Will the T Mobile unlocked iPhone 6 be compatible in India?

Will the T Mobile unlocked iPhone 6 be usable in India? Can it be used as it is in Indian GSM networks without any unlocking required? I asked my friend who lives in Connecticut to enquire in a  T mobile store where the seller told him that it will be locked for 90 days. Is it so? I could not contact live chat support. Please help.

Firstly, the T-Mobile phone is NOT unlocked, but rather contract/sim free.  You don't buy the phone directly from a T-Mobile store or the phone will be locked, but you need to get your friend to go and buy the T-Mobile phone contract free directly from the Apple store.
This phone comes with a T-Mobile sim card, but the trick is to take the T-Mobile sim card out of the phone when you receive it and put your local sim card into the phone and then activate it and then it will remain unlocked.
Remember though that if this phone comes from the US, you will have no valid warranty on the phone for India, as iPhone warranty is not international, so if anything goes wrong with the phone, you have to physically take it back to the US - no shipping accepted.
The phone will also not support 4G/LTE, due to frequency differences.
There are no unlocked phones for sale in the US yet, but if you want to risk the T-Mobile phone, then get your friend to go and buy the T-Mobile contract free phone directly from the Apple store and NOT a T-Mobile store - if you go to T-Mobile, then the phone will be locked, but if you get it from Apple, you should be able to take the T-Mobile sim card out of the phone and then activate it with a local sim card and the phone should remain unlocked.
It is only if you activate with the T-Moible sim card that you are in trouble.

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