Apple Store selling me a locked (AT&T) iPhone to replace a damaged UNLOCKED iPhone normally located in Norway.

During my vacation in SoCal my iPhone got damaged with a broken glass. I went to the Apple Store nearby to hear their solution. They were able to sell me a replacement phone for $160. I thought this was acceptable, bought the phone and inserted my prepaid SIM-card that I had purchased before my trip. All this worked fine and I could use my phone to its full extent during the rest of my vacation. The problem occured when I got back home and inserted my usual SIM-card. This was now concidered a non-valid SIM-card. So what else can I do, than call Apple Customer Service and pay tons of service fees to have them solve a problem that they made in the first place?

First question - was this phone officially unlocked by AT&T (and note that ONLY AT&T can officially unlock it), or was it purchased directly from Apple as factory unlocked (and only Apple sells phones directly as unlocked in the USA).
I ask because the normal replacement will always be the same model as you originally purchased, and if that was locked, the replacement will be locked.  Only if the original was officially unlocked through AT&T would you be given an unlocked replacement phone.
If this phones was "unlocked" by any other means, then it was hacked, not offically unlocked, and Apple will not hack the replacement they give you - they are going to give you what you originally purchased which was an AT&T locked phone.
If yours was officially unlocked by AT&T, and they mistakenly gave you a locked one (it can happen, any mistake can happen) then just go to an Apple Store or call Apple, explain what has happened and they should replace the phone with an unlocked one.

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