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