Re: Avoiding 3G roaming costs
Gianluca Sforna wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Dan Williams wrote: We can hack something together with F11 perhaps, and on F12 it's even easier. You can try to enter your providers' MCC/MNC (a 6-digit number for the US, 5 digits for everywhere else) in the connection editor in the "Network" entry and NM will direct the modem to register *only* on your providers network and thus not roam, but there are certainly improvements we can do. The obvious improvement I can think of, assuming the 5/6 digits codes you mention are stored in the providers database, is to add a checkbox "allow roaming" to the edit connection page... do we have such codes? if not, where should I look for? By the way, thanks for replying, I thought mailman redirected the message to /dev/null ;) Ideally the user should be warned when the registration state of the device becomes set to roaming. Roaming is a big an issue where a user operates within their own country but close to the border of another country (In Europe this is a significant issue). In poor signals conditions the foreign network can be found before the local network and the user will be roaming without leaving his country. When users persistently operate in these regions the usual recommendation is to manually select the network to their home network. When you are deliberately travelling abroad you may also need to select the Service Provider to use. While most Service Providers allow their systems to be used for voice and SMS the data connections will often fail if there is no agreement between them and your Service Provider. Some of the larger Service Provider groups use SIMs that intelligently manage registration for you with lookup tables etc to ensure that only partner networks are used if available. But that is not universal for all SIMs. Just to add a little insight ... I have a UK Vodafone account.and I have noticed that when I roam from the UK to Belgium my Vodafone SIM will keep me connected to Proximus (the local Vodafone group member) if possible and when I query the registration state I am not roaming but it is a different MNC. But I am charged a higher tariff for data! If I travel to a location in Belgium where Proximus is not available then my phone will register with one of the other two networks. The tarifs are *much* higher and one of them cannot support 3G data at all and refuses to make the data connection. ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Avoiding 3G roaming costs
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Dan Williams wrote: > We can hack something together with F11 perhaps, and on F12 it's even > easier. You can try to enter your providers' MCC/MNC (a 6-digit number > for the US, 5 digits for everywhere else) in the connection editor in > the "Network" entry and NM will direct the modem to register *only* on > your providers network and thus not roam, but there are certainly > improvements we can do. The obvious improvement I can think of, assuming the 5/6 digits codes you mention are stored in the providers database, is to add a checkbox "allow roaming" to the edit connection page... do we have such codes? if not, where should I look for? By the way, thanks for replying, I thought mailman redirected the message to /dev/null ;) -- Gianluca Sforna http://morefedora.blogspot.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/gianlucasforna ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Avoiding 3G roaming costs
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 15:14 +0200, Gianluca Sforna wrote: > Hi, > I recently bought from a Huawei based USB dongle and it seems > NetworkManager works pretty well with it; however I later discovered I > dried out my account's credit (it's a prepaid contract) by attempting > the connection in a place not covered by the network (so the roaming > tariff applied). > > I think I've read somewhere newer NM builds should support selecting > the network (so I assume I could avoid the roaming costs by fixing the > network to use) but I can find anything like that in my Fedora 11 nor > in the F12alpha LiveCD I tried. Any hint at where I should look? We can hack something together with F11 perhaps, and on F12 it's even easier. You can try to enter your providers' MCC/MNC (a 6-digit number for the US, 5 digits for everywhere else) in the connection editor in the "Network" entry and NM will direct the modem to register *only* on your providers network and thus not roam, but there are certainly improvements we can do. dan ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Avoiding 3G roaming costs
Hi, I recently bought from a Huawei based USB dongle and it seems NetworkManager works pretty well with it; however I later discovered I dried out my account's credit (it's a prepaid contract) by attempting the connection in a place not covered by the network (so the roaming tariff applied). I think I've read somewhere newer NM builds should support selecting the network (so I assume I could avoid the roaming costs by fixing the network to use) but I can find anything like that in my Fedora 11 nor in the F12alpha LiveCD I tried. Any hint at where I should look? TIA Gianluca -- Gianluca Sforna http://morefedora.blogspot.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/gianlucasforna ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
