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mk313

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Feb 6, 2012
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Anyone here have experience with the Helium MVNO service that works with T Mobile? I was at the Apple Store this weekend, and went to log onto their wifi network & noticed that I was already on the Helium.Tmobile wifi network.

I had never heard of it before, but it looks like it somehow uses subscriber's internet connections and somehow routes T Mobile traffic onto that, and then pays the subscriber in crypto.

I have no idea how or if the system works, but it was interesting that my phone (T Mobile subscriber, but not a helium subscriber), automatically logged into the helium network. Overall, I had no issues with it, but I also have no idea how often that is happening, as the only reason I noticed at all was because I was going into the wifi settings.
 
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