Originally Posted by Dai13371:
“30 days? Can you get it done in 5 minutes by a bloke in a market stall or does the phone have some sort of unlock prevention on it?”
The bloke on the market will do a software unlock, which will disappear if you ever need to reset your phone. Orange on the other hand will register your IMEI number with Apple so if you need to reset, just plug in your phone to iTunes and it will check it against that database and unlock the phone.