Standing in line at the Apple Store to purchase an iPhone 5 and asking the employees if they sell the terminals coded or decoded, I found out that the terminals sold at full price in the US can be decoded on international networks. If you buy a telephone coded on AT&T, then the terminal is decoded at all international operators that sell the new iPhone today. There is a possibility that when the iPhone 5 is launched in Romania, the terminal will be decoded from the moment the operators start selling them.
UPDATED: The terminals sold today are already decoded in Romania, they are coded only in the USA, they are already decoded in Europe.
UPDATE 2: Talking to 3 different employees I received different answers, but in the end it seems that the terminals are decoded anywhere in the world if you buy them at full price. The problem is that if you buy it from the USA, you have to restore it from Romania and activate it with a Romanian SIM so that iTunes will permanently decode it for you based on the Romanian IP. If you do the activation in the USA, then the iPhone will be coded on the US network and probably the coding is permanent.
