TS5185 imessage delivery fails ands needs to be resent as text to person that no longer has an iphone

I recently upgraded to the 5s. My brother used to have an iphone but switched to another phone. When i try to text him, my phone tries to send an imessage and i get a delivery failed message and have to resend as a text. i have removed his contact info a couple of times and reseyt imessage several times but still keep having this issue. Any ideas?

That's because your brother failed to turn off iMessage before switching to a different phone. He will need to fix that. The only thing that you can do to avoid the problem is turn off iMessage.

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