Roaming

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > Is it correctly understood, that using
>> > qmi_message_nas_get_serving_system_output_get_roaming_indicator, I
>> > will know
>> > if the modems is currently roaming? I'm looking for the
>> > informations which I
>> > can get using AT+CREG. I'm not sure if the "roaming indicator" is
>> > in fact a
>> > roaming indicator, or if it the current roaming status?
>> >
>>
>> For 3GPP modems (GSM, UMTS, LTE), we get the roaming indicator flag
>> via:
>> qmi_message_nas_get_serving_system_output_get_roaming_indicator
>>
>> For 3GPP2 modems (CDMA, EVDO), we get per-technology roaming flags
>> via:
>> qmi_message_nas_get_serving_system_output_get_roaming_indicator_list
>>
>> But NOTE! This flag will be set whenever the serving system network
>> is
>> different to the home network. And this means that virtual operators
>> (those without a network of their own) will always end up showing
>> with
>> this roaming flag set, even if they are in a network "allowed" to
>> connect to. In other words, this roaming flag doesn't take into
>> account the possible networks configured in the SPDI list. See this
>> ModemManager bugreport for more context on this issue:
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85010
>
> Hmm, what was the outstanding issue on that branch?

I think we just lost interest on it, plus the code to read the SIM
files wasn't generic enough, IIRC. Maybe it's time to revisit it,
because it really makes sense to have that in our APIs.

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Aleksander
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