How to findout which carrier my iPhone is locked to...

I recently purchased an iPhone 3GS from a friend (student) who was returning from Australia. Before purchasing I researched on the internet and found that the model MX133 / MX134 available in New Zealand and Australia are unlocked or can be unlocked officially by the carriers.
Now I have received the iPhone (I am in India) and when I try to activate using Vodafone's Chip it says 'Sim not Supported'... Ok... That part I get....
But the problem is that how do I find out which Australian carrier this phone is locked to... So I can find out their terms and conditions to get my phone officially unlocked ?
iTunes is not very helpful in determining the same...

@wjosten - I got the phone from a friend studing in Australia (Melbourne) and he brought it from a retail shop there... (No Sim)
@Ingo2711 - Thanks, but it says activation required and to connect to iTunes.
I don't want to use blacksn0w, if I can get it officially activated / supported.
Can we not find out the carrier from the Model / Serial / IMEI Number or something?
You see, I have the same number for more than 12 years and I don't want to change it. (No number portability in India, yet. And my service provider Loop Mobile does not support iPhone)
So I called for this iPhone from Australia (Since I was sure that those phones were either unlocked or can be officially unlocked)
All I need to do now is contact my friend in Australia and ask him to register for unlocking with that service provider.

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I would like to know which carrier my iPhone is locked to

Hello Apple support,
After many attemps to contact you I landed here, so here is my question.
I recently bought an iPhone 4 over the internet which was locked and not yet activated.
Therefor I need to find out which carrier my iPhone is locked to so I can finally start using this thing, I will not provide my IMEI number in public for security reasons.
So is it possible to check my Carrier lock status by my IMEI / serial number? Because I think it is AT&T yet I am not sure, and I can't check it because I live in Belgium where I cannot get a hold of an AT&T sim card. The owner told me it was a dutch phone so it had to be locked with T-Mobile yet they don't seem to recognize the IMEI. The model number is MC318LL LL is coded for America as I seem to have heard.
Please do help me because I have made MANY attempts finding this out!
Many thanks in advance,
Jan

This is a user to user help forum only.
This cannot be determined by users with the info provided, and I'm not sure if Apple would give you this info over the phone if you called AppleCare in the U.S. - for security and privacy reasons.
You need to get this info from the seller. If the seller is unable to give you this info or the correct info, return it to the seller for payment credit and purchase an iPhone in your country from an official retailer and you will have less problems or no problems including not having to hack the iPhone to unlock it which removes all the built-in security making it insecure as with an Android phone.

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My 16GB Black iPhone Model number: MC318LL; IMEI: 012657005583409 Now I want to know to which CARRIER my iPhone is locked! As per the model number I found my iPhone was purchased in Singapore. Please help me out. Thank you in advance.

There is no way to tell based on the information you provided.
According to this page: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1937
ALL iPhones (the 4 at least) sold through authorized channels in Singapore are unlocked. If you got it on the gray market, as opposed to from one of the three authorized carriers or directly from Apple, and you're getting an "unsupported SIM" message, then you got taken for a ride.

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There is no way to tell which network an iPhone is locked to except by inserting different SIMs or asking the original buyer.
Some websites claim to be able to tell you locked status by the iPhone model number, but the information has proved to be incorrect in lots of cases.
A lot of eBay iPhones are US models, locked to AT&T with no way to unlock them.
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