powered by the people has been able to connect critical use cases across NYC here.

Eugene McGrath from CommunityFi sat down with Joey Hiller from the Helium Foundation to discuss how Helium enables IoT meal tracking for those in need. Watch this session to learn about how they are working with farms and food pantries.

To explore some neat day-to-day use cases built on Helium, panelists from Embedded Works, Trackpac, Seeed Studio, and Parley Labs discussed how their IoT devices are accessible and easy to use. Watch the panel to see how Helium-connected gadgets can make your everyday life easier.

Special guest Nese Ozler from Deutsche Telekom explored the intersection of traditional wireless with Helium’s decentralized wireless. Watch the session to hear why Deutsche Telekom invested into the Helium ecosystem and Web3.

If you want more Helium House NYC 🏠, don’t miss the panels on deploying 5G nationwide, or the myriad use cases that Helium Foundation Grant Program recipients are working on.