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: '[email protected]' > 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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
