Other than impunity, it’s hard to imagine a more fitting description of the failure by some banks to settle the outstanding invoices due to telecoms companies for the use of their Unstructured ...

Nigerian operators have settled a long-running unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) payment dispute with commercial banks. It seems that, five years after the dispute began, all outstanding ...

India’s cybercrime authorities have issued a fresh warning about the new fraud tactic that is affecting many individuals in India. The scammers are quietly draining bank accounts and hijacking online ...

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has introduced a new Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) code, *829#, designed to enhance taxpayer satisfaction and streamline tax-related services ...

Nigerian Communications Commission has directed Banks to start deducting charges for unstructured supplementary service data transactions directly from users’ mobile airtime. In a statement sent to ...

Young people reading might not believe this but there was a time when you actually had to leave your house to do stuff like bank transfers or settle utility bills. It wasn’t that long ago too. Ten ...

Liberia now requires mobile network operators to separate telecom and mobile money activities. Orange Liberia has spun off Orange Money into a licensed subsidiary; MTN is expected to follow. The ...