SMS 456 ticket

Do you only travel occasionally on the tl network? SMS is a mobile solution, practical and fast, for getting a ticket. No need to use the ticket machine anymore. No more cash required.

Advantages

• Mobile – Get your ticket by phone wherever you want, whenever you want.
•  Convenient – No more searching for change, the price of the ticket is shown on your operator’s bill or deducted from your prepaid plan, at no extra cost.
• Fast – Avoid waiting at ticket machines, you only need a few seconds to receive your ticket.

How do you buy your ticket by SMS ?

1. Compose

• Message recipient: 456
  (Possible with all major Swiss operators and with a prepaid plan)

2. Compose

• GL for a Grand Lausanne ticket
• GLR for Grand Lausanne reduced
• See the complete list of SMS codes

3. Send

• SMS purchase free of charge
• Ticket price reported on the operator’s invoice
• No surcharge

4. Receive your ticket

• Then get into the vehicle
• The ticket arrives within seconds. During poor network coverage, the process may be slower. In this case, do not send a new SMS, this would trigger the purchase of a second ticket.

The SMS ticket is linked to the phone that ordered it; it cannot be transferred. It is possible to buy an SMS ticket for one or more companions, provided that all the people are travelling together.

Period of validity:

• Tickets 1 and 2 zones (including GL) are valid for 1 hour
• 3-zone tickets are valid for 2 hours
•  Day passes are valid on the day of issue and until the next morning at 5 a.m.