Iphone is only sending SMS texts

My iphone 4S is only sending SMS text messages - even to other iphones.  How do I change it?

There has been an outage for both iMessage and FaceTime today.  Started at around Noon time, PDT.
There is nothing you can do from your end, this problem is on Apple's servers.
Click below for Apple's System Status:
http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

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    Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
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    Uploaded with Skitch!
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