Over the weekend, MTN Nigeria earned the anger of Nigerians when it rolled out a plan to charge them for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) access to banking services.

In a text message sent to some subscribers, MTN stated, “Yello, please note that from October 21, we will charge ₦4 per 20 seconds for the USSD access to banking services. Thank you.”

If things went their way, this would mean that, even when you try to check your bank account balance, MTN wants to take something away from your airtime. There is absolutely no explanation that would justify that.

Continue reading here: https://qwenu.com/2019/10/21/charges-for-ussd-bank-transactions-mtn-is-taking-its-greed-too-far/