Lets take an example. To check for your data balance on MTN Uganda, you dial 150#, then 1. Mobile Internet > 4. Check balance > 1. Check this Number. Those are a lot of steps, right? Related post: All codes for MTN, Africell, Vodafone, Airtel, and UTL Uganda balance check and recharge USSD shortcodes With USSD shortcode shortcuts, you can simplify this step-by-step process by dialing 150141# at once. Notice I’ve combined all the selections with a star () between the option numbers. You can even save this 150141# as say “MTN data balance” in your phone book, so that you don’t have to remember it every time you want to check your data balance. You can create a number of shortcuts for several other routine tasks you usually need to do. However, for some networks, we discovered these shortcuts don’t work. Airtel Uganda for instance doesn’t work well with these USSD shortcuts. We recommend you always check our mobile network shortcode cheat-sheet by for instance bookmarking the page, or use use your network’s mobile App. If you’ve have any tips of your own, please share with us in the comments below.
