On-board ticket via SMS

Fare 

€2.50 plus the possible cost of sending the SMS for mobile plans that do not include unlimited SMS messages (or any SMS cost the phone operator may apply). The ticket is valid for one hour, no connections with other services are permitted.

The price of the ticket will appear on your phone bill. This service is available via Bouygues, Orange, SFR and Free phone operators. In you are using a prepaid phone card, the price of the SMS ticket is taken from the remaining balance.

You can only buy one ticket for each SMS sent.

Mobile operators

This service is only available to customers of Bouygues Télécom, Orange, SFR or Free (this excludes limited plans). 

The SMS ticket is not available to customers:

• using virtual mobile network operators. These include Bell, La Poste Mobile, CIC Mobile, Auchan Telecom, NRJ Mobile, Crédit Mutuel Mobile, etc.
• most business phone plans (check with your employer);
• non-French phone operators. 

Multiple passengers

Several SMS tickets can be bought from the same phone, so that several people to travel together.

In this case, the passenger with the phone used to purchase the SMS ticket must send the keyword by SMS to the short number:

• in a bus with long distance pricing: one text message to the value of two bus tickets
• one SMS for each passenger, for a trip on an standard or long-distance route

As the SMS tickets purchased are only kept on the mobile phone used to make the purchase, passengers must remain together throughout the trip.

See the general conditions of sale and use