If you use your iPhone primarily for business, there may be advantages to activating it with a different iTunes account than the one you use on your home computer or other devices. Every iTunes ...
If you want to activate a new Apple iPhone on the Verizon network and don't want Verizon personnel to help you complete the activation, you can do so relatively easily on the iOS device itself.
Despite the Apple and AT&T announcements that led us all to believe the iPhone required a two-year AT&T agreement, plus a $36 activation, I was able to activate an iPhone using AT&T’s pre-paid plans.