TIL: the Chinese telco Baidu decided to break the e.118 standard which defines the identifiers for SIM cards (ICCID) in order to be able to encode custom data instead of using it as a true serial number.
https://www.xingsuyun58.com/907996.html
Full details here: https://baike.baidu.com/item/iccid/5181544
The letter is used to designate segments (which group operators).
Example: 898604B719227100nnnn (n is an integer)
TIL: the Chinese telco Baidu decided to break the e.118 standard which defines the identifiers for SIM cards (ICCID) in order to be able to encode custom data instead of using it as a true serial number.
https://www.xingsuyun58.com/907996.html
Full details here: https://baike.baidu.com/item/iccid/5181544
The letter is used to designate segments (which group operators).
Example:
898604B719227100nnnn(n is an integer)