IPhone Activation

Hopefully this is a good place for this question:
I work in a research lab that writes software for smart phones. We are looking at porting some of our software to the iPhone (5), but there is one big open issue that we need to figure out before jumping in: for various reasons, we can't be on a service provider. I.e. no AT&T contracts. This doesn't really matter for development and testing -- wifi is all we need at the moment. But we need to work specifically with the iPhone and all of its hardware; i.e. not the iPod Touch. As far as I can tell, that is going to make "activating" the phone a sticking point. So let me see if I can break my question down into smaller pieces:
If I get the unlocked iPhone without a SIM card, that won't activate (and be useful for development) until I put a SIM card in, correct?
If I get the unlocked iPhone with a SIM card from T-Mobile, that won't activate the phone until I do something, although what that thing is is unclear to me from reading the Apple Store website. Does the T-Mobile SIM need to be activated (i.e. put you on a plan) to activate the iPhone? Or is there some handwaving that may be done to active the iPhone with an inactive SIM?
If I stick someone else's SIM into the phone to get it to activate, will it stay activated when I remove the SIM?
If I just get a cheap prepaid SIM and put that into the phone, will it stay active when the SIM expires?
Is there some other route that I'm not considering?
Thanks in advance for the help.

There's a difference between activating the iPhone and activating the cellular plan. Activating the iPhone is more like configuration. Configuration requires only that the iPhone can detect the presence of a SIM card. Any carrier's SIM (other than Verizon, just trust me on that) will do the job. The SIM does not even need to be active with the carrier, this is strictly an iOS issue. The iPhone will not lock and the card can be removed immediately after configuration.

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