I understand and thanks for the comment. I'm just not savvy with cell phones, since I live in a rural area, I don't use them. I run an animation business with a 16 core render farm network as well as have a degree in biochemistry...so I should have the brain for it, it will just be a learning experience.
Btw, I'm making progress...I found a used tmobile phone on amazon for 6 bucks and the SIM card inserted fine with no errors on startup so it appears the sim is compatible with the phone...now I just need to locate a signal for tmobile.
Also, line 2 is working very well so far, this is the line that we didn't need to port over our old number to...so I would say I am more than half way there.