Hi

I am using a SIM card from transatel.com. This card should switch operator when I cross the border. There are a few programs on the SIM that are used for that. It works fine on most phones like iPhone, Symbian, an old Samsung, ... However is does not work on the N900 nor is the SIM program accessible through a setting.

Is there a tool for this in a future SW relaese?

Note: doesn't work on G1 either

Probably doesn't work because they aren't linux programs, I would imagine.

Meaning it is probably never going to work....
I will contact the provider. Hadn't thought of that. Thanks for the tip.

Considering the Samsung and iPhone are wildly different platforms I doubt it's a "Linux" thing. I would suggest researching what kind of programs it is (there is SIM standard, but didn't know any operator was using this for network management).

I'll check with one of our SIM experts to see if he knows of anything like this. Maybe we "just" (please note the quotes) need to implement a small standard. Or it might mean we need to completely overhaul the smartcard component. Either way, these are parts of the phone which are locked down (do we have the sources for the SIM access?), and thus likely to be hard to implement.

I have the same problem, and tested with 3 SIM Cards of different GSM carrier here in Brazil.

Here is the brainstorm link http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/view/sim_toolkit/

Here is another thread that seems to be gathering more attention to the problem.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=44290