Virgin Media Outage Report in Smethwick, Sandwell, 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.
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The chart below shows the number of Virgin Media reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Smethwick and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Virgin Media users through our website.
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Internet (57%)
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Wi-fi (20%)
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Total Blackout (11%)
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TV (7%)
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E-mail (3%)
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Phone (2%)
Live Outage Map Near Smethwick, Sandwell, England
The most recent Virgin Media outage reports came from the following cities: Birmingham, Solihull, Oldbury, Sutton Coldfield, Walsall, Rowley Regis, Tamworth, West Bromwich, Dudley, Stourbridge, Wolverhampton, Brierley Hill, Bilston, Wednesbury and Cradley Heath.
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Virgin Media Issues Reports Near Smethwick, England
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Smethwick and nearby locations:
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Sharon Baker
(@DixeyBaker) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@virginmedia Thanks for replying! The green light keeps flashing which its never done - we had an outage in B14 yesterday- my internet is working and we have rebooted but its still flashing
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trev1874
(@tfd1977) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@virginmedia on hold listening to crap music for hour then disconnected on hold again for 30 mins now anyone working in faults tonight
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Dr Emma Neachell
(@thephdrunner) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@_gl_lxuise @SkyUK @virginmedia Same problem here. They keep saying they have fixed the issue when they clearly haven’t. They are good at putting prices up but not at fixing issues. I’m going back to Sky.
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Kate Gordon
(@Kagey_infohub) reported
from
West Bromwich, England
@virginmedia I'll check, but slow connection and frequent drop is ongoing. We looked at switching but didn't move as not enough confidence in alternative ISPs tbh.
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Chris Picken
(@chrispicken) reported
from
Wolverhampton, England
@HannahWestwood @virginmedia It’s on, it’s just slow. Supposed to be 350 and I’m getting 20.
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Neil M Ainsworth
(@ainsworth_neil) reported
from
Redditch, England
@virginmedia No my wife works from home 2 days a week. She constantly gets logged out. No help from customer service. I have the agents ref number and the rough time of the call. Very disappointed
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Dr Emma Neachell
(@thephdrunner) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@Cee_langie8852 @virginmedia Yes, they are useless. No service most of yesterday and as of 0530 this morning, no service again. I’ve spent hours waiting to get through to the technical team. It’s time @ofcom got involved.
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Chris fletcher
(@Chrisf2016) reported
from
Wednesfield, England
So @virginmedia are increasing our bill again. We've been loyal customers since it was telewest even with all the problems over the years we stuck with you Well thats it. I will be finding another supplier 👋👋👋
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Sharon Baker
(@DixeyBaker) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@virginmedia trying to get some help with my router and I'm on hold for 20 mins then get cut off - no chat facility available and no email help - rather frustrating !
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Malcolm Whittaker
(@malcolmwhittak2) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@virginmedia @TomMockridgeVM We are currently moving house and trying to cancel our account unfortunately the call agents think it's funny to keep a client on the phone for 3 hours even more so they are happy to direct us to a department that is closed which terminates a call.
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Malcolm Whittaker
(@malcolmwhittak2) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@jwhitt1970 @virginmedia @TomMockridgeVM Hi Joe Virgin Media and Mr Mockridge think about money in the bank, Customer service isn't on the agenda, it feels like authorised theft as all the time and effort on the phone is time lost with no evidence relating to performance. #CustomerService
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Dr Emma Neachell
(@thephdrunner) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@virginmedia I’m getting an access denied error message. A quick google suggests this is a common issue.
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Dr Emma Neachell
(@thephdrunner) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@virginmedia B744LG my neighbour is also having issues. Internet keeps dropping out so there’s clearly some sort of intermittent fault. I’ve wasted 45 mins on the phone trying to report it.
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Richard Baily
(@foraneasylife) reported
from
Solihull, England
Waiting over 22 minutes thus far for @virginmedia to answer phone, as I have no broadband service. Service suddenly went when watching catch up tv. 🙄
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Dr Emma Neachell
(@thephdrunner) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@BFILeigh @virginmedia @SkyUK I don’t know you but Virgin Media as a company are so bad they look Sky look amazing. If you can cancel and find an alternative I’d do it.
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Kate Gordon
(@Kagey_infohub) reported
from
West Bromwich, England
@virginmedia Not sure tbh- it took at least 2 hours for the update to complete. Our connection frequently drops and is slow.
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Teds
(@Tedtalks13) reported
from
Aldridge, England
@ukhomeoffice @BrandonLewis ive one all this in my investigation to the fraud in court tht has a fraud log failed by @ThamesVP; via EE and well virgin media refused to co operate: fraud is easy to catches frombasic start of internet "the signal" for any signal to connect it has to have data communication
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Mark Hipwell
(@markhipwell1990) reported
from
West Bromwich, England
@virginmedia So now I have to ring to cancel because that's too much or give you a chance to fix the price. Both take time out of my day when we only did this less then 2 months ago.
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Luke T
(@lukiee) reported
from
West Bromwich, England
@virginmedia Still go having issues :(
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🇬🇧Kimbo🇬🇧
(@Kimbohud) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@virginmedia I have received a further two or three calls, following the request to remove one of the V boxes to save me some money, offering me different packages as a ‘loyal’ customer which would be costing me more! #youcouldntmakeitup 🙄
Virgin Media Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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jonesy
(@jonesy55069032) reported
@B2Bionic @virginmedia It doesn’t matter the fault as if you can’t fix it you can’t leave anyway! I’ve never been stuck in a contract like this before which works against the benefit of the customer. I was naive to think I could leave if you weren’t delivering the service you promised
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Richard Wade
(@richwade) reported
@virginmedia None and run test which says no problems either
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Cat Faulkner
(@catherinedoart) reported
@virginmedia I have been on hold your whatsapp chat for help for 95 mins now being told it's another 45 min wait, I haven't had text/calls since installing your sim card, I can't call to get help so all I can use is the whatsapp which doesn't seem to work. Please help.
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Tam Anglais🍀🍀🏴🇮🇹
(@nohunshere) reported
@virginmedia Clearly there’s issues at your end
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Karlim00
(@karlim00) reported
@virginmedia I've called that line already multiples times in the last 2 months and it always comes up with a complex issue in your area and there is no route on that line to get a real person to speak to you. also this came up on a hub test on your site
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Hosted
(@runlevel3_) reported
@gracehsoro @virginmedia It was a UK-wide outage - probably a BGP issue or someone plugged a cable into the wrong port!
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THODL
(@TemplateHODL) reported
@virginmedia WORST INTERNET PROVIDER IN UK. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH BUSINESS YOU HAVE CAUSED ME TO LOSW BECAUSE OF YOUR SERVICE CONSTANTLY BEING DOWN?!
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Davey Asprey
(@Daveyasprey) reported
@virginmedia Impossible to get through to anyone. Paying for 500MB fibre and getting nowhere near that, no matter the time of day/night. Working from home is near impossible with the near constant outages, or drop in signal. This is ridiculous.
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Davies
(@DeltaDeltaOBE) reported
@virginmedia Yep problem in area… again!! Twice this week.
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Peter Reid ☃️
(@ReidWeb) reported
@l_Kathleen_l While I've had issues getting my installation in, they've all been on the OpenReach end. BT have been fine to deal with, and getting the support from Scotland is really a god send compared to dealing with Virgin Media who outsource to offshore.