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Top manufacturer of Helium hotspots partners with FreedomFi to launch Bobber 500, a community-driven 5G-compatible gateway built for the Helium network. LOS ANGELES, California (March 15th, 2022) - Bobcat Miner, the leading manufacturer of Helium compatible hotspots, announced today that it will launch the Bobber 500 in April of 2022. The Bobber 500 will mine HNT cryptocurrency by providing both cellular and LoRaWAN wireless coverage. Partnered with FreedomFi and built using their firmware, the Bobber 500 will be plug-and-play compatible with all CBRS small cells that have been certified for the Helium Network. Named after the over 400,000 people community...

Bobcat Miner Releases the Bobber App for New Line of Bobber Products to Support Recent Helium Network Changes LOS ANGELES, California (March 7th, 2022) – Bobcat Miner, the leading manufacturer of Helium compatible hotspots, has just announced that the Bobber App, an advanced hotspot management software, is ready for download. The app launch marks the company’s transition from a hardware manufacturer to a globally integrated service provider committed to empowering the growth of a global decentralized blockchain community network with high-quality hardware and software products and services. The Bobber App was closely developed with the Helium team following the announcement...

The Helium community has become the largest decentralized force, putting ownership over connectivity into the hands of the people and deploying nearly 440,000 Hotspots globally. With a rapidly growing Ecosystem, you can now begin to imagine the power of sovereignty for all wireless infrastructure powering connectivity, from LoRaWAN to 5G, and protocols yet to come on the Helium Network. To celebrate the biggest year yet for the community, we launched the very first Helium Noble Awards. As part of the awards, users had a chance to have their say by nominating their favorite Hotspots, new devices, applications, integrations, HIPs, content...

Updated: Mar 1 A few months ago, Ann at Bobcat reached out to see if I’d like a hotspot for review. She’d read the Rough Guide To Hotspot Optimization article and liked it. She thought it might be useful to get a Bobcat hotspot into my hands ahead of the wave of normal production. I thought so too. I don’t think she expected me to do anything other than plug it in and earn HNT and talk about it, but…that’s not what I did. If you just want to skip to the “Is the Bobcat OK?”, go here. You’ll miss out...

Helium has been adhering to the mission of “making the world closer by creating wireless networks for IoT devices”, and with the help of a new economic model based on the blockchain incentive mechanism, it has tried to build a global scale And cost-effective network infrastructure. It has successively provided solutions for hundreds of customers including Nestle Waters, NOWI, Salesforce, etc., since its establishment in 2013. The partnership between Helium and HBTC aims to accelerate the establishment of The People’s Network and the mining of HNT based on the HBTC platform’s extensive technical consumer groups in a wide range of...