Bharti Airtel, today announced the withdrawal of ‘95’ dialing for long distance calling on its fixed line service as per the directive of the Department of Telecom (DoT). The withdrawal will come into effect from today midnight.

Subscribers will now have to dial the STD code prefixed with ‘0’ before calling to any long distance destination.

Airtel said that it is also providing its customers the convenience of not activating their STD facility but continuing to access the cities which are within 500 kms of a telecom circle and less than 50 kms of the adjoining SDCA. They will need to dial the city STD code prefixed with 0. To access numbers outside of this perimeter, the customer will have to activate his STD facility by calling 121 from his Airtel fixed lined number. The customer will continue to be billed for all calls as per the prevailing tariff, said Airtel.