From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6352474169618876293==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Marcel Holtmann Subject: Re: MNC/MCC as string? Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:10:27 +0200 Message-ID: <1244743827.27363.53.camel@violet> In-Reply-To: List-Id: To: ofono@ofono.org --===============6352474169618876293== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Aki, > > About the only thing that MCC/MNC is useful for is to display it during > > manual = > > operator selection. = > = > That's not true. In fact, I'd say manual operator selection is just about > the last > place where the codes should be displayed. > = > > MCC/MNC is not helpful at all for countries like U.S. = > > with 4+ timezones and the same carrier id across all of them. A countr= y = > > property would work just as well for this. = > = > For geolocation help, sure, but there are other places where MNC/MCC are > used as keys to databases containing operator-specific information, like > default Internet APN names and such. shouldn't we just integrate that database into oFono directly or as something like ofono-info.git that will be installed along with (for easier updates). I know we need this database and mobilebroadband-providerinfo or similar project is doing this already. Regards Marcel --===============6352474169618876293==--