Aki, On Thursday 11 June 2009 13:00:48 Aki Niemi wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:32:38 -0500, Denis Kenzior <denk...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > About the only thing that MCC/MNC is useful for is to display it during > > manual > > operator selection. > > That's not true. In fact, I'd say manual operator selection is just about > the last > place where the codes should be displayed.
The point is MCCMNC is not something the user should realy be exposed to. It is useful to dis-ambiguate the carrier by Country when you're in a border area, but that is about it. Country property can do this just as well. > > > MCC/MNC is not helpful at all for countries like U.S. > > with 4+ timezones and the same carrier id across all of them. A country > > property would work just as well for this. > > For geolocation help, sure, but there are other places where MNC/MCC are > used as keys to databases containing operator-specific information, like > default Internet APN names and such. > Then lets design this into oFono instead of exposing an obscure attribute. Regards, -Denis _______________________________________________ ofono mailing list ofono@ofono.org http://lists.ofono.org/listinfo/ofono
