T-Mobile Contributions

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2023-09-08 at 13:42 -0700, matthew stanger wrote:
> Greetings MM,
> 
> I'm excited to announce that T-Mobile US is now using
> ModemManager/libMBIM/libQMI
> for our 5G Fixed Wireless products
> [https://www.t-mobile.com/home-internet]. We
> are currently the largest FWA ISP in the world with well over 3
> Million
> subscribers, i.e., lots of ModemManager users! We did this via an
> architectural
> contribution in partnership with the RDK community, a popular
> STB/Router Linux
> distro running on over 100 Million devices.
> 
> MM is now supported in RDK via a FOSS MM connection manager,
> CellularManager
> [
> https://code.rdkcentral.com/r/plugins/gitiles/collaboration/rdkb/compo
> nents/
> opensource/ccsp/RdkCellularManager-MM/+/refs/heads/main]
> (need to signup for a free login), and is being worked on by dozens
> of major OEMs
> & ISPs. If anyone wants to provide feedback or reviews, please let me
> know.
> 
> We're working hard to realize the full potential of this community by
> providing
> quality merge requests, via our partners & RDK, and guiding modem
> makers towards
> standards like QMI/MBIM. Please keep an eye out for us and our
> partners on the
> ML & Gitlab!

That's awesome! Never imagined the kind of reach MM has achieved when
the project got started long long ago...

Dan