Can't use iPhone phone function

I recently purchased an iPhone 2g from a friend and tried to use my o2 pay as you go sim in it. It comes up with NO SERVICE and a message comes up saying: Waiting for activation. I cant use any phone function. I took it to Apple they said the phone was fine so there must have been something wrong with the sim. So I went to o2 and they said the phone was unlocked. But when I put a vodafone sim in it there is no service but when I put a t mobile sim in there is signal but I had to connect to itunes. But itunes says it is an invalid sim. And the o2 sim has the same result as before. What can I do?
iPhone is on 2.2

In most countries, the iphone is sold carrier locked to the authorized carrier in that country.
If the iphone has been unlocked in those countries, then the warranty is void, the phone may become bricked, an you cannot get help for hacked iphones here.

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Oh man.
Yes I own a powerbook. My reasons for not being able to use it are... I use Avid editing software on it. If I upgrade to the latest version of OS X, or even an earlier one like 10.4.x then I will have to upgrade my Avid - that costs money that I don't have. It works well on my 10.3.9 and I've been happy with this. Until now it seems.
In order for you guys to be helpful to me here we'll all have to pretend that we aren't proud nerds that secretly wish we could control our cars from our phones (this includes me so don't be offended).
Pretend for a second that the iPhone isn't the best thing since sliced bread and can do almost anything and pretend that some people might be happy setting it up and just using it without updating it's software all the time and just treating it like they've treated all their other phones - as a phone.
You all have answered me like I should know better than to suggest I might try to keep my iPhone use simple. I bet Apple themselves aren't comfortable with anyone suggesting that the iPhone needs to suckle at the teat of a computer every day just to keep working! If that really was the case then surely this phone would unusable for any extended trips away from home - going on holiday for a week to Brazil would be out because your iPhone can't survive without being synced! Come on!
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