Rewards are paid in “MOBILE” tokens (an in-house crypto currency). The dollar value fluctuates. So far, I’ve prepaid my bill for service through June 2024. Three months is the most one may prepay. By the time July rolls around, I expect to easily have enough to prepay for another three months.
Helium Mobile pays out rewards for mapping “hexes”. Helium’s explanation is here:
Mapping “hexes” is capped at 40/day. It takes about a mile of walking, running, biking, driving, etc. to map 40 hexes. I turn discovery mapping on in Helium’s app while out for my run, then turn it off for the rest of the day to preserve battery on the phone.
Helium Mobile is now allowing for group accounts. Up to eight lines may be housed in a single account but the price remains $20 per line per month for unlimited talk & text plus 30 GB of high speed data regardless of the number of lines housed in the account. While a discount for multiple lines would be great, I don’t think anyone currently beats Helium’s $20 price point.
Gigi has yet to pay me a visit, however, I can’t complain. Thanks to “Discovery Mapping”, Helium service is at no out of pocket expense. My $5/month “unlimited” plan is easily covered using earned MOBILE tokens. I don’t foresee getting rich off of Crypto but free service is OK.
Helium Mobile has launched a temporary referral program, it is calling the Egglympics. The Egglympics runs from July 25th through August 12th. During that time, one may sign up for Helium’s $20/month “unlimited” (30 GB at high speed with 5GB for hotspot) plan. Talk & text is unlimited.
Instead of the usual $5, referees receive 10,000 MOBILE tokens. MOBILE is Helium Mobile’s dedicated crypto currency. It’s not particularly necessary to be into crypto. MOBILE tokens can be stored in one’s Helium Mobile wallet and used to pay for monthly service.
I do not use Helium Mobile as primary service and have not ported a number to them. Further, I have no experience with Helium Mobile’s support as I’ve not needed to contact them. I’ve found Helium Mobile’s service to be as good as any other T-Mobile network MVNO presuming adequate coverage. All of that said, I do not believe anyone currently matches Helium Mobile’s $20/month price point for single line service. One may add additional lines to their Helium Mobile account but there are no discounts for multiple lines.
In the interest of full disclosure, referrers also receive 10,000 MOBILE tokens for up to 4 referrals.
Full terms and FAQ for Helium Mobile’s Egglympics here:
If this might be of interest to anyone, there’s a referral code (currently mine) available in our Referrals category. Should someone besides me decide to give Helium Mobile a shot and share their experience here, we would be happy to add their referral code.
WiFi offload (what a concept) on a hoped for grander scale:
Helium’s effort is somewhat analogous to Google’s Orion as well as cableco mobile offload. Unlike Helium and Orion, the cablecos limit offload to their customers.
