automatic APN selection

[Aleksander Morgado]

>> My team still has a feature like this on our product road map. Right now we've been waiting for the next FW release, which has as part of our analytics suite, the ability to gather basic APN & context info(& we have presence in ~55+ countries). We plan on cross referencing this against the AOSP, to build a hint type dbus helper, that given an MCC/MNC could provide a small focused selection of cell config's to the user to choice from. If you wanted to do auto from there it'd be pretty simple I think. Our team is pretty small and moves slowly though, and I don't think we'll get to this until next quarter. I have no reason we couldn't share it as an OS project.
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> Than would be perfect. We can build on top of that really nice solution which can be used and I think a lot of companies doing it on it's own somehow so why not to have nice, solid stable solution ;). Can you pls share sources somewhere? Thanks a lot.

If you ask me, I would suggest this as a feature to the NetworkManager
developers. There's no reason to build a new daemon on top of NM/MM to
do this, NM could do this automatically (E.g. if enabled via a config
option or something). At the end, NetworkManager already automatically
creates settings for other devices (e.g. ethernet) so why not also
create automatic settings for WWAN. The libnma library already has
stable code to read and parse the mobile-broadband-provider-info
database (see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet/blob/master/src/libnma/nma-mobile-providers.h)
so it could be ported to NM codebase and just do a quick query based
on SIM MCCMNC as soon as the SIM is exposed to look for possible APN
settings to use.

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Aleksander
https://aleksander.es