1. Relating Terms in an Analogy

2. So, you got a new phone?
Your provider will need to
activate (provision) the
phone to work on their
network.

3. Your Cell Phone
Company = They’re the
DMV.
Provisioning a phone is
like registering a car.

4. Handset ID:
AT&T and T-Mobile = IMEI
Verizon and Sprint = MEID
MIN: Mobile Identification
Number
HLR: Home Location
Registers
MDN: Mobile Dialable
Number

5. HLR
Phone
Activated
MEID MIN
MEID
MIN
HLR
MDN
Required
Components

6. Handset ID =VIN
MIN = License Plate
HLR = The database that
stores this information
MDN = Driver’s License

7. Registered
Vehicles
Personal
Identification
VIN
Data
base
VIN
License
Plate
Driver’s
License
DMV
Requirements
License
Plates

8.  OTASP:
Over
The
Air
Service
Provisioning

9. Makes sure that the VIN and
License Plate match, hands
the Driver’s License to the
handset and allows the phone
to work on the network.
O
What??

10. The phone will provision if
all of the information is
correct!

11. Which means, we
can start
asking…..
Can You Hear
Me Now??
Dr. Martin Cooper –
Inventor of the cell phone

12. MEID
or IMEI
HLR
MDN
TRINET
MIN

13. OTASP

14. What does it mean if
all of the information
is correct?
Can You Hear
Me Now??