Is the ipad 2 3g locked or not??????

Hi,
I'm planning to buy an ipad2 with 3g, I live in the US but next year I will move back to Germany, so I need to know if I can use my ipad with a german carrier.
I can find online both answers (yes the at&t modell will work the ipad is unlocked, and no the us ipads are locked to att or verizon) and now I don't know what to believe. In my apple store I asked two diffrent men and one said locked and one said unlocked!!!!!Please help!

If you don't believe what you are being told here, don't buy the iPad. We are users and many are posting from experience. Your statement "...When I buy it and it doesn't work with a German sim what can I do?" indicates that you are unsure whether to believe it will work or not. There is nothing you can do except return the iPad where you bought it.
I suggest you wait until someone else you know in Germany buys one. Then you can see if it works or not. You appear to not believe what you are being told here.
I also suggest you search these forums where you'll find 10s if not hundreds of posts where people have bought AT&T iPads for use in other countries that use GSM.

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