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Airtel Discontinues N5 Bank Ussd Charges
Barely 24 hours after Airtel Nigeria started billing its customers N5 for every 20 seconds spent while carrying out a USSD bank transaction, the telecommunication company has discontinued the charges.
Our correspondent learnt that Airtel customers can now make transactions free of charge, using bank USSD.
DAILY POST reported on Wednesday that Airtel Nigeria had hitherto been charging its customers for using bank USSD, despite the directive from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) that no telecommunication company should charge customers for using bank USSD
It was learnt that Airtel had on Wednesday billed a customer (name withheld) N15 for carrying out a transaction using the Wema Bank *945#.
Contacted, an Airtel customer care agent, told our correspondent in a message that the organisation charges N5 for every 20 second spent using USSD.
But the organisation seems to have bowed to pressure and public outcry that greeted the report as it has stopped charging customers for making transactions with bank codes.
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