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Virgin Media outages and service status in Smethwick, England

Problems detected

Users are reporting problems related to: internet, tv and wi-fi.

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  • Virgin Media generated 5 outage signals in the last 24 hours around Smethwick, including 5 direct reports.
  • The most common problems reported in this area mention Internet, TV, and Wi-fi.
  • The most recent signal from this area was received May 27, 12:16 PM GMT+1.
  • 41% Internet (41%)
  • 31% TV (31%)
  • 17% Wi-fi (17%)
  • 7% Total Blackout (7%)
  • 5% E-mail (5%)

The latest reports from users having issues in Smethwick come from postal codes B67 and 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.

Problems 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, England and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

May 27: Problems at Virgin Media

Virgin Media is having issues since 02:40 PM GMT. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!

Live Outage Map Near Smethwick, England

The most recent Virgin Media outage reports came from the following cities: Oldbury, Tamworth, Birmingham, West Bromwich, Solihull, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Smethwick, Brierley Hill, Tipton, Stourbridge, Bromsgrove, Bilston, Sutton Coldfield, and Dudley.

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Oldbury E-mail 8 hours ago
Oldbury Internet 9 hours ago
Tamworth Internet 10 hours ago
Tamworth Wi-fi 13 hours ago
Birmingham Wi-fi 14 hours ago
Birmingham Wi-fi 1 day ago

Nearby cities with recent reports

Birmingham

34 recent signals

14 hours ago
Oldbury

9 recent signals

8 hours ago
Tamworth

4 recent signals

10 hours ago
West Bromwich

3 recent signals

1 day ago
Wolverhampton

2 recent signals

3 days ago

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Virgin Media Issues Reports Near Smethwick, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Smethwick and nearby locations:

  • TheShannimal_
    TheShannimal🔜#i70 (@TheShannimal_) reported from Kidderminster, England

    @MykeJD1 @virginmedia Gone down for a lot of people apparently

  • stumccullagh
    Stuart McCullagh (@stumccullagh) reported from Birmingham, England

    @virginmedia I’m going to but I know I won’t get anywhere anyway the customer never gets anywhere

  • ReissOmari
    Gordé 🦩 (@ReissOmari) reported from Birmingham, England

    Fed up of these “intermittent” problems with my @virginmedia broadband.

  • nealesj
    Simon Neale (@nealesj) reported from Swindon, England

    It looks like @virginmedia name servers are not accessible so no DNS records can be resolved. A major outage for their services. Seems to be no comms from them. @BBCNews are you aware? #VirginMediaDown #VirginMedia

  • Momrocks50
    Yvonne 💙 (@Momrocks50) reported from Birmingham, England

    Excuse me we pay enough for a "cough" service where is it? #virginmedia

  • charlwalden
    𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕥𝕖🧸 (@charlwalden) reported from Halesowen, England

    @virginmedia how am I supposed to book an engineer? There are issues with the quick start installation I have and need an engineer to set it up for me

  • ________Danny
    Satish Danny Paul (@________Danny) reported from West Bromwich, England

    @virginmedia I called cust serv today after logging complaint on 26th Nov and hearing nothing back. cust serv asked me to request my data and voice calls. listen to it myself and then send proof of being missold a contract/virgin error, so virgin can then resolve the matter and complaint

  • stumccullagh
    Stuart McCullagh (@stumccullagh) reported from Sheldon, England

    @virginmedia I don’t think so I’m still getting distorted TV on a few channels it’s frustrating as my complaint never gets recified I’ve spent hours on end trying to get it sorted

  • EvanD
    Evan Davis (@EvanD) reported from Birmingham, England

    @virginmedia Yes I’ve done that. My connection drops out for a minute or so every 30-60 mins. Hard to replicate. My account has notes regarding the reason why the credit was given last time. Ideally I don’t want to wait so long for the same issue to be fixed.

  • kolapoagunbiade
    TheBosz (@kolapoagunbiade) reported from Birmingham, England

    @virginmedia Unfortunately, you dont have a ticketing system or cobtact email to track issues, rather a phone system that requires you to wait forever to get through to an agent. A/c number: 095063606. I was charged x2.5 of what i was tp pay.

  • NickHickey84
    Trickie Dickie (@NickHickey84) reported from Bradmore, England

    @virginmedia a customer of yours for years. Had a cpi increase letter to say leave with out penalty. Competitor massively cheaper than you for faster speeds. Only to be told by a colleague I have to pay £110 to leave today?

