Proceeding with its strategy of providing new services to add the value proposition for its customers, 1820 – the number that says it all – has just started to sell football tickets for Benfica, Sporting and Porto home matches. In the scope of the partnership with Sportmedia, supporters and public at large may purchase tickets for both national and international games. Supporters of the three clubs may also pay their membership fees.

When contacting PT’s personalised service, the customer may select the match, stand and places wished. To pay, a credit card will be necessary, and the tickets may be fetched at the ticket office on the day of the game, received by standard mail or courier, or even by SMS/MMS in the case of Benfica.

Call 1820 and buy your tickets for the Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Futebol Clube do Porto match that will take place on 20 December at 8:45 PM. It is worth recollecting that it is also possible to buy show tickets and make travel reservations as a result of the partnerships set up with Ticketline and Netviagens agencies respectively.

In order to make known this new functionality, a communication campaign on the side LED lines of the stadiums has been launched during the 10th gameweek of the National Football Championship.

1820 – the number that says it all

Broadening service offer at 1820 service is the result of a strategic evolution in July 2009 that resulted in a media campaign on TV and radio, communicating the new signature of the service: “Fixed or mobile, call 18 20. The number that says it all”.

In fact, the 1820 service is not just a mere telephone directory service, becoming the number that “says it all”. With 1820 service, customers may obtain, among others:

• Residential telephone numbers, official entities and companies, complemented with information from Yellow Pages;
• Useful numbers and postcodes;
• Public transport information (train, plane and boat schedules);
• Open pharmacies;
• Up-to-date information on movies now playing, new movies and reviews;
• Real-time traffic information and itineraries;
• Weather forecast;
• Lottery and match results - Euromillions, Lotto, Totobola (soccer betting) , sports, etc.;
• Financial information  (Stock Exchange) and news;
• TV programming;
• Horoscope of the day, week and month;
• Internet search;
• Travel reservation;
• Acquisition of show tickets;
• Acquisition of football tickets.