Virgin Media outages and service status in Southend-on-Sea, England
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- Virgin Media generated 1 outage signal in the last 24 hours around Southend-on-Sea, including 1 direct report.
- The most common problems reported in this area mention Internet, TV, and Wi-fi.
- The most recent signal from this area was received Aug 2, 7:47 PM GMT+1.
- Internet (67%)
- TV (17%)
- Wi-fi (10%)
- E-mail (3%)
- Total Blackout (3%)
The latest reports from users having issues in Southend-on-Sea come from postal codes SS0 and SS2 .
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.
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Live Outage Map Near Southend-on-Sea, England
The most recent Virgin Media outage reports came from the following cities: Chatham, Southend-on-Sea, Basildon, Wickford, Gillingham, Rochford, South Benfleet, and Canvey Island.
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Chatham
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Internet | 22 hours ago |
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Chatham
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TV | 2 days ago |
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Southend-on-Sea
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Internet | 3 days ago |
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Basildon
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Internet | 4 days ago |
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Southend-on-Sea
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Internet | 5 days ago |
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Southend-on-Sea
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Internet | 5 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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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
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Rob Green Jnr (@rob_green86) reported from Thundersley, EnglandAnyone 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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Mark Gould (@yiddo71) reported from Gillingham, England@virginmedia has the shittest broadband and customer service in the world!!!
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Mark Gould (@yiddo71) reported 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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Geoff Watkins (@DronePilotGeoff) reported from Gillingham, England@fasurveyors @virginmedia I have to say; I’m normally pretty pleased with @virginmedia internet. It’s normally fast and reliable. But last couple of days has been awful. It’s getting too expensive as well
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Onearmedjohn (@onearmedjohn) reported from Gillingham, England@virginmedia I’ve had two lengthy phone calls with your ‘technical support’ people; it briefly got quicker then stopped working completely. On their instructions I’ve changed some settings on my router which apparently may take 48 hours to fully take effect…
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Katie Purkiss (@KatiePurkiss) reported from Southend-on-Sea, EnglandHey @virginmedia Parents new 360 box not working and engineer not available to come out til the 27th!!!! Not good enough! 😔
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Rob Green Jnr (@rob_green86) reported from Thundersley, England@SpursKS @virginmedia What's the issue
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LiisaJane'x (@LiisaJane) reported from Southend-on-Sea, England@virginmedia @nickgooner80 I wanna know why my broadband has been all day! I do not want to be paying for a service I cannot use!!!!!! 🤬🤬 I have a bored 6 year old. SORT IT OUT!!! And I can’t check my service status as I can’t access the internet even on my 4G or the virgin media app.
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Simon Norris (@sinozza) reported from Southend-on-Sea, England@ThatNickElse @virginmedia Did you get through in the end Nick...I'm having similar problems to you.
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Sharon Cooper (@vamplady35) reported from Gillingham, England@jamesdgreen02 @virginmedia I've got the same problem. Was told by the faults team that if it wasn't fixed by 11pm last night that it should be fixed by 8pm tonight. Still not fixed at the moment
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ron palmer (@moebius1967) reported from Southend-on-Sea, England@bushontheradio Trying to get through to Virgin media to cancel the contract. Bloody chatbot isn't worth a ****
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Onearmedjohn (@onearmedjohn) reported 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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Mark Gould (@yiddo71) reported from Rochester, England@virginmedia Just to know you still have not fixed my phone line despite a guarantee and you have just sent me a bill@for double my monthly bill.....way to go @virginmedia worst customer service ever!!
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paul fouracre (@moleyfozz) reported from Rochester, England@virginmedia since you upgraded me for free to intelligent wifi, ive lost all signal upstairs arghhh. How can i switch back?
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paul fouracre (@moleyfozz) reported from Rochester, EnglandTwo contrasting phone calls to @virginmedia CS this morning. Really unhelpful 1st guy / rude. Rang directly back and the differner guy was absolutely amazing. Mathew was his name and he needs a praise. 1st guy really needs a lesson in customer service. Thank you Mathew.
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matt (@briggsym) reported from Wickford, England@virginmedia how can I complain about internet reliability from your service. It has been appalling and inconsistent and seriously considering moving to another provider.
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Keeley O'Flaherty (@KeeleyOF101) reported from Thundersley, England@virginmedia you came to my mums house to fix cable. You’ve left having disconnected her phone line and sent it to a neighbour house who is now being rude. Been on hold hour on phone. Both in poor health phone Essential
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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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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?
Virgin Media Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Jan Hobbs (@CleanzineEditor) reported@virginmedia been locked out of webmail since 22 May. Supposedly repaired & reset but though I can now get into my account I STILL can't access webmail. Still showing Forbidden 403 despite my tech expert working on it several hrs today. 9 WEEKS! Paying £133.50/mth. HELP PLEASE!
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zach close YT (@ZachcloseYT) reportedSeriously @virginmedia you canceled our contract with you before it even run out just because you have sued and you raised the price to over 200 pounds a month that we can't afford and the rubbish service doesn't even work and I don't want a reply from ai I want a person to reply
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Louie Ells (@louie_elliott22) reported@tizyfv @virginmedia They ain’t bad for me they just give me 150 ping on NaC and 130 on Middle East
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Mitch W 71 (@Mitch_1142) reported@1Atkins @ThatsTVOfficial xenon81Message posted on30 Jul 2026 03:21 PM - last edited: 30 Jul 2026 03:22 PM That's TV has gradually removed all its channels from Sky, Freesat and Virgin Media over the last few months. It remains on Freeview (for now) but is said to be suffering financial problems.
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Arren Davey (@ArrenDavey) reported@virginmedia spent 3 hrd online sorting renewal . Virgin rang me daily for 2 wks (while at work). Told them contact them. 3 hours on chat, still wasn’t resolved. raised a complaint. Renewed via link but sent 3 sets of Order docs. Need help
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G 🇺🇦 (@gideon_) reported@virginmedia another broadband outage in North Manchester?? At what point are we legally allowed to leave contract due to the amount of issues? Please advise
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Mr. Cold (@Javier_Cold_) reported@Ofcom @virginmedia sucks. 2 hours going in circles to cancel my package. They get away with it by exhausting you, going around and around, stalling the conversation until you say yes.
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Anthaily (@AntimagicBones) reported"Hey, the wi-fi is down?" "Uhhh... oh, yeah; Sara said something about turning our Virgin Media into problematic media." "Oh, God."
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🏍️ TThe Smelly Hippie ✌️ (@HippieSmel48310) reported@virginmedia @bexholloway Your broadband is ******* garbage, 5th outage this week, absolute trash.
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roger07 *** (@germann_ro) reported@virginmedia @bexholloway Hi is there any known issues with sky sports app login ?