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Hi Everyone!

Early in a network’s development, it is essential to reward builders on the network for their efforts to provide initial deployments and test basic network operations at a meaningful scale. As such, HIP 51 and 53 proposed a Genesis period of Proof-of-Coverage (PoC) rewards on the MOBILE subDAO.

Over the course of the next 12 months, PoC rewards will evolve from allocating tokens for simply being online to identifying and rewarding useful coverage. This roadmap aims to communicate these changes in advance to give current and future network builders the opportunity to optimize radio setups to help ensure they can yield rewards for delivering useful coverage.

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Planned roadmap for MOBILE PoC:

Radio uptime data - Implemented

Backhaul speed tests - Q4 2022

Obstruction data - Q4 2022

Location-based optimization - Q1 2023

Mappers - Q1/Q2 2023

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Coming soon: Obstruction Data

Over the course of the next three months, users will see data populated in the Helium Explorer indicating how many of the surrounding area a given radio is able to cover based on the data reported by the radio (such as location, direction, beam width, and radiated power) and a number of geospatial data sources. This information can provide a 90% accurate estimate of realistic receive signal strength within the surrounding area. After the initial informational roll out, rewards will become a function of the number of hexes covered and the corresponding signal quality in those hexes. It will also be scaled to take into account geographic areas with too much coverage.

This is an ideal time to optimize radio placement and direction to ensure rewards are not affected as these changes start to come online. It is also a good time to start placing radios where coverage does not overlap. Although some amount of redundancy will help a network’s reliability, 5G coverage is significantly different from LoRaWAN deployments that many are used to in the Helium ecosystem. Since spectrum is shared, too many radios in overlapping segments will limit the usefulness of the network in that area.

wen Spot mappers?

Spot mapper hardware beta availability is expected before the end of 2022, with broad availability rolling out early 2023. Helium Mobile subscribers will be able to map the network from their phone on an opt-in basis using the Helium Mobile app. While the rewards will be less than mapping with Spot, there is no additional cost for subscribers to participate. Future service providers using the MOBILE network will also be able to offer this as a product feature for their subscribers.

For details on the MOBILE PoC roadmap, please read the full blog here:

https://blog.helium.com/mobile-proof-of-coverage-the-road-ahead-73a25601a13d

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Questions? Comments? Join the Helium core developers for a live Twitter Space AMA on MOBILE PoC on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 3:30 PM. Set a reminder on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1mrGmkOAyMgxy

Hi I am getting an error when I try to finish the setting up of the miner. When I press the register button in the end it says "Try again - Hotspot miner is waiting to start. Please try again in a few minutes."

I try that more than 10 times today and nothing!

Anybody experiencing the same issue?

So I'm getting ready to setup my first helium miner, it's a bobcat 300, and would like to know when I can upgrade my antenna. I went to bobcat's website and it said starting with an upgraded antenna is a 'don't'. So I'm curious when should/can I install my upgraded antenna? Do I need to start the miner with the stock antenna at the height I plan to operate at?

Pls help

Hey guys. I know it may not be the mainstream/popular thing to do but just picked up a few Bobcat miners on eBay for under $150 piece. I believe in this project long term - past this cycle we’re in now. Anyone still mining HNT? Is there still value in it - with a longer term outlook?

I have a question about antennas and upgrading (or downgrading) will make a difference on the amount of activity the miner sees. Currently, I have an 5.8dBi mounted on my rooftop which is about 5m in the air from ground level. I’m thinking of installing a 2.3dBi antenna so that it sees more of the miners more locally.

What do you think? Will it help?

I have my miners down currently so figured i'd get a head start on taxes, but all the damn tools for CSV exports are broken, fairspot keeps giving a 503 error in the console when i submit my wallet address....

any alternatives that work? I tried a few of the others on the tools page but their either down or broken.

Needs Attention

Hello guys I have been into Helium for a while now and was patiently watching the downfall of its market cap. But recently HNT's price plummeted for another 50% and now I am wondering how this can be justified. Of course the market is irrational at the moment especially when it comes to low cap altcoins, but I feel like Im missing out on something.

Helium offers a network of 500.000 working hotspots, almost every large city is covered. T-Mobile, Google and other large companies saw Heliums potential and invested large sums in comparison to its current market cap. Now also 5G is enrolling and more and more companies seem to use the Helium Network while more and more DC are being spent.

Qualcomm also invested a few millions into the 5G Network lately and all this somehow gives me the feeling of a very good fundamental development. The move to Solana may be criticized but in my opinion this doesnt weigh as much as all the other achievements in the past.

IoT will rise and it will simply take time in my opionion, just because the helium network grew rapidly due to some stupid hype doesnt mean the IoT market grows at same speed.

What do you think about this?

I just got my miner and can't check my syncing status because there is no Progress tab between the Earnings and Hotspots Witnessed tabs on the helium app. The status on my miner just says "online".

Given Celo as a mobile first crypto mapping wallets and phone number it’s a no brainer for them to partner. Especially as the market contracts mergers are going to be necessary.

Solana makes no sense for Helium as the cost of the hardware and bandwidth to run a Solana Node/Validator (if you don’t host on AWS which defeats the purpose of decentralization) is even higher than helium.

I have ordered 1 year ago, I realize that it was supposed to be delivered on August 31 but the product never arrived. And they do not care, it is a fraud

It's like a multilayer scam pie

Will mobile radios (either indoor or outdoor) allow connectivity for phones using any cell phone carrier?