Could not activate iPad after upgrade 8.1.3

I have an iPad mini 64GB WIFI cellular AT&T. I have removed the SIM card because I no longer wish to use it on the cellular network only WIFI.
I restored the iPad to factory and upgraded to iOS 8.1.3. However, now when trying to activate it. I get an error message "could not activate iPad because the activation server is temporarily unavailable. Try connecting your iPad to iTunes to activate it, or try again in a couple of minutes".
Connecting the iPad to iTunes also fails.
I have restore the iPad mini many times and it still fails to connect to the server to activate.
The iPad mini worked properly before upgrading from iOS 8.0.3 to iOS 8.1.3.
Any ideas?

More troubleshooting I have found the answer. You cannot put the new Apple SIM card (from the iPad2) into an iPad mini. Putting the original SIM card back into the iPad mini allowed the iPad mini to activate properly.
Thanks,

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