I agree with Russ, if you place a call in the UK to another UK mobile you only pay the normal UK charge or in your case if you have any free minutes for Vodafone to Vodafone calls it comes off your allowance of free calls, this has always been the case as its not possible for the caller to know where the receiving phone is and therefore unfair to land the caller with a 'roaming' charge.

Now if the phone that you ring happens to be roaming on another network at the time 'ie' its on Pronto's network in the Isle of Man, then the unfortunate person receiving your call will pay a charge per minute for the diversion across from Vodafone to the Pronto network.

It all sounds a bit confusing but in simple terms calling from the uk to the roaming phone is as per normal, but you have to pay to receive incoming calls when you are on the IOM with a UK phone, and beware these charges can be an arm and a leg per minute plus VAT!! Russ and myself use a couple of Pronto sim cards whilst we are there which means you avoid the roaming charges as you are on the home network.

To use a pronto sim card in your uk mobile it needs to be unlocked to any network, which it just so happens Russ can do for a small fee and he'll have his unlocking gear on the island with him.

Contact him by email from his earlier posting on this subject.

Stealth