Virgin Media outages and service status in Wigan, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Wigan, England

The chart below shows the number of Virgin Media reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Wigan, England and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

Live Outage Map Near Wigan, England

The most recent Virgin Media outage reports came from the following cities: Leyland, Wigan, Bolton, Skelmersdale, Warrington, St Helens, Darwen, Newton-le-Willows, Prescot, Leigh, and Altrincham.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Leyland	Total Blackout	1 hour ago
Wigan	Internet	8 hours ago
Bolton	Internet	10 hours ago
Leyland	Total Blackout	22 hours ago
Wigan	Total Blackout	24 hours ago
Bolton	Wi-fi	3 days ago

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Virgin Media Issues Reports Near Wigan, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Wigan and nearby locations:

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  CryptoDan2k (@CryptoDan2k) reported 5 minutes ago from Roby, England

  @virginmedia Not really checked today as not working, nans funeral is at 1120. You need to get an engineer to my house next week. I'm paying the bill and not getting the service, not really fair is it.

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  UtilitaRian 🔶 (@SoloUtilitaRian) reported 13 minutes ago from Bolton, England

  With the intro of new dedicated Gigabit lines in my street I can't wait to switch over and leave Virgin Media for good. 3x internet has gone down this week and I just called VM. The systems there are down and gotta call back in 3hrs..... useless

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  James (@jgrailpics) reported 20 minutes ago from Liverpool, England

  When will I be able to go just one single day without @virginmedia failing, cannot wait until next year when the contract is over, increase the bills but reduce the service to next to nothing?

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  Alan Dean (@alandean1878) reported 22 minutes ago from Roby, England

  @virginmedia The nightmare continues!!! Buffering is now a way of life for us. As is watching any programme on a streaming service in short two minute bites!

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  Amanda Ralph (@aralph50) reported 24 minutes ago from Liverpool, England

  Please sort this out. You charge enough, surely we are entitled to a service that actually works??@virginmedia #virginmedia

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  Barry Slater (@barrys59) reported 26 minutes ago from Barton upon Irwell, England

  @virginmedia still no service M27. 4th hour! Rubbish!

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  Liz Tuite (@tuite_liz) reported 27 minutes ago from Atherton, England

  @virginmedia See thread above, nothing changes except the time of the estimated fix. It must be very localised as not everyone in my area is affected. So if it is damaged cables, I haven’t seen anyone out repairing them over the weekend, it’s a joke

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  Mrs Smith (@SmithysMaud) reported 37 minutes ago from St Helens, England

  @virginmedia Yes, this has been going on now for months. Was just on to your team to cancel, they hung up on me. I’ve never known a more woeful service. They are quick enough to take payment every month for a service I’m not getting.

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  🥔 A bean has no name 🥔 (@ylilxanoi) reported 39 minutes ago from Wigan, England

  @virginmedia my interest been down for a whole week. Call centre staff don't know what to say. An engineer has been on site every single day apparently. Can someone fix my internet. I pay £52 a month this is beyond a joke. I've used all my 4g& bought a ****** dongle just to WFH

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  CryptoDan2k (@CryptoDan2k) reported 40 minutes ago from Roby, England

  @virginmedia No, not really as you have reliability issues in my home which I believe is part the router and part the virgin line coming into my home.

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  Graeme Radebe (@Radebreast) reported 40 minutes ago from Ormskirk, England

  @virginmedia what have you done to the Sky TV app - its constantly buffering and showing error messages. Just awful service. Please can you get this sorted ASAP please.

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  CryptoDan2k (@CryptoDan2k) reported 42 minutes ago from Roby, England

  @virginmedia The issue is I also believe it's my equipment as well. The down time I have you don't seam to log it all. I dont want a router upgrade or anything like that I just want a working router. Everytime I call there is a fault in the area.

