IPhone 4s: No service and will not restore.

For about ten hours today, my phone has consistently said that it's had no service and so I've gone the day without a way of calling or texting. Considering how inconvenient that is, I tried every troubleshooting tip on this site that was available and nothing's worked. Finally, I decided to restore it, so for beginners.. it was very discouraging to plug in my phone and see that the phone number was not available. Anyway, I go through with the restore and so my phone extracts everything and once it's time for the actual restore.... Error. I tried to restore again. Error. So now my phone is stuck on the "Plug into iTunes" screen and it doesn't matter because it won't restore to begin with. I know it's not my actual service because everyone else in my house is fine. I've had my iPhone replaced several times to the point where I stopped saving for the iPhone 5 altogether, because I never want to go through this again. My phone has been replaced twice within the last two months alone. I can't get to the Apple store right away and as usual with them, it seems as though I'm out of a phone again.
What I'm wondering is if anyone else has been through this... Could it possibly be my SIM card? I really don't want to believe that Apple keeps handing me defected phones...

(-1)  it basically is the iphone "iphone" canot be restored due to an unknown error (-1)

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