Facetime problem verifying old number

Really need help.
A few weeks ago, went to U.S. and bought an AT&T prepaid sim.  IPhone worked perfectly with it.  I returned to the Philippines last week and replaced the AT&T sim with the local sim and noticed that Facetime function wasn't working. It didn't even have the Facetime button normally found on each contact's page.
So I tried upgrading my OS from 4.3.1 to ios5. Now Facetime worked but was only recognizing my email address and not the number.  So people could only contact me thru calling my email.  Then I noticed that Facetime was trying to verify the prepaid AT&T sim number that I had used weeks ago and not the curent local sim which was installed to the phone (see photo below).  Till now Facetime just says that "Activation unsuccessful. Turn on Facetime to try again".  This is also the same for my iMessage, it wont activate.
Hope someone can help me out here.  I can't seem to change the verifying of the old AT&T sim. Also tried restoring Iphone multiple times with no luck.
Thanks.

Hi,
Have you tried turning FaceTime off and then back on in the Settings pages as your screenshot, it should verify the correct number.
Whilst going through my settings on my iPhone, I noticed FaceTime was trying to verify a phone number that I had used years ago, a SIM card has never been in the iPhone (I wonder if it was in the Apple Account Details and never got updated - though I can't see it anywhere). Simply turning the FaceTime off and on solved the problem for me and it verified the correct number. Until then I couldn't use FaceTime from my iMac to call my iPhone.
Designer211

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