Required service agreement with new iPhone?

Can I get the new iPhone in the states and use it in Costa Rica?
I have been loyal and stuck with Apple even though the program costs were prohibitive. Since the iPhone came out I have wanted to get one but the cost was too high. I now live in Costa Rica and my family of four has a very low income. I was very excited to learn that the new iPhone 3G comes out just in time for our annual trip to the states. The price is finally affordable! Here's my problem, I keep hearing that the next model must be unlocked at the store and requires you to sign up for a cell service. I can't do this.The only cell service in Costa Rica is with the ICE monopoly. CR signed a free trade agreement with the US last October which should allow outside cell service providers to offer service here. In the mean time I will be in California with the opportunity to buy an iPhone 3G. I have searched the internet to see if the new iPhone will even work in Costa Rica and I can't find any information. iPhones are sold at the Apple stores here for three times the price in the US. I just up graded to the newest MacBook Pro.
If Apple is actually requiring customers to sign up with a cell service there it is totally unreasonable. I have been a Mac User since the very first Macs with the green screens came out. If I added up the money I have scraped together over the years to spend at Apple it would be a small fortune. A required service plan would be an injustice to the very people who have made the company a success, loyal consumers! If I am required to sign up for cell service I will just have the buy a simmalar phone from another company.

You have to sign up for AT&T service. The iphone would have to be hacked to work on another network. This would void the warranty, not allow you to update the iphone, may render it useless, and cannot be discussed on this forum - as per the terms of use of this forum.
Also, this is a users forum. we are iphone users not Apple.
You are not addressing Apple here.
You may send feedback to Apple at www.apple.com/feedback

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