Showing posts with label Unstructured Supplementary Service Data. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unstructured Supplementary Service Data. Show all posts

Monday, September 29, 2014

Unstructured Supplementary Service Data

Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) is a protocol used by the GSM cellular phones to communicate with the service provider's computers.

USSD messages typically start with a * and has numbers and special characters in it. They do not have spaces and terminate with a #

Example:
a) *101#
b) *39489*234*349839#

Some operators use USSD to provide access to real-time updates from social-networking websites like Facebook and Twitter.[2] Wikipedia uses USSD to send articles to some feature phones.