Virgin Media outages and service status in Smethwick, England
Problems detected
Users are reporting problems related to: internet, wi-fi and total blackout.
Full Outage Map
- 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, Wi-fi, and Total Blackout.
- The most recent signal from this area was received May 9, 9:38 AM GMT+1.
- Internet (60%)
- Wi-fi (17%)
- Total Blackout (13%)
- E-mail (5%)
- TV (5%)
- Phone (1%)
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 9: Problems at Virgin Media
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Live Outage Map Near Smethwick, England
The most recent Virgin Media outage reports came from the following cities: Birmingham, Walsall, Oldbury, Wolverhampton, Brierley Hill, Tamworth, Dudley, Kidderminster, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Halesowen, West Bromwich, Streetly, Smethwick, and Wednesbury.
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Birmingham
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Internet | 1 hour ago |
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Birmingham
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Internet | 16 hours ago |
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Birmingham
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Wi-fi | 19 hours ago |
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Birmingham
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20 hours ago | |
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Birmingham
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Internet | 22 hours ago |
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Walsall
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Wi-fi | 1 day ago |
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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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Satish Danny Paul (@________Danny) reported from West Bromwich, England@virginmedia I received my new 500+mps broadband only to get 6mps on my phone in my room. The Router is Terrible and cannot send the speed to devices via wifi. Not Good for anyone
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jordy (@jordyanslow1) reported from Dudley, England@virginmedia any chance of an update regarding the outage in my local area regarding internet connection? It’s been down 2 days straight!
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Stuart McCullagh (@stumccullagh) reported from Solihull, EnglandHad problems with my TV since September now can’t get any live football or movies @virginmedia
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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 🙃
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Gordé 🦩 (@ReissOmari) reported from Birmingham, England@virginmedia It’s on both WiFi and wired. At this present moment I’m unable to get ANY network from the router on both.
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SorachiTim (@PolymathTim) reported from West Bromwich, EnglandZero Internet connectivity from @virginmedia now for pushing 12 hours. Resetting and/or powering down the hub does nothing, the diagnostic and fault tools just go round and around in an ever more boring circle. #LightningSpeedFarce
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Howard Martin 💚 (@HJMKent) reported from Kidderminster, England@virginmedia Can you please explain why, when I renewed my package in March you reduced my last invoiced bill to reflect the change & took by DD what you said you would! Now you say you will suspend my service because I underpaid? You took what you wanted!
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ch Saqib (@saqibsvideos) reported from Birmingham, England@virginmedia They haven't called me yet that's how bad you're
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Stuart McCullagh (@stumccullagh) reported from Solihull, England@virginmedia how can i speak to someone about my MOBILE account? my password doesn't work & your telling me my moms maiden name isnt correct!
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Ronnie Harris (@redron1975) reported from Walsall Wood, England@virginmedia guess what ********* your system is down again. Useless pricks.
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Stuart McCullagh (@stumccullagh) reported from Solihull, England@Ofcom can I complain about @virginmedia to yourselves? Had no TV service for nearly a month with no help.
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𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚑 (@beffycuk) reported from Dudley, England@virginmedia Yes, and every-time it says no issue, when there clearly is! It interferes with everything, the hive, the tv everything! Really considering going elsewhere.
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Stuart McCullagh (@stumccullagh) reported from Solihull, England@virginmedia hi I’ve had an ongoing complaint since September, I’ve had an email to contact yourselves but the phone number is getting me nowhere , is there another way of contacting the complaints dept?
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Stuart McCullagh (@stumccullagh) reported from Solihull, England@IanMurphy111 @virginmedia I am mate awful service
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Andy (@a_Muss60) reported from Swindon, England@matt_hanson70 @virginmedia Intermittent for 2.5 days, Sunday always v poor the worst is 0.4mbs with a 250mbs supply. VM's script always saying reboot etc.. Funny though following reporting an issue a week ago I suddenly recorded 256mbs for an hour then it slowly drops to normal! First ever hitting supply.
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Stephen Bennett (@Stephen12857059) reported from Birmingham, EnglandOnce again the Internet Orovider that claims to be the best @virginmedia, has an outage. I bet all my savings there would be significant kick back if the directors didn’t get paid, because the Lady dealing with their account cannot get online. Time has come for change #cancelVM
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Stuart McCullagh (@stumccullagh) reported from Solihull, England@virginmedia TV completely down this morning ,it’s been intermittent since September nobody helps me just fobbed off. Who is the ombudsman over you I can complain to? I’m no longer prepared to keep paying for services I’m not getting.
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Beard Punk (@BeardPunk) reported from Birmingham, England@virginmedia any updates on the VPN issue?
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jen (@jenkin99) reported from Birmingham, England@virginmedia We had issuse with our service, and was told we would need new cables. We the new cables installed. They left cabels hanging in the garden which has since been removed. Our grass is ruined (I have photos) it looks like next doors cable are also under or grass????
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Simon Neale (@nealesj) reported from Swindon, England@virginmedia Dear ‘RP,’ I find your tone unacceptable. I don’t care how many times you’ve had to repeat the statement; customers are paying for a service they’ve not been getting, so dial down your level of obnoxiousness please.
Virgin Media Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Dgjbear (@Dgjbear1) reported@virginmedia How do I direct message you? Gave up 90 mins on call waiting this morning to speak to your god awful customer service. Trying again now. 17 mins and counting Zoe!
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david hesketh (@davaecho) reported@virginmedia after 20 years have just cancelled my contract awful customer service your company will be on its knees if this continues
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TJKEY (@kytmlm) reported@cee4cat Don’t need internet, good thing really cos @virginmedia is down again this morning
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Jane Wilson (@janewilson1812) reported@virginmedia can you help me!? On two occasions I have telephoned and been promised a new tv box as since I changed my WiFi box to a hub 5 my tv is not recording anything two weeks and nothing arrived
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Anthony Beds 🇬🇩 (@AnthonyBeds) reported@virginmedia let me get this straight you have a chat bot that never works just sends you in loops also cannot contact a human agent, need to change V6 boxes to V60 but impossible because virgin media is uncontactable
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sam ☄️🔥🏳️🌈 (@cleantethemiser) reported@virginmedia Been trying all day to get through to someone and now your chatbot has gone down.
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Dgjbear (@Dgjbear1) reported@virginmedia Why do you bother to ask everyone to send you a DM detailing our issue and then simply ignore it. I am now on hold to you customer service (lol) team for 2hrs 9mons. The team obviously doesn’t exist anymore. I will be messaging you in public until you reply to me
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mec337 (@mec337) reported@virginmedia without doubt the worse customer service in the history of customer service.
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Samina Masood (@Samina_masood3) reported@virginmedia This is the number that we have been calling since 02/5/26 which is a call centre in Pune India. And they are telling me that even with complete loss of service a technician can’t fix it until 12/05/26 we regret moving to Virgin Media!
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Samuel Pierce (@Mrhalfandhalf8) reported@virginmedia hi virgin now a other problem since my Internet went down when I reported it the advisor said they should put 15 pound credit on my bill hasn't happen as it was down for that long.