How to Activate the iPhone?

I got a new iPhone 3G S for christmas (unlocked). I travel back to the UK in a couple weeks when I'll get a compatible SIM card for it. For now I just want to play around with the non-phone features. Whenever I try to turn it on it asks me activate and won't accept any SIM card I put in. It won't even accept my dad's sim card which is currently used for an iPhone.
Is there anyway to 'activate' the iPhone so I can use it in the meantime?
thanks.

If the iPhone was purchased at an Apple "approved retailer" in India, the iPhone can be taken to that retailer with a problem, or to an Apple store if one is available.
What I do know is there are two official carriers for the iPhone in India and neither one offer unlocking for the iPhone. And there is a significant "brown" market for the iPhone in India as well - non-official retailers selling the iPhone that was originally purchased in another country as carrier locked with a designated carrier in the other country and hacked to be unlocked by a non-official retailer.
Was the retail sales box shrink wrapped or was it open when you received the gift? If the retail sales box was not shrink wrapped, that is not a good sign.
Keep in mind that you will get very little if any support and no warranty coverage from Apple for this iPhone in the UK.

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