GTL Reviews

This company is nothing but a scam. They will overcharge you every chance that they get and you will never get a refund for anything. They do not care about you, the consumer, and they do not care about anyone that is locked up. This is a cash cow operation for them. Millions and millions of dollars a year off the weakest members of society. HORRIBLE PEOPLE.

So before you download this app, they will have you create an account and save your banking details where after you save your banking details it will automatically charge your account $54.99. I had the opportunity to speak with one of their representatives by email prompting her that I would love for my money to be returned and what makes them think that I want to pay $54.99 the audacity for 2026 must be on sale because the woman said the 5499 is to give me a number that can be used for three months but I still need to add more money to be able to accept calls. The system is fraud and I will do everything in my power to research a company that can get them investigated immediately. They definitely need someone slow and grain. I’m a human not a turtle. I’ve been asking for two weeks for my money to be returned. I have yet to see it being sent back.

Global Tel Link is BEYOND trash! I have included an attachment of what I am saying, but they give you the option to optimize your deposit, but they just told me they give you no money other than what you paid.

GTL phone service in Ohio prisons is terrible. Constantly calls get dropped out. This been going on forever, are they doing this on purpose. I mean if they know they have a issue wouldn't you fix it. This has been going on I know for 2 years.

Absolutely HORRIBLE. Been trying for over a week to schedule a visit with my son and every time you try it says server down. Called in to GTL, lady says it's an ongoing issue since end of November in York County. Don't you think you could have it fixed by now instead of saying "Well there isn't really anything we can do at this point." Pathetic!!! How are we to communicate face to face with our loved ones. Your video calls are ridicules. We pay for this service, PROVIDE US with what we are to get, or maybe refund us our money for all the stress you're causing.

I deposited funds to an Advance Pay account because THATS THE ONLY OPTION I HAD! Well, wrong type of account. I called 1st time 12-18-25 and talked with a Joshua, although I doubt that's his name and he said he issued me a refund and I would get an email. If I had questions just call again. So I called in 1-5-26 and spoke to a man named Eunice...lol...he said my refund was confirmed and I would get it in 8-10 WEEKS! He/she said I would NOT get an email confirming my refund and feel free to call back every day, he/she didn't care! Now I have filed online for a refund BUT they won't let me set my state name, I have to put my city name and it self puts in DC! What a joke, I have dealt with these thieves for 28 long years! They are the biggest money thieving liars in this business!!! BEWARE!

This place needs to revamp. Shut down and fire all employees and restart. Rude would be a compliment to give them. Disgusting on how they treat people who pay this company to speak to loved ones is more defining and fitting. Hector should be terminated first for leaving customers on hold for hrs due to them asking for a supervisor. His condescending demeanor is trifling to say the least and considering I can’t get a hold of a supervisor, I can only assume the reps here act this way due to their higher-ups allowing it. This then turns to left due to not being able to get a refund from this place. They’re getting over on customers same wanting to speak to people they love and you can’t even get a hold of them, thanks to this place.

No good, the facilities should care enough to use a different company. These people really suck. They are absolutely not trustworthy at all, wouldn't leave a 2. If I had the choice to put 0 stars that's what I would do

This app kept my money. They are scammers. Don't trust this company. They told me that I couldn't get my money. My loved one was transferred to a different facility. He never even got the chance to use the funds. Don't trust this company.

They blocked my credit cards from being used asking me to use money gram. Now I need to drive to the USA and pay for the money gram and call them to give them the reference. I was never charged a fee from GTL but now for some reason I am... They are stealing my money. The customer service refuses to help. I tried to make a formal complaint against the guy who charged me and then hung up on me when I asked why and that I wanted my money back. Maria her so called name was refused to help and gave me excuses. I requested to speak to her manager and was just put back to the main line. This place is a bunch of scammers on top of charging $0.50 cents for a single message. Disgusting and unethical.

GTL’s customer service leaves much to be desired. Employees often seem poorly trained and uncooperative, and callers receive different answers on different days. Wait times are excessively long, and representatives are generally unfriendly and ineffective. The system is overpriced and continually plagued by issues.

Calls won’t go through your call and all they say is we have to send a ticket. It will take 72hours so I’m suppose to not have contact with my love one cause of a technical error on their end. Get it together. You take our money within minutes so problem should be corrected the same way!!!!

This group is a fraud and are somehow linked themselves to the service that you are really trying to sign up for which was IC Solutions for me. They automatically charged my card and only gave a partial refund saying they were keeping $19.99 for processing and giving me a special phone number. I didn’t even know I had linked up to them. This was total fraud

Let me just say that they have the worst customer service. I feel like they are just. A complete joke.. after asking for a refund because they don’t actually service the gel that I needed. I asked for a refund they must have sent me 20 responses to my emails asking me to reply once again that I wanted a refund I don’t know how many different ways you have to say I want a refund then they say that they did refund me the money and it’s nowhere on my account as a credit nowhere and here I am arguing with them again because their response is keep telling me to check my bank account between such and such dates which I have 1 million times and there is absolutely no credit. This company is a joke. They don’t even deserve a rating.

This has been a total sh*t show. My son has been calling me for years, since switching, his calls no longer go through. It keeps saying “promotional call” and will not go through. It’s been going on for close to a month. I’ve called customer service at least 6 times, still no fix. We can message and video chat, but no calls. I’ll try calling customer service again tomorrow, maybe 7 will be my lucky number.

This company is and always has been a joke. Whoever hired them to manage communications for the jail obviously thinks very low of their inmates to use this system. It had never worked, and their customer service team is dumber than a brain dead patient on life support. I have never talked to a stupider bunch of people. They are not Americans, and their accents are sometimes impossible to understand, but it doesn’t matter if you can understand them. No one has been trained to do their job and no one wants to do their job.

