On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 20:04 +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
> 
<snip>
> > While WiFi at least imply that the user select an SSID, there 
> > exists SIM 
> > cards that are delivered configured to not require a PIN code or a 
> > APN 
> > password from the user.
> 
> This reminded me of something I've been wondering about for a while:
> What is the reason why NM asks me to select country, provider, APN 
> and
> so on when connecting to mobile broadband for the first time? It 
> seems
> kind of user-unfriendly - MM/NM knows my operator's MCC/MNC (can be
> seen in "mmcli -m 0 -i 0"), which can be used to immediately locate 
> the
> correct <provider> block in serviceproviders.xml. Assuming there's 
> only
> one data APN present in that <provider> block, it could simply be 
> used
> by default without asking anything.

Completely agree there :)

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