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  • Super SIM
  • Super SIM's Available Networks
  • Super SIM’s Multi-IMSI Applet
  • Over-the-Air Updates
  • Get Started with Super SIM
    • Overview
    • Get Started with Super SIM, the Raspberry Pi 4 and the Waveshare 4G Hat
    • Get Started with Super SIM, the Raspberry Pi 4 and the Sixfab Base Hat
    • Get Started with Data Comms and the Raspberry Pi Pico
    • Get Started with Super SIM SMS Commands and the Raspberry Pi 4
    • Get Started with Super SIM SMS Commands and the Raspberry Pi Pico
    • Get Started with Super SIM IP Commands and the Raspberry Pi
    • Get Started with Super SIM IP Commands and the Raspberry Pi Pico
    • Get Started with Super SIM eSIM Profiles for eUICCs
    • Get Started with Super SIM Connection Events
  • How To
    • How to Set a Device’s APN for Super SIM
    • How to Enable Device Roaming for Super SIM
    • How to Determine Whether a Device Contains a Super SIM
    • How to Set up iPhones for Super SIM
    • How to Determine a Super SIM’s Status
    • How to Use Console Bulk Actions to Update Multiple Super SIMs
    • How to Download Bulk Super SIM Data
    • How to Use Super SIM Fleets and Network Access Profiles
    • How to Understand the Settings on your SIM
      • Base Settings Package
    • How and Why You Can Set Super SIM’s Network Attach Priority List
    • How to Set Up and Use a Super SIM VPN
    • How to Configure AWS for a Super SIM VPN
    • How to Make and Take IoT VoIP Calls via Super SIM
    • How to Use Super SIM Connection Events
    • How to use Super SIM eSIM Profiles
    • How to Monitor Super SIM Connection Events using AWS ElasticSearch and Kibana
    • How to Use OpenAPI Clients with Super SIM
  • Into Production
    • Prepare for Production Deployments with Super SIM
    • Super SIM Datasheet
    • Super SIM Network Timeouts
  • Works with Super SIM
    • Works with Super SIM: Quectel BG95
    • Works with Super SIM: Quectel EG21-G
    • Works with Super SIM: Quectel EG25-G
    • Works with Super SIM: Thales Cinterion EXS62-W
    • Works with Super SIM: u-blox SARA-R5
  • Cellular Module Knowledgebase
    • Overview
    • About AT Commands
    • Nordic Modules with Super SIM
    • Quectel Modules with Super SIM
    • Quectel Modules with the KORE Narrowband SIM
    • Simcom Modules with Super SIM
    • Telit Modules with Super SIM
    • Thales Cinterion Modules with Super SIM
    • U-blox Modules with Super SIM
    • Cellular IoT Terminology
    • Low-power Optimization for Cellular Modules
    • Four Best Practices for Cellular Module Registration
    • How to Determine Good Cellular Signal Strength
    • How Super SIM Devices Connect to Cell Networks
  • Super SIM API
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Get Started with Super SIM

Follow step-by-step instructions to create your KORE account, order your first Super SIM, and begin using it.

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This guide will walk you through the process of creating your KORE account, ordering your first Super SIM and preparing it for use. Once you've performed these straightforward but essential tasks, you'll be ready to try out Super SIM in an IoT device.

The very first step is to obtain a Super SIM and activate it.

Create Your KORE Account

Register a Super SIM

Order a Super SIM

  1. Select the number and type of Super SIMs you want to order:

  2. Click the Buy Now button, choose your Shipping Address

  3. Click Save & Continue button, Review your Order

  4. Click Save & Continue button, choose your payment method, click Proceed To Payment button.

Once your Super SIM has shipped, it will be automatically added to your KORE account. In the meantime, you can start completing some of the steps in the next section straight away to be ready to use it when it arrives — you don't need to have your Super SIM in front of you to complete them.

