Comment 2 for bug 1965901

Putting a bit more thought into this, I'm a bit concerned by regressing user. The plus side, as per our face-to-face discussion, there are not many modem users, but still... maybe I'd like to investigate some possibilities.

Reading up on the modemmanager page gave me some necessary context here. I agree with the upstream decision not to unlock modems automatically and their recommendation for distributions not doing it automatically as well. That being said, 20.04 has been released with auto-unlocking, so this feels like going against our stability principles in Ubuntu. Some question here regarding this: does the new modemmanager add some new FCC locked modems in 1.18 in comparison to 1.16? Since one fair way to go forward in my eyes (at least right now) would be to keep auto-unlocking the previously supported modems but require manual unlocks of the new ones. Are there any new ones? Or does this basically only relate and lock down those that were previously available?