Are French "unlocked" iPhone Country-locked?

Hi,

i just bought an iphone in lebanon with a turbosim included. i am using it in France and everything seems to be working fine, except that I CAN'T CALL ANYBODY! i can receive calls but when i try to call someone the scren showing the dial pad disappears suddenly after dialing one number and stops calling.

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!

1.1.3 fixes all that....now my phone (unlocked officially from orange ) works perfectly in morocco ....but....the caveat is each time you need to use another sim card ( i have 3 cos i travel a lot ) , you need to go through itunes with the sim card in the phone and update it so it would work.....in other words only 1 sim card can work at anytime.....i really dont understand why they make it so difficult....I dont think that lots of businessman travelling around the world will cope with that shit.....they need a phone that works all over the world without technical limitations....i think that apple is doing again the mistake they did years ago when they had a technical lead in pcs they decided to lock their environment which made microsoft prosper.....

I can confirm phones are country locked. Called Orange they said it is an Apple issue. Called Apple, they say Orange should not have advertised their phones as fully unlocked. Called Orange again and now they admit it. They would reimburse me. Received a mail from Apple saying this COULD be taken care of. Asked about being more specific: they replied case is closed, they dont guarantee a solution, but I could hope in one.

Apples loses a few points for me today.

I can confirm phones are country locked. Called Orange they said it is an Apple issue. Called Apple, they say Orange should not have advertised their phones as fully unlocked. Called Orange again and now they admit it. They would reimburse me. Received a mail from Apple saying this COULD be taken care of. Asked about being more specific: they replied case is closed, they dont guarantee a solution, but I could hope in one.

Apples loses a few points for me today.

Hi all, I have bought a French unlocked iPhone from Orange (France Telecom) with firmware 1.1.2 and bootloader 4.6. I payed 749 euros in total and this works perfectly with iWorld installed with Dutch SIM cards. I guess all the rumours started because the phone needs iWorld otherwise you can't make any calls or send sms messages.

I don't understand this. A retailer in Denmark sells iPhones from France for €700, and claims that they're 100% unlocked.

Ya know, everyone tends to overlook the rules and regulations of our own FCC that state quite clearly that ANY phone may be unlocked as long as:
1) The phone has been activated for at least 90 days.
2) The customer has been in good financial standing with their carrier for at least that long (no disconnects, that resets it.)
Now AT&T claims that it doesn't have the capabilities to unlock the iPhone, and tells all who meet the above conditions to contact the FCC about it.
I believe that once Americans start getting litigious about this (more litigious, I'd say...), the process will become more accessible to those who are legally entitled to it.

I had such a phone in hand - Apple really did it again. I need to jailbreak phone and install iWorld app to make it working with other countries SIMs. Phone itself is unlocked by Apple, but OS X will not allow such card without small modification.

D'uh ....

French law just requires it be unlocked within the borders of France and the iPhone complies.

Outside France, well, you are on outside terroir ...

I am a DIE-HARD apple fan, have used them since the beginning of time after ONE and one only PC running DrOS! But if apple persists in being greedy and exclusionist I will be switching over to Linux!!! and I am sure I am not alone!!! (and I am an apple shareholder!!!) C'mon Steve, give us the love!