Access Point Name

Yes, absolutely.

So one of the suggestions was, "Why don't you just ask your ISP and see if they'll give you a public IP address?" So I thought, "Hey, what can I lose?" And indeed, when I contacted their customer support, they said, "Oh yeah, just change the APN settings, and you'll not be behind carrier-grade NAT, and you'll get a dynamic IP instead."

No way.

So I did that.

he watched certificate files come down from the carrier.

When it didn't work and he went digging in the APN settings, he found the APN had already been filled in for him, the way it'd be if he'd shoved a physical card into the slot.

Which is the thing that made him write in, I think.

It's the thing that made him write in.

The cards stop being disposable.

The cards stop being disposable and the subscriptions stop being welded to it, which is a much bigger deal than software SIM.

Okay, so APN settings.

Daniel was surprised they'd been provisioned for the carrier automatically.