Hi guys. Yep network is up, ANd will be turned on in our country soon. The states and and other countrys have it already. It can take a little while for the servers to populate fully.
If you turn it on theres a big update, this is to set the playstation up ready for the use of the network again.
Playstation users that had the playstions before the network went down will get a Welcome Back Pack. The only information i have in this is we will get a month one the Playstion Plus account, benifits of this is:
-Free games
-Discount on games
-DLC and themes and such.
-You can test al the games that they sell on the PSN for an hour. So if you dont like you dont have to buy it.
-You also get special DLC that only PS + users get.
+More
Some of the in chart games you can get up to 50% off. The free ones are PS1 games etc..
You also get a month free of something called Qriocity Music.
And the 3rdly is and extra gift. This gift with depend on what area your in, in the world. It will be a Playstion store voucher or somthing of this kind.
Here is a link if you which to watch the announcement of the network comiong back on.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/05/14/kazuo-hirai-playstation-network-relaunch-announcement/
Hope that helps guys