My Alcatel one touch can't receive texts?

So my friend has an iPhone 5s and I have an Alcatel one touch which was pretty cheap anyways I can't receive his text messages i don't know what's going on.

Your friend has to send a regular text, not an iMessage. Tell him to learn to use his phone.

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