Blackberry plans are seperate to your TALK PLAN.you would need to call customer care and ask for it activation. Once activated you would get a few messages and your services would be activated. While onething is common between all operators is, they'll force you to subscribe to a plan which is near 1000, as other plans include shameful amount of bandwidth. Iam using Curve on reliance on 1099 plan which is supposed to be unlimited but still sometimes i get prompted to go for a surfing plan.