It is a phone bought on contract.

If I had bought it at full price & tried calling AT&T, you will be kept on hold for hours on end. They do not care. I have tried it before.

And there is a way to get a factory unlock. Yes. From Apple themselves. I know someone who does it. Not an Apple reseller, but a genuine guy with a workshop in town. He does factory unlocks for sure, that is his job.

Eugene

From: Philip Musyoki <pmusyoki@gmail.com>
To: eugene wambogo <eugenewambogo@yahoo.com>; Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] iPhone 4S for Sale @ 30K

Eugene,

Was the phone bought from AT&T at full price or contract? If it was full price, there is no need of knowing anyone who can unlock, you just call AT&T and they factory unlock.

There is no other way of doing 'factory-unlock' for the iPhone 4S.

The only method that would work would be to use the Gevey SIM unlock method, which is not a factory unlock.

And what where you doing with the phone anyway?