Need to unlock an AT&T iPhone outside of the USA

Hi.
First of all, I CALLED AT&T. They said they have a new policy now, in which I HAVE to have a valid AT&T phone number in order for them to be able to unlock my iphone4. They said this new policy was enforced by Apple. I'm not a residant of the USA, and I have no AT&T serice in the country I live in.
Anyone can tell what my next actions should be?
Thanks.

Metallas wrote:
good evening ogoren.
you have two options. send your iphone to a friend/relative in the US(if you have) so that they unlock the phone with their at&t sim. i have the same problem  here in greece and this is the only "official" way to do that.
the second option is to find someone that can manually unlock it for you but you will instantly loose your warranty and in case of hardware problems apple will not be responsible. if you do that be extremely careful with the ios version and the baseband. if you don't know how to do it don't try it yourself and don't let any "expert" do experiments on your phone.
sorry for the long post man.
And by "manually unlock" of course, you really mean "hack" it.

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