Trying to activate 3GS keeps saying activation server not working any ideas please

Am trying to activate my daughters apple iPhone 3GS and it appears to be stuck saying
Your iPhone could not be activated because the activation server is temporarily unavailable try again in a couple of minutes
We have been trying since last night and still getting same message please can anyone help

I think the servers were busy with everyone trying to install the new IOS 5.1.  Have you tried to activate it since then?

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