Virgin Media outages and service status in Whitley Bay, England
Problems detected
Users are reporting problems related to: internet, tv and wi-fi.
Full Outage Map
- Virgin Media generated 4 outage signals in the last 24 hours around Whitley Bay, including 4 direct reports.
- The most common problems reported in this area mention TV, Internet, and Wi-fi.
- The most recent signal from this area was received May 21, 3:39 PM GMT+1.
- TV (47%)
- Internet (33%)
- Wi-fi (9%)
- E-mail (4%)
- Total Blackout (4%)
- Phone (4%)
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, England and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.
May 21: Problems at Virgin Media
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Live Outage Map Near Whitley Bay, England
The most recent Virgin Media outage reports came from the following cities: Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Blaydon-on-Tyne, North Shields, Washington, Borough of North Tyneside, Gateshead, Wallsend, South Shields, Jarrow, and Bedlington.
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Newcastle upon Tyne
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Internet | 6 hours ago |
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Newcastle upon Tyne
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Internet | 11 hours ago |
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Sunderland
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Wi-fi | 22 hours ago |
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Blaydon-on-Tyne
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Phone | 22 hours ago |
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North Shields
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TV | 1 day ago |
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Newcastle upon Tyne
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Internet | 2 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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Steph. (@stephwales_) reported from Gateshead, England@virginmedia everything else is working except kids channels 712 to 717, W02 error. No other channel issues or broadband, done all the standard resets, unplugged at mains etc. Do I need to call to have this resolved? TV guide just says 'to be announced' Everything else is fine.
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Paul Corney (@Corney77) reported from Choppington, England@virginmedia disgusting customer service once again. No manage to take a call to help fix another problem with our service. Can someone please contact me to help
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🦦 Helen (@vitosauras) reported from Gateshead, EnglandYou lot need to sort yourselves out, Internet going down around midnight for the past few days yet you charge the earth @virginmedia
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Victoria barry (@VictoriaBarry82) reported from Sunderland, England@virginmedia Yes spoke to a member of the team, we have been having issues with our wifi. She offered to send another booster & cable out free off charge. Available on our contract. I’ve just received email to say my payments are going up to £60!!
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Real Gaz on a proper bike #fbpe (@gazza_d) reported from South Shields, England@_MMaritima @virginmedia I'd say that needs an engineer visit then at least. Probably either a bad connection or a flakey modem. Phone and log it every time it goes off.
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Mr Smoggie (@PaulCraig24) reported from Whitley Bay, England@virginmedia Unfortunately not. The issue is she doesn’t receive any communication from Virgin apart from a monthly text with the link to her account. As she has no password etc she can’t access it
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Robby #CelebrateNeighbours (@RobbyRSSRobot) reported from Newcastle upon Tyne, England@virginmedia Any idea when my service will be back? Hub is flashing green. I'm working from home so need it urgently.
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LKP - DJ / Vocalist (PSiMiTAR) (@DJLKP) reported from Whitley Bay, England@virginmedia All on screen instructions followed, waited til I finished work today to check and it still doesn't get past 25% on the "searching for channels" page... Just taken the direct debit for a service which has been broken since 2.12.21...
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LadyDi (@didixon74) reported from Blyth, England@virginmedia please can some one contact me about my unresolved complaint. Genuinely worst service I have aver received, want to cancel my contract as I have lost all confidence in your service. Over 4 hours on the phone in the last week and still no further forward. Thanks
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liam sholder (@liamsholder91) reported from Newburn, Englandwas in my old home for 2 year with @virginmedia never had any problems now moved into my new home TV gone off gotta wait 5 days for it foxed broadband keeps dropping NOT GOOD I know we all have teething problems bit this is complete joke
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Rockcliffe Files (@RockcliffeFiles) reported from Whitley Bay, EnglandHello @BarclaysUK, phoned you for ten successive days and it’s an hour long queue, been into branch, you can’t sort the issue, tried chat via the app, you don’t talk mortgages on the app. You are beginning to reach peak Virgin Media for incompetence, I’m sorry, this is appalling.
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Carl Walsh (@Carl_Walsh33) reported from Wallsend, England@virginmedia Just realised this is the first post in a year!! Had your broadband gone down?
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Dowlo (@dowlo100) reported from Whitley Bay, England@virginmedia my elderly mother has been trying to contact you for over 3 weeks now to cancel her sub as it has gone up £60 pm. She has been out on hold numerous times and cut off no help on chat etc. her only option now is to cancel the DD as she can’t afford this anymore… help
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Gareth Miller (@geemiller71) reported from South Shields, England@virginmedia Dont wanna air my business over a feed. Asvised phone we got was outa stock. Faulty phone . Was gonna exchange bit out of stock.i had to cancel contract then take a new one out. But send phone back but wife hasnt a spare???
