Iphone4 locked which should be unlocked

My girlfriend bought a white iPhone4 in May. And there was something wrong with the home key.
She took it to the genius bar and changed a new one (which is in a black box).
And she has a 3 Network pay as you go sim card and put it in the iPhone and then it works well.
However, later she found her iPhone locked with 3 Network and she can not use other Network sim cards.
When she remove the sim card and put other network sim card in it.
It does not work and in General About of iPhone, it is still 3!
What is wrong with her iPhone? How could it be locked with 3 Network?

No it is not, Apple UK sell both subsidised phones for the carriers and a sim free one at the full price. They even sell PAYG phones for the carriers that are only about £7 cheaper than their sim free ones but are locked to a carrier.
If there is any connection to a carrier even from an Apple store in the UK it will be locked.

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As far as I understand, I am one of at least 3 owners for this phone. I guess there could be more.
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I have previously had many apple products, this is the first one I bought used adn just wanted to restore it to normal.
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Here is my iPhones description:
IMEI: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Serial Number: XXXXXXXXXXX
Part Description: IPHONE 4 16GB BLACK
Product Version: 6.0.1
Coverage Status: Out of Warranty
Coverage End Date:
First Unbrick Date: 29/03/11
Last Unbrick Date: 10/04/11
CTN: 7580088512
Next Tether Activation Policy Description: UK TMobile Orange.
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fatmanotto wrote:
... Why can't Apple unlock this phone, ...
Apple does Not unlock phones...
Only the Carrier can Unlock it...
and it looks like you do not meet the Carriers requirements for Unlocking...
fatmanotto wrote:
I contacted Orange UK and they said that this iPhone4 is ready to be unlocked, but they can't unlock the phone because I am not the original contract owner. ...

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