Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an equipment, such as a mobile equipment or user equipment (ME/UE), may determine that a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) coupled to the equipment is associated with a particular bit value indicating to skip at least one polling event of a polling cycle; and/or skip the at least one polling event based at least in part on the particular bit value In some aspects, the equipment may provide category information indicating a device category of the equipment, wherein the category information is provided to a UICC of the equipment; and/or receive, from the UICC, configuration information that is based at least in part on the category information, wherein the configuration information relates to an operation associated with power consumption by the equipment. Numerous other aspects are provided.