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Virgin Media Outage Report in Whitley Bay, Borough of North Tyneside, England

Problems detected

Users are reporting problems related to: internet, wi-fi and total blackout.

The latest reports from users having issues in Whitley Bay come from postal codes NE26.

Virgin Media offers mobile phone, television, broadband internet and phone service over the cable network. Virgin Media is part of NTL:Telewest. Virgin's mobile service is available under the Virgin Mobile brand, which operates as a mobile virtual network operator using the T-Mobile and Orange networks.

Problems in the last 24 hours in Whitley Bay, England

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

Virgin Media Outage Chart in Whitley Bay, Borough of North Tyneside, England 01/13/2026 16:15

January 13: Problems at Virgin Media

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Virgin Media users through our website.

  1. Internet (59%)

    Internet (59%)

  2. Wi-fi (18%)

    Wi-fi (18%)

  3. Total Blackout (11%)

    Total Blackout (11%)

  4. TV (7%)

    TV (7%)

  5. E-mail (4%)

    E-mail (4%)

  6. Phone (2%)

    Phone (2%)

Live Outage Map Near Whitley Bay, Borough of North Tyneside, England

The most recent Virgin Media outage reports came from the following cities: Newcastle upon Tyne, South Shields, Gateshead, Sunderland, Whitley Bay, Bedlington, Wallsend, North Shields and Borough of North Tyneside.

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomNewcastle upon Tyne Internet
United KingdomNewcastle upon Tyne Internet
United KingdomNewcastle upon Tyne Internet
United KingdomNewcastle upon Tyne Total Blackout
United KingdomSouth Shields Internet
United KingdomGateshead Internet

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Virgin Media Issues Reports Near Whitley Bay, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Whitley Bay and nearby locations:

  • Mal_Area Malcolm Sinyard (@Mal_Area) reported from Whitley Bay, England

    @virginmedia Your having a laugh my download speed is 0.03 mbs and its still crap!!!!

  • ghtrainer Gareth Trainer (@ghtrainer) reported from Newcastle upon Tyne, England

    @virginmedia Then when transferred to ‘customer care’ so that I could complain and seek compensation, I waited another 20mins and was eventually cut off without speaking to anyone.

  • ghtrainer Gareth Trainer (@ghtrainer) reported from Newcastle upon Tyne, England

    @virginmedia Thanks for reply. Problem was that no agent ever responded to move requests via the bot. I sat for 1hr on the phone last night and finally got it booked. If the bot had worked 1st time I’d be switched on when I move. Now I’ll be without service for a week. Not good when wfh!

  • goneinsixtysecs Simon (@goneinsixtysecs) reported from South Shields, England

    @virginmedia how can we be made to pay for a service We have not used my usual bill is £122.00 my new bill is £206.19 the charge is for telephone use of £84.14 we have not used the phone in two month I have been on the phone for over an hour and a half getting passed about

  • amymccordx Amy McCord (@amymccordx) reported from Hebburn, England

    @virginmedia how do you log a complaint? It’s made impossible. Emailed the ceo weeks ago and no response

  • MikeYau8 Mike Yau (@MikeYau8) reported from Newcastle upon Tyne, England

    @virginmedia I called the help line and a bot told me to restart my router twice and then proceeded to end the call. Little fed up

  • panicdragon8784 Panicdragon8784 (@panicdragon8784) reported from South Shields, England

    @BBCRedButton I don't think your red button service is working on @virginmedia. It's brings up the iPlayer but no live stuff like the springwatch webcams

  • TraiAnfield Trai Anfield (@TraiAnfield) reported from Whitley Bay, England

    @virginmedia @virginmedia service from you has been poor for months - missing the footie is just the last straw. Kindly send an engineer to fix our broadband - the wires at the wall outside are exposed and when we test each day our speeds are below 20MB/s when we are paying for 100+ Thank you

  • RWileECoyote Rob Wylie (@RWileECoyote) reported from Whitley Bay, England

    @virginmedia hi a few folks on our street keep experiencing drop outs of WiFi signal in the middle of the working week, a few of them have made contact with you but no issues are being found, and you don’t seem to be able to help? but there is clearly an issue?

  • Mal_Area Malcolm Sinyard (@Mal_Area) reported from Whitley Bay, England

    @virginmedia I seem to be having BB connection issues here!!!

  • ChrisJ94_ Chris Johnson (@ChrisJ94_) reported from Wallsend, England

    . @virginmedia rang virgin last week to move house. You've done the external install yesterday but haven't turned up for internal install today. Tried to log into my account and it says my package is cancelled no options for support at all. Called and hung up on before answer.

