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All Verizon Wireless smartphones come sim unlocked allowing the use any United States brand carrier Sim Card. The logic board is not related with a carrier sim card and should not be removed or attempted.
Technically, yes. However, doesn't mean it will work fully with your carrier. Putting a T-Mobile iPhone 5 logic board in your phone won't allow it to work on Verizon because of the CDMA based 1xRTT network (TMO doesn't use CDMA). Now, putting a Verizon iPhone 5 board in your TMO iPhone would work since it is SIM unlocked, however since that particular logic board doesn't support certain bands some data networks might or will not work (for instance, LTE won't work on any other carrier then Verizon with a VZW board because the 5 only supports VZW LTE bands).
Of course all this depends on wether or not the antennas actually support this. Although I do not see why they wouldn't, they could use a different antenna setup in the CDMA model versus the GSM model. Personally, I'd either get the correct board or just get another phone. Taking it to Apple and telling them what happened might get you a replacement since the issues started after the repair.
It's just the 5, not 5s. It is a t-mobile phone to start with, but having a tough time finding another t-mobile iphone 5 that has a clean imei. I can send it in and get the U3 chip fixed, but that'll cost me roughly $110 or so. Thanks for the info guys!