Switched from iphone to andriod, cant receive messages from wifes iphone

So last week I bit the bullet after 5 years and switched from my iphone to an android device. My wife is sending me messages from her iphone and its still trying to submit it via imessage, and not via SMS.
I have removed my iphone from my icloud account and actually sold the phone on so its no longer accessible by myself. My wife has now disabled imessages on her phone and SMS's are now coming through, but she has other family members and friends that use imessage and she wants to continue using it.
Surely its possible for me to take my number to another OS without losing the abilty to recieve SMS from iphone users??

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts5185

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