By B.N. Frank

In 2019, telecom executives gave U.S. congressional testimony that they had NO independent scientific evidence that 5G exposure is safe, though, warnings about deployment and exposure started long before then.  Since 2017, doctors and scientists have been asking for 5G moratoriums on Earth and in space due to biological and environmental health risks (see 1, 2, 3, 4) and the majority of scientists worldwide oppose deployment.  Some researchers have also warned that activation may be contributing to COVID-19 infections as well as hundreds of thousands if not millions of bird deaths.

Additionally, since 2018 there have been reports of people and animals experiencing symptoms and illnesses after 5G was activated (see 1, 2. 3, 4, 5) including this calendar year (see 1, 2).  Of course, countless others may be experiencing exposure-related symptoms and illnesses, including from 500,000+ “individually owned hotspots” that are “humble but powerful 5G small cell radio nodes”.  Argh.

From Children’s Health Defense:

Helium 5G: Promoters Call It ‘The People’s Network’ — But Who Really Profits?

Supporters of Helium 5G technology call it “the people’s network” because it creates wireless internet coverage without relying on the services of an internet provider, but critics say it comes at a cost — to your health, privacy and liberty — as corporations profit from mining your data.

By Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.

A fast-growing wireless network called “Helium 5G” awards people with cryptocurrency for setting up internet hotspots to power the Internet of Things (IoT).

Supporters of the technology who say they’re making a lot of money call Helium 5G “the people’s network” because it creates wireless internet coverage without relying on the services of an internet provider.

But some critics — including W. Scott McCollough, lead electromagnetic radiation litigator for Children’s Health Defense (CHD) — say the technology has negative and far-reaching implications for people’s health and privacy.

“The Helium network may be billed as ‘free’ and beneficent,” McCollough said. “But nothing is truly free, and in this case there will be significant costs to health, privacy and liberty.”

More than half a million hotspots and growing exponentially

Helium 5G — or “Helium Cloud Ecosystem” — is a global network of wireless hotspots that use objects connected to the internet to send small amounts of data over long distances using radiofrequency (RF) signals.

These hotspots can reach 200 times farther than conventional Wi-Fi hotspots and share their owners’ bandwidth with nearby internet-connected devices — such as parking meters, air-quality sensors or smart kitchen appliances — thereby boosting the wireless coverage in an area, The New York Times reported.

Hotspot owners receive payment by “mining” a form of cryptocurrency called HNT that some experts predict will be the next cryptocurrency to “explode” in 2023, thanks to the exponential growth of Helium hotspots since 2020.

Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi, a software engineer who hosts a podcast about Helium, in June 2021 tweeted a graph showing fewer than 5,000 Helium hotspots in Jan. 2020 and more than 55,000 only 18 months later.

The exponential growth of the @helium network in one image. $HNT pic.twitter.com/M6DjpZLiDf

— Arman Dezfuli-Arjomandi