Who owns the activation process - Apple or Sprint?

I have a Sprint iPhone 4S with the original SIM card.   the only way I've gotten it to activate is through a complete restore via DFU mode (very similar to this discussion in 2012; iPhone 4S US/Sprint unable to activate!)
An incremental update to 8.1.1 makes it ask to activate again :/
I went to my local Sprint store today and they say they can't do anything about it and that I must go to an Apple Store.
I'm trying to avoid getting bounced around here.   Who "owns" the activation process?   Is it Apple or Sprint?
Who ultimately correct this annoying activation behavior when it activates from a full restore?
I should not that I am not using the phone component of the iPhone and do not have a Sprint account. (for the record, I was a pretty happy Sprint customer back in the 90s... )

udance4ever wrote:
hey quick update on this front - i finally got a iPhone 5s so my 4S if officially a "glorified iPod Touch" (admittedly a good one at 64GB) - so I'm not going to bother using the phone component in it for now.
Sure a bit irked and just grateful the days of "carrier locked phones" is fading behind us more and more every day (I bought a 2nd hand Verizon 5s and a happy camper on T-Mobile - didn't have to go through any hoops!)
anyone know if I can close this thread as "no longer needs an answer" somehow?
Yeah you mark one of the responses as 'Solved My Question'.

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