Re: APN list: adding mcc & mnc

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 18:24 +0200, Pablo Martí Gamboa wrote:
> 
> 
> 2009/4/15 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?
> 
> Yes, but the problem is that most of the countries use a MCC/MNC
> scheme of 3+2(23401), while USA uses 3+3 (310380).

Yeah, but that can be special cased when doing the matching after
reading the IMSI.  There's a limited number of US MCCs so we'll know
without too much trouble whether to look for a 2 or 3 character MNC.

Dan


> 
>         
>         
>         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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