Supermarket giant Tesco is to start offering their own calling cards for people who want to call overseas.

Tesco first launched the cards in their smaller stores around the country and their success has prompted the supermarket chain to broaden the presence across the UK.
Industry experts have valued the calling card market at around £250 million so it's no surprise that Tesco want to muscle in and get their share.

Tesco released a statement today saying...

"Customers can benefit from low cost international calls including calls to over 60 countries for just 2p a minute.

"The card can be used from any mobile phone, landline or payphone.

"A 30 minute daily call to India using the Tesco International Calling Card costs less than 64p a day, saving users more than £2,500 per year compared to BT's standard rates and even more compared to Virgin Media's standard package."

Update 17th January 2011:

An unhappy reader has been in touch asking us to point out that the card has a 90-day expiry after purchase.  This is how Tesco explains expiration in their FAQs:

"The card expires 90 days after purchase. Where the card has been recharged, then the expiry data also resets from 90 days of that recharge. There is no limit to the number of times you can recharge the card and every time it is recharged, the expiry will reset to 90 days. Once the card has expired any amounts left on the card is forfeited."

We hope that clears things up for everyone.