IPhone tries to send iMessage to android

I don't own iPhones but my parents does( 5S with iOS7). I have a HTC one. We got these new phones in OCT and this the first time any of us owned smartphones. In the process of switching carriers, I got a new number.
After the upgrade however, I could not get any text from my parents. They will call and ask why I am not responding but I never got any of them. When they send me a text message, the phone says it's an iMessage which is for iOS device only. This is actually happening for my friends with iPhones as well.
We called carrier support and they said the problem is in iOS7 the "send as sms" option in messaging. is disabled by default. They suggested a few workarounds:
1. Enable 'send as SMS" and wait till the message fails and iphone will resend it.
2. Long press and select "send as SMS text".
Without these 2 workaround, I will still get nothing.
My question is, why does iPhone tries to send my android iMessage in the first place? The same thing doesn't seem to be happening to my friends' android phones. These workaround solves the problem between my parents iphone to me but I cannot tell everyone I text "hey turn Send as SMS option", especially if I missed their message in the first place.
What should I do? Does anyone here have a similar problem?
TIA.

Unfortunately, the only way seems to be to contact Apple support. See: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5185
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