My iPhone isn't sending regular text messages?

I have an iPhone 3, and it's sending iMessages but I have many friends without iPhones so it needs to send regular text messages. I tried texting my moms phone, and she never got my message. I have the "send as SMS" thing on and everything. So what's wrong?

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