Fetching Mobile Operator Name in Windows 7.1 Phone [Mango]

Here you will see how to fetch the mobile operator's name in Windows 7.1 Phone.

In this quick post I will show you

how to fetch the mobile operator's name in Windows 7.1 Phone.

Design the page

In the content Grid, I have put a button. On the click event of the button, in a message box the Mobile Operator Name we will be displayed:



Write Code Behind

Add the namespace:



On the click event of the button we will fetch the operator name. Operator name can be fetched by:



Using the CellularMobileOperator() function of DeviceNetworkInformation. After fetching, you can convert it to a string.

For your reference the source code is as below:

MainPage.Xaml.cs

using System.Windows;
using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;
using Microsoft.Phone.Net.NetworkInformation;
 
 
namespace MobileOperatorName
{
    public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage
    {
 
        public MainPage()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            btnMobileOpeartor.Click += new RoutedEventHandler(btnMobileOpeartor_Click);
        }
 
        void btnMobileOpeartor_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            string operatorName = "Mobile Opeartor : ";
            operatorName = operatorName + DeviceNetworkInformation.CellularMobileOperator.ToString();
            MessageBox.Show(operatorName);
        } 
    }
}

Running the Application

Press F5 to run the application.



I hope this post was useful. Thanks for reading.