Why can't I send text messages with my iphone5?  I can send to other iPhones

I Just switched to an iPhone 5. I can send messages to other iPhone/iPads but cannot send texts to anything else.  Any ideas?  I did reset the phone and that did not work

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2755?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

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