Its not locked to telecom, its the telecom supplied model however.
I had issues with my 9300t on vodafone where it wouldn't connect to 3G Extended. No matter what i did including changing roms it wouldn't work. Changed it for a 9300 and everything was fine, so beware they may have done something with the hardware (which the T would denote).
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