Now we know for a fact that some of these phones are refurbished and were being used in foreign countries and still have restrictions on them. All this sounds very illegal to me since the documentation comes with the iPhone 6 says that the phone is unlocked. Airtel, Aircel etc) it has taken this long for someone to find out what is really happening. When I traveled overseas, no foreign Sim would work (i.e. At Verizon you cannot get back to a specific agent even if they hang up on you on purpose. The agent then kept putting me on hold and stonewalling until he eventually I'm up on me 10:15 PM last night ApEastern standard time. I said obviously this doesn't make me comfortable because you haven't solved the problem why it happened and told your customers what is really happening. When I queried him about how TracFone could have locked my device he said 'your replacement device could have been theirs before' then he became a little nervous when I pressed for more information. When he came back online he said that he called TracFone and they have unlocked my device. So I stayed on hold while he got more information. So I said how can a Mexican telecom lock a Verizon Sim and iPhone. After giving the IMEI # to Apple, Apple told him that my iPhone 6 was locked by tracphone, an American company owned by a Mexican Telecom. When he came back on the line he said something very interesting happened.

He put me on hold and called tech support and Apple. I told them all of this is already been done numerous times, and challenged him to find the answer.

The Verizon global support told me to wipe my phone, then reinstall the software. It's amazing this problem could not be resolved but last night, can you believe it, they finally solved it. Just a note, the first time it happened, I was using an iPhone six replacement phone and obviously the second time it happened (second trip) it was a replacement phone because they could not resolve the issue why it happened previously. So after a replacement phone, this same problem kept happening when I traveled overseas. Whenever I called Apple or Verizon they blamed each other. Then went to Australia, same thing happened.

(and replacement SIM) Won't go into all the details but basically as soon as I reached Hong Kong my phone said Sim not valid. Okay, so I have been having this problem with my iPhone 6 from Verizon for over a year with two replacement phones.

Invalid sim card