IMessage: Can not verify phone number

I can login to iMessage using my AppleID, but not my phone number. It keeps saying "Waiting for activation".
I have tried these without any luck:
1. Hard reset : home + power button
2. Reset the network configuration
3. Turn off and on again iMessage
Any one having the same problem?

happening to me aswell the phone will not recognise my number in "phone" it says unknown

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