Editing Provisioning (technology) (section)

==Mobile subscriber provisioning==
Mobile subscriber provisioning refers to the setting up of new services, such as [[General Packet Radio Service|GPRS]], [[Multimedia Messaging Service|MMS]] and [[Instant Messaging]] for an existing subscriber of a [[mobile phone]] network, and any gateways to standard Internet [[Online chat|chat]] or [[mail]] services.  The network operator typically sends these settings to the subscriber's handset using [[Short message service|SMS]] text services or [[HTML]], and less commonly [[Wireless Application Protocol|WAP]], depending on what the [[mobile operating system]]s can accept.

A general example of provisioning is with data services. A mobile user who is using his or her device for voice calling may wish to switch to data services in order to read emails or browse the Internet. The mobile device's services are "provisioned" and thus the user is able to stay connected through push emails and other features of smartphone services.

Device management systems can benefit end-users by incorporating [[Plug and play|plug-and-play]] data services, supporting whatever device the end-user is using.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}. Such a platform can automatically detect devices in the network, sending them settings for immediate and continued usability.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}} The process is fully automated, keeping the history of used devices and sending settings only to subscriber devices which were not previously set.  One method of managing mobile updates is to filter [[IMEI]]/[[International mobile subscriber identity|IMSI]] pairs.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}  Some operators report activity of 50 over-the-air settings update files per second.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}