Value-added services
Value-added services numbers are used by companies to provide and charge services through a number.
In Switzerland, value-added services are usually starting with 08 or 09 (numbers starting with 0800 are, however, free of charge).
Calls to these numbers are displayed on the bill in the «Value-added services» section.
Premium SMS
Premium SMS allows you to pay for specific services with your mobile phone: parking tickets, public transport tickets, etc. Here are some examples of short numbers:
- 414: Swiss Post - buy stamps by SMS
- 474: PostFinance - account inquiry with keyword input
- 456: Lausanne → T-L: https://www.t-l.ch/
- 788: Geneva → TPG: http://www.tpg.ch/billets-sms
- 873: Fribourg → TPF: www.tpf.ch
- 988: ZKBNZ tickets (night supplement) → https://www.zvv.ch
- 939: St. Gallen Road Traffic and Navigation Office
They are displayed in the «Premium SMS» section on your bill.
However, if you want to avoid extra costs, you can block premium and adult services by sending an SMS with the content BLOCK ALL to the short number 5155. To block only adult services, send BLOCK ADULT to 5155.
Warning:
This only blocks the services billed via GoMo.
If you send BLOCK ALL, you will no longer be able to use your phone to pay for certain services (e.g. Selecta, parking tickets, etc.).
These SMS are not sent by GoMo, but by a service provider. You can use our short number search tool https://support.salt.ch/short-numbers?lang=en to find the name of the service provider in question.