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- This package contains mobile broadband settings for different service providers
- in different countries. The Package contains only informational files so it's
- safe for distributions to grab updates even during feature freeze and
- maintenance stages.
-
- When you want to configure a mobile broadband connections there usually is some
- service provider specific information you have to know before the connection
- can be established. Problem with this information is that it's highly technical
- for an ordinary consumer and it's available only from service providers web
- page or from Microsoft Windows installation media that becomes with tie-in
- subscription devices.
-
- The interesting side of this information is that it's the same for every user
- of a given service provider. This means that service provider specific
- information can be stored in a database. When this database is available the
- information can be fetched there and the ordinary user does not need to bother
- about it.
-
- Service provider specific information is stored in a XML file. XML is not the
- most optimized format for a database, but it's easy to read, understand and
- edit.
-
- The database is released under Creative Commons Public Domain (CC-PD).
-
- for more info, see:
- http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/MobileBroadband/ServiceProviders
-
-
- If you are using pkg-config, variable MOBILE_BROADBAND_PROVIDER_INFO contains
- the full path to the database.
-