Only one of my contacts cannot receive my text messages, why?

For the past week, my boyfriend has not been able to receive any of my text messages. He has a samsung s3 and I have an iPhone 4s. We both can call each other and my texts to him say that they are sent. I have called both my provider and Apple and the issue still hasn't been resolved. He also has an iPad which we iMessage off of sometimes, not sure if this has anything to do with it or not. This really is frustrating since it is only one contact, and both my provider and Apple also thought this was a weird situation...

Hello j0970
When looking at your messages that you send him, are they green or blue? Green will mean that it is a SMS that is done by your carrier and if it blue then it is using iMessage service to send the message and they would be going to the iPad even if it does not have access to the internet. He may want to unlink his phone number to it and just use iMessage just through his email address.
iOS and OS X: Link your phone number and Apple ID for use with FaceTime and iMessage
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5538
iOS 7 Messages
https://www.apple.com/ios/messages/
Regards,
-Norm G.

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