With landline service from Gridley Telephone, your calls will be clear and uninterrupted, and you'll easily be able to find that phone when you need it.

GTC provides the following telephone features

Basic Local Service:

Cost: $9.00 Residential and $10.50 Business per month

Does not include taxes and surcharges

This is the fee that provides a customer with the ability to make and receive calls. This fee also ensures the customer’s number is included in the local directory, and is included in directory assistance (except non-published numbers), and provides equal access to long distance providers.

 Voicemail:

Cost: $4.95 per month

24 hour, universally accessible voice messaging service.  It will answer your telephone calls and allow callers to leave messages when you are unable to take calls.

 Calling Name & Number Delivery:

Cost: $5.00 per month

Allows customers to receive the calling party’s name and number, in addition to the date and time of the call. This feature is offered on a flat rate subscription basis to both residential and Business Group customers

 Call Waiting:

Cost: $1.00 per month

If someone dials your number while you are using your telephone, a short tone will notify you of the call. The calling party will receive a normal ringing tone and cannot hear your conversation. If you desire, you can put the original party on hold by depressing the hookswitch for one second, and answer the incoming call. You may alternate between each call as often as necessary, but may not talk to both parties at the same time. Click icon for details on disabling Call Waiting.

 Call Waiting ID: 

Cost: $2.00 per month

Allows subscribers to see who is trying to call while on the phone. A special tone announces the call. The name and number of the incoming call is displayed on the Caller ID display screen. Call Waiting and Caller ID are required for this feature

Call Forwarding:

Cost: $1.00 per month

Automatically forwards all your incoming calls to another number (temporarily). You may still use your telephone for outgoing calls.

Speed Dial 8

Cost: $1.00 per month

Speed Dial 8 provides one-digit codes for up to 8 of the telephone numbers you call most. You can dial other local and long distance calls with Speed Dial.

Speed Dial 30

Cost: $2.00 per month

Speed Dial 30 provides codes for up to 30 of the telephone numbers you call the most..

 Automatic Call Return or Automatic Recall *69

Cost: $2.00 per month

This feature allows you to automatically return the last incoming call, whether you answered or missed the call.

Just pick up the receiver, listen for the tone, and dial *69.

 Automatic Callback *66

Cost: $2.00 per month

Outgoing call management feature which allows the subscriber who reaches a busy signal to dial an activation code *66 and subscribers phone will automatically redial the last number dialed. If the line is busy it will automatically attempt to place the call every minute for half an hour. When the line becomes free you will hear a special ring (short-short-long). Customer then picks up the receiver and the number you were calling will ring. If you don’t pick up the special ring will be repeated every 5 minutes for the remainder of the half-hour provided the line remains free

 Distinctive Ringing Call Waiting Indication *61

Cost: $2.00 per month

This allows the customer to dial *61 and program his/her line to ring with a distinctive ringing pattern for a select list of six (6) calling numbers and with a normal ringing pattern for all other calling numbers. If a customer also has Call Waiting, a distinctive call waiting tone is generated when the line called by one of the select list of six (6) numbers. This feature allows you to designate specific incoming numbers to ring with a“distinctive ring.” A great service for identifying incoming calls from specific parties, such as children, relatives, or businesses.

 Three-Way Calling:

Cost: $1.00 per month

Add another person to an existing conversation by quickly pressing and releasing the switchook or flash for one second and dialing the additional persons number when you receive a dial tone. The three-way connection is completed after another switchook tap. When one person hangs up, the other two may continue with their conversation.

 Selective Call Rejection *60

Cost: $3.00 per month

This feature allows the customer to dial *60 and create a list of specific numbers from which they do not wish to receive calls. This feature can also be used to block calls from a number after an undesirable call has been received (even without knowing the calling number). All calls on the screening list are intercepted and rerouted to a rejection announcement. Selective Call Rejection:

 Selective Call Forward *63

Cost: $3.00 per month

This permits the customer to create a list of calling numbers that are to be call forwarded. The customer dials *63 and specifies the callers which are to receive special treatment by including their telephone number on a screening list. If a call comes in from a number on this list, the call is forwarded to the designated forward-to number by dialing *72 which activates call forwarding and keying in the forwarded to number. All other calls are terminated normally.

 Selective Call Acceptance *64

Cost: $3.00 per month

This feature allows the customer to specify a list of numbers from which they are willing to accept calls. The customer may program a list of numbers from which calls will be accepted and numbers not on the list will be routed to a recording. Just dial *64 and follow the prompts.