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  CryptoDan2k (@CryptoDan2k) reported 44 minutes ago from Roby, England

  @virginmedia Yes, like previously said this is minimum of once, sometimes.twice weekly then I have to phone yous to split the signal again.

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  Lindz Devine (@LindzDDub) reported 51 minutes ago from Wigan, England

  @virginmedia I never have any issues when it comes to my laptop, though. Just my PS5

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  CryptoDan2k (@CryptoDan2k) reported 54 minutes ago from Roby, England

  @virginmedia Are you wanting me to comment in the broadband section? Can you explain the benefits of this as you won't send an engineer out if there is an issue constantly in the area and your tech team are already aware of it, plus I have the ofcom complaint aswell?

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  Mrs Smith (@SmithysMaud) reported 55 minutes ago from St Helens, England

  @virginmedia No, they just left. Rang your customer service they are now telling me the problem is internal. I’ve had no internet since July, no tv since August. It’s beyond a joke now. 5 visits I’ve had.

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  Mrs Smith (@SmithysMaud) reported 56 minutes ago from St Helens, England

  @virginmedia are an absolute joke. Was told to call back at half 6 and guess what? They’re shut! And again, no engineer visit. Getting cancelled 1st thing in the morning. Over a month of total loss of service, piss take. #avoid

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  Colette Ellison (@colette2511) reported 58 minutes ago from Warrington, England

  @richardbranson you really need to sort your @virginmedia company out. There nothing but robbing bastards, everything about the company is bad. 😡

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  Laser Lux, Wigan. (@TheWiganParky) reported 1 hour ago from Haydock, England

  @virginmedia If my bill went down with my speed, I wouldn't mind.

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  zach close YT 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 (@ZachcloseYT) reported 1 hour ago from St Helens, England

  You say you care about your customers and if you did you would fix your ******* **** Internet problems that everyone is having and don't even bother replying @virginmedia

Virgin Media Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  STEPHEN (@stevied151181) reported 3 minutes ago

  @virginmedia I've just had a lovely chat with Kameer to renew my contract. He was polite, friendly and helpful. Please make sure he's praised for his customer service. 5🌟

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  TheModSmith (@TheModSmithYT) reported 3 minutes ago

  My household has been with @virginmedia for around 25 years. We’re told new customers at our address can get full fibre/XGS-PON, but existing customers can’t migrate. So we’re stuck on older HFC/DOCSIS with Gig1 upload around 100Mbps. Why must loyal customers cancel/rejoin?

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  🇺🇦 Clive Davies #FBPE 🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺🇭🇰 (@CliveDaviesUK) reported 4 minutes ago

  @O2 There’s really no point as nothing ever changes! And when Virgin Media goes down (which happens far too often) I have zero means of communication. The price hike was the last straw really - time to move to another provider.

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  Frazzz (@FrazzzYT) reported 5 minutes ago

  @virginmedia Consistently says "intermittent signal in your area" This has literally been going on for around a week now. And seems to coicide when there is a little tiny bit or rain...

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  Laura Rogowski Weldon (@LauraRWeldon) reported 7 minutes ago

  @HarrietHarman A government minister's family members were downloading porn on virgin media and claiming it back off the taxpayer the last time you lot were in power, so I'd pipe down if I were you.

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  ChinoAleman (@chinoalemano) reported 7 minutes ago

