MNC/MCC as string?

[Aki Niemi]

On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:32:38 -0500, Denis Kenzior <denkenz at gmail.com>
wrote:
> About the only thing that MCC/MNC is useful for is to display it during
> manual 
> operator selection.  

That's not true. In fact, I'd say manual operator selection is just about
the last
place where the codes should be displayed.

> MCC/MNC is not helpful at all for countries like U.S. 
> with 4+ timezones and the same carrier id across all of them.  A country 
> property would work just as well for this.  

For geolocation help, sure, but there are other places where MNC/MCC are
used as keys to databases containing operator-specific information, like
default Internet APN names and such.

> What standard do we want to use
> 
> here? ITU 212? ISO 3166? or E164?
> 
> Any objections from actually removing the MCC/MNC Properties?

We need them.

Cheers,
Aki