The decentralization of telecommunications networks benefits financially on small businesses and telecommunications companies, according to Frank Mong, the chief operating (COO) of Nova Labs, the founding team behind the decentralized physical infrastructure network of helium (Depin).
In an interview with Cintelelegraph at the 2025 consensus in Toronto, Canada, Mong said that small businesses, including bars, restaurants, convenience stores and other local operators can Generate income by hosting wireless hot spots And widen the coverage of the network.
Large telecommunications companies and service providers can also use the telemetry of the helium network to reduce operational costs and extend network coverage in dead areas.
“It costs around $ 300,000 for a telecommunications company to represent a tower; you need one per block so that 5G works effectively,” Mong said at Cointelegraph, added the executive:
“Instead of doing so and making telephone plans more expensive, what happens if someone with a useful Wi-Fi network shares this Wi-Fi and allows, not just anyone to use it safely, but allows large companies like AT&T to see the telemetry of this network.”
Decentralized physical infrastructure networks continue to be an example of how blockchain technologies can provide real value and make more resilient existing infrastructure to breakdowns, disturbances, censorship and critical failure.
In relation: Countries must add deppine tokens to their digital asset stocks In January 2024, Nova Labs announced a collaborative partnership with the Latin America Telecommunications Company Telefónica in Develop the coverage of the telecommunications company In dead areas and help reduce congestion of the network. More recently, in April 2025, Hélium has teamed with AT&T – A global telecommunications giant – to allow AT&T users automatic access to the helium network when it is within reach of the coverage area of the mobile hot spots. Data According to the helium network, shows that the United States currently has the highest concentration of the 95,272 hot hotels on the network. In addition, helium has 284,053 hot points of the Internet of Things (IoT) worldwide. “In the end, what we have done in the United States and Mexico should be global,” Mong told Cointelegraph. Nova Labs is currently focusing on expanding coverage by obtaining collaborative partnerships with telecommunications infrastructure providers in new regions, the executive added. Review: Most of the backup projects barely use blockchain: true or false?Helium provides collaborative partnerships with telecommunications companies
