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 ...

Did you know that smartphone penetration in South Africa was estimated to be around 82.5% in 2024, but nearly 28% of users frequently avoid using their devices due to high data costs, limiting ...

The notion that the continuous application of the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) in transferring funds would deepen the cashless policy being pursued by the Central Bank of Nigeria ...

There’s a growing population of Africans without reliable internet access that are still using bitcoin for peer-to-peer transactions thanks to a solution called Machankura. In 2022, South African ...

Since June 18, 2025, when telecom operators started deducting charges for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) transactions directly from customers' airtime, bank customers have been ...