Management of cdma credentials on a smart card

A system, comprising:

• a plurality of devices to:
• receive a request to activate a smart card associated with a user device;
• determine, based on the request, whether the user device is registered;
• send, to the smart card, a first activation response to activate the smart card when the user device is registered, the first activation response including information to enable the user device to communicate with a particular network;
• register the user device with one or more of the plurality of devices when the user device is not registered;
• and
• send, to the smart card, a second activation response to activate the smart card after the user device is registered with the one or more the plurality of devices, the second activation response including the information to enable the user device to communicate with the particular network.

A method, comprising:

• receiving, by one or more devices, a request to activate a smart card associated with a user device, the smart card being different from the user device;
• determining, by the one or more devices and based on the request, that the user device is unregistered;
• registering, by the one or more devices and based on the request, the user device, the registering of the user device including:
• causing the smart card to update credentials of the user device, and
• receiving, from the smart card, information associated with the updated credentials of the user device;
• and
• sending, by the one or more devices and to the smart card, an activation response to activate the smart card after the user device is registered, the activation response including information, based on the updated credentials, to enable the user device to communicate with a particular network,
• the activation response causing the smart card to program the user device to access the particular network using the information included in the activation response.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium to store instructions, the instructions comprising:

• one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more devices, cause the one or more devices to:
• receive a request to activate a smart card associated with a user device, the smart card being different from the user device;
• determine, based on the request, that the user device is unregistered;
• cause the smart card to update credentials of the user device, and
• receive, from the smart card, information associated with the updated credentials of the user device;
• cause the smart card to program the user device to access a particular network based on the updated credentials.