Posts Tagged ‘culture’

10/9/08

Taking a new look at USSD for mobile banking

USSD or Unstructured Supplementary Service Data is a capability of all GSM phones. It is a technology that is built into the signalling layer of the GSM specification, and is therefore already present in all GSM phones and networks. It is session oriented, unlike SMS which is a store-and-forward, transaction-oriented technology. Using an Internet analogy: If SMS is email, USSD is Telnet. (more…)