IPhone 5 cannot send images by iMessage OR MMS

My iPhone 5 is about to go in the garbage, and it's only a year old.
For months I've been dealing with being unable to send pictures to contacts by iMessage.  Now in the last week I cannot send by MMS either.
I also cannot send on my iPad.
I've read through numerous forum postings and let me assure you that absolutely nothing has worked.  Here is what I can remember doing so far, but to be honest I've been troubleshooting on my own for a while so I am probably forgetting things.
Restore iPhone
Troubleshooting on this blog: http://shudhtech.blogspot.in/2014/03/fix-for-imessage-problems-showing-my.html
Reset network settings
Change iCloud and AppleID password
Remove AppleID from iMessage, use only phone number
Double-check that MMS is turned on
Double-check that numbers aren't blocked
Double-check that it isn't on the recipient end.  Considering it's all of my contacts and they can send everything to me just fine it is obviously not their fault.
Contact service provider, they say it's an issue with Apple
Clear out iPhone memory, I have almost 8GB of free space
Update to latest iOS
Tried sending on WiFi and LTE, doesn't work on either
I'm extremely frustrated by this and cannot believe that so many people are having these issues and many people do not seem to be able to find a fix, as evidenced by how many postings there are about it.  If this is a software bug I'm flabbergasted that an update to fix it hasn't been released.

My carrier is Rogers.
The MMS issue is not a consistent issue.  I will try to send a picture by iMessage and then when it fails I can try by text.  Then sometimes that will fail.  Additionally, I will be talking with people who are also on the Rogers network who will be able to send me pictures without any issues at the same time that I am having issues, so I do not believe this is a network issue.  I can send MMS from my backup Android phone without any problems.
I'm not as concerned about the MMS issue.  If iMessage worked I wouldn't need it to begin with so I want the iMessage issue to be resolved. iMessage predated the MMS issue by several months and given the volume of complaints about it on these forums I don't think that is a carrier issue.
MMS may be a carrier feature, however, if the device software is faulty and not sending messages properly to begin with that wouldn't necessarily make it a carrier issue.

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