Re: APN list: adding mcc & mnc

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 15:05 +0200, Martijn Cox (LiveContacts) wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve sent the following email to Wellark, the maintainer of the Mobile
> Broadband Provider Info project, a few weeks ago, outlining a way to
> include mobile country codes and mobile network codes in the MBPI
> project. In the meantime, we’ve already implemented this scheme in our
> company, and have successfully used it to extract the APN’s for two
> providers in one country. Would you be interested in using this
> scheme?

Yeah, that would be pretty cool.  IIRC, we can then extract bits from
the IMSI and figure out which provider the SIM is for too, right?

Can you provide a sample of how this would look in the XML config too?
We need to ensure that we can store multiple MCC/MNC codes for each
provider in the table.

Dan

>  
> 
> As Wellark has been very busy, he has asked me to forward this message
> to both the NetworkManager and the Wader Development mailing list, as
> he suspects there is additional interest these development groups in
> adding country code and network codes to the MBPI project. Note that I
> currently have no idea what the NetworkManager and Wader development
> groups are, as this is not within the scope of my current
> job-assignment. 
> 
>  
> 
> Regards, Martijn.
> 
>  
> 
> From: Martijn Cox 
> Sent: woensdag 1 april 2009 13:00
> To: 'antti kaijanmaki net'
> Subject: apn list, adding mcc & mnc
> 
> 
>  
> 
> Hi Wellark,
> 
>  
> 
> I’m a developer for (amongst others), the blackberry platform. I’ve
> come across your project, and wish to contribute by adding the mobile
> country code and mobile network code to the xml file, based on the
> Wikipedia list @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Network_Code. Do
> you regard such an endeavor as ok?
> 
>  
> 
>                 I would like to add them, according to the following
> DTD, which is based on your supplied DTD,  with additions in yellow:
> 
>  
> 
> <!ELEMENT serviceproviders (country*)>
> 
> <!ATTLIST serviceproviders format CDATA #REQUIRED>
> 
>  
> 
> <!ELEMENT country (provider* ,mcc+)>
> 
> <!ATTLIST country code CDATA #REQUIRED>
> 
>  
> 
> <!ELEMENT provider ( mnc+,
> 
>                      name+,
> 
>                      (gsm|cdma),
> 
>                      username?,
> 
>                      password?,
> 
>                      dns*,
> 
>                      gateway?)>
> 
>                      
> 
> <!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>
> 
> <!ATTLIST name xml:lang CDATA #IMPLIED>
> 
>  
> 
> <!ELEMENT gsm (apn)>
> 
> <!ELEMENT apn (#PCDATA)>
> 
>  
> 
> <!ELEMENT cdma EMPTY>
> 
>  
> 
> <!ELEMENT username (#PCDATA)> 
> 
> <!ELEMENT password (#PCDATA)>
> 
> <!ELEMENT dns (#PCDATA)>
> 
> <!ELEMENT gateway (#PCDATA)>
> 
>  
> 
> <!ELEMENT mcc (#PCDATA)>
> 
> <!ELEMENT mnc (#PCDATA)>
> 
>  
> 
> Do you think that would be ok? The reason for these additions is that
> it’s easier to search this way when you have access to a provider id
> (mobile network code), and mobile country code (i.s.o. the country
> identifier you use, which is currently not available for me). 
> 
>  
> 
> Regards, 
> 
>  
> 
> Martijn Cox
> 
> Livecontacts B.V.
> 
>  
> 
> 
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