After updating my Iphone 5 to IOS 7 my imessage says "waiting to activate", I have reset the network settings what else can I do to fix this problem?

After sucessfully installing the new IOS 7 software on my Iphone 5, my imessage will not work. It has the message "waiting to activate". I have reset my network settings several time and turn my phone off and back on. What else can I do to get the imessage back up and running?

To sync an iOS 7 device you need to be running iTunes 11.1.1; iTunes 10.6 is way too old and won't work. You need to install iTunes 11.1.1, but to do that you need to be running at least Mac OS X 10.6.8.
So you need to do the following:
1. Upgrade your Mac to at least OS X 10.6.8 (later preferably, but 10.6.8 at the miniumum).
a. Check first to see if your model Mac can be upgraded, check that it has enough RAM and so forth (2GB at the least, more if possible).
b. If you can't upgrade your Mac, or don't want to, then you will have to buy a new Mac with the latest version of OS X (currently 10.8.5, soon to become 10.9) and iTunes 11.1.1
2. Install iTunes 11.1.1 on your newly upgraded Mac.
3. Sync your iOS 7 iPhone with iTunes.

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