@skylancer USSD messages are up to 182 alphanumeric characters in length. Unlike Short Message Service (SMS) messages, USSD messages create a real-time connection during a USSD session. The connection remains open, allowing a two-way exchange of a sequence of data. This makes USSD more responsive than services that use SMS. is typical of other short-message protocols ~~like~~ SMS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Service_Data