Network connectivity

A method for a host device to obtain cellular network connectivity includes using non-cellular data connectivity to download a profile data structure, the profile data structure comprising a set of two or more International Mobile Subscriber Identities, IMSIs, and authentication data. At a later tim...

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Hauptverfasser:	Scott Mackenzie, Joao Afonso Vieira Casal, Hugo Filipe Neves Santos, Dmitry Radzevich, Frederico Alexandre de Matos M Palma, Carlos Hugo Baptista Morgado, Vitor Manuel Vieira Pinto, André Alves Rogério Santos
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE ELECTRICITY WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
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Zusammenfassung:	A method for a host device to obtain cellular network connectivity includes using non-cellular data connectivity to download a profile data structure, the profile data structure comprising a set of two or more International Mobile Subscriber Identities, IMSIs, and authentication data. At a later time an IMSI from the set of IMSIs is selected and used to attempt to register with a cellular network and using the authentication data to obtain cellular network connectivity. The set of IMSIs comprise one or more shared IMSIs which are included in a plurality of profile data structures that are available to one or more further host devices. The profile data structure comprising a set of two or more IMSIs may be selected from a set of three or more IMSIs and a single set of authentication data may be associated with each IMSI. One or more IMSIs may be region dependent or a private IMSI only uniquely available to one profile data set.