diff --git a/api/current.txt b/api/current.txt
index 2d7cde73ed3d4..f3204caef817f 100644
--- a/api/current.txt
+++ b/api/current.txt
@@ -44683,7 +44683,6 @@ package android.telephony {
   public final class BarringInfo implements android.os.Parcelable {
     method public int describeContents();
     method @NonNull public android.telephony.BarringInfo.BarringServiceInfo getBarringServiceInfo(int);
-    method public boolean isServiceBarred(int);
     method public void writeToParcel(@NonNull android.os.Parcel, int);
     field public static final int BARRING_SERVICE_TYPE_CS_FALLBACK = 5; // 0x5
     field public static final int BARRING_SERVICE_TYPE_CS_SERVICE = 0; // 0x0
diff --git a/telephony/java/android/telephony/BarringInfo.java b/telephony/java/android/telephony/BarringInfo.java
index e4a14a34eb27f..db3da17b6c050 100644
--- a/telephony/java/android/telephony/BarringInfo.java
+++ b/telephony/java/android/telephony/BarringInfo.java
@@ -239,6 +239,12 @@ public final class BarringInfo implements Parcelable {
         }
     }
 
+    private static final BarringServiceInfo BARRING_SERVICE_INFO_UNKNOWN =
+            new BarringServiceInfo(BarringServiceInfo.BARRING_TYPE_UNKNOWN);
+
+    private static final BarringServiceInfo BARRING_SERVICE_INFO_UNBARRED =
+            new BarringServiceInfo(BarringServiceInfo.BARRING_TYPE_NONE);
+
     private CellIdentity mCellIdentity;
 
     // A SparseArray potentially mapping each BarringService type to a BarringServiceInfo config
@@ -300,17 +306,6 @@ public final class BarringInfo implements Parcelable {
         return new BarringInfo(ci, serviceInfos);
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Return whether a service is currently barred based on the BarringInfo
-     *
-     * @param service the service to be checked.
-     * @return true if the service is currently being barred, otherwise false
-     */
-    public boolean isServiceBarred(@BarringServiceType int service) {
-        BarringServiceInfo bsi = mBarringServiceInfos.get(service);
-        return bsi != null && (bsi.isBarred());
-    }
-
     /**
      * Get the BarringServiceInfo for a specified service.
      *
@@ -322,9 +317,8 @@ public final class BarringInfo implements Parcelable {
         // type as UNKNOWN; if the modem reports barring info but doesn't report for a particular
         // service then we can safely assume that the service isn't barred (for instance because
         // that particular service isn't applicable to the current RAN).
-        return (bsi != null) ? bsi : new BarringServiceInfo(
-                mBarringServiceInfos.size() > 0 ? BarringServiceInfo.BARRING_TYPE_NONE :
-                        BarringServiceInfo.BARRING_TYPE_UNKNOWN);
+        return (bsi != null) ? bsi : mBarringServiceInfos.size() > 0
+                ? BARRING_SERVICE_INFO_UNBARRED : BARRING_SERVICE_INFO_UNKNOWN;
     }
 
     /** @hide */