Apple official unlock o2 UK carrier

Hi I live in Germany but i am soon moving back to italy.
I bought myself an iphone 3g 3.1.2 and it said that it has a carrier lock to o2 UK (iphone was bought last week from london)
Now i have heard that apple has released an official unlock for iphone with o2 carriers as their contract or something is over.....
Now to my question:
I dont want an unofficial unlock of the iphone but an official one from apple so that i can use the iphone in italy (where you can use it with any carrier...)
How do i get one? Do I even get one....? if yes, how?
I bought it on ebay...

Official apple unlock with o2 wrote:
I bought myself an iphone 3g 3.1.2 and it said that it has a carrier lock to o2 UK (iphone was bought last week from london)
If you bought it on Ebay you may be lucky, or not. If it really is an O2 phone (many are not, but are hacked US phones) then O2 can unlock it for about £25 I recall but you have to have an O2 SIM AND have at least £15 credit on it.
If its hacked, then nobody will unlock it for you - legally that is.

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