Imessage down on my iPhone: "the person cannot be reached by imessage at this time"

My internet connection works and I can send emails from my phone. Additionally I can send imessages from my macbook. But I can't send imessages from my iphone. It either doesn't recognize certain phones as having imsg (when i know that they do) and tries to send text messages or says "the person cannot be reached by imsg at this time". The phone is from Canada but I am currently in Puerto Rico so I can only message over wifi. Help!

Exact same thing happened to me today. Used to iMessage friend w/ phone number. Then around Oct, all messages turned into green texts & I never got a response. Then finally decided to leave voicemail in Dec. got an iMessage response a short time later from his email address. We've been texting that way until today when I got the "person cannot be reached by iMessage at this time" alert.
I've seen a lot of people suggest switching to SMS, but they're talking about a different alert--that little ted exclamation point one. Right now, it doesn't even try to send. It's one of those navy blue pop up alerts like when you're in a completely different app & your phone alerts you that you got a text message.
Our timing isn't great for phone calls either. And no guys I know respond to emails ever. I know it's not a matter of being blocked because a few weeks ago we made tentative plans & I was texting to follow up. Until today, I got responses.
I'm not sure what the one suggestion means about changing the contact to @icloud.com. I don't have a cloud address and neither does he.
Has anyone figured out what this problem is?

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    Exact same thing happened to me today. Used to iMessage friend w/ phone number. Then around Oct, all messages turned into green texts & I never got a response. Then finally decided to leave voicemail in Dec. got an iMessage response a short time later from his email address. We've been texting that way until today when I got the "person cannot be reached by iMessage at this time" alert.
    I've seen a lot of people suggest switching to SMS, but they're talking about a different alert--that little ted exclamation point one. Right now, it doesn't even try to send. It's one of those navy blue pop up alerts like when you're in a completely different app & your phone alerts you that you got a text message.
    Our timing isn't great for phone calls either. And no guys I know respond to emails ever. I know it's not a matter of being blocked because a few weeks ago we made tentative plans & I was texting to follow up. Until today, I got responses.
    I'm not sure what the one suggestion means about changing the contact to @icloud.com. I don't have a cloud address and neither does he.
    Has anyone figured out what this problem is?

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