Virgin Media outages and service status in Southend-on-Sea, England
Some problems detected
Users are reporting problems related to: internet, wi-fi and total blackout.
Full Outage Map
- Virgin Media generated 2 outage signals in the last 24 hours around Southend-on-Sea, including 2 direct reports.
- The most common problems reported in this area mention Internet, Wi-fi, and TV.
- The most recent signal from this area was received May 1, 1:24 AM GMT+1.
- Internet (54%)
- Wi-fi (31%)
- TV (15%)
The latest reports from users having issues in Southend-on-Sea come from postal codes SS0 , SS2 and SS1 .
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 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.
May 1: Problems at Virgin Media
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Live Outage Map Near Southend-on-Sea, England
The most recent Virgin Media outage reports came from the following cities: Basildon, Chatham, Southend-on-Sea, Rochester, Wickford, Gillingham, and Sheerness.
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Basildon
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Wi-fi | 11 hours ago |
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Chatham
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Wi-fi | 15 hours ago |
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Basildon
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Internet | 3 days ago |
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Southend-on-Sea
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TV | 6 days ago |
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Rochester
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Internet | 7 days ago |
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Southend-on-Sea
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Internet | 11 days ago |
Nearby cities with recent reports
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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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Simon Norris (@sinozza) reported from Southend-on-Sea, England@virginmedia I spent over an hour on the phone yesterday trying to get through to a customer service rep only to get cut off. Still waiting to hear on WhatsApp and been on hold this afternoon 45 mins and still holding???? Whats going on??
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Russell Norris (@rrrussboy) reported from Southend-on-Sea, England@virginmedia I’ve now been told that there is no complaints team, despite the fact I spoke to them earlier. How is it possible to be so poor?
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Russell Norris (@rrrussboy) reported from Southend-on-Sea, England@virginmedia Actually that’s wrong, I received an email to advise that the complaint had been resolved and had to respond saying it hasn’t. What hope is there when you can’t even get a complaint right?
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Katie Williams (@katie_2521) reported from Wickford, England@virginmedia been struggling for days with home WiFi. Tried to contact you guys but cant find a number Please help
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Twiterteroo (@Twiterteroo) reported from Gillingham, England@virginmedia Folks, amuse me, why on earth would I or anyone complete a survey after leaving you when you couldn’t deal with the issue within 2 months and dare I say the plus 20 years we had an undiagnosed fault!?
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ron palmer (@moebius1967) reported from Southend-on-Sea, EnglandWow Virgin media TV services are down nationwide due to a power outage. That's an awful lot of compensation.
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Dr Stower and the Stock Market of Madness 🦍 (@1CreativeRay) reported 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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C Borrill-Bromige (@cboxot) reported 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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Mark Gould (@yiddo71) reported from Rochester, England@virginmedia @virginmedia is there an email address I can send a complaint to you customer service don’t want to accept it and your web form has been completed but no response!!
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SatansLittleGirl🔮 (@lillyelizax) reported from Gillingham, England@virginmedia There isn’t internet down time the box has stopped working, they can’t get a new box out here till mid week, with a lot of people working from home you think you’d have next day delivery or something, bad enough we can’t have a engineer out to help
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Penny Rolfe nee Acres (@wonky1961) reported from Southend-on-Sea, England@Mattallwright 2 years on since I have been having trouble with Virgin Media (fingers crossed) they may have now get an uninterrupted supply after charging me late payments more than double my Media prices whilst as a Vulnerable Person they were awful
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Marc Gallagher (@marcgallagher82) reported from Rochester, England@virginmedia your sales team are the biggest bunch of #fraudsters I’ve ever dealt with! Phone us to offer a better package and you have taken our package and completely messed it all up! #CustomerService at it’s worst! If this is how you treat a loyal customer of 14year, I’m off!
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Mark Gould (@yiddo71) reported from Rochester, England@BBCWatchdog can you help @virginmedia make it impossible to complain or resolve any issues the ultimate poor customer service!!
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Becca (@becshawyer) reported 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 😡
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Onearmedjohn (@onearmedjohn) reported 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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Em💛 (@emilymorgan_x) reported from Basildon, EnglandCan someone pls explain to me why @virginmedia wifi is so shockingly ****
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ron palmer (@moebius1967) reported from Southend-on-Sea, EnglandHad 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 from Gillingham, England@virginmedia has the shittest broadband and customer service in the world!!!
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Katie Purkiss (@KatiePurkiss) reported from Southend-on-Sea, EnglandAfter 20 years of being with @virginmedia and Telewest before that, I’ve finally decided to jump ship. Broadband has been horrendous for a couple of weeks and constant issues. 😔. #TimeforaChange
Virgin Media Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Eden Gem (@edengem) reported@virginmedia please Help! Just had 3 overseas tech calls trying to solve desktop email error. Last person has now cancelled all email iPhone email then passed me to someone else! Appreciate yr assistance.
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David Grant (@DavidGrant58131) reportedVirgin media broadband down in Swords for 4 days so far ...no communication...no contact....@richardbranson ???
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entrustTMF (@entrustTMF) reportedDay EIGHT of my complete broadband outage with @virginmedia 😡 However there IS hope. Today an engineer from them is supposed to be arriving-so trying to be positive What a complete nightmare of an experience this has been, so I'm REALLY hoping this will be the turning point🤞
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Greg O'Connell (Two jabs) (@Gregster29) reported@virginmedia All I'd like to know is if 2Gb fibre is available for my postcode. The website says yes, Customer service says no. So which is it?
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Di (@defendingdd) reported@skytv 24 hours for a Manager call back you piss taking idiots. Don’t ever use Sky anyone. 19 years I’ve been with them and they are treating me like ****. Time to go to.@virginmedia
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hennii (@NathanH17475101) reported@virginmedia My WiFi has been down for over 2 hours. The box is flashing red. Apparently no outage in my area. I have tried all recommend things
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Asa McGrath (@amcgrath1uk) reported@virginmedia I know that there’s an issue in the area. It went early this morning. I’ve seen the spike of reports. I’ve seen the bot say it’s gonna get fixed. Then the bot is saying the issue is with our box. Even though I know there’s tons in the area still having issues. Basically, it lies
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Carol-Ann Sihra (@Csihra) reported@virginmedia The worst customer service I have ever experienced. Managers can’t even get it right, how hard can it be to cancel a contract
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YorkshireB'stard (@Phil197881) reported@TheGriftReport I have the same problem with Virgin media, their call centre is in India and more than once I've just rung off after not understanding what the guy said.