Virgin Media Outage Report in Smethwick, Sandwell, England
Problems detected
Users are reporting problems related to: internet, wi-fi and total blackout.
The latest reports from users having issues in Smethwick come from postal codes B66.
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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E-mailProblems in the last 24 hours in Smethwick, England
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 (55%)
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Wi-fi (16%)
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Total Blackout (14%)
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TV (7%)
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E-mail (6%)
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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, Walsall, Dudley, Redditch, Smethwick, Sutton Coldfield, Brierley Hill, Tamworth, West Bromwich, Solihull, Wolverhampton, Stourbridge, Oldbury, Wednesbury and Bromsgrove.
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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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Roger Leitch
(@notdodgy) reported
from
Solihull, England
@virginmedia once again on demand not working. How are you supposed to watch a sky movies film when it stops every 10 seconds to spin a wheel for 10 seconds. Service checker says its fine and the box has been rebooted.
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Roger Leitch
(@notdodgy) reported
from
Solihull, England
@virginmedia It's not faulty. It's not a wifi or broadband issue. You don't have enough backhaul capacity.
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dean condliffe 🏴
(@DeanCondliffe) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@virginmedia Still waiting on a call from 26th April. Spoke to customer services several times. No success. Really annoying that it’s so difficult for somebody to pick the phone up and talk. Perhaps VM know that they are in the wrong. @Ofcom thoughts? Always collect payments in time eh, Dean
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Scott badham
(@scbadham) reported
from
West Bromwich, England
@virginmedia So why do you just feel that this next appointment is going to be a waste of time because I already know what the issue is and he’s I’m gonna have to rebook another appointment for someone else to come out and sort the issue out
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Steve Whittington
(@stevewhittbrum) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@virginmedia still not received service. Cut off twice in last two calls having waited a long time to get through. How can you resolve please ?
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dean condliffe 🏴
(@DeanCondliffe) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@virginmedia No. This whole conversation is about VM saying they will contact me to discuss my complaint and VM thinking it’s ok not to call and the complaint will just fizzle out. Do you have an email address I can write to please?
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Aqeel Butt
(@akz147) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@virginmedia here’s my complaint reference .. C-280522210 .. let me know how much of a shite you still don’t give.. you over charged me again after telling me you’re not.. you’re worse the @BorisJohnson #broadband #virginmedia
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Roger Leitch
(@notdodgy) reported
from
Solihull, England
@virginmedia our broadband is down flashing green light. The service page has a fault shown but check status says its working fine. You need diagnostics for your diagnostics...
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dean condliffe 🏴
(@DeanCondliffe) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@virginmedia Poor internet. 500+ disconnections in a week when I’m paying for the highest package. Tried to downgrade package to save money, told I can’t. List is endless & all on file, supposedly!
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dean condliffe 🏴
(@DeanCondliffe) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@Kimothy_roll @virginmedia @Ofcom It’s just really poor customer relations. To not respond to a complaint. Only interested in taking your money, once they have that they no longer care.
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dean condliffe 🏴
(@DeanCondliffe) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@virginmedia They lied and told me that they had called the house phone. They hadn’t. They updated my contact number to my mobile. I chased this 4 days later and was told my number had been updated and the complaint was still open and I will receive a call. Guess what?
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Roger Leitch
(@notdodgy) reported
from
Solihull, England
@virginmedia Postcode was entered and I was logged in. Running a test reported no problem.
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Cara
(@Cara_L_RN) reported
from
Dudley, England
@virginmedia I’ve been back as a customer with you for only 1 week, and already a multitude of issues. Currently, the absolute dysfunction of your app and website meaning I can’t access anything. Not even to find a number to call. #frustrated
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Scott badham
(@scbadham) reported
from
West Bromwich, England
@virginmedia Engineer visit happened last week and I was told I need a new cable fitting outside my property when I have said this to your fault Steen I have tried charging me £25 and now they are just sending out an engineer to look for problems yet again
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Cara
(@Cara_L_RN) reported
from
Dudley, England
@virginmedia Just being able to access pages for support and settings etc. lots of “oops” errors and not loading. This is a small issue, speeds around the house are not good either. Disappointing.
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Aaron
(@AaronAlluyn) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@virginmedia @itsonlymegs virgin says tv had issues but nothing about internet.. Our internet has been unusable all week, I've been unable to attend any work meetings due to the extremely poor internet quality.. So what's up with that, whole week of trouble but guess I'll just pay as usual..
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Steve Penn
(@pennwba) reported
from
West Bromwich, England
@virginmedia I had a call today from a man pretending to be from & trying to sell VM service. He got increasingly rude & aggressive when I said not interested. I'm sure he wasn't from Virgin Media but if you'd like the number he called from I will happily send it to you.
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derek
(@Dereklad) reported
from
Birmingham, England
Virgin media is a good sim card to have in birmingham.dont touch three network there crap.
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Neil A
(@Neil982) reported
from
Birmingham, England
@virginmedia hi Virgin, I've come to the end of my 18 month broadband/TV contract and I'd like to cancel please. How do I go about that? Thank you.
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Steve Penn
(@pennwba) reported
from
West Bromwich, England
@virginmedia Thank you. Never for one minute did I think he was from Virgin Media. He ended up after 7 minutes saying he'd cut off my Internet for 21 days. Thought I'd let you know as he's using your name
Virgin Media Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Pothole city
(@potholecityuk) reported
@virginmedia You must know whose fault it is is it just an outage or Has @networkrail hit a cable like everyone is saying ? Information needed under the freedom of information
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HarryHansEhebrecher
(@HarryHa12547970) reported
@virginmedia Not really as THERE IS NO COVERAGE so how exactly do I make a call? Surely you can look and see what the problem is based on postcode and tell us what is going on?
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🖤
(@SaucyChp) reported
@virginmedia That’s what is so frustrating, nothing ever comes up in your system and yet our service is unreliable. Whenever we run tests via MyVirgin it doesn’t flag anything either.
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tj
(@tj09195531) reported
@VirginMediaCorp @vmbusiness What connectivity I have none now for more than 7 days. Is this tweet a joke. Your engineers are down the pub watch football when they should be out fixing our broadband services
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Adam Altinkaya
(@AdamAltinkaya) reported
@virginmedia your customer service and experience as a whole is the worst I’ve ever come across. Wish I never left Sky
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Jez - 🇪🇺 - ⚕️
(@JCAFC1) reported
@virginmedia No known issues
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HarryHansEhebrecher
(@HarryHa12547970) reported
@virginmedia Your cust services just say “we can see there is an outage and our engineers are working to fix it”. My point is this has happened five days over a two week period so it’s obviously not being fixed. Is there actually anyone who can tell me what is going on as you CS team can’t ?
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Helen
(@wonderwomanfx) reported
Hi I recently gave 30 days notice to terminate my broadband contract with @virginmedia as although I was reasonably happy with the connection, every time I needed to phone customer service it was a nightmare. If I was to stay what are my options?
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myStoryRory
(@myStoryRory1) reported
@virginmedia Its been nearly 2 hours trying to get in contact with someone. Its not good enough. You charge enough for the service. Provide it.
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Rod Cole
(@rodcoleUK) reported
@virginmedia Trying to upgrade... told my contract ended in July as it started in Aug' '18... apparently it doesn't... it now runs for 37 months... if someone in the UK wants to help... PM me