Facetime not working, waiting on activation.

Can someone help? Cannot get facetime to work, stuck on waiting for activation.

Where are you? Some countries block face time at the request of their governments. Some networks (such as T-Mobile in the US, do not work with Facetime due to the way it registers and activates on the iPhone)

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    My facetime is showing waiting for activation pls help me.

    Read through this:
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