Iphone4 won't recongise SIM, won't activate

Hello,
I recently updated my iphone 4 to the latest 6.1.3 iOS from 5.1 or some very old one (I've been lazy and waiting for better maps) and a day or two later it stopped recognising the SIM (i.e. "sim card not installed" displays on screen).
I tried a few troubleshoots - hard resetting, reseeding the sim - but nothing worked so finally I tried doing a restore through itunes and now it won't activate so the phone is truly useless I'm guessing it won't activate without a SIM, just wondering what to do? Are there any other tricks for getting these things to recognise SIMs?
Also:
The phone is unlocked and always has been ( I bought it outright)
I'm on the optus network in Australia
It's not jailbroken or any of that shady stuff
Thanks for any help,
James

For anyone else interested in this question - I just used a friends SIM to get past the activation step (as the pone needed a SIM for some daft reason) and all worked fine so I don't think it was a problem with the iphone hardware. I'm going to grab a new SIM from my provider and I'll post again here if it works after a few days or whatever, hopefully I'll remember

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