Activate new phone issues

I couldnt connect to wifi and it the option was completely grayed out. I contacted apple support and they told me to restore my entire phone. I did this and now I am trying to activate my phone and its saying "it may take a few minutes to activate your iphone,,," then it tells me it cant do it. Please someone help me!!! There is a 1x in the upper left corner for signal.

M. Scheffel wrote:
I'm new to all this, so this question may seem silly, my apologies. If I activate my new phone using PC, will I have any issues when I change to an iMac, in the near future?
You will have no issues. The activation process does not tie it to any particular computer.
I remember something from a tutorial video about restoring the iPhone on the Pc or Mac used to activate it. Does this mean if I activate using PC that I will have restore issues when I change to iMac?
You will not.

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