Facetime will not activate now in NZ on Voda iOS 4.2.1 tried everything.

iPhone 4, not jailbroken. 4.2.1 installed, latest carrier settings, was working fine used facetime a few weeks ago.
Issue, hangs on the activation part. waiting for activation, for over 2 days now.
I have:
Hard Reset.
Restored Fully with no apps.
Restored to backup when it was working.
turned off facetime, caller id, switched off, and switched back on caller id and facetime, and rung another iphone 4.
Reset all settings.
Turned off wifi, 3g, etc.
Turned on wifi, off 3g.
turned off wifi, just on 3g.
And banged my head repeatedly against a wall.

This problem has been fairly widespread after the 4.2.1 update. Voda NZ's techs have already contacted Apple directly, and they've said they should have a solution tomorrow (29 November).
Apparently there's an issue with the FaceTime activation server in the UK. Activation SMSes are being sent to the server, but the server isn't responding.

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