IMessage No texts from iPhones or iPads.

iMessage No texts from iPhones or iPads.  I have an 4s with no data plan since wifi is very available where I live. iMessage works fine through Wifi, both sending and getting texts and sends out my messages through SMS if there is no wifi. But it cannot get texts from iPhones or iPads through SMS. The other iPads and iPhones  automatically recognize my phone, its Apple ID and get the blue bubble. So they automatically  send  messages out via iMessage not SMS. When this happens I do not get the texts on my phone unless I amconnected to Wifi. So I will never get any messages sent by other iPhones  with Apple Id. I get messages from other phones but not iPhones. When I get into a wifi zone I get all the messages that were sent.
I have spoken to Apple twice and was told the only work around is to get a data plan.
I have tried turning off iMessage, no help, taken my email address off the message send and receive options, I have done a network reset and a reboot all to no avail. So as long as other iPhones get that blue bubble from my iPhone I will never get texts from them because they are sent out as data not SMS.
It seems that the iPhone cannot tell if other iPhones have a data connection available or not.
Anyone else had any experience with this situation?
Thanks.

Thanks for the reply...this is what I was thinking but wanted to make sure

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