Hi bruceleroy,
No, I'm in the UK and the Apple Store sells unlocked phones. There are four or five phone companies, like Vodafone, who sell locked phones on contract. As my faulty contract phone from what turns out to be a company with really poor network coverage was replaced at the Apple Store I'm wondering if it was somehow locked to my phone company when I connected it to iTunes and updated it of it it's unlocked and I can creep away....somewhere where the calls don't drop all the time. I still have to pay them I just want to be able to use my phone!