Can't send texts from iPhone to a verizon customer?

i'm trying to send texts via the iPhone to a friend on the verizon network and it's not working? any insights?

I notice the original poster hasn't reposted. So this may have been the case:
Many towers have trouble going from one network to another. On few cases the message never gets there. This is a serious problem that the providers are not rushing out to fix. why would they want to make cross network stuff work better? They want everyone on their own network.
In fact my friends and I were watching Heroes and we all had different networks. We noticed that if person A sent person V a text it would take 40 min. If person V sent person A a text it took only a moment.
I have often had the problem of being able to make out calls from my iPhone on V towers while people calling me would get a "not available" message.
Its a mess and will continue to be as long as the providers want to play games and delay fixing issues (or ignore them completely.)
Hope that made sense.

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