Wednesday, 27 August 2014

Telcos Move towards Short code Unification


Effective this week, users of Vodafone can now check their credit balance by dialing *124#; just like user on MTN Ghana, and also recharge their account using the short code *134*. Other networks are supposed to adopt and implement so their uses can also check their credit balance with the same short code.

The main aim of this is to ensure that in early 2015; users of all networks in Ghana will be able to access certain general services with the same short code and will not have to enquiry from either call center personnel or other individuals, how to access these services when their change their networks.

"According to Mr. Paarock VanPercy, Director General of the National Communications Authority, the aim of the exercise is to harmonise all short codes for general customer services across all networks. To this end, all short codes for accessing services including Credit Recharge, Credit Balance, and Call Centre enquiries and other such services will be uniform for all mobile telephony consumers in Ghana, irrespective of their network from 8th September, 2014"  Source: NCA

At the time of writing this post, not all Telcos have yet implemented this; but are expected to come on board to support this unification. The services that will be affected include call center, balance enquiry, porting service, SIM registration, Voice mail services and others which are still under consideration.

Below are the proposed short codes that all Telcos will use:

Balance check
*124#
Credit recharge
*134*
Call centre
100
Voicemail deposit
108
Voicemail retrieval
109
Porting service
600
SIM registration
400

TelcoPromo will update you as and when new network operators sign on to this and any other information on the subject, STAY TUNED.

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