Soracom Air for Cellular

Registering Soracom Air IoT SIMs

When you purchase a Soracom Air IoT SIM, it must be registered to your Soracom account before use. This is similar to activating a SIM card with a traditional mobile network operator. The SIM registration process is required to confirm your receipt of the SIMs, and to associate basic fees and data usage fees from the SIMs to your account.

Once you register an IoT SIM to your account, its status will be Ready indicating that the SIM is ready for use, and you will be responsible for all fees associated with the SIM until you decide to terminate the SIM. For more information on fees associated with each status, please refer to the Subscriber Status documentation and the Pricing & Fee Schedule.

Registering IoT SIMs from an Order

If you purchased IoT SIMs directly from Soracom, each SIM in your order will be pre-registered to your account. Once you have received your order, you can complete the SIM registration process by registering the order, rather than registering each SIM individually.

For security, as each SIM in your order will be pre-registered to your account, the ICCID and PUK or IMSI and Passcode of each SIM cannot be used to manually register the SIMs to a different Soracom account.

To register SIMs from an order:

  1. Login to the User Console. From the Menu, open the SIM Management screen.

  2. Click the Register SIM button.

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    Register SIM

  3. Click the From Order tab.

  4. From the list of orders, find the order that you want to register, and click Register.

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    Register order

Automatic Registration Period

If you do not register your order, your order will be automatically registered to your account as follows:

  • Orders containing IoT SIMs (Global coverage) will be automatically registered to your account 14 days after shipment.
  • Orders containing IoT SIMs for Japan (Japan coverage) will be automatically registered to your account 4 days after shipment.

If you have not received your order, such as due to a shipping delay or lost package, and would like to pause automatic registration of your order, please contact us as soon as possible.

Customizing Initial Settings

While configuring an IoT SIM's settings from the User Console is simple, doing so for a large number of SIMs can become tedious. When purchasing SIMs directly from Soracom, you can customize the initial settings that will be applied to all SIMs in the order upon registration.

Note that initial settings can only be customized before an order has been registered. Once an order has been registered, including if the order was automatically registered according to the Automatic Registration Period above, the initial settings option will no longer be available. However, you can still modify these settings for each SIM individually, after registration.

The following initial settings can be customized for each subscription in your order:

Once you register your order, the initial settings you selected will be automatically applied to each SIM in the order.

If you do not specify any initial settings, your SIMs will be registered to your account without any Group setting or Tags, and the Speed Class will be configured according to the subscription's default Speed Class.

When customizing initial settings, the same settings will be applied to all SIMs in the order on a per-subscription basis. For example, if you purchase 100 IoT SIMs, the same initial Group, Speed Class, and Tags settings you choose will be applied to all 100 SIMs upon registration.

In order to apply different initial Group, Speed Class, or Tags settings, you must place separate orders and configure the initial settings for each order separately.

To customize the initial settings you want to apply to the SIMs in your order:

  1. Login to the User Console. From the Menu, open the SIM Management screen.

  2. Click the Register SIM button.

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    Register SIM

  3. Click the From Order tab.

  4. From the list of orders, find the order that you want to customize, and click Configure SIM initial settings.

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    Configure Initial Setings

  5. Configure the Group, Speed Class, and Tags that you would like to be applied to each SIM in your order:

    • Group (optional) - Each SIM will be added to the selected group upon registration. If empty or if the group was deleted prior to registration, the SIMs will be registered without being added to any group.

      If you want to add SIMs to a new group, first create a new group by following the Groups: Managing Groups instructions. Then return to this step in order to select your new group.

      Note that the Group initial setting will be configured using the selected group's Group ID. Therefore, SIMs will still be registered to the selected group, even if you rename the group or modify group settings.

    • Speed Class (optional) - Each SIM will be configured with the selected speed class upon registration. If empty, the default Speed Class for the subscription will be applied to the SIMs.

    • Tags (optional) - Tags will be added to each SIM upon registration.

      The Tag Name name is used for giving a SIM a custom name. If specified, each SIM will be named according to the value specified. For example, if you configure Tag Name as name and its corresponding Tag Value as my-sim, each SIM in your order will be renamed to my-sim upon registration.

