NCC says Nigerian banks owe telcos N17billion for USSD transactions

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The two telcos would however face uphill tasks replicating the success of Safaricom in Nigeria, according to experts at Coronation Asset Management.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said that commercial banks in Nigeria are currently in debt of over N17 billion to telecommunications companies, following the regulator’s suspension of its Determination on Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) pricing in 2019. Umar Gar

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