AT&T and Verizon, the largest mobile phone operators in the US that sell iPhones, sell terminals iPhone 5 decoded. In the case of AT&T, the terminal must be purchased at full price, but at Verizon, apparently, even those sold for subscriptions are already decoded for any user. Verizon said that it will not code terminals sold through its own network, so there you know for sure that things will not change in a few months, but at AT&T no one made any statement of this kind, but those who bought terminals iPhone 5 at full price they realized that they can be decoded through iTunes.
Terminals bought together with an AT&T subscription remain coded, but those bought at full price, even from the operator's stores, could be decoded through a restore and activation with another operator's card. It was otherwise logical that terminals sold at full price could be decoded anywhere in the world, but AT&T does not confirm this in order not to lose many customers. The iPhone 5 terminals sold by AT&T and Verizon work on 3G GSM networks in Romania at speeds of up to 43.2 Mbps, but they will not work on 4G LTE networks either. Orange being the first operator to launch one this year, as their modem is designed to connect to other frequencies.
