How to get the Provider's name in Java ME?

[sweetsweet24]

Dear Sir/Madam,

How can I get the provider's name in Java ME?

I mean the sim card's provider name.
For Singapore, they have three providers, Singtel , Starhub and M1.
Now I want is in my application, the phone is using which sim card(eg. this phone is using Starhub's sim card).

How can I get the provider's name using Java ME?

Please give me instruction and samples if possible.

Thanks you,
With regards,
Sweet Sweet

[grahamhughes]

There is no way to do this.

If the application connects to a server, then the server might be able to identify the operator from the IP address of the in-bound connection.

There is no means of doing this on the device.

[arpit2agrawal]

On Motorola v600 series of phones you can use
System.getProperty("CellID")
to get Cell ID and then perform a lookup in database to get operator id... It may be something like Cell ID starting with such & such numbers belong to operator X & so on... You will have to check whats the system in your country... I don't know that Cell ID is allocated by government regulatory body or assigned arbitrary by operator... check it...
Also, I think there is no way to get Cell ID on Nokia phones...

[Tiger79]

especially the last line of arpit is completely right :P

[arpit2agrawal]

You can get System Property

System.getProperty("wireless.messaging.sms.smsc")

like in my case, it returns "+919823000040"
and then perform a lookup in database like "+91" for India
and then take first four digits "9823" and lookup in this database
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_...ering_in_India
which says it is "Vodafone" in "Maharashtra Circle"
but this requires WMA (Wireless Messaging API) feature in the handset...