SIM not supported on UNLOCKED iPhone 4S

I bought my iphone 4S just under a year ago UNLOCKED. Since then, I have been using it on O2 in the UK and of course have accepted any software updates. The phone is NOT jailbroken.
My O2 contract came to its renewal and I decided to change carriers to 3. Today I have received my new micro SIM, inserted it and it said "Activation required", went through the steps but it says the SIM is not supported! It almost looks like Apple or O2 have locked my unlocked phone to O2. How can than that happen?
Any ideas anyone?
Regards,
Gordon

Phil,
Apple write the software and obviously make the phone lock to the first provider it connects with. In my eyes, that software is not the fault of Carphone Warehouse. Any other manufacturer's phone purchased from Carphone Warehouse without a SIM is FULLY UNLOCKED, but Apple being Apple have to be different.
I got really annoyed the first iPhone I purchased when I walked out of the Apple shop and could not even use the phone until I returned home because it insisted that I connect to iTunes before it would activate the SIM. Again a stupid unnecessary process from Apple. Does that happen with a Motorola? a Samsung?, a Nokia? etc. Of course not! Apple just want to be in complete control of you.
I called O2 and they unlocked the phone, but IMHO it is Apple who write the software for these phones, no one else does it. Whether you agree or not is up to you. I am just a consumer trying to use the product, which is frustrating!

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