What does sim not valid mean on iPhone 5?

What does this mean? Because the phone carrier on my phone is EE and they recently sent me a new SIM card for my iPhone 5 and they have to activate it and they said I have to wait for it to be activated so does this mean that it isn't activated or does it mean something else? What does sim not valid mean on iPhone 5 - 1

Not activated.

It means they haven't activated it yet.

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