Re: [PATCH 0/7] Add AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon MVNO IoT/M2M APNs

On Feb 5, 2025, at 5:37 PM, Grant Erickson <[email protected]> wrote:
> At least in North America / United States, there exist Cellular MVNOs
> (particularly in the IoT / M2M veritical) that neither use mobile
> virtual network operator (MVNO) service provider names (SPNs) nor use
> unique home network identifiers (HNIs) (that is, mobile country code
> (MCC) + mobile network code (MNC) pairs). Instead, they simply use the
> HNI of the parent operator.
> 
> In addition, those MVNOs typically have two or three APN schemes:
> 
>    1. A "public" APN that is broadly used by one or more MVNOs for
>       the parent operator that issues PUBLIC IP addresses and does
>       NOT route through the MVNOs or parent operator data center
>       infrastructure.
> 
>    2. A "private" APN that may or may NOT be broadly used by one
>       or more MVNOs for the parent operator that issues PRIVATE IP
>       addresses and does route through the MVNOs or parent operator
>       data center infrastructure.
> 
>    3. A "private" APN that is used only by the MVNO that issues
>       static or dynamic PRIVATE IP addresses, does route through the
>       MVNO data center infrastructure and, from there, via a VPN to
>       the customer services infrastructure.
> 
>       These are sufficiently MVNO-specific where they do not or
>       should not play a role in a generic provisioning database.
> 
> KORE Wireless is one such IoT / M2M MVNO that uses AT&T, T-Mobile, and
> Verizon as parent operators.
> 
> This adds a MNVO-generic IoT / M2M APN of type (1) and (2) above that
> are used by KORE Wireless as well as by other MVNOs for the AT&T,
> T-Mobile, and Verizon parent operators.
> 
> Grant Erickson (7):
>  data: Add AT&T MVNO IoT/M2M 'Public' APN.
>  data: Add AT&T MVNO IoT/M2M 'Private' APN.
>  data: Add T-Mobile MVNO IoT/M2M 'Public' APN.
>  data: Add T-Mobile MVNO IoT/M2M 'Private' APN.
>  data: Add Verizon MVNO IoT/M2M 'Private' APN.
>  data: Add Verizon MVNO IoT/M2M 'Public' APN tag for KORE Wireless.
>  data: Add Verizon MVNO IoT/M2M vzwims APN tags for KORE Wireless.
> 
> data/provision.json | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.45.0

This patch set can be ignored / abandoned; it has been superseded by subsequent patch sets.

Best,

Grant
-- 
Principal
Nuovations

[email protected]
https://www.nuovations.com/