  6. Click Update initial settings.

The initial settings that you specified will be applied to each SIM in the order as soon as you register the order, or once the order is automatically registered according to the Automatic Registration Period above.

Manually Registering an IoT SIM

For orders of SIMs purchased through Amazon or a reseller, each SIM must be individually registered to your Soracom account.

Registering an IoT SIM

When registering a Soracom Air IoT SIM (Global coverage, regardless of plan), you will be required to enter the ICCID of the SIM card, as well as the module's PUK (Personal Unlock Key). Both the ICCID and PUK are printed on the reverse side of the SIM card.

  1. Login to the User Console. From the Menu, open the SIM Management screen. Ensure that you have selected the Global coverage type.

  2. Click the Register SIM button.

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    Register SIM

  3. From the Direct Input tab, enter the ICCID and PUK of the SIM, then click Register. You can also give the SIM a name, and assign it to an existing group.

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    Register Global SIM

Registering an IoT SIM for Japan

When registering a Soracom Air IoT SIM for Japan (Japan coverage, regardless of plan), you will be required to enter the IMSI of the SIM card, as well as the SIM card's Passcode. Both the IMSI and Passcode are printed on the reverse side of the SIM card.

  1. Login to the User Console. From the Menu, open the SIM Management screen. Ensure that you have selected the Japan coverage type.

  2. Click the Register SIM button.

  3. From the Direct Input tab, enter the IMSI and Passcode of the SIM, then click Register. You can also give the SIM a name, and assign it to an existing group.

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    Register Japan SIM

When you purchase an IoT SIM for Japan, a registration deadline is printed on the reverse of the SIM card package. You must register the SIM card to your account before the indicated deadline. If the deadline has already passed, you will be unable to register the SIM card to your account. If you purchased and received an IoT SIM for Japan with a registration deadline that has already passed, please contact Soracom support in order to receive a replacement SIM card.

Bulk Registration of IoT SIMs

If you purchased the IoT SIM in a reel on a non-Soracom shopping site, you can register the IoT SIMs in bulk by entering the 19-digit First ICCID, 19-digit Last ICCID, and 8-character Authentication Passcode in the Soracom User Console.

  • The 8-character Authentication Passcode is listed on the product label.
  • The First and Last ICCIDs are partially printed on the product label, and the remaining digits can be confirmed by checking the ICCID numbers printed on the SIM directly.
  • When bulk registering Soracom SIMs, one Authentication Code will be provided per order unit of SIMs. Therefore this process will have to be repeated for each unit of SIMs being registered.

  1. Login to the User Console. From the Menu, open the SIM Management screen. Ensure that you have selected the correct coverage type for your region.

  2. Click the Register SIM button.

  3. From the Authentication Passcode tab, enter the 19-digit First SIM ICCID, 19-digit Last SIM ICCID, and 8-character Authentication Passcode, then click Register

Downloading a List of Registered SIMs

You can download a CSV file containing a list of all SIMs registered to your account.

  1. Login to the User Console. From the Menu, open the SIM Management screen.

  2. From the top right of the list of SIMs, click the Download button.

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    Download SIMs

You can also download a CSV file containing a list of SIMs that belong to a specific order.

  1. Login to the User Console. From the Menu, open the Orders screen.

  2. From the list of orders, find the order that contains the SIMs you want to download, and click the List subscribers button.

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    List subscribers

Programmatic Usage

You can also use the Soracom API and Soracom CLI to register IoT SIMs to your account.

Soracom API

To access the Soracom API, first use the auth API to obtain an API Key and Token. Refer to the API Reference Guide for instructions on how to use the API Key and Token in API requests.

Then, use the registerSubscriber API to register an IoT SIM:

curl -X POST \
>  -H 'X-Soracom-API-Key: <MY-API-KEY>' \
>  -H 'X-Soracom-Token: <MY-TOKEN>' \
>  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
>  -d '{
>        "registrationSecret": "12345678"
>      }' \
>  https://g.api.soracom.io/v1/subscribers/<IMSI>/register

Soracom CLI

To use the Soracom CLI, you must first configure it to authenticate with your account information, authorization key, or SAM user credentials.

Then, run the following command to register an IoT SIM:

soracom subscribers register --imsi <IMSI> --registration-secret "12345678" --coverage-type g