Virgin Media outages and service status in Southend-on-Sea, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Southend-on-Sea, England

The chart below shows the number of Virgin Media reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Southend-on-Sea, 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 Southend-on-Sea, England

The most recent Virgin Media outage reports came from the following cities: Rochford, Southend-on-Sea, Basildon, South Benfleet, Gillingham, Canvey Island, Chatham, and Rochester.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Rochford	Internet	3 days ago
Southend-on-Sea	Internet	3 days ago
Southend-on-Sea	Internet	4 days ago
Southend-on-Sea	Internet	4 days ago
Southend-on-Sea	Wi-fi	4 days ago
Basildon	E-mail	6 days ago

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Virgin Media Issues Reports Near Southend-on-Sea, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Southend-on-Sea and nearby locations:

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  Mark Gould (@yiddo71) reported 41 seconds ago from Rochester, England

  @virginmedia Great ring the number that has been absolutely shocking from day 1 or wait 28 days for Virgin to answer a complaint I have been trying to resolve for 10 days currently on phone with customer service but wont let me speak to a manger absolutely s*** from @virginmedia @BBCWatchdog

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  Russell Norris (@rrrussboy) reported 1 minute ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  @virginmedia so after weeks of unbelievably poor broadband and customer service there was an offer from you to resolve the situation with a web chat at 11am, with a link being provided here. No link. I’m lost for words

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  ron palmer (@moebius1967) reported 6 minutes ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  Wow Virgin media TV services are down nationwide due to a power outage. That's an awful lot of compensation.

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  Paul Ilett, Author (@Paul_Ilett) reported 8 minutes ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  @fingers_terry @virginmedia I hope so. I’d hate to have to cancel my subscription.

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  Katie Purkiss (@KatiePurkiss) reported 16 minutes ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  @virginmedia I’ve sorted the issue. But now there’s no way of cancelling the engineer! Can’t get through on phone. Appointment isn’t showing on their account, so can’t cancel there. WhatsApp is useless - been waiting for an Agent to be available since about 1pm!

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  Robert Bailey (@Bunglebob66) reported 21 minutes ago from Rochester, England

  @virginmedia get enough money from me and all the others get enough, from the rest of the paying public. So stop being greedy, stop paying the Premier clubs so much and wages will have to come down. There, sorted!

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  Thomas Hapgood (@Tiger118118) reported 24 minutes ago from Basildon, England

  **** you @virginmedia I want my money back please 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

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  paul fouracre (@moleyfozz) reported 30 minutes ago from Rochester, England

  @virginmedia trying to log a fault but still not received txt with online link. Telephone always on hold plz help

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  Dr Stower and the Stock Market of Madness 🦍 (@1CreativeRay) reported 32 minutes ago from Wainscott, England

  @virginmedia Terrible service from you these last two weeks! I have spent more than 4hrs on the phone to Asian based O2, and Virgin call centres who never help or process things. Also Capita in South Africa… Why do you use foreign call centres if they cannot do the job!!

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  ron palmer (@moebius1967) reported 32 minutes ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  I'm having real trouble cancelling my Virgin media account. Cant6v chat them, can't email them now on hold for 10 minutes. Just want to end the contract give 30 days notice. New promotion only for new customers. Wtf?

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  C Borrill-Bromige (@cboxot) reported 33 minutes ago from Rochester, England

  @virginmedia @virginmedia I've been having issues with internet dropping out continuosly for a couple of months, you sent another WiFi pod still the problem is there! The hub 3 status network connection has warnings and is critical, losing sync! I have been spin around in circles

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  Darren Young 📺 (@Just_Daz_Young) reported 33 minutes ago from Gillingham, England

  @virginmedia My tariff is going up from £72ish to £108ish so I want to leave... Simple but trying to get them to do this is madness. Internet is slow and not reliable, I have been promised the earth and it has just got worst! @BBCWatchdog

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  Onearmedjohn (@onearmedjohn) reported 40 minutes ago from Gillingham, England

  @virginmedia No and there’s no point. You’ve had two years to fix this. I’m not paying any more and you can sue me. See you in court.

