Unlock GSM for international calling

I am considering Iphone purchase but I need a phone that has unlocked GSM that can be used with various SIM cards. I notice that Iphone supports 850/900/1800/900mHz which is good, but I cannot find any info concerning unlocking GSM to allow phone to be used internationally with foreign SIM cards. Does anyone know if I can purchase an Iphone with unlocked GSM that will work with foreign SIM cards? Thanks in advance for your responses.
Doug Ragland

Tamara wrote:
If you have an iPhone with ATT, it will use international roaming while in the UK.
Indeed it will. And that's fine as long as you are on somebody's expense account. Alas, if you are a mere financial mortal schlub, you'd be better off doing what I do and carry a cheap unlocked GSM phone for use abroad, and either use a European Roaming Sim Card (like United Mobile) or buy a local sim card if you will be in-country for a little while.
Is all this a pain? You bet. That's why we're all begging for unlocked iPhones!
Dave

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I just took a look at my very first bill and to my surprise, my 10 year old had attempted to make 6 (1 minute calls) and 1 (29 minute call) to England to speak with her father. I admit it was partly my fault because with the last company they could just pick up the phone and call their father and I neglected to tell them that they could not do that anymore. Blah, blah, blah.....my 1st Verizon bill is $220.00 (@$100 or so in long distance charges for basically 1 call).
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We have been using Cisco IPCC for several years now to handle calls from external customers.
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International calls don't work ....... ??????????????.............?????????

Dear any help for Dial Peer to international Calls i can not do any international calls .... i did these commands:
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ok man,
i attached my debug files for Q931 but i saw many causes for drop calls (no route, unassigned number,...) see them please.
i don't know where the problem exact i moved the calls to other GW it worked fine, but when i use AS5400 as my GW the calls failed.
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