SIM licenses

You can use a regulated-level EMM data plan purchased from your service provider (also known as a SIM license) to activate a BlackBerry 10 device, instead of using a server license. Contact your service provider to buy SIM licenses.

To activate a device using this option, you use a SIM card that your service provider has enabled for a regulated-level EMM data plan. You do not need to activate SIM licenses before you can use them. SIM licenses support the following activation types for BlackBerry 10 devices:
  • Work and personal - Corporate
  • Work and personal - Regulated
  • Work space only

There is no limit to the number of SIM licenses allowed in a domain. Use BlackBerry Management Studio to check the usage information for your organization's licenses.

If a user removes the SIM card from a device that uses a SIM license, that device is locked in quarantine mode. As long as the device is quarantined, the user cannot access work data. BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 removes the device from quarantine when the user inserts the SIM card again. You or the user can also switch service to a different BlackBerry 10 device and then insert the SIM card into the new device.