I was struggling to get the modem to play nicely on AT&T in the USA. I found the following AT commands did the trick of cleaning up the settings on the modem when it is setup with the new firmware:
AT+CGDCONT=1
AT+CGDCONT=2
AT+CGDCONT=3
AT+CGDCONT=6
AT+CGDCONT=7
AT+CGDCONT=8
AT+CGDCONT=1,“IPV4V6”,“”
AT+CGDCONT=6,“IPV4V6”,“”
AT+CFUN=0
AT+CFUN=1
Seems the default settings from the SIM that the module was loading were definitely making it fail to register to the network, but after fixing these on /dev/ttyUSB2 the modem can right up and established a connection. Just posting here in case others run into the same issue.