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NITZ, or Network Identity and Time Zone[1], is a mechanism for provisioning local time and date, as well as network provider identity information to mobile devices via a wireless network[2]. NITZ has been part of the official GSM standard since phase 2+ release 96[3]. NITZ is often used to automatically update the system clock of mobile phones.
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Supported phones
Most (if not all) mobile phones support automatically updating their date and time via NITZ[4]. Phones that support this feature include:
- Apple iPhone
- Most BlackBerry devices
- Most HTC models
- Most LG devices
- Most MOTOROLA devices
- Most Nokia models, including series 40 and 60 phones.
- Most SAMSUNG devices
- Most Sony Ericsson models
Carriers supporting NITZ
NITZ is supported by large carriers around the world. Carriers that support this feature include[5][dead link]:
- 2degrees (New Zealand)
- AT&T (USA)
- MTS (Russia)
- Optus (Australia)
- Rogers (Canada)
- Sunrise (Switzerland)
- TeliaSonera (Sweden)
- Telecom NZ (New Zealand)
- Telefónica O2 Germany[6]
- Telefónica O2 (Czech Republic)
- Telstra (Australia)
- Turkcell (Turkiye)
- T-Mobile (Czech Republic)
- T-Mobile (Hungary)
- T-Mobile (USA)
- Vodafone (Czech Republic)
- Vodafone (Netherlands)
- Vodafone (Turkiye)
- Zapp (Romania)
- Chunghwa Telecom(Taiwan)
Carriers not supporting NITZ
NITZ is not supported by some of the carriers around the world. Carriers that do not support this feature include:[citation needed]
- Avea (Turkey)
- Orange (Switzerland)
- SoftBank (Japan)
- Telenor (Sweden)
- 3 (Sweden)
- Vodafone NZ (New Zealand)
References
- ^ http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/NITZ
- ^ http://www.freshpatents.com/Network-identity-and-timezone--nitz--functionality-for-non-3gpp-devices-dt20080207ptan20080032736.php
- ^ http://ftp.3gpp.org/tsg_sa/TSG_SA/TSGS_04/Docs/PDF/sp-99330.pdf
- ^ http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/page-33846_23_0.html
- ^ http://www.howardforums.com/archive/topic/1030372-1.html
- ^ http://www.android-hilfe.de/samsung-galaxy/7717-automatische-uhr-im-o2-netz.html
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