The USSD technology is prone to fraud, slow and laborious. Technologists believe it is time for Uganda to shift to better technologies and this will require a collaborative effort from the innovators, ...

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 ...

Last week, we reported how a vulnerability on some Samsung smartphones could wipe a users’ data in just one tap. There are now concerns that this flaw could be exploited on other Android devices, but ...

Agritech company Afrimash has launched a USSD solution that enables farmers to verify the authenticity of day-old chicks before making a purchase, using just a basic mobile phone. In a statement on ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is set to introduce an Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) code for verification of capital market operators. SEC said the move is part of its ...

Some banks risk disconnection by telecom operators over their failure to comply with a directive of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to repay the N250 billion Unstructured Supplementary ...

In a development for Nigeria's digital financial services, thirteen commercial banks have fully settled their outstanding debts for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, USSD, services owed to ...