  • scotty8461 Bob Scott (@scotty8461) reported from Shiremoor, England

    @virginmedia Technical support to discuss slow speeds

  • MarkCarruthers_ Mark Carruthers (@MarkCarruthers_) reported from Wallsend, England

    What an absolute farce @virginmedia are. Pay a ridiculous amount each month for slow broadband that regularly doesn’t work. Now on to a second day with no service and TiVo is also down. Pathetic.

  • Mal_Area Malcolm Sinyard (@Mal_Area) reported from Whitley Bay, England

    @virginmedia Its the wifi thats gone down. I am currently using a wired connection.

  • Mal_Area Malcolm Sinyard (@Mal_Area) reported from Whitley Bay, England

    @virginmedia I have called them twice today still having issues

  • alicen0rt0n alice✨ (@alicen0rt0n) reported from Washington, England

    THE WORST customer service @virginmedia, should be ashamed of treating loyal customers the way a member of staff has just spoken to my mam

  • Lucy__Hedley Lucy Hedley (@Lucy__Hedley) reported from Newcastle upon Tyne, England

    @virginmedia I was told that I would be called back by a manager #lies Now due to further incompetence you have cut off my Internet & phone service. Claiming that I haven't paid a bill when there's a direct debit set up! #diabolical service. I've never been treated so poorly.

  • JeffsW0rld Jeff’s World (@JeffsW0rld) reported from Walker Gate, England

    @virginmedia Please sort your complaints team out.... I’ve been promised a resolution numerous times over the last few months and still nothing. what a complete embarrassment they are.

  • SafcJamieG Jamie (@SafcJamieG) reported from Sunderland, England

    @virginmedia They raised a complaint and nothing was done about it, they probably didn’t even listen to the call where I was sold the product, if they did it would have been dealt with

  • MJGray1963 Michael Gray 💙 (@MJGray1963) reported from Newcastle upon Tyne, England

    @virginmedia can you explain to me why you tell blatant lies in response to a complaint

Virgin Media Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • Rhianne82 Rhianne Lewis (@Rhianne82) reported

    @virginmedia I tried to change my dd as advised by the website a few months ago AND NO ONE ANSWERED - I gave up after two days. I’m not paying **** until you contact me.

  • clairemulc Mrs B 🐝 (@clairemulc) reported

    @virginmedia can someone please help me without reading off a script and telling me to turn my hub on and off again? I cannot get WiFi upstairs and the boosters (which I pay £5pm) stop my sky Q from working 😡

  • BrixhamUK PennG0VQY (@BrixhamUK) reported

    @lukesmart89 @virginmedia I will have to see how things go. I have been with BT for years. I bet you I could go online & find loads of people who say they've had nothing but problems. However, I've not had any serious issues that would warrant a complaint. If virgin doesn't work out, I'll go back to BT

  • veggiehowtocook Veggiehowtocook (@veggiehowtocook) reported

    @Bella132 @virginmedia Same here I can't believe how crap their customer service is

  • Andy_Hodges_UK Andy Hodges (@Andy_Hodges_UK) reported

    In this day and age there should be no reason for @virginmedia to have their broadband connection down for over 24hrs, especially when customers are paying £4.25 a day for the privilege. Diagnostics are capable of pinpointing issues and spare equipment should be on hand!

  • Gazzavert Gazzavert (@Gazzavert) reported

    @Reaktor4P @virginmedia ahh that sucks, at least it didn’t **** ur stream too bad tho mate

  • playpet1 playpet (@playpet1) reported

    @virginmedia I want you to explain to me why I’m paying for a Sh*t service that keeps cutting off and ! You claim you are upgrading it and that’s the disruption but only 12 months ago you used the same excise, youre just conn men ripping people off

  • Reaktor4P Reaktor4Pablo (@Reaktor4P) reported

    @Gazzavert @virginmedia I did that myself, got the score wrong every round, hype as **** though!

  • ianjameshoyle31 Ian Hoyle (@ianjameshoyle31) reported

    @virginmedia I was speaking to a customer representative who was "looking" into a few things" while I was on "hold" and conveniently got cut off so much for customer service and caring!

  • jamielil jamie™ (@jamielil) reported

    @virginmedia I have looked and its about as much use as a chocolate fireguard....sounds like a cop out, thought this was a support page...and you're asking me to ask the community? To be honest i didn't expect much from this support