Prepare a Super SIM for Use

1. Create a Network Access Profile

Network Access Profiles give you control over which cellular networks your Super SIMs can connect to around the world. You can either start from scratch with a new, empty Network Access Profile and add the networks that best suit your needs, or generate one that starts with all of our cheapest networks around the world already enabled. You can update your Network Access Profile's list of enabled networks at any time.

  1. Click the Create Network Access Profile button.

  2. Give your new Network Access Profile a memorable Unique Name to make it easy to identify in future:

  3. We recommend you start from scratch and explore the networks available to your country and those you're looking to deploy. You can easily enable the networks you want to test out with a few clicks. Alternatively, you can select Instant global access to create a Network Access Profiles to start with all of the networks that currently have our lowest data and SMS Command usage rates enabled.

  4. Click the Create button.

  5. You will see the new Network Access Profile's Networks tab. This shows a list of mobile networks organized by continent and country. Only networks which have been selected will be accessed by Super SIMs using this Network Access Profile:

If you selected Instant global access in step 4, a number of networks will already be enabled for you. If you selected To start from Scratch, you will have to select some networks yourself. If you make any changes to the list of selected networks, click the Update Networks button at the bottom of the page.

2. Create a Fleet

All Super SIMs inherit their capabilities from the Fleet they've been assigned to, so you need to create a Fleet and add your Super SIM to it before you can use that SIM. The mobile networks a Fleet can use is set through its own Network Access Profile, so you will need to select this too.

  1. Click the Create Fleet button at the top:

  2. Give the Fleet a unique, memorable name to make it easy to identify in future:

  3. The Console automatically sets the Fleet's Data Limit to 1GB (1,000MB) per month. Each Super SIM assigned to the Fleet can use 1GB of data. This number may be too high or low, depending on your use case. If you have a better estimate for how much data your IoT device needs each month, put that number here now — or update your data limit later if your figure turns out to be a little wide of the mark after testing.

  4. Scroll down and click the Create button.

You're now ready to activate your Super SIM when it dispatches.

3. Assign your Super SIM to the Fleet and activate it

Once your Super SIM has been shipped, you'll be able to see it in your KORE Account. Now, you can finish configuring it even though you may not have received it yet.

  1. In the list of SIMs, you should see a single Super SIM, which is the one you ordered earlier. Click anywhere on the SIM's row.

  1. Take this opportunity, if you haven't already, to give the Super SIM a unique, memorable name — this will make it easier to locate in the future.

  2. Change the SIM's Status from New to Active.

  3. Click the Save button.

We've worked through the process for a single SIM, but if you have a larger number of new SIMs to set up, you can use the Bulk Actions functionality provided by the console.

For example, to assign a number of SIMs to the Fleet you created earlier, check the SIMs you want to update, click the Update SIMs button, and in the panel that appears, select your new Fleet. Click Continue and then confirm the change, and all the selected SIMs will be assigned to the chosen Fleet. You can set the status of those SIMs at the same time.

When you activate a Super SIM by changing its status in the Console from New to Active (or new to active, if you're using the API), you will incur a monthly active SIM fee of $2.00. You can change the Super SIM's status to Inactive (Console) or inactive (API) at any time to disable the SIM and stop incurring the monthly fee. You can reactivate at any time by switching the status back to Active /active.

4. Set your device's APN

Whichever IoT development hardware you're using, you'll need to set its Access Point Name (APN) to super.

5. Enable roaming

All devices using Super SIM must be set to allow roaming across mobile networks, even if they are only going to be used in the US.

Test-drive your Super SIM

Your Super SIM is now ready to be used as the basis for your IoT device's global cellular connectivity — why not try it out with one of our quickstart guides?

Become a Super SIM specialist

To discover how Super SIM works and to understand its behaviors, take a look at the left-hand navigation menu's Help and Support section, in particular:

We have a which you can follow to get commonly used IoT hardware development platforms connected to KORE's seamless global cellular network — just pick the guide that matches the platform you intend to use to prototype your own IoT hardware, or one you're familiar with, so you can quickly put Super SIM through its paces.

