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Virgin Media Outage Report in Whickham, Gateshead, England

Problems detected

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

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 Whickham, England

The chart below shows the number of Virgin Media reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Whickham 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 Whickham, Gateshead, England 11/20/2025 16:00

November 20: 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 (61%)

    Internet (61%)

  2. Wi-fi (16%)

    Wi-fi (16%)

  3. Total Blackout (12%)

    Total Blackout (12%)

  4. TV (7%)

    TV (7%)

  5. E-mail (4%)

    E-mail (4%)

  6. Phone (1%)

    Phone (1%)

Live Outage Map Near Whickham, Gateshead, England

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

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomSunderland Total Blackout
United KingdomNewcastle upon Tyne Wi-fi
United KingdomNorth Shields Total Blackout
United KingdomGateshead Internet
United KingdomNewcastle upon Tyne Internet
United KingdomNewcastle upon Tyne Total Blackout

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Virgin Media Issues Reports Near Whickham, England

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

  • PhilNicholson13 Phil Nicholson (@PhilNicholson13) reported from Whitley Bay, England

    @vmbusiness @virginmedia I called and the service I received was unbelievably poor. My first experience as a Virgin customer. Considering cancellation now.

  • PhilNicholson13 Phil Nicholson (@PhilNicholson13) reported from Whitley Bay, England

    First day as a @vmbusiness customer and been waiting nearly 13 hours for a delivery, that hasn’t arrived… #greatstart #herewego

  • Townendtopman Barry Cook (@Townendtopman) reported from Sunderland, England

    @virginmedia Should that not be your job to check and then tell me the answer. You havnt really solved the problem by telling me to check my area. You should know if there’s any problems where ever they may be

  • 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

  • PhilNicholson13 Phil Nicholson (@PhilNicholson13) reported from Whitley Bay, England

    @virginmedia Sort my order out please.Due on Monday, not delivered.6 calls Tuesday & Wednesday,told it would be here today, yet Yodel tracking shows they haven’t got it from you.1st week as a @virginmedia customer 😡. Worst of all handlers have made me feel like it’s my problem #woefulservice

  • Townendtopman Barry Cook (@Townendtopman) reported from Sunderland, England

    @virginmedia yet again my internet down.

  • jwilko_87 Jonathan Wilkinson (@jwilko_87) reported from Gateshead, England

    @virginmedia your internet service in Gateshead for the last few days has been terrible. Keep losing connection here 🙄

  • mmcvickers Michael McVickers (@mmcvickers) reported from Consett, England

    @virginmedia @virginhelp Hi, it’s not an outage problem as it’s been like this for months and months

  • 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.

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

    @virginmedia So I expected a call today before 12pm from business team I also logged a call back on the website for one of the team to call me before 12pm. Engineer on Friday said someone would call in the morning it’s now just gone after 12 and I am still waiting? This is poor?!

  • PhilNicholson13 Phil Nicholson (@PhilNicholson13) reported from Whitley Bay, England

    @virginmedia I will call, again and again. Would be nice if you called me tbh. I’ll escalate or just cancel and go to another provider

  • PhilNicholson13 Phil Nicholson (@PhilNicholson13) reported from Whitley Bay, England

    @virginmedia No. A problem with order of some description.

  • 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.

  • 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

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

    @virginmedia And it has just cut out again and your bot via the number above just said restart the router and put the phone down on me. Slightly concerned that it lasted 5 days again and decided to come back to disconnecting?

  • PhilNicholson13 Phil Nicholson (@PhilNicholson13) reported from Whitley Bay, England

    @virginmedia Waiting for delivery of hub equipment to start using internet.Due Monday & it’s still not here. 1st week as a Virgin customer. Made 6 calls bounced from person to person,made to feel like it’s my fault! Spoken to Yodel & tracking details show they haven’t received it from Virgin

  • danieljohnallis Daniel Allis 🇬🇧 (@danieljohnallis) reported from Gateshead, England

    @lxwissssss @MartinEdition @virginmedia Mine is excellent once they replaced the wiring because it was old and now mine never goes off and it’s super fast! The English call centres are great but the Indian and Philippines ones are really bad I avoid them because they just read off scripts!

  • Townendtopman Barry Cook (@Townendtopman) reported from Sunderland, England

    @virginmedia is broadband services down. My internet has been intermittent for the last week. Reset router 3 times today and still not working properly. Download speed is 1mb. Usually 380 mb

  • Townendtopman Barry Cook (@Townendtopman) reported from Sunderland, England

    @virginmedia Yeah I know that but we are paying for the fastest speed and when it eventually works we don’t get nowhere near that speed. Considering how many times I have to reset the router we don’t get a full service. Just wanted it sorting out

  • Townendtopman Barry Cook (@Townendtopman) reported from Sunderland, England

    @virginmedia It says there’s no issues in my area. So why does my internet keep going off. If it works it’s very rarely high or if it is it’s only for a short time. Then goes off and gives low readings. I’ve reset it and unplugged it from mains etc and still it’s on and off. Annoying

Virgin Media Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • Pm11ddy Paul Middleton (@Pm11ddy) reported

    @virginmedia Again the advisor I spoke with when upgrading didn’t state that. If you get my phone and iPad to me sooner then it won’t be an issue. It’s really not very good or professional.

  • harminderd82 Harminder (@harminderd82) reported

    @haleyd1506 @virginmedia I also have the same issues Day 6 now utterly pathetic

  • Hilda_AA H.A (@Hilda_AA) reported

    @virginmedia I want to know when the complaint will be responded too. When an engineer will be sent out. Also I will not be paying for the 22 days of no internet.

  • cwelsh92 cwelsh92@icloud.com (@cwelsh92) reported

    @virginmedia Trying to cancel my broadband services that were set up in error earlier today - been on the phone for over an hour for someone to hang up sort this out this is unacceptable - you give 14 days notice but make it very hard to cancel

  • harminderd82 Harminder (@harminderd82) reported

    @haleyd1506 @virginmedia They know there a huge outage yet said it was priority 2 as not enough ppl reported it! I'm in UB8 too. It's insulting

  • ephemerasattic Ephemerasattic 😷🇪🇺#FBPE (@ephemerasattic) reported

    @virginmedia 🙄it’s not working! It says complete the field and won’t let me type anything. I’m doing this on my phone and using even more of my data 🤬🤬

  • Lauren99762087 Lauren (@Lauren99762087) reported

    @virginmedia Broadband down most days, tv channels down most days, been told since May 11th it will be fixed, got told last Monday it will be done by 1st July, to then call again this Monday to be told done 5th July, to then be told it won’t be fixed until 20th July. No compensation.

  • the_questmaster Paul Hayes (@the_questmaster) reported

    @virginmedia I don't think it's your issue, don't panic.

  • dangrindrod Daniel Grindrod (@dangrindrod) reported

    @virginmedia No issues mentioned via the service line

  • Sleepyparadise Helen (@Sleepyparadise) reported

    @virginmedia what's the best way to contact you to cancel my broadband?