Someone else's phone number used to be assigned to an iPhone

I am an iPhone user and I am attempting to send text messages to someone who has an Android phone.
The messages are not being received by that person.  Apparently the receiving phone number was previously assigned to an iPhone, and my outbound message is being erroneously sent as an 'iMessage' even though the intended recipient does not have an iPhone.
This means that someone else -- whom I do not know -- is receiving these messages.
AT&T - the other person's carrier - has not been helpful so far.
The problem isn't with my phone - it's working fine - it's with the interaction between AT&T and this other person's iPhone.
How can we get this resolved?

AT&T can't do anything other than assign a new phone number to the individual with the phone. They can't disable the iMessage activation that's tied to the number.
Did this person have an iPhone, then get rid of it, or did they just get a new number that happens to have been tied to iMessage previously by someone with an iPhone? That seems unlikely...

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