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

[Enrico Mioso]

Hey Aleksander!
Even there in Italy it's like in Spain - sims just works when you buy them, and 
they have any time different PINs.



On Tue, 1 Oct 2013, Aleksander Morgado wrote:

==Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 09:50:07 +0200
==From: Aleksander Morgado <aleksander at lanedo.com>
==To: Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>
==Cc: modemmanager-devel at lists.freedesktop.org, Thieu Le <thieule at chromium.org>
==Subject: Re: [PATCH] iface-modem-3gpp: add SubscriptionState property
==
==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 :)
==
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==Aleksander
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