[PATCH] iface-modem-3gpp: add SubscriptionState property

[Aleksander Morgado]

On 01/10/13 00:00, Dan Williams wrote:
>> > I still wonder whether users will ever try to use a non-provisioned
>> > *new* SIM, as they will always get it provisioned when they buy it.
> Actually no.  Normal case here in the US is that you can walk into any
> drug store or supermarket and buy a plastic packaged phone with SIM
> inside.  You take it home and open it up, go to the carrier's web site
> and type in the ICCID and your home address, and then they provision it
> with the right telephone # and everything after a few minutes.  For
> CDMA, same kind of procedure, you have to go their web site and type in
> the MEID and then do some other stuff, and then finally after about 5
> minutes you get an SMS that says it's provisioned.
> 
> I think this is the same procedure I used when I got a Lidl Mobile
> (emobile) SIM in Berlin last time I was there; I had to go to their web
> site to complete the setup.
> 
> Is that not the way things work elsewhere?  Do they just print the phone
> # inside the phone package? Or do you always have the person that sells
> it to you do something with it?
> 

Oh well, then it's probably different in Spain. I've always bought SIMs
in shops and every time the SIM was ready to use. I stand corrected :)

-- 
Aleksander