--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
   mobile_broadband_provider_info_dep = dependency('mobile-broadband-provider-info')
   config_h.set_quoted('MOBILE_BROADBAND_PROVIDER_INFO_DATABASE', mobile_broadband_provider_info_dep.get_pkgconfig_variable('database'))
 else
-  config_h.set_quoted('MOBILE_BROADBAND_PROVIDER_INFO_DATABASE', join_paths(nma_prefix, 'share', 'mobile-broadband-provider-info', 'serviceproviders.xml'))
+  config_h.set_quoted('MOBILE_BROADBAND_PROVIDER_INFO_DATABASE', join_paths(nma_datadir, 'mobile-broadband-provider-info', 'serviceproviders.xml'))
 endif
 
 gio_dep = dependency('gio-2.0', version: '>= 2.38')
--- a/src/libnm-gtk/nm-mobile-providers.c
+++ b/src/libnm-gtk/nm-mobile-providers.c
@@ -30,10 +30,6 @@
 
 #include "nm-mobile-providers.h"
 
-#ifndef MOBILE_BROADBAND_PROVIDER_INFO
-#define MOBILE_BROADBAND_PROVIDER_INFO DATADIR"/mobile-broadband-provider-info/serviceproviders.xml"
-#endif
-
 #define ISO_3166_COUNTRY_CODES ISO_CODES_PREFIX"/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_3166.xml"
 #define ISO_CODES_LOCALESDIR ISO_CODES_PREFIX"/share/locale"
 
@@ -990,7 +986,7 @@
 	if (!country_codes)
 		country_codes = ISO_3166_COUNTRY_CODES;
 	if (!service_providers)
-		service_providers = MOBILE_BROADBAND_PROVIDER_INFO;
+		service_providers = MOBILE_BROADBAND_PROVIDER_INFO_DATABASE;
 
 	countries = read_country_codes (country_codes,
 	                                cancellable,