Waiting for activation for two days

I bought two iphones from apple store uk and one of them was activated instantly the other one been on "waiting for activation" for the past two days.
this is what i tried doing:
1.updated to the latest firmware 4.0.2.
2.reseted the network setting many times.
3.used different active sims.
4.restored couple of times.
5.used different PC's and Mac's.
still on waiting on activation

I had this problem, and I called my service provider. Basically, All I had to do was turn my phone off and on again - but the service provider had already swapped my sim. if your SP is yet to do that then it probably wont work.
Oh and by the way - I live in Australia, so it may be different in dubai.

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