Activating facetime and imessage

hi
i just upgraded my iphone 4 to ios 5 software.
i also changed my sim card.
with my new carrier number face time and imessage does not get activated.
but with my old carrier sim it would activate facetime and imessage immdieatly
even with my new sim carrier i still shows my old number on facetime pls let me know what to do

Yes I am in the same boat.
I first upgraded to iOS 5 with one sim card, then I got this number in iMessage and FaceTime.
Fact is, I have more than one sim - I use two at the moment - and my iPhone is factory unlocked. Every service works with the second SIM except for iMessage and Facetime. It fails to activate them on the phone number, and on FaceTime the old number still shows up.  I guess the people at Apple have to understand that not everybody is using only one SIM. The rest of the world is not like America, where you even have hardware differences in the networks that make impossible to switch carriers with most handsets...
Roberto

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