My iPhone 4S won't send texts to my husbands new iPhone 5s. Help?

My iPhone 4S won't let me text to my husbands new iPhone 5s. He can text me but I can't text him. My software updates are all done and I don't understand why I can't text him. Please help.

They can log into their Apple ID and view the profile. Then they can remove the device. It may take a little while after they do that for it to catch up to the iMessage servers. Another way is if they still have the phone to put their SIM back in and then turn off iMessage, or they could put their SIM in another iPhone and turn it off.

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Happy New Year! If you are not able to send SMS messages to a non-Apple phone, try these troubleshooting steps:
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http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204065
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I also have a similar problem with sending text messages especially to some countries in Western Europe.
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AT&T Customer Service keeps insisting that they do not have a Problem but that the Problem lies solely by every other provider in the world. Arrogance at it's highest level.
Now my Relatives and Friends in the US and Oversees are contacting their Providers in order to get an AT&TIssue figured out. Pathetic!
People get charged for Text Messages (20 cents per SMS or more) that never arrive at their destination and as far as i am concerned AT&T is conducting false advertisment.
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