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USSD CHARGES
Telecommunications operators in Nigeria have announced that beginning Wednesday, June 18, 2025, mobile subscribers in the country will begin to pay directly for USSD services through their airtime.
Sources from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) have debunked a recent announcement by banks that the deduction of charges for the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) from customers’ airtime, otherwise known as end-user billing, commenced on June 3.
National Association of Telecoms Subscribers of Nigeria has lamented the service charge of N6.98.
The value of transactions carried out using Point of Sale (PoS) channel in Nigeria hit N3.20 trillion in 2019.
ALTON has called on the NCC and CBN to summon financial and telecoms industry stakeholders for a meeting as regards to the USSD dispute.