  • saqibsvideos
    ch Saqib (@saqibsvideos) reported from Birmingham, England

    Rubbish network is @virginmedia can't recommend to anyone one of the worst customer service

  • chrispsaras
    Chris Psaras (@chrispsaras) reported from Dudley, England

    @virginmedia no broadband since yesterday afternoon, told engineers were on route but still no update. Your offshore call centre is also unhelpful and not able to offer any further information. Please can you help?

  • JMEden_97
    James (@JMEden_97) reported from Solihull, England

    I hate VirginMedia me getting stupid little lag spikes

  • haychapperz
    hayley chapman (@haychapperz) reported from Birmingham, England

    @virginmedia what is going on B31 5 still without Broadband & TV from 11am and now being told fix is 12pm tomorrow. I have been unable to work all day & now problem is going in to tomorrow. This is unacceptable & I hope refunds for loss of service will be applied to all accounts.

  • laticwolf
    Alex (@laticwolf) reported from Bradmore, England

    @virginmedia good work 👏🏼 issues with WiFi being down constantly as soon as £7.50 monthly bill increases comes in! Currently on hour 5 of no internet and not due to be fixed before 1am 🙃

  • OpiniatedOne1
    Pretentious Opinions (@OpiniatedOne1) reported from Walsall Wood, England

    @virginmedia its nice you’re offering new customers ridiculously cheap deals but charging prices through the roof for an inferior service for a customer of nearly 20 years #CostOfLivingCrisis

  • duggystoneradio
    duggystone radio (@duggystoneradio) reported from Swindon, England

    Well hope @virginmedia and .#o2 get their act together it’s been shocking this week for robust network Had to kill the show this am could not even do audio stream Shocking we’ve got #duggysfest in may ….

  • nippa77
    Neil Simpson (@nippa77) reported from Swindon, England

    @virginmedia why is it that your service is up and down more than a yo-yo? It’s getting ridiculous now!!!

  • ReissOmari
    Gordé 🦩 (@ReissOmari) reported from Birmingham, England

    Ended up just reconnecting my TP Link router, it seems the problems were with my Hub 5 because everything seems to be working fine now. Not great @virginmedia

Virgin Media Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • Grahamthecabbie
    Graham Long (@Grahamthecabbie) reported

    @virginmedia @TamieOfficial Useless service. No phone, tv or internet. Been down since midnight. Got a text saying it’s fixed! It ain’t! Been told it’ll be fixed by 4pm. What day?!😡

  • Paul_Reviews
    Paul Moore - Security Consultant  (@Paul_Reviews) reported

    Done with @virginmedia 3 times I've requested Comex come out and dig up the drive to bury their own cable which wasn't installed correctly. 3 times they've sent a level 1 tech with a shovel, who can't do the job. Contract cancelled. I might return if they ever decide to put customer services back in the UK - preferably with someone who understands plain English. #hopeless

  • celestialdawwnn
    Katy ☆゚.*・。゚☆゚☾ .⭒˚ 🐈‍⬛🌌🌙 (@celestialdawwnn) reported

    @virginmedia It states there is an 'intermittent signal'. Does this mean an engineer is looking into it?

  • WFC_Jack04
    Jack (@WFC_Jack04) reported

    @virginmedia Your WiFi is AWFUL

  • iscpst
    Paul “2 jabs” Thomas (@iscpst) reported

    @virginmedia you really need to address your messaging. I get a text to say the broadband/ TV issue in the SA6 region has been fixed, then an hour later tells me it will be fixed at 4PM. So, what is it?

  • SimonpWakefield
    Simon Wakefield (@SimonpWakefield) reported

    @virginmedia you are the worst provider I just want to know what the f@@k am I paying for it has been down more this month then I've actually used.

  • FranPancheri
    Francesca Pancheri (@FranPancheri) reported

    @virginmedia we are into day 4 without internet and TV! Luckily I'm not working this week as I do work from home but this has to be the worst service we've had in the 20+ years we've been with Virgin and its predecessors!

  • Louiseboxall
    Louise Boxall (@Louiseboxall) reported

    @virginmedia Yep, we’ve done all that. It says intermittent service. It’s been like this over a week. Now it’s worse! Even spoke to one of the customer service people on Friday, the issue is worse and we were told unless they get 360 then Virgin won’t help. Absolute disgrace!

  • memia
    Memia S (@memia) reported

    @virginmedia this is absolutely disgusting service, for the amount money we pay for Internet packages. The internet has been down for the last 2days and I’m tired of getting the same robotic answers as to y its not working. People are working from home and need Internet services!

  • WFC_Jack04
    Jack (@WFC_Jack04) reported

    @virginmedia your wifi is AWFUL