Virgin Media outages and service status in Smethwick, England

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.

Live Outage Map Near Smethwick, England

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Birmingham	Internet	4 hours ago
Birmingham	Internet	5 hours ago
Birmingham	Internet	1 day ago
Birmingham	Internet	2 days ago
Birmingham	TV	2 days ago
West Bromwich	Internet	2 days 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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  LynneMUFC#22#44 (@LynneMasters) reported 3 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @virginmedia why is the Sky Sports red button not working

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  ch Saqib (@saqibsvideos) reported 7 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

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

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  Casey Rain (aka S-Endz) (@CaseyRain) reported 7 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  Had an @virginmedia broadband outage on Sunday for 2 hours. Since then, connection so spotty that I'm getting 10 seconds of completely dropped packets followed by 20 seconds of slow-as-molasses ping times once every 10 minutes.

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  Stuart McCullagh (@stumccullagh) reported 13 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

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

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  Chris Psaras (@chrispsaras) reported 15 minutes ago 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?

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  MJP - mastodonapp.uk/@mrmjprice (@mrmjprice) reported 17 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @virginmedia Async live chat (WhatsApp) sucks as you let me text you with a problem, let it sit for hours, then close it down if I don’t reply within 5 mins and repeat. I’ll just ignore all the comms.

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  Martin Wilkinson (@MartinWilko) reported 17 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  Virginmedia down Sutton Coldfield. National outage . Their website down, unable to report status. No reports or statements from Virgin media. Price rise of 13.8% #VirginMediaoutage @virginmedia

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  John (@jfrncs_) reported 19 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @virginmedia Hi, I have now tried unsuccessfully for 12 hours to use the WhatsApp service as again it goes around in circles if I am not immediately available. The number you helpfully provided hangs up after sending a link… please advise how I talk to someone about my account.

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  Stuart McCullagh (@stumccullagh) reported 19 minutes ago 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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  Evan Davis (@EvanD) reported 24 minutes ago from Solihull, England

  @virginmedia Just called your offshore call centre regarding my internet connection. I’m having the same issues as I had when I got a £154 credit from you. /1

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  Evan Davis (@EvanD) reported 39 minutes ago from Solihull, England

  @virginmedia 2/ Despite that issue being due to a junction connection in the cabinet in the street, the op seems to refuse to look at that and just wants to reboot my router. Also claims it is due to my use of Modem Mode. Is there anyone in the UK I can contact regarding this?

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  Gordé 🦩 (@ReissOmari) reported 40 minutes ago 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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  Stephen Bennett (@Stephen12857059) reported 43 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @virginmedia Nobody has called me and the WhatsApp chat is very frustrating and not dealing with the issue. This is very simple, I was sent contract paperwork with an agreed monthly fee of £86.75. Why have I paid two months of excessively higher payments. I should have left VM

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  iamscorchy (@iamscorchy) reported 43 minutes ago from Wednesfield, England

  @virginmedia Experiencing issues in your area there is a technician in the area but still doesn't explain why my routers fans go really loud and disconnected from everything I have to keep resetting to get it back to normal then on top get "issues in my area" like always

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  Andraay Leung (@Andraay) reported 44 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @virginmedia having issues with Wi-Fi at home and your websites including the one on service status checks are not loading? As a result I can’t even report the problem.

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  Gordé 🦩 (@ReissOmari) reported 46 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @virginmedia Think we need to call an engineer out anyways, before the outage I was only getting 600mbps max when my package is the 1Gig.

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  Beard Punk (@BeardPunk) reported 53 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @virginmedia Hi. The team have also said that the issue isn’t resolved though? Everything has been reset multiple times this morning and still the same issue.

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  TheShannimal🔜#i70 (@TheShannimal_) reported 56 minutes ago from Kidderminster, England

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

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  Howard Martin 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@HJMKent) reported 56 minutes ago from Kidderminster, England

  @virginmedia You have just repeated, word for word, the last tweet you sent me, to which I replied! Pointless trying to have any conversation with @virginmedia because it just goes round in circles! The most appalling customer services in UK in my experience! No more tweets from you, please!

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  Jazba Entertainment (@JazbaEnt) reported 58 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @virginmedia business installation, been given 6 dates since 17th January. 4 no show or wrong booked, 2 attendance but not equipped to extend installation from 1sf floor to 2nd. even billed for a service which is not even installed yet. Nightmare #virginmedia #broadband

Virgin Media Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  DbowNews 🫩 (@Dbow500) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Starlink Exciting times. VIRGIN MEDIA BULLIES NEED KNOCKING DOWN MANY PEGS. MY PREVIOUS CONTRACT STARTED AT £36.. WITHIN 2 YEARS IT ROSE TO £92 FOR A BASIC INTERNET PACKAGE. CONTRACT ENDED I MOVED ASAP. NOT REALISING VIRGIN WERE STILL CHARGING ME, RACKING UP A DEBT. RUINED MY CREDIT SCORE WHEN I REFUSED TO PAY THEM. I OFFERED 50% AND THEY POINT BLANK REFUSED. THE WORST CUSTOMER LOYALTY I'VE EVER DEALT WITH.

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  Tyler (@Tyler2558) reported 4 minutes ago

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  John Malcolm (@johnmalcolm1970) reported 5 minutes ago

  @virginmedia WTF is up with your service lately in PA1? I've logged 309 disconnections in the past week (101 of those in the past day - 439 in month). All I get from your service status page is "Intermittent signal in your area". Is it the weather? Do I need a new hub?

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  Ash (@Ash_GW) reported 9 minutes ago

  Oi @virginmedia yer service is awful. What am I paying you for when I'm having to now watch the game on mobile data? Wastemen

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  Phil66 (@phil66uk) reported 9 minutes ago

  @virginmedia What in the hell is going on with TV your page now saying wont be fixed until 22nd so that be a week with no TV what is the problem want so detail and why is my next door neighbour TV fine had no problms????? and Net now statting to go up and down time to time so what going on ??

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  left blank (@leftblank111) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Simon_Whale @virginmedia Worst company in the UK. Staff are all idiots. Criminal damage at my house…. Took months to resolve.

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  Ryan (@SarkySodRyan) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Simon_Whale @virginmedia You had issues too? I've been sent a new set top box and it doesn't work at all. I need to get back to them next week before they start chucking charges on my account though....

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  Pete McManus (@PeteMcManus) reported 11 minutes ago

  If you’re a local business looking for new broadband whatever you do don’t use @vmbusiness Absolutely useless company, terrible customer service. My wife was given the wrong info when signing up, costing us money and they’ve so far spent 7 weeks investigating it to no avail!

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  Alicia Folge (@ASoria34455) reported 14 minutes ago

  @virginmedia @virginmedia how can you leave customers without access to internet for days in 2026? I just came back from South America & when we had a problem it was fixed within the hour, you really can’t do better?

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  mick1966 (@mickschofield1) reported 14 minutes ago

  @virginmedia No Internet or TV since Monday 13th June, engineer came out today Thursday 16th June checked all the devices and wireing and all good, yet still no service and no explanation or timeline for things to be up and running again.