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Tesco Talk Wi-Fi review

 
There's Tesco Value, Tesco Finest, Tesco Insurance, Tesco "anything else that people need" and now there's Tesco Talk Wi-Fi. The latest step for the grocery behemoth is a downloadable application for your mobile that sets you up for cheap as chips calls to across the Atlantic. Hook up your phone to the service through the website and your calls and text will be made through any Wi-Fi network. Sounds simple? It would be if it didn't take an age to get the darn thing on your mobile. Fill in a form that asks for every detail apart from your cats name and once that's done it's only available for Nokia E51, N81, E65 or N95. Now that's what we call Nokia-ist. Once set up, pick a price plan from the Tesco Value P-A-Y-G to the Finest £5.95 a month. Calls are free to anyone else on the Tesco Wi-Fi network (so that's no-one), and international calls to Bob your Uncle in Oz cost from 10p a minute on every price plan, and calls to mobiles or landlines in the UK cost 2p minute on P-A-Y-G or ... (link)

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