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: Basildon, Southend-on-Sea, Canvey Island, Gillingham, Chatham, and Rochester.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Basildon	Wi-fi	1 day ago
Southend-on-Sea	Internet	2 days ago
Basildon	Internet	3 days ago
Southend-on-Sea	Internet	5 days ago
Canvey Island	Internet	5 days ago
Southend-on-Sea	Internet	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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  C Borrill-Bromige (@cboxot) reported 22 seconds 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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  Penny Rolfe nee Acres (@wonky1961) reported 3 minutes ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  I have had wifi issues since june2020now they are trying to get paid twice im 1 month. Virgin still owe me compensation. Due to Virgin's failure to keepvulnerablepeoplesafe.://www.virginmedia.com/support/help/check-services/address-identification/identify

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  Mark Gould (@yiddo71) reported 6 minutes 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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  paul fouracre (@moleyfozz) reported 12 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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  Katie Purkiss (@KatiePurkiss) reported 13 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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  Mark Gould (@yiddo71) reported 17 minutes ago from Rochester, England

  Why is it every companies customer service line is so crap and does not want to help in any way shape or form #curryspcworld #virginmedia @BBCWatchdog

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  Sharon Cooper (@vamplady35) reported 17 minutes ago from Gillingham, England

  @virginmedia My understanding is that it is affecting a lot of people. I have now worked out how to access my email another way but do strongly feel that virgin media should be looking to resolve this issue ASAP.

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  Onearmedjohn (@onearmedjohn) reported 18 minutes ago from Gillingham, England

  @virginmedia This is so tiresome I have complained so many times about slow broadband speed, unreliable WiFi, terrible TV services & only after threatening to leave did you send an engineer in July. This made it a little better, but recently it’s been unreliable of an evening.

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  lindsay wood (@Dearnormajeane) reported 21 minutes ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  @kelseybytheway @virginmedia Second this so ******* hard. Diagnostics dont do **** when the issue is with the hardware itself

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  Onearmedjohn (@onearmedjohn) reported 21 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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  Russell Norris (@rrrussboy) reported 30 minutes ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  @virginmedia You’ve now sent me the same unhelpful link about compensation 3 times. This will only compensate me if I have no service, and as I have a service (albeit 3mbps) this, as I’ve repeated several times, doesn’t help me. Another example of poor customer service

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  grizzly_gooner (@GoonerGrizzly) reported 32 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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  Lawrence Hooker (@goonerlgh) reported 34 minutes ago from Gillingham, England

  @virginmedia Third Superhub and it's just as unreliable as the previous two. Frequently has to be reset. Slow speeds, unstable wifi. When are you going to replace it with decent hardware?

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  Mark Gould (@yiddo71) reported 40 minutes ago from Rochester, England

  @virginmedia 5 days with no landline despite your customer services saying 24 hours everytime I ring so yes I have been in touch and no they have still not sorted it total joke!

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  ron palmer (@moebius1967) reported 43 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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  Mark Gould (@yiddo71) reported 45 minutes ago from Rochester, England

  @virginmedia No as normal Virgin customer service go quiet until I am forced to ring them again and as for the bill no additional charges you just seem to have doubled the bill

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  Dr Stower and the Stock Market of Madness 🦍 (@1CreativeRay) reported 46 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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  Rob Green Jnr (@rob_green86) reported 46 minutes ago from Thundersley, England

  Anyone else really struggling with slow speeds over the last 10 days with @virginmedia. It's been spot on for 2 years now and then 10 days it seems something has happened. Lucky to get over 10Mb now 🙈

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  Penny Rolfe nee Acres (@wonky1961) reported 48 minutes ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  @MartinSLewis Virgin Media wifi been unstable since June 2020. Virgin Media never resolved the problem caused me to lose hundreds of £'s. Made me lose my PIP. Virgin made me pay double because they kept charging me twice most months. They've made me lose half my PC Guarantee

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  WeHateHills (@WeHateHills) reported 58 minutes ago from South Woodham Ferrers, England

  @ClassicSoulDJ @virginmedia Get @BTGroup much more reliable - have read so many stories about #Virgin having problems

Virgin Media Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  ChinoAleman (@chinoalemano) reported 5 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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  South Coast Commuter (@CS_Hants) reported 5 minutes ago

  @virginmedia May I remove it then? It’s ugly, VM never mentioned I would need it when you sold me the service and you didn’t get my permission to stick it on my house! Will happily send it back to you! Have no intention of ever using @virginmedia ever again!

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  🏃‍♀️ 💯 Di Brander 💯 🏋️‍♀️ (@DiBrander) reported 10 minutes ago

  Disaster has struck the Brander household. The internet is down. Virgin Media said it could be up to 24 hours til they find/fix the fault. This is when you realise that the internet makes everything work, or not work.

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  LP (@____LP____) reported 12 minutes ago

  @virginmedia My broadband was down for about 20 hours in total but finally came back an hour ago, so that's something!

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  Graeme Savage 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@graemehistory) reported 12 minutes ago

  Can anyone at @virginmedia please let me know when the outage in south Ayr will be fixed?

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  Margaret (@scripture36) reported 15 minutes ago

  @virginmedia @CLangley16 Any chance you could just help disabled users revert to previous software as they can’t use this 360 shite?

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  Face palm Vengance (@IsTheTruthToxic) reported 16 minutes ago

  @virginmedia Yes it does and it’s a bad system. Your tortuous phone tree system makes talking to the right people very difficult, having to phone for the best deal instead of being offered it by daily is predatory and unnecessary, you know the problems so fix them

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  Sally Briars (@SallyBriars) reported 17 minutes ago

  @virginmedia I already have, multiple times and it says nothing is wrong, no issues in my area! I want to book an engineer but the website keeps sending me in circles!

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  Nala100577 (@Nala100577) reported 22 minutes ago

  @virginmedia Paid for Danz pay for view and its lost signal mid fight? Just a blank screen? Normal channels working.

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