Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?
by 0xTJ on Sunday November 07, 2021 @08:10AM
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I strongly disagree on the first point. The carriers used are entirely an issue with my carrier. I don't use a phone that's in any way associated with my carrier, and I expect the SIM card to "just work" when I put it in a phone.
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Would you rather have to copy-paste an arbitrary list of parameters into some preference menu option every time you travel internationally?
(Ironically, SIMs are falling short on this end quite a lot since they don't allow providing GPRS and MMS related configuration, which means that now we have SIMs and manual lists...)
I'm confused by what you're saying. I'm disagreeing with the comment saying that SIM cards being smart is bad.
Ah, sorry, I must have misunderstood you or mixed up comments!
Yes, I agree that SIMs being (moderately) smart helps them to just work in a new phone without any affiliation with the carrier.
It's not perfect, though – APN settings are annoyingly part of the OS when they should arguably be a SIM and baseband implementation detail like the SMSC, for example.