Still tries to send me imessage when my data is off

Hey everyone
I'm really new to the iphone and there's something that I'm trying to understand. I have imessage activated all the time, but I turn my wifi/cellular off and on all the time throughout the day. My girlfriend keeps her cellular on all the time but her phone keeps trying to send me iMessages when I've turned my network off. Isn't her phone supposed to recognize that I'm offline and send SMS instead? The way it is now she always sends me texts and thinks they've been sent only to discover later that they weren't sent because it tried to use imessage. And the option to send as SMS in the messages settings is enabled. Please enlighten me!
Thanks

Yes, as I understand it, the limit is technically 128 bytes, and Hillebrand determined that 160 7-bit characters just nicely fit, on average, into that signaling bandwidth (hard to have people track their message length in bytes, so someone had to make the call of a countable character limit).
I just remember being so annoyed with it on my phones in the 1990's and stupid "predictive" text entry on a standard phone keyboard, as well as having to actually count your characters so you would not get an error on send
P.S. back on one of these even (or one of those old Qualcomm phones, I can't remember the model numbers I had) - although sometimes, I miss those old simpler cell phones.

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