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David Pearce (@pearceswan) reported from Newcastle upon Tyne, England@virginmedia If there is any tools that you can suggest I use to solve my issue it will be greatly appreciated, I don’t mean to mean in your position but I just would like to know exactly what you can do SHAW at the end of the day I’m assuming you’re going to tell me to go to technical help
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David Pearce (@pearceswan) reported 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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Paul Jukes A874036 (@UnicornRunning) reported from South Shields, England@virginmedia Nothing reported when I checked before tweeting. Seems to have stabilised for now but must've dropped 15-20 times in the last 48h. No faults were reported on the site when my father-in-law had a complete loss of service a couple of months ago, but it was reported on the helpline.
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liam sholder (@liamsholder91) reported from Newburn, England@virginmedia trying to pay my Internet bill and its saying all my information is wrong??can you help
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Victoria barry (@VictoriaBarry82) reported from Sunderland, England@virginmedia The link asks me to log in which I do, then it shows me my contract etc, I can either fill a form in for someone to contact me but I’ve did it before or it shows the complaint as been closed
Virgin Media Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Steve Hard (@PercivalPeabody) reported@Benleo In the end, I wasn't prepared to waste my time trying to get blood from a stone, so I called my bank to report it as fraud. Whether they put it down as fraud or not, I don't know, but they knew all about Virgin Media and did a chargeback for me.
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Gary T (@Gaztaz1) reported@Benleo @virginmedia Had similar issues myself
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Frantique- Starmer's dad made a Tool. Vote Reform. (@Frantique4) reported@Benleo @virginmedia Virgin cancelled one of my email addresses (low usage). They won't admit they did. I'd already paid a techie to sort 'my' problem. He also phones them on my behalf because I don't understand their lovely accents when I do it. Still no email & no word from Virgin despite promises.
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AirDribblePrick (@AirDribblePrick) reported@garyb007 @Benleo They couldn't care less about loyalty, that's why all the new customers get the best deals and loyal customers end up paying double. **** @virginmedia scum company.
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Teresa 💜 (@Terristarfish) reported@Benleo We left @virginmedia as they had such poor customer service!
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Ben Leo (@Benleo) reportedUpdate to this… they really are the worst company in Britain right now - and you won’t believe what @virginmedia have done. I called VM on April 30 asking them to come and fix a broken outside cable at my house. I was (wrongly) told that in order to fix the cable I had to agree a new two year contract which included a main 360 TV box and three streaming boxes. Nothing was ever arranged about fixing my problem, the broken cable. The Indian call centre guy just wanted a sale. After many calls and a missed appointments where I waited in pointlessly after no one ever turned up, an engineer came to fix the cable and install my new boxes. The TV never worked. More calls, two more engineer visits, and it still wouldn’t work. I then posted the original below on X. I then a call from the Virgin Media CEO @LutzSchueler’s assistant to say they MISSOLD me the new contract I never wanted because VM no longer offers 360 TV boxes which allow you to pause, record and rewind live TV. I said ok fine, just put me back on my old contract which had a 360 box - the contract I never would have left until you missold me a new one under the pretence I needed it to fix my broken cable. The CEO’s assistant said no, I can’t go back onto my old contract. And she said I can’t have a 360 box on my new contract. So I’m now stuck with a service I don’t want and was lied to about - with no option to return to my previous contract that I was perfectly happy with since April 2025. They’ve not only missold me a contract, spent hours and hours of my time trying to sort it and caused a hell of a lot of stress - but they’ve now also breached my old contract. She offered me £200 compensation and an apology and said I must stick with the new contract or disconnect. A completely shambolic, insulting and quite frankly disgusting way to treat a customer who has been with them for years. I’ve heard from many of you about similar situations and will now be taking the case to the ombudsman. A clear breach of the Consumer Rights Act and the The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008. If anyone has similar experiences with @virginmedia please write them below or DM me. I’ll be fighting for British consumers to make sure they can never treat people like this again.
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Official IPTV France 🇨🇵📺 (@MTwice5640) reported@RCoat13 @Benleo @virginmedia Yes iptv Subscription Service Available
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godisgood (@ed2dfc1b030e4cb) reported@Benleo @virginmedia I went to the ombudsman who was great I got £75 compo after virgin still took higher monthly rate after I cancelled 4 months before they’re the worst of the worst Indian call centre don’t get back when they said wasted hours
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Gothguy (@GothGuyGamer) reported@saltyy_savage start a new contract with virgin media with a new email address, the "new" customers get all the decent prices, sincerely ongoing customer for 10+ years paying £40 for a decent connection
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Rob York (@BurlingtonBert0) reported@hamsterpranks @virginmedia Virgin - sucking the life out of humanity since inception. Thank **** I got rid years ago.