{"id":184554,"date":"2026-05-05T18:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184554\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:31:11","slug":"verizon-outage-pittsburgh-do-not-restart-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184554\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Outage Pittsburgh: Do Not Restart Phones!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A widespread mobile phone outage in the area. <\/p>\n<p>Verizon says fiber cuts are preventing some of its wireless customers from connecting to the network.<\/p>\n<p>And while engineers are working to restore service, customers should not try to restart their phones. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement to KDKA Radio, Verizon Communications Manager Katherin Cruz says restarting the device will complicate getting back on line.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re urging customers to check Verizon&#8217; Network status page for updates. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Downdetector <\/a>was reporting a host of outages earlier today, affecting Pittsburgh and several other areas across Pennsylvania and into the Northeast.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A widespread mobile phone outage in the area. Verizon says fiber cuts are preventing some of its wireless&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[82370,13380,73,75,74,43414],"class_list":["post-184554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-cell-outage","tag-outage","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-verizon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}