The Notecard auto-activates on first use. Without a recharge, it will "just work" until the earlier of a) 10 years b) 500MB of data used If you need more years

The Notecard auto-activates on first use. Without a recharge, it will "just work" until the earlier of a) 10 years b) 500MB of data used If you need more years or more data we can help, but in the vast, vast majority of narrowband use cases we've found this to be quite sufficient.