06/23/2026
🌊 Thanks to Helium, the City of Redondo Beach in California just solved a years-long connectivity dead zone at its pier without a single new tower.
The pier gets over a million visitors a year. Historically, it had almost no cell service. Not because anyone forgot about it. But because the traditional way of building coverage is too expensive and too slow for problems like this to ever get fixed.
A local deployer, Talus Communications, saw the gap. The team deployed Helium coverage on infrastructure the city already had. Now thousands of people connect through the Network daily — automatically, on their existing carrier plan, without touching a setting. No towers. No capital expenditure from the city. Locally owned and earned from the traffic it carries.
This is what happens when wireless infrastructure is distributed to the people who see the gaps firsthand. While carriers fix coverage in places where the ROI math makes sense, Helium enables people to improve connectivity themselves. Redondo Beach is proof.
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Helium is now connecting over 2,000 daily users from major US carriers using their existing WI-FI infrastructure.