Somehow I get a bill or statement for $238.50, do not know how they have my information but I did not request a policy nor want one with their company. I tried to call and she wanted me to verify my day to birth which I do not give out over the phone. So she said she could not help me and hung up. I do not owe anything to this company nor have I asked for them to have anything. It should be a crime that they falsely get our information.

This company states when you first sign up that calls are .02 cents a minute. What they fail to tell you is that they also charge a .17 cent tax for a .30 cent phone call. I have been charged anywhere from .77 cents to 1.54 for one phone call and they refuse to fix it. You are also charged full price for phone calls even if they do not go through because their system is very unstable and has a ton of issues! Something needs to be done with this scam of a company

Every time I add money to the phone, whether it is online or over the phone there are unmentioned fees. I put $25 on the phone less than 24 hours ago and when my husband tried to call me, I had to pay for the call because there was no money on the phone. The people are also ignorant, rude and have very thick accents. Also, the wait time on the phones are ridiculous. I’ve waited more than 15 minutes to reach someone on the phone and when they finally answer, they either don’t know how to help you or give you no options. I don’t understand how they’re even in business. They’re awful. The company is awful. I will give them less than one star if I could.

I put $25 on my husband's account. It says declined. Went into my bank app and it says it came out. Have been fighting with customer service to get it back. Sent back statements and still not enough. You should have option to use other companies. Now I am out of $25 because they keep saying they didn't get it. Plus the stories change Every time you call customer service. The phone be calls sucked when you did get to talk to an inmate they would hang up or you couldn't hear them. They got in trouble for this but still doing the same thing. It's not far for them to take people's money.

Same as most complaints. They checked box, took $$ and this not the site I want and reps **. And beg you to stay when saying "You came to our site." Lol. But I'm on this situation like pockets on Levi's... Do not go online to set up Global Tel... Call ** and add as less as you like without being swindled. This is the real site.

This is a reference to Gettingout Telmate, which is a sister company to GTL. What a rip off avoid it. I called the number online for Telmate & can’t get through their automated system to speak to a live representative. Itwants to take money and have youset up an account. I called GTL they will transfer you to a live agent at GettingOut Telmate.

Since 2024 I have been calling customer service, and complaining about how when our love one calls, we hit "1" to accept the call, and nothing happens. The prompt just keeps on, as if I didn't hit 1. I have no spam block, I've received call back in order to do dial test... Those were passed EVERY TIME! I called my phone provider (Metro PCS), nothing is blocked through them, I've reset my phone from time to time, NOTHING IS WRONG WITH MY PHONE! I ONLY have this issue with GTL. I call & pay bills over the phone, I call customer service for other businesses, everything goes through fine! Hell, I call GTL's customer service & hit the prompts to get to a live agent, that works fine. So this issue is not my phone. It's GTL. This is our only means of communication for our loved one, & this is unacceptable. This has been going on for a year, and by now, something should have been resolved. Please do something.

To Whom It May Concern at GTL / ViaPath Technologies, I am extremely disappointed and frustrated with the ongoing issues I’ve experienced with your phone service. I’ve received multiple incoming calls from an incarcerated loved one, and nearly every time, the call has dropped unexpectedly. This has happened five or six times now, and it’s emotionally exhausting and unacceptable. Communication with incarcerated individuals is already limited and precious. When your system continuously fails, it not only causes stress and heartbreak but also shows a serious lack of reliability and care for families who rely on your service.

Doesn't work. I can't add any contacts. So if I can't add contacts, I can't use the app. Completely useless. How do I message someone if I can't add them to contacts? This app actually worked at one point, it just doesn't now.

It’s bad enough when a loved one is in jail pretrial. It’s outrageous that Lake County jail doesn’t allow in person visits. And it’s despicable that the phone service GTL charges inmates and callers for calls and the call quality is so incredibly poor. You can’t hear because of garbled static more than half the calls. Calls come in and then the system won’t let us accept them. It’s an injustice within the justice system. And surely a lucrative contract for GTL. Disgusted.

When you register your account and add your card information, they automatically sign you up for a three month service that they charge you $49.99 for without informing you that your card will be charged that amount right then. Asked for a refund because I wasn’t even on the correct website and they told me that in the “terms and conditions” they indicate a $19.99 non negotiable fee. So they wouldn’t even give me my full money back even though I never utilized the service. Then to even chat with someone online they want to charge you 5 dollars. Absolutely sneaky and deplorable. Let’s rip off people, My mind is blown. Buyer beware!!!!

The customer service staff treats the customers as if they are inmates. They’re very condescending and not helpful. I tried getting help with an account and Angel, said that she could not find my account. She was very condescending. Every time I call, I’m met with customer service agents who act as if they’re are doing ME a favor, or who act as if they do not like their job. Also, there should be assistance with those that need to cancel at the last min, or need to reschedule for important reasons.

When you register your account and add your card information, they automatically sign you up for a three month service that they charge you $49.99 for. Asked for a refund because I wasn’t even on the correct website and they told me that in the “terms and conditions” they indicate a $19.99 non negotiable fee. So they wouldn’t even give me my full money back even though I never utilized the service. Absolutely sneaky and deplorable. Let’s rip off people who are already going through hardships with their loved ones in jail. My mind is blown. Buyer beware!!!!

Service sucks! A 20-30 min call $3 & $4 if you upload money by phone while your love one on call they take $7.67 and don't reimburse you for another following call. One call is $7.67 while your love one is on the call and you managed to come through before being disconnected and if the call breaks up you won't be refunded at all.