Confusion, Anger As Telcoms Charge ₦4 For USSD Services
October 21, 2019
1:29 am
•Banks to still retain N50/USSD transactions
•Ministry claims ignorance, suspends plan
•’Why subscribers suffer early data depletion, rise in usage’
Beginning from today, Nigerians who use financial institutions’ unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) platforms to transfer money from one point to another are expected to incur additional charges for such services.
The USSD services include the GTB’s *737#; First Bank’s *894#; Fidelity Bank’s *770#; Access Bank’s *901#; and UBA’s *919# that run on telecoms’ operator’s platforms. While there is an initial charge of ₦50 by the bank, which will be retained, customers who use the USSD will be made to …
