When preordering an iPhone is it buying an unlocked version? Or carrier locked?

[DBZmusicboy01]

I have a Verizon SIM card from my note 3 and I want to put it on the iPhone 6S if I get it. But I don't know if when preordering it's all unlocked or we have to choose a carrier and can it work on a T-Mobile iPhone model.
I am new to the preordering thing.

 

[Newtons Apple]

I have a Verizon SIM card from my note 3 and I want to put it on the iPhone 6S if I get it. But I don't know if when preordering it's all unlocked or we have to choose a carrier and can it work on a T-Mobile iPhone model.
I am new to the preordering thing.

Maybe if you post this a third time . . . . .

 

[Internaut]

Maybe if you post this a third time . . . . .

Spotted a defect with the forum software, the other night. It can leave you with the impression that posting has failed, leading you to try and post again. Edit: Found while posting from iPad (doesn't effect posting from Chrome on the corporate Dell).

 

[lugworm]

In the UK when you buy an iphone outright from the Apple store, it is always unlocked to any network. Don't know about other countries, but I would imagine it would be the same.

 

[Broadus]

I have a Verizon SIM card from my note 3 and I want to put it on the iPhone 6S if I get it. But I don't know if when preordering it's all unlocked or we have to choose a carrier and can it work on a T-Mobile iPhone model.
I am new to the preordering thing.

Last year, only T-Mobile was unlocked, if I recall correctly. However, because other major carriers are changing their policies in order to exclude subsidizing phones for new customers, I anticipate Apple's offering both GSM and CDMA versions unlocked at full price.