Old IPhone says 3G in upper left? Shouldn't it say no service since its not on my account anymore?

I upgraded to IPhone 6. My old phone was an iPhone 4s I deleted everything off of I put it back to factory settings and deleted it from my icloud and its not recognized anymore by my Verizon account. When I turn it on and see the Hello prompt (like you do on a new iPhone) I see 3G in the upper left with 4 dots shouldn't it say no service since its not on my account anymore can anyone tell me why this is?

It shows the dots because it is still connecting to Verizon. That doesn't mean that it is active, though; it just means that it can connect to Verizon. I had an iPhone 4 a while back and it did the same thing. You see this because the phone is CDMA so it is pretty much always connected to the carrier. If you had a GSM phone and you took out the card, then it would say No Service since it doesn't know where to connect to.

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