Musings: BSNL, MTNL: No more '95' group dialing

written by postman at Saturday, July 4, 2009

Telecom majors BSNL and MTNL have now discontinued the group dialing facility. This would be done across the whole country in all the telecom circles.
Now the group dialing code '95' would be allocated to private mobile service providers like Aircel cellular, Idea, Reliance which would be utilized for their GSM operations.

Previously BSNL subscribers could make calls up to 200km from landlines by prefixing the code '95'. This made the call to be treated as local call and was not considered as STD call. MTNL has similar operations in Mumbai and Delhi telecom circles.

Many forecast this move as death of landline segments in India. According to TRAI there have been regular declination of wireline subscribers in India.

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