the phone is not activated through t-mobile its tmobile phone but i cant use it to call i have cincinnati bell and i like the phone for tmobile and i want to use that phone. I found codes a while back but it let me put any
sim card in there but that is all it did i did not have service where i know that i had service with cin bell but if i would go to where tmobile had service the phone showed that i had service but still could not use it.