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Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? by lxgr on Sunday November 07, 2021 @08:48AM (#29139406)
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...)

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Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? by 0xTJ on Sunday November 07, 2021 @10:11AM (#29140057)
I'm confused by what you're saying. I'm disagreeing with the comment saying that SIM cards being smart is bad.
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Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? by lxgr on Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:43PM (#29141621)
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.

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