2009/4/15 Dan Williams <[email protected]>

> 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).


>
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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