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Get the most interesting and important stories from the Â鶹´«Ã½.Phone service will be briefly interrupted March 9 at the Pittsburgh campus
Incoming phone calls to Â鶹´«Ã½ telephones on the Pittsburgh campus may be briefly interrupted beginning at 9 a.m. Wednesday, March 9, as a portion of campus telephone numbers are transitioned to a new service provider.Â
Incoming calls may not connect if the call is placed while the phone number is being moved to the new service provider. This primarily affects University phone numbers that begin with 624 and 648, although some numbers that begin with 383 are also affected. Individual phone numbers may be unavailable for up to 15 minutes during the transition. Outgoing calls placed from Pittsburgh campus phones will not be affected.
The Â鶹´«Ã½ Police Department will continue to be able to receive calls at 412-624-2121 from any active phone throughout the maintenance period. The University’s Emergency Notification Service will also remain operational.
Full phone service should resume by 11:30 a.m. on March 9. If you experience issues receiving calls after that time, please report them to the  and, when possible, include the phone number of the person who was trying to reach you and the time that they called.