IMessaging issues

Myself and my friend both had iPhones and were using iMessaging with no issues. My friends phone broke and he is using another phone temporary. My iphone still thinks my friend is using iphone and none of my messages are going through. How can I make my iphone forget that my friend was using iphone? I am having to go to settings and turn off imessage to send sms and then go back to settings and turn imessage back on. When I have imessage on I have SMS on - which underneath says send SMS if imessage not available, but this does not send SMS instead.

Adding my name to the list. Same issues, same hardware. iPhone 4S will not login to Facetime or iMessage after updating to iOS 7, saying to check network connection and try again.
EDIT: to add, this happens whether connected via WiFi or cellular (4G).

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Hi all,
I bought me and my partner an iPad for christmas and since starting them up for the very first time and setting up iMessage and Facetime it has been working perfectly until a few days ago.
Normally I would send a message to her either on my iPad or my iPhone and she would get it. It would even sync with whichever device I hadn't used. But now it is hit and miss as to whether we receive the messages or not - despite the fact it say Message Delivered!!
My partner has reset her iPad and reconnected to her network (in France by the way) but it will not let her use the email address that she originally used to set up her Apple account. It says that the account is unavailable or in use. All so, she has sent me messages over the past week and I seem to get one or two of them every now and again. In the mean time she has created a new email address to use on iMessage and it worked fine last night but today it seems to be down again.
I myself have made sure all my usernames, emails and passwords are all correct. I even reset the network settings last night and still this seems to have no effect. When I try and face time her it says that the email address is available at this time.
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See here also -
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Hi,
I have noticed this behavior a few times already and I am wondering if there is any solution for it.
Best to explain with a real live example.
My in-laws just traveled abroad to visit family. When in our home country, the Netherlands, we use iMessage to keep in touch and works like a charm. Mainly because we (me and my wife, as well as both my in-laws have a data connection, either wifi or 3g)
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