Will using an Unofficial sim card activate iphone 4?

So my iphone 4 doesn't have a data plan on it, so i'm just using it to play games and stuff. But then i had a restart loop, so i had no choice but to restore. Now i have to activate the phone, but nothing seems to work(redsnow). Can you activate an iphone 4 (6.0.1) with a sim card that doesn't have a data plan on it?

A pay as you go SIM you mean? Yes you can activate your phone with any sim as long as it's not locked to a specific network.