Re: [PATCH 1/3] Mobile broadband provider info plugin

> On 07/15/2011 09:18 PM, Denis Kenzior wrote: >> Does mobile-broadband-provider actually have multiple settings yet? If >> not, then this might need to be set to 1 until it does. > > Actually, it does. > Are you sure? Briefly looking through serviceproviders.xml I only noticed different plans within the same provider. You might be right of course, but even if you are, we have no way of distinguishing between a different plan and a different APN type.

>> I'm a little unclear on how we handle multiple matches of the same >> mcc/mnc. To my understanding these are different plans within the same >> provider and some user intervention is required to select the right >> plan. Or it could be that the operator is actually an MVNO, which is >> why the SPN provided by oFono in order to to distinguish between them. >> >> So it sounds like that if we encounter entries where multiple matches >> are possible, we should not actually provision the context. > > To my understanding, multiple matches of the same mcc/mnc might be > because of: > > - Different kind of settings (internet/mms/wap). > - Different plans for the same kind of setting (prepaid/postpaid). > - MVNO. > > A few possible solutions in order to avoid the ambiguity would be: > > 1. One could try guess the type of settings out of the access point > name. This should work with a few exceptions, which could be handled > case by case. > > 2. Same as item 1, except when the kind of settings can't be guessed, > just not to provision the context and let the user possibility to choose. > > 3. To introduce additional tags (internet, mms, wap, prepaid, postpaid). Option 2 sounds like the most likely candidate right now. Option 3 is the direction where we need mobile-broadband-provider-info to go in. In particular adding the internet/mms/wap tags and SPN entries to its database.