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USSD Debt: Stakeholders Set Six-Point Settlement Agenda, New Pricing Regime

Key Federal Government agencies and top players in the nation’s telecommunications sector on Monday ended their meeting with a six-point measure to forestall future indebtedness and disruption of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) services channel to bank customers nationwide. USSD is a critical channel for delivering financial services, particularly for the underserved and/or financially excluded. […]

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N42Bn Debt: FG Urges Telcos To Sustain USSD To Banks, Parleys Firms

The Federal Government at the weekend appealed to telecommunication operators in the country to discontinue their planned suspension of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) services to banks over the lenders’ N42 billion indebtedness. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, who made the appeal on Saturday in statement issued by his Technical Assistant […]