Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Has anyone ever had issues with an iPhone connecting to their cellular network? My 5s has been searching for a network connection since yesterday afternoon. There are no reported outages from my network (Three) locally, I've rebooted the phone, removed the sim and reinstalled it, cleared the network settings yet still it won't connect and just has "Searching..." displayed all the time. I've not been able to leave the house yet to see if it'll connect elsewhere.

In case anyone else encounters this issue, I tried to do a software update from iTunes but repeatedly got an error code 50, which means the baseband isn't working properly, i.e. the phone is now bricked.