Developed by a Rhino TAS customer.
A gateway providing request/response over USSD from/to the handset of subscriber data.
Several Rhino customers have implemented USSD Gateways on Rhino. The USSD Gateway is used to route USSD messages from the GSM signalling network to and from a USSD service application. In some cases the USSD service applications are implemented on Rhino , in others the contents of the USSD messages are relayed by XML for action by operator applications hosted on other IT platforms. Full-service MVNOs may also be supported using the latter approach.
By using an application or simple SIM toolkit menus on a mobile phone, users can establish a real time USSD session between the mobile handset and USSD application handling the service. This allows the user to perform such actions as:
- Balance Check
- Balance and/or call charge notification at the end of a call
- Prepaid balance loan – request a top-up to the balance on a credit basis
- Purchase a data/ sms/ voice/ roaming bundle
- Selfcare of various subscriber data, such as setting voicemail redirect when roaming
- Allocate a sum from your balance to another subscriber (balance transfer)
- Enter a prepaid top-up voucher number to allocate a value to your account
- Request a call from another party
- To initiate a network call to you from your home network and connect it to a specified third party whilst you are roaming
- Request of various information content such as the weather, traffic, sports scores etc.
- Push of various adverts