T-mobile Usa, Inc.

Deepthi Jonnala

Phani Ramisetty

Kyeong Hun An

Subramania Kaushik

Systems and methods for using a bootstrap Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) to bootstrap an Internet-of-Things (IoT) device on a cellular network. The IoT device uses bootstrap information stored on the bootstrap SIM to authenticate the IoT device with the cellular network. The cellular network receives the bootstrap information and uses a certificate repository to check the bootstrap information against. Upon successful authentication, the IoT device is provided with credentials to register the IoT device on the cellular network.

Systems and methods for bootstrapped onboarding of cellular devices

Techniques and architecture are provided for preventing narrow band (NB) SIMs from being used in a non-NB devices, e.g., high bandwidth devices such as, for example, smartphones, tablets, etc. In configurations, a user device is provisioned based upon a NB international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI), a NB-indicator and a type allocation code (TAC) combination. An IMSI, NB-indicator and TAC mismatch helps prevent NB-SIMs from being used in a non-NB device. In configurations, when a user device attempts to access or register with a wireless communication network via a narrow band network of the wireless communication network, the wireless communication network will verify the IMSI, the NB-indicator and the NB-TAC combination for the user device in order to allow the user device to access the narrow band network of the wireless communication network.

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Renton, WA, United States of America

Deepthi Jonnala