Virgin Media outages and service status in Whitley Bay, England

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, 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 Whitley Bay, England

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Newcastle upon Tyne	Internet	54 minutes ago
Newcastle upon Tyne	Internet	3 days ago
South Shields	Internet	3 days ago
Newcastle upon Tyne	Internet	3 days ago
Newcastle upon Tyne	Total Blackout	4 days ago
Newcastle upon Tyne	Internet	4 days ago

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Virgin Media Issues Reports Near Whitley Bay, England

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

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  claire🐱🐾🐾 (@clairekitty12) reported 2 minutes ago from Gateshead, England

  @virginmedia But do you understand that this is a problem in my area you were aware of ! Said it would be fixed but it hasen't ? It just needs reporting i don't need a tech to my house i beed it to the area

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  Michael Taylor (@mickeywhizz) reported 4 minutes ago from Newburn, England

  @markcatchlove @virginmedia Pleased it’s not just me Mark. It really pee’s me off the contempt with which they treat their existing, loyal customers, some of whom have remained loyal since the days when they were Telewest. #newcustomersonly

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  David Pearce (@pearceswan) reported 5 minutes ago from Blaydon-on-Tyne, England

  @virginmedia I’m on phone to VCC,29 mins,line being SPOOFED,GETTING SCAM CALLS, daily,,advisor just cut me off,am vulnerable customer,disabled,agent not understand,what I. Talk about,amazing naff service 23 years a customer

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  Bob Scott (@scotty8461) reported 11 minutes ago from Shiremoor, England

  @virginmedia more disgustingly slow speeds in NE27

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  Maxine Tennet (@maxinetennet74) reported 11 minutes ago from Walker Gate, England

  What will it take for @virginmedia to actually sort out an account after a bereavement??? 3 months later, endless calls and empty promises. Continued anxiety and distress for an elderly woman is not the bereavement service I’d expect. Appalling.

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  CazzaW (@CazzaW) reported 13 minutes ago from Walker Gate, England

  @virginmedia down in Newcastle? How am I meant to work?

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  Adam Appleby (@adamappleby) reported 14 minutes ago from Sunderland, England

  @virginmedia seems your Cs WhatsApp is broken, can anyone one reactivate my WiFi pod?

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  Bob Scott (@scotty8461) reported 14 minutes ago from Shiremoor, England

  @virginmedia wifi speed is disgustingly slow in NE 27

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  Georgina McGowan (@seldomseenkid16) reported 26 minutes ago from Gateshead, England

  @virginmedia can you help with my phone services not currently working

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  Mr Smoggie (@PaulCraig24) reported 29 minutes ago from South Shields, England

  @virginmedia She has tried but every time they say they can’t help if she hasn’t got her password! Can I chat to someone about this as there are personal issues. I understand that this may be difficult as it is not my account. Thanks

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  Paul fletcher (@P25_Fletch) reported 36 minutes ago from South Shields, England

  @virginmedia Hi, I’ve tried to call 5 times to cancel services without success. I’m emigrating in January and I’ve no idea how else to try and contact you. Could someone please DM me so I can pass on phone number to receive a call ?

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  David (@Dave_is_Elvis) reported 36 minutes ago from Boldon Colliery, England

  @virginmedia checked your outage tracker and says all services good on the area. Been without internet for nearly an hour. What is going on?

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  Sam (@purplelime) reported 39 minutes ago from South Shields, England

  @virginmedia I didn’t get the opportunity to call yesterday, but I noticed last night that it’s working again. There was nothing mentioned on service page (not unusual) but there must’ve been a fault that was eventually fixed.

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  Gareth Miller 🇺🇦 (@geemiller71) reported 39 minutes ago from Washington, England

  @ee no signal on 5g in @IcelandFoods wife 4g on @virginmedia full signal.

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  Steph. (@stephwales_) reported 44 minutes ago from Gateshead, England

  1 whole week without any @virginmedia, months of signal issues. Engineer has gone out of his way but having to continually wait. Hopefully the engineer booked for tomorrow turns up and replaces my now faulty equipment.

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  Paul Jukes A874036 (@UnicornRunning) reported 50 minutes ago from South Shields, England

  @virginmedia @VMHelpDesk Internet connection is intermittent in NE34, has been since at least Saturday. Connection drops at random. Have just restarted router again as I'm working from home & need to be online, no idea how long this will last. Not the only one having issues.

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  Mazza 66 (@66_mazza) reported 52 minutes ago from Newcastle upon Tyne, England

  @virginmedia 4 hrs of drivel,inane quedtions 5 TIMES I'VE PROVIDED SECURITY,5 plus hours now,no more,your latest un helpful operator is now asking about moving house WHAT???? I want out ASAP,my god no wonder you amateurs get bad press,Im actually questioning their ability to even read????

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  Mike Moody (@classicm) reported 54 minutes ago from Newcastle upon Tyne, England

  @virginmedia All my tv, broadband and phone services are down. Nobody available from Virgin to help. Done all the usual checks and still off.

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  liam sholder (@liamsholder91) reported 60 minutes ago from Newcastle upon Tyne, England

  @virginmedia I'm definitely filein complaint 15 days without no TV and 2 kids is really hard work its either that or I'll go with someone else

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  Steph. (@stephwales_) reported 60 minutes ago from Gateshead, England

  Why can't @virginmedia ever just be straight forward? Absolute joke. Problem after problem.

Virgin Media Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  MrsHoustie🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@Houstie1886) reported 5 minutes ago

  @virginmedia Any idea when internet will be back up and running in ML1? Service status says no issues. Helpline says working on it. Had no internet since yesterday. Thanks.

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  Jan T. (@demented_tj) reported 7 minutes ago

  @virginmedia @icanlevitateoff your page said ' there's an issue, you can can schedule an appointment in 24 hrs' next morning, issue gone, no problem right?? Happens far too often, but thankfully they're installing fiber on my street.

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  Kari 💋🤍 (@KariJaexo) reported 7 minutes ago

  Its time to switch Wifi from Virgin Media cause why the 2 days im WFH im getting wifi issues!!!!!!!!!

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  Mollipod ✨ twitch streamer 💜 (@mollipod) reported 8 minutes ago

  @_Cheebiez I literally moved from virgin media to a different provider last year for this exact problem. Honestly they’re a joke!!

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  Darren Hayes (@darrenhayes1973) reported 9 minutes ago

  @virginmedia I did ask to complain when I rung up to cancel and was put on hold for ages so hung up!!

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  ChinoAleman (@chinoalemano) reported 12 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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  Tanisha Smith (@Tanisha_Molly) reported 13 minutes ago

  @virginmedia is there issues with the internet tonight? Ours has been connecting and disconnecting for the last few hours! 💀

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  Murdocke (@murdocke) reported 18 minutes ago

  @virginmedia your broadband has gotten noticeably bad these last few years, you used to be impeccable but now there’s always some fault you can’t fix and it gets pushed back again and again. ******** has happened to you? Your engineers lately are ******* shite. (Customer for 25 years)

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  Shar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@sharlewis58) reported 19 minutes ago

  @SarahLudford @virginmedia @O2 That's why I left them unreservedly, an utter arse to try to interact. One system not talking to the other, no human to help sort. Mid contract hikes. Went to Sky - no regrets, easy xfer & lower bills