My macbook pro won't log into iMessage or facetime

I've tried several times to fix this issue, by deleting my keychain, unchecking the SOCKS proxy and by restarting the macbook pro, yet it won't log in to Imessage or Facetime. The box that appears says imessage was unable to log in and to check my network connection. My wifi works fine.
Apple Colombia has been less than helpful with this, they don't seem to even have an idea of what they're doing. I'm getting desperate as these are important business tools I need to use for my work. Help is much appreciated!

Ok. Found something that said to shut down and hold the option, command, p, and r keys on restart. Held them down for a few restarts and everything automatically signed in and works. Woohoo!!!

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I seem to be having a similar problem to a lot of people here where I get an error from both of these applications telling me to check my network and try again.
I have spent countless hours trawling the support forums and even spent an hour on the phone to apple support and nothing is working!!
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