Facetime keeps saying 'error occurred during activation, please try again' so I cannot open facetime :(

Facetime will not activate on my phone.
'error occured during activiation please try again' keeps popping up. I have tried creating a second apple user and id and the same message continues to pop up.
My kids and husband can all do facetime from our house, so that rules out the router.
PLEASE HELP (my family thinks I am a techno-dummy...)

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