IPhone 3GS Will Not Activate After Restore

Hello,
Full story:
I purchased an iPhone 3GS 3 years ago locked to the O2 network UK.
Throughout the years this phone has been jailbroke and unlocked on numerous ios versions.
I have decided to fully restore my phone so I can take advantage of the 6.1.3 update and realise that the phone will be locked back to O2.
I have bought an O2 pay and go sim in preperation and have fully restored the iphone.
I progress through the configuration menus at the beginning and the phone is picked up by itunes but after a while of trying to activate the screen says:
[quote]Your iPhone could not be activated because the activation server is temporarily unavailable.  Try connecting your iPhone to iTunes to activate it, or try again in a few minutes.
If this problem persists, contact Apple Support at apple.com/support[/quote]
As stated the phone is connected to iTunes already, aswell as WiFi, and the O2 sim card is in the phone.
Can anyone please assist as to why this is happening as an hour ago the phone was working fine (pre restore) and now this.
Many thanks in advance
D4

The hack used to unlock it has rendered it unable to activate at all. Apple's servers can detect the hack and have disabled activation. Even on the carrier it was originally locked to. You will have to contact O2 and see if they will authorize a legitimate unlock.
There is no other advice we can offer. You have forfeited all rights to support by hacking and jailbreaking the phone.

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