I bought this device yesterday, I would like to say I'm not very good at English neither on old phones. I just thought it was a very cool tech product but when I turned on for the first time it said something like put a SIM card, so I did, I grabbed mine and it worked. I put my pin and then, nothing, it just let me make emergency calls. I read that 2g is not available on Europe and that may be the cause but I called myself and I received the call. I really want to avoid jailbreak and that kind of stuff just to keep it as original as I can. I may be wrong, maybe there's no other way but I would prefer keep like that.
I am pretty sure that phone is too old and won’t activate. Hope you didn’t pay to much
Even if activation servers were down, any iPhone from the 4 and under can easily be hacktivated offline fully untethered. And A5 devices can too if you use the arduino checkm8 exploit. But regardless, activation servers are still up and running and have been so for 16 years.