Hello Experts.
Is it necessary or mandatory to add additional data APNs on a device to enable “multiple PDP contexts,” or how does it work?
For multiple PDP contexts, it is not necessary for the APN to be data-only; it can also be an MMS APN or any other enterprise APN. It also depends on the use case and whether the UE supports creating multiple PDP contexts.
If I want to activate multiple PDP contexts for data, is it possible?
Is the activation initiated by the UE or the network?
Yes Ronald it is absolutely possible.you seems have experianced in 3G/2G network nowadays we called it EPS bearer in 4G and PDU context in 5G yes you can have multiple of them.you can have according to the application like wap,web,mms,xcap and also you can define as per ipv4,ipv6,ipv4v6 dual stack or you can have them all in single one as well.Why we use different bearers?it has a very simple reason thats charging you can allocate different rating groups fo online charging offline charging if you have different apns for different type of data traffic,