My iPhone 3GS keeps requiring activation

My phone keeps showing no service.  When I turn it off and back on it says Activation Required.  I have put in new sim card, restored it several times, and reset it.  Any suggestions?

I have an iphone 3gs which was working fine with my orange livebox but my son did a router factory reset resulting in his iphone now networked but mine now is " unable to join network " have tried everything I think, changed to wpa,reset ios and networks but same message. Anyone any ideas ?

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    My iphone 3gs is not active, please help me...
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