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[sturmflut <sturmflut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good morning dear list,

I agree that SIM Tookit support is crucial for many countries. As far as
I know, ofono has a D-Bus API for it and the functionality is very
simple, so we might "just" have to build a simple, unconfined core app
that talks to ofono?

cheers,
Simon



On 09/29/2015 10:29 PM, Thibaut Dedreuil_monet wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I just wanted to share with you my experience with the lack of Sim toolkit on UT.
> I have reported Bug #1323837 in May 2014 concerning the lack of sim toolkit on UT. Few people have already acknowledge that this is a problem on the bug report but from my recent conversation with a UT developper, full SIM toolkit support is not even on the roadmap of UT. I am hoping by this email to convince the product team to reconsider the inclusion of sim toolkit support on UT and accelerate the development of the simtoolkit support. 
> 
> My network provider is a cheap MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) on the name of vectone mobile.  http://www.vectonemobile.co.uk/
> When i am abroad, i cannot use my phone network ( no call, no data, and no location) if i do not have a basic sim toolkit support as i need to change my sim parameters via it to enable me a network connection. 
> For a short while I used my girlfriend's phone in order to set my sim card correctly and was able to use it after on my UT phone.
> Not having the sim toolkit on my UT had the effect on me missing some very important phone calls when i was abroad and i personally feel i should not have to carry a second phone to use my UT abroad. I was able to do this on all the previous phone i owned as all supported SIM toolkit while UT do not.
> 
> While i understand  that this is a very ancient technology and its not used in all country, Sim toolkit support should be considered as a priority as some network providers are still using this old technology.
> 
> Following the bug report this also used in Norway for banking and some users considers this has a must have in order to be able to use a UT. I quote "Sim-toolkit is also used by BankID in Norway. There is no way I can use the phone as a daily driver without this since it is used to access my bank and many other services.
> I want to add that this is supported by all other smartphone OSs, Firefox OS even. This should be a requirement."
> 
> I am hopping that this email might be able to speed up on a decision on enabling a proper basic sim toolkit support on UT. While i wish i could help develop a solution for this, i do lack the skills to do so.
> 
> Kind Regards.
> 
> Thibaut
> 
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