Is there a way to permanetly disable iMessage?

And I don't mean turn it off and recieve all the texts later, I don't want anyone to be able to iMessage me, at all, ever. I just want regular SMS texts from droid users and iPhone users. Is this possible? I am constantly going in and out of wifi range and it is SO INCONVIENIENT to not recieve texts until I gain wifi again. My data can't activate on my phone so I'm entirely dependent on wifi.. but I can recieve SMS messages at any time. I just don't feel like dealing with iMessage anymore. Help?

Settings > Messages > iMessage OFF.

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