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Virgin Media Outage Report in South Shields, South Tyneside, England

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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 South Shields, England

The chart below shows the number of Virgin Media reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in South Shields 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 South Shields, South Tyneside, England 11/29/2025 13:25

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Most Reported Problems

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

  1. Internet (60%)

    Internet (60%)

  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 South Shields, South Tyneside, England

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

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomNewcastle upon Tyne TV
United KingdomBorough of North Tyneside Internet
United KingdomNewcastle upon Tyne Phone
United KingdomNewcastle upon Tyne Wi-fi
United KingdomBedlington Wi-fi
United KingdomSunderland Total Blackout

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Virgin Media Issues Reports Near South Shields, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in South Shields and nearby locations:

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

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

  • 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

  • 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 🙄

  • 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

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

    @virginmedia I have called them twice today still having issues

  • 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

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

    @virginmedia Technical support to discuss slow speeds

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • 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!!!!

  • 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

  • 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!

Virgin Media Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • SophEug SA Eugene (@SophEug) reported

    @virginmedia @virginmedia Your customer service is the WORST ever! I have been on the chat for 2 hours, I can't believe it. I am so frustrated, not only by this but also because my plan raised from £36.50 to £40 per month just like that! I am going to leave.

  • carlmchugh carl mchugh (@carlmchugh) reported

    @virginmedia @virginmedia whats the solution to fifa 21 (ps4) keeps crashing reset modem multiple times and still happens

  • Keitheeboi Keithy Boy (@Keitheeboi) reported

    @virginhelp hello to whom it may concern please help me, my elderly mother has recently signed back up with virgin media but no one has told me how long it's going To take to have phone number and line switched over the contact date was on 15th march

  • clodaghKeogh clodagh Keogh (@clodaghKeogh) reported

    @virginmedia At least @virginmedia you didn’t suggest contacting you via your website which was suggested by the last customer services person.... the website we can’t get through to because we have no broadband...

  • SCOTTISH_28 James (scottish) Docherty🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@SCOTTISH_28) reported

    @virginmedia @WestheadStacey Scumbags also on hold to cancel these robbing bastards

  • WestheadStacey Stacey Hartley (@WestheadStacey) reported

    @virginmedia The first 2 people couldn’t help at all. Third person said he had 100% fixed it. So I phoned back AGAIN when it was obvious it wasn’t fixed. 20mins later on hold to the 4th person. And they have hung up. Never ever experienced worse customer service.

  • lucas4ovwales Luke (@lucas4ovwales) reported

    @virginmedia your team has sent me an incorrect replacement sim card twice. Could you be any more useless? Complaint will be going in to Ofcom as you also haven't acknowledged my online communications.

  • WalkWithEliCris Chris (@WalkWithEliCris) reported

    @virginmedia Ok. 3 things 1. Someone to actually take ownership and manage the complaint to resolution (customer service etc) 2. Recontract offers to be honoured (1 advisor has claimed this doesn’t exist) 3. Compensation for each day without service

  • RKnibbs1 knibbsy (@RKnibbs1) reported

    @virginmedia if I’d known how poor Virgin wifi was I would never have changed. What’s the point of extra speed when the signal barely reaches the kitchen? Very poor!

  • charlie12058586 charlieware (@charlie12058586) reported

    @virginmedia I don't think that's reasonable if I haven't received a consistent service for nearly a month @virginmedia download speeds are OK, but upload speed is 0Mbs. How am I to conduct video calls?