I upgraded to ios7 and my imessage and FaceTime won't activate on my apple id

I upgraded to ios7 and my message and facetime won't activate.  I try sign in with my apple id and I get the message "iMessage Activation - Could not sign in. Please check your network connection and try again."  I have tried everything even restoring and I keep getting the same problem

I searched the support.apple.com and found Unable to activate FaceTime or iMessage with phone number and Apple ID after waiting 24 hours (iPhone only) I followed all the instruction (even though it seemed it was for previous ios versions) step by step and it worked.

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