You can also review our to explore the entire process, from ordering a SIM to network selection, activation, and usage reporting.

Your first step will be to for a KORE Account. You can follow this for instructions on how to create your first Account.

Once you've created your account and are successfully logged in you'll be greeted by Dashboard.

You can now access the Super SIM Console to learn more about the product but you won't be able to do much until you have a Super SIM to use. If you already received a Super SIM from an event, a meeting with a member of our sales team, or , you can and get started right away. If you don't have one yet, you can .

This section only applies if you received a Super SIM from an event, from a member of our sales team, or if you requested a free one. Super SIMs ordered through KORE Shop arrive registered to your account. If you need to order a Super SIM, check out the section .

If you already have a Super SIM that you received at a developer event, conference, or in-person meeting, or that you received through some other channel, you may need to .

Once you have your Super SIM added to your account, you can jump to .

You can order Super SIMs from the , which you can access either the KORE Console Dashboard or clicking the cart icon on the top navigation bar in the Super SIM Console.

Go to :

You can update a Network Access Profile's list of networks at any time, using or the. You can delete Network Access Profiles in provided it has not been assigned to a Fleet. If you'd like to know more about Network Access Profiles, take a look at .

A Fleet is a way of bringing together one or more Super SIMs to set their behavior as a group. For example, you might want a set of Super SIMs to have their data usage billed the same way and to all accept . Rather than apply these settings to each Super SIM individually — imagine hundreds of thousands of these integrated into IoT devices in the field — you just update the Fleet, and all the Super SIMs in that Fleet automatically adopt the new configuration. Easy.

You can create a new Fleet using the or the . We'll use the latter here because it works well with single Super SIMs, but the will show you how to work with Fleets when you're managing large volumes of Super SIMs.

Go to .

The Console automatically enables the Fleet's Data and SMS Commands services; leave these as they are for now. In future, you can use these settings to block all the Super SIMs in the Fleet from transferring data across the network, or from receiving .

Under Network Access Profile select the NAP you created in .

Go to

From the Fleet menu, select the Fleet you created in .

For full details, please see

This is a straightforward process, but different devices place the settings in different locations, so please follow , which will help you set up your type of device.

Again, this isn't a complex task, but it will require different steps depending on which device you have added your Super SIM to. Please follow here for your device.

All the information you need to become a proficient Super SIM user is right here in the . In particular, check out the to get a thorough grounding in how the API can help you wrangle all of your IoT products' Super SIMs.

If you need assistance using Super SIM with a specific cellular modem, be sure to investigate the . It contains configuration and usage information for an array of devices from different manufacturers, and it's growing all the time. It also contains handy generic guidance, which can be invaluable if your chosen module is not yet one of the ones we've detailed.

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KORE Console
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register your Super SIM within KORE Console
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Network Access Profiles
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Super SIM API
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How to Use Super SIM Fleets and Network Access Profiles
SMS Commands
Super SIM API
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API documentation
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Step 1 — Create a Network Access Profile
Super SIM > SIMs
Step 2 — Create a Fleet
How to Use Console Bulk Actions to Update Multiple Super SIMs.
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Get Started with Super SIM, the Raspberry Pi 4, and the Sixfab Base Hat
Get Started with Super SIM, the Raspberry Pi 4, and the Waveshare 4G Hat
Get Started with Super SIM and the Raspberry Pi Pico
Get Started with Super SIM SMS Commands and the Raspberry Pi
Get Started with Super SIM SMS Commands and the Raspberry Pi Pico
Get Started with Super SIM IP Commands and the Raspberry Pi
Get Started with Super SIM IP Commands and the Raspberry Pi Pico
Get Started with Super SIM Connection Events
Get Started with Super SIM eSIM Profiles for eUICC
KORE documentation
Super SIM API documentation
Super SIM Multi-IMSI
Super SIM Over-the-Air Updates
Super SIM States
Super SIM Partner Networks
Super SIM Network Attach Priority Lists
Super SIM Console Bulk Actions
Cellular Module Knowledgebase