Re: [PATCH 1/3] Mobile broadband provider info plugin

[Oleg Zhurakivskyy <oleg.zhurakivskyy@intel.com>]

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Hello Denis,

On 07/19/2011 04:36 PM, Denis Kenzior wrote:
> To my understanding, with mobile-broadband-provider-info the best we can
> do is provision the internet context only.

Thanks for the clarification. I thought that for those few cases where mms or 
wap settings are already present in the database, we could provision them as well.

> This is there to handle MVNOs.  Basically you might have a provider (A)
> that owns the network and a provider (B) that buys access to A's
> network.  Both can administer different service plans (and have
> different settings for APNs, etc).  In theory the MNC of provider B
> should be different from that of A, however some countries / networks
> are weird and have re-used provider's A MCC/MNC for subscribers of
> provider B.
>
> This is where the SPN comes in, since the MVNO is interested in
> displaying their name to the customer, the SPN is nearly always provided
> on the SIM.  In the case of the same MCC/MNC, the SPN can thus be used
> to distinguish between provider A's settings and provider B's settings.

Thanks a lot for the help, it's clear now.

Regards,
Oleg
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