iMessage not connecting to ported number.

iMessage not connecting to my newly ported number. I’ve turned off, turned on a zillion times restarted the phone the same - loads of times. Disconnected FT same. It just goes round and round trying to verify but getting nowhere. Eventually it says error occurred during activation
phoned CS they said there’s been an outage and many affected. That doesn’t feel correct as my husband connected same time as me (new contract) and he’s not got a problem.

Any help or suggestions appreciated TIA

I sorted it out myself in the end after approx 6 hours of trying everything under the sun I found a great video on utube and it explained how to get iMessage activated and it worked. God bless those people who post on Utube they deserve medals.

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