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  grizzly_gooner (@GoonerGrizzly) reported 45 minutes ago from Thundersley, England

  @virginmedia This seems to be the standard message coming from Virgin Media. “Computer says no”. If you can’t see the issue with this then you (Virgin Media) are the problem. I’m inclined to contact the ombudsman as you have sold me a service which you blatantly cannot provide or install.

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  Michael Buckley (@MikeBuckley2) reported 48 minutes ago from Gillingham, England

  @virginmedia I am trying to access live chat as I have blackspots in house and would like WiFi boosters from Virgin. I have 200 Mbps but am getting only 20mbps in bedroom. Cannot find live chat on sites other than loads of help pages. Really frustrating

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  ron palmer (@moebius1967) reported 52 minutes ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  Had a real problem with Virgin media. Was paying this month's bill when Virgin had a problem as with its auto payment service and the payment couldn't be processed. I then tried again via their website and the payment went through......

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  Mark Gould (@yiddo71) reported 52 minutes ago from Rochester, England

  @virginmedia No landline for 9 days following a house move, incorrect bills, and poor customer service being cut off many times

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  Onearmedjohn (@onearmedjohn) reported 53 minutes ago from Gillingham, England

  @virginmedia No, we’re way past all that now, this has been going on for months/years. Now, I can’t even get to talk to anyone. I’ve requested you change my box. You haven’t. What is the head office address for service of legal documents please?

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  Onearmedjohn (@onearmedjohn) reported 55 minutes ago from Gillingham, England

  @BritishGas I’m truly astonished. I didn’t think there could be anyone worse than @virginmedia for customer service but you’ve managed it. I’m in awe.

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  Becca (@becshawyer) reported 60 minutes ago from Wickford, England

  @virginmedia disgusting customer service ... after months of issues still not being resolved our latest phone call after raising a complaint the customer service representative hung up on me! Getting to the point now where we will be leaving 😡

Virgin Media Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Mykrodot 💚☘️🇨🇮 (@Margare45125811) reported 3 minutes ago

  @arabiaclaire @AnGabharCliste @rte I'm exactly the same ! Virgin Media who run The Tonight Show with Master Gaslighter & Deflector Shane Coleman is just as bad. Thank God for Netflix !

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  ChinoAleman (@chinoalemano) reported 6 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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  Arron Clinkscales (@Clinkyboy67) reported 6 minutes ago

  @virginmedia 2: you contact Virgin through their App and they tell you it will take another 4 or 5 days for an engineer to "visit" when you have nowt !!! You raise a complaint to be told a manager will get back to you within 24 /48 HOUR Please share this with @virginmedia

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  Kari 💋🤍 (@KariJaexo) reported 9 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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  Jonny (@MisterBeergut) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Kirsty_x85 @virginmedia Many company sales people do this, because they have been told that not knocking is following the cold calling rules. The posting of cards through letterboxes is what most of them do instead. I have the same problem. At least you were not disturbed by the hard sell.

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  Teds (@Tedtalks13) reported 10 minutes ago

  @virginmedia whe. You send me hello letters on divert over the house fraud of him, could you put the two effing letters before the reference customer number as per the voice mail. Instead of the civil recovery cover up fraud of that crm sales having a bastard pull empty my injunction file in court I want him arrested not him bullshitting about being affected by the maths of my physics he’s a lying done it before to people to steal bits to go back into IBM… well known for it hides in a box in box in box and moves money away from uk

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  Alexander Stone (@mikael_gatfi) reported 10 minutes ago

  Tired of paying for multiple subscriptions like Sky, BT Sport, Virgin Media, Now TV, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV+? I have got the solution. This IPTV @8k_IPTV_PRO6 offers: • 300,000+ live channels • 65,000+ VODs • PPV events • Netflix • 78,000+ movies.

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  Legal Eagle. (@ACLegalServices) reported 22 minutes ago

  @virginmedia I am seriously thinking of leaving Virgin after 25 years or so as you are about to double my bill to £62.00 a month for speeds of 120mbps. Any recommendations to replace them with a reliable service, that I have had with Virgin. Difficult to talk to them on phone

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  Jan T. (@demented_tj) reported 22 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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  keith addy (@ads913) reported 25 minutes ago

  @virginmedia I understand they're introductory, but the gap is £51/month for the identical package. That's not a normal "new customer discount" that's a loyalty penalty. What can you actually offer me?