SIM problems(bell canada)

Hello , i bought the iphone 3gs 32gig from bell canada about aweek ago for a 3 year contract , and i am problems with them sim card , first trouble it said no sim , so i returned and got a new sim now its saying 3 days later from the new one invalid sim and sim failure ...... how can i fix this ? or is it the os of the iphone?

Hi y'all! I actually registered to the forum just to reply to this thread to 1st: thanks everyone who helped me figure out that the damned Bell SIM card was faulty and 2nd: help anyone who could be in a similar situation. Here's my story (sorry its long but its worth the reading !):
I bought the most destroyed iphone (3G 16gb locked to Rogers) you probably ever seen (silent switch, headphone jack, sleep/awake button were dead and the back housing and glass were cracked) and wanted to rebuilt it and offer it to my girlfriend for christmas. I had to change : the headphone jack flex, the back housing, the battery, the vibrator, the proximity light sensor flex, the silent switch + the internal holder, the digitzer+glass assembly an rebuilt a metal pin for the home button. Once everything was done, I unlocked the phone and tested it with different SIM cards and everything worked flawless, so I gave her the phone for christmas, she went crazy because she would never have thought of receiving and iphone for christmas since I'm a student and I'm broke and I cannot offer her a 600$ phone. On december 26th we went to Bell to get a SIM card, put it on the phone and it worked. But 10 min later we had the whole No Signal -> No Sim thing. We rebooted the phone and it was ok for another 10 min and died again, and this cycle was never ending. The strangest thing was that the signal never died when we were home and the iphone was connected to the wifi, if I turned it off, it died again. This particular fact was making me think that it could not be linked to the SIM card since there is no link between it and the wifi and made me thought this has to do with the unloking of the phone.
I tried everything from the scotch tape behind the sim, soldering the metal pin from the motherboard to the chrome bezel, locking it to the 3G network by editing the csidata file by SSH to unlocking it with every single possible way. I was to the point of going to Bell and buy a new 700$ iphone when I read this tread and decided to try a new SIM. After arguing with the guy for half and hour (he was convinced it was the phone and told me to go to Apple), he finally exchange my SIM card and voilà ! It now works as a charm, after I repaired the digitizer for the 2nd time because I killed it by disassembling the phone too many times.
So the conclusion is this problem IS NOT APPLE/IPHONE/HARDWARE/SOFTWARE RELATED (this means dont bother getting your phone exchanged) it is a problem with BELL SIM CARDS ! If the guy at the Bell store is arguing tell him that you're gonna make a deal with him: you pay the card (5$) and if you come back in 3 days and had no signal loss, he gives you a refund. Do it as many times as required to have a working SIM. This is definitly the SIM card, since different models have the same problem an that even the most destroyed iphone ever seen finally worked with the new SIM (after way too much hours spent on that **** phone).
I hope this helps other in the same situation ! I'm even gonna add a few keywords (including french) so that people searching on google find this thread : Pas de signal, Bell Mobilité, iPhone 3G, Sim Failure, Pas de SIM

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@spitfire411
Here's the confusing part. You are claiming that you are on a shared data plan and yet your wife's corporate only has a 500Mb data plan. As I recall from a Bell Canada rep, any shared data plan with a smartphone (iPhone) requires a minimum of a 1Gb data plan. And in order to achieve something similar to what you thought you are getting, you need a small business account with about 1000 voice mins plus extra $30 gets you a 6Gb data plan and plus $10 additional share plan to share the data plan with your tablet (that was when the 1st iPad came out -- they lowered the restrictions somewhat since then). I had to upgrade to this plan in order to get sharing and tethering to work properly. The monthly flex plan you mentioned is I believe an independent plan by itself and should not be tied with your wife's corporate plan. Perhaps they may have made a mistake and tagged your tablet's plan as a shared data plan with a smartphone, but since it's only a 500Mb data plan, the system probably refused to allow sharing because of its failure to meet the minimum 1Gb data plan for smartphones that's required. Unless Bell had changed this requirement recently?!?
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I have the same problem with them and I do not intent on paying the penality fees because of this. I am now located in France and Bell doesn't even cover this area.
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