iPhone 4 go phone conversion

I have an old iPhone 4 that I'm basically using as an iPod. I want to take the sim card out of my AT&T go phone and trim it in a sim cutter. My research tells me that would allow me to use this as my hobby phone for calls and texts although I wouldn't have a data plan to surf the web. Wifi is so easy to find these days I think that would be just fine.

I'm curious if anyone has experience with this. Thanks in advance.