  Everyone's focused on $AMPG's US story. And fair enough, they're expanding fast across America. The only American 64T64R AI-RAN radio, deployed at Telus, a Strategic Partner in the DoD-funded Open6G hub next to $NVDA and $QCOM, and the CEO just said new major carriers may go straight to POs next quarter. The US story alone is plenty. But here's what almost nobody is connecting: it was never going to stop at America. On the last earnings call, CEO Fawad Maqbool pointed somewhere else entirely: "Our success being the largest O-RAN deployment in America is helping us reach out and reach further into Europe and other areas of the world". That's the strategy in one sentence. Win the flagship at home, then use that credibility as a passport into other markets. And it isn't just talk. The groundwork is already there. Receipt 1, the concrete one: AMPG signed a 5-year supplier agreement with Fujitsu Spain back in October 2024, explicitly expanding its reach across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. So when the CEO says "Europe," there's already a signed, multi-year channel underneath the words. Receipt 2 is hiding in plain sight: the United Kingdom. Look at AmpliTech's customer wall and you'll find Digital Catapult. Most people scroll right past it. But Digital Catapult isn't a random logo. It's a UK government-backed innovation organization, funded through Innovate UK and DSIT (the UK's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology). And it runs SONIC Labs, the country's flagship Open RAN testing facility. Here's where AMPG enters. Its 64T64R Massive MIMO radio was tested at the O-RAN Global PlugFest in London, hosted at SONIC Labs, with HTC's G-REIGN providing the DU/CU stack and AmpliTech bringing the radio. The only American radio in the room, validated inside a UK government-funded laboratory. Now the part that makes it interesting. Who advises SONIC Labs? All four of Britain's major operators: EE/BT, Three, Virgin Media O2 and Vodafone UK. They sit on its advisory board, shaping what they need from Open RAN vendors and acting as potential future buyers of the vendors who pass through. So picture it. AMPG's radio validated in a government-backed UK lab, whose advisory board is a who's-who of every major British carrier. The entire UK Open RAN buying ecosystem, in one room, watching the only American radio perform. Now let me be completely honest, because that's the only way this is worth anything. There is no signed UK contract. The British operators advise SONIC Labs, they do not own it, and they haven't bought anything from AMPG yet. This was a product-validation milestone, not a revenue event. Anyone telling you the UK government or a British carrier is about to hand AMPG a deal is getting ahead of the facts. A foot in the door is not a sale. But here's why it matters AMPG keeps showing up in exactly the rooms that matter. The US DoD-funded Open6G hub. The O-RAN Global PlugFest as the only American 64T64R radio to pass. A signed channel into Europe via Fujitsu Spain. And now a UK government-backed lab advised by every major British operator. And the CEO saying they'll expand to Europe. That's the pattern. The same playbook, repeated across the Western world: get the only American radio validated, get it in front of the buyers, and let the sovereignty tailwind do the rest. One market at a time. This isn't a company waiting to be discovered. It's methodically getting itself in front of every major Open RAN buyer in the US and Europe, one validation at a time. The contracts are the next step, not the first one. A foot in the door isn't a deal. But you never get the deal without it first. And AMPG's foot is now in a lot of very important doors. Still sub-$1B while all of this quietly compounds. Not financial advice. I'm long $AMPG. DYOR. 📡

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  Ali@Makely (@MakelyStudio) reported 10 minutes ago

  10+ years. 50M+ users. £11M+ revenue impact. Mercedes. Citibank. Sky. Virgin Media. NatWest. Here's what I learned: Bad product flows can cost thousands, or even millions, in lost revenue. Regardless of company size. What kills conversions in big-name products does the same for startups: - Onboarding that loses people in the first 60 secs - Pricing pages that confuse instead of convert - Sign-up flows that cause decision fatigue I’ve seen that when you fix these - you get more from the traffic you already have. Now I build those same systems for funded startups - so they keep the users they've already paid to get.

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  S.U (@SU__Crypto) reported 13 minutes ago

  @HayekAndChips @virginmedia @MartinSLewis Can never sign in also to Virgin. Absolute BS. Same ordeal I had. £70 package, contract finished, £230 it went to. Cancelled. Then got it for £72.

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  Scott Brownbill (@brownbill_scott) reported 17 minutes ago

  @virginmedia why is my service down, Liverpool L4. Quick enough to take my money and yet every other day your service is unreliable. Don’t think I will be renewing with you after this.

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  BRUCE iLLest 🏴‍☠️🪡🦈 (@jammusnu) reported 20 minutes ago

  @y_alibhai @virginmedia 5 business days retard