Your iPhone could not be activated because the activation server is temporarily unavailable. How do i fix this?

Your iPhone could not be activated because the activation server is temporarily unavailable. Try connecting to your iPhone to iTunes to acivate it, or try again in a coulle of minutes.
I have tried connecting to itunes and activating it but it still did not work.
Please help...

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I just did a DFU restore and tried to activate the new phone again over WiFi and it's worked now.
To be completely sure whether it was the DFU restore or not I've just tried to activate the old phone (also a 4S, exactly the same model) whilst plugged into iTunes.
That failed. 
So I tried again with the old non-DFU'd 4S over WiFi without the cable (to remove itunes/computer/internal networking from the equation) and that also failed.
I'd say it's fair to assume that the DFU at least helped in this case - I also noticed that the graphics when you're selecting the language/location were slightly different (showed a world map) after the DFU.

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