Can I activate my iPhone 5c?

So my friend has Verizon and has an iPhone 5, but he used to have a white 16GB iPhone 5c. Since he doesn't use his iPhone 5c he gave it to me. Although he has Verizon, his sim card is now inside his iPhone 5. So that makes my iPhone 5c "unlocked" correct? Anyways my actual question I guess is will AT&T activate the iPhone 5c for me if I go into my local store. I ask because I had an iPhone 5s but it broke so I had to downgrade to an iPhone 4 because that's what we had lying around at home but the store activated it for free, but both phones had only ever been with AT&T.

The iPhone 4 that AT&T activated on your account was AT&T and so they did it. IPhone 5C from Verizon is not unlocked if the SIM is removed and AT&T won't unlock it for you either since the phone is not from their own network. Anyways, you can trim your SIM to nano-SIM and put it in the iPhone 5C and see if service is available. If not, the phone needs to be factory unlocked. If you need more info on factory unlocking and activating the phone, mail me.

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