What is USSD

My friend Rekha once lost her smartphone. She didn’t have money to buy the same phone, so she bought a feature phone.

She told me that she wanted to make online payments, but because she had a feature phone, she had to carry cash all the time.

She was making cash payments even though she could make cashless payments with USSD.

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USSD stands for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data.
This allows you to –

In the next section, you will learn about the benefits of USSD