{"id":34477,"date":"2023-10-31T15:07:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T19:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=34477"},"modified":"2023-10-31T18:00:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T22:00:04","slug":"verizon-internet-tv-and-phone-down-in-portions-of-chester-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=34477","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Internet, TV and phone down in portions of Chester County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18857\" src=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1200px-Verizon_Fios_logo.svg_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/>Verizon FIOS is suffering a major outage near West Chester \u2014 definitely in the Pocopson area &#8212; affecting hundreds, if not more, homes and businesses, leaving them without Internet, TV service and in many cases landline phone service.<\/p>\n<p>The appears to be some major fiber optical cable break &#8212; but company officials declined to comment both on the nature of the outage and when service will be restored. Digging through the Verizon support site \u2014 which initially tells residents there is no outage \u2014 it appears the estimated restoration time is 9:45 pm, Tuesday night, but it is unclear whether this is dependable information.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Social media for the company referred residents to the page showing no local outages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Verizon now says service restoration estimate is Wednesday, at 1:45 pm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon FIOS is suffering a major outage near West Chester \u2014 definitely in the Pocopson area &#8212; affecting hundreds, if not more, homes and businesses, leaving them without Internet, TV service and in many cases landline phone service. The appears to be some major fiber optical cable break &#8212; but company officials declined to comment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3912,50,557,12246,1451,12245],"class_list":["post-34477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-internet","tag-outage","tag-pennsylvania-utilities-authority","tag-pocopson","tag-verizon-fios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34483,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34477\/revisions\/34483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}