MCI to offer mobile banking via USSD gateway

In near future value added services, secure payment services and banking procedures will be offered via this gateway.
USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Services Data) gateway is a central point at which several different protocols or communications signals get are controlled and routed based upon several different parameters.
USSD is a proper Gateway to send and receive information simultaneously for all prepaid and postpaid sim cards and all mobile phones.
Each USSD message can have 182 characters.
Most banks and operators in world use this gateway for banking procedures.
USSD messages do not have the delay which sms has in network, and their speed is seven times higher than sms.   
Request for knowing prepaid sim cards recharge amount, voting service, filling different forms, buying via ATM devices or electronic buying and request for making calls are among other USSD features. 
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