Iphone 4S stuck in "Searching..." numerous times

Hello apple users,
I recently acquired an iPhone 4S, but ran into a problem I cannot seem to solve.
For an unknown reason the iPhone often displays "Searching..." and has no reception, nor 3G signal. this has happened 3 times now.
Restoring the iOS fixed this problem, the first time it took about 2 months, then 1 month and now only 5 days until it got stuck in "Searching..." again.
After digging around on the net I found out this is likely a problem with iOS6 and an iPhone 4S, numerous solutions were posted but only the "last resort" helped.
I've tried:
- Restarting the iPhone
- Hard resetting
- Airplane mode, as well as restarting with Airplane mode and hard resetting
- Turning off cellular data
- Removing the SIM and reseating it
- Trying a different SIM
- Restoring a backup made from when the iPhone was still working
- Restoring the entire iOS and putting the most recent backup back
Putting the SIM in a different phone worked fine while my iPhone was stuck in "Searching..." on the same SIM.
The iPhone runs on iOS 6.0.1, was factory unlocked and has never been "tinkered" with.
Quite frankly, I don't feel like having to restore my iPhone on a weekly basis and would be really glad if any of you are able to help me out.
Thanks in advance!

Yesterday my phone shut off due to a low battery warning - like less than 10%. So as I normally do, I plugged it in to be charged by using my car charger. Anyway, I noticed that my phone was stuck in "Searching..." mode once it finally got enough charge to run.
We called AT&T and they tried to reset network settings - that didn't work. They asked if we had another iPhone 4 on hand to test if my SIM card worked in that device (but no such luck). I also did a manual reset and that did not work either.
I took my phone to the Genius bar today and they tested the SIM card and it was working fine. Then, the guy ran some sort of diagnostic test to look at the logs and he said I had a lot of software corruption messages.
So, long story short, he ended up reinstalling the OS and that resolved the problem.
Now if only I could find my Photo Stream pictures and other data that I backed-up via iCloud....... I digress.
So far my phone works fine. I could have done this myself but instead I wasted an hour of my time at the darn store. 30 minutes of it was spent WAITING even though my appointment was at 2 p.m. and I was on time - I wasn't seen until around 2:30 p.m. - actually it was almost like 2:40 p.m.

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