On this bright Monday morning, as I put my materials together for this Wednesday column, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, is holding a crisis meeting with the ...

Yahoo’s strategy to grow its business in mobile has largely been focused around what the company is doing with apps for smartphones and tablets. But a piece of news today points to how it is also ...

Cybercriminals are exploiting USSD codes, disguised as delivery agents, to activate call forwarding on unsuspecting citizens' ...

With all eyes on the upcoming seasonal rush, most companies have been looking for ways to make their voices heard. The US market estimates that $51 billion is expected to change hands during Black ...

Twitter is working hard to build up its profile and usage among people in developing markets, and today another piece of that strategy has come into focus. It has signed a deal with Switzerland-based ...

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, ...

In this great big world of digitisation seemingly on steroids, and innovations springing up faster than mushrooms overnight after a good soft rain, it is more than easy to be considered out of fashion ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN yesterday said the dispute between the telecommunications operators in the country and Deposit Money Banks, DMBs over earnings on the Unstructured services Data, USSD, ...

"In this regard, it has decided by the competent authority that all licensees shall discontinue the existing USSD based call forwarding services with effect from 15.04.2024 till further notice," the ...

Ever dialled * and # to send money or pay bills? That’s Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) at work—quick, no fuss, and familiar. Whether it’s mobile money, school fees, or utilities, USSD ...