automatic APN selection

[Belisko Marek]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 11:22 AM Aleksander Morgado <
aleksander at aleksander.es> wrote:

> >> 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
Yes it make sense IMO. I'll try to ask on NM mailing list and come back
with their reply. Thanks Aleksander +1

>
> --
> Aleksander
> https://aleksander.es
>

BR,

marek
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