{"id":45659,"date":"2014-09-08T10:12:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T10:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=45659"},"modified":"2014-09-08T10:12:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T10:12:35","slug":"mobile-phone-users-to-use-common-codes-from-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=45659","title":{"rendered":"Mobile phone users to use common codes from today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All mobile phone users regardless of the network will use a common short code to check their credits, top up and assess call centres from today.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;no9dEvyfojc0NADh7plEWDpI7w8e3m45&#8243;]This follows the National Communications Authority\u2019s (NCA) move to harmonize all short codes for general customer services across all networks.<\/p>\n<p>The NCA however says the existing short codes for the various telecommunication networks will run concurrently with the new one until April 2015.<\/p>\n<p>To recharge, subscribers will use 134. To check balance, subscribers will need to dial 124 and 100 for the call centre.<\/p>\n<p>The others are 600 for number portability, 400 for verification of SIM, 108 for Voice Mail Deposit and 109 for Voice Mail Retrieval.<\/p>\n<p>There have been complaints from users about the number of short codes they have deal with, prompting an investigation by the NCA, which eventually decided to introduce common codes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All mobile phone users regardless of the network will use a common short code to check their credits, top up and assess call centres from today. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;no9dEvyfojc0NADh7plEWDpI7w8e3m45&#8243;]This follows the National Communications Authority\u2019s (NCA) move to harmonize all short codes for general customer services across all networks. The NCA however says the existing short codes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":45666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4,17],"class_list":["post-45659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-st-augustines-college","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}