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, Bromsgrove, Walsall, Brierley Hill, Halesowen, Wolverhampton, Tamworth, West Bromwich, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Stourbridge, Wednesbury, Bilston, Dudley, and Rowley Regis.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Birmingham	Total Blackout	7 hours ago
Birmingham	Internet	18 hours ago
Bromsgrove	Internet	19 hours ago
Birmingham	Internet	20 hours ago
Birmingham	E-mail	23 hours ago
Birmingham	Wi-fi	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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  Howard Martin 💚 (@HJMKent) reported 2 minutes ago 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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  Colin Hunt (@HuntColin58) reported 3 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @virginmedia It took me best part of a day Friday 24/3/2023 to contact you to cancel my broadband but since I finally managed to you have been contacting me 4 times a day. We have signed a contract with someone else. Please stop harassing us we have cancelled

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  Stuart McCullagh (@stumccullagh) reported 6 minutes ago 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

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  ch Saqib (@saqibsvideos) reported 10 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @virginmedia They haven't called me yet that's how bad you're

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  Andraay Leung (@Andraay) reported 13 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 24 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  Mad that I pay £71 a month for 350mbps for @virginmedia Broadband for them to only supply me with 40mbps, internet is barely moving, can’t even load basic web pages on my MacBook or phone. Problems in the Birmingham area?

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  Casey Rain (aka S-Endz) (@CaseyRain) reported 26 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 28 minutes ago from Solihull, England

  @virginmedia right I’ve had issues for nearly a month I’ve done the link there’s a problem with the TV box please can I speak to a human ? This is seriously taking the mick now

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  Howard Martin 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@HJMKent) reported 30 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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  shanny C 🌹 (@_shannonC) reported 31 minutes ago from Solihull, England

  @virginmedia haha you mean the same forum where they didn’t answer me for days last time, and they didn’t resolve anything???? waste of time. they told me to check the speed and check for area issues. absolutely awful customer service when i’ve been complaining about this for WEEKS now.

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  Stu Jones (@StuJonesMusic) reported 32 minutes ago from Kidderminster, England

  Hi @virginmedia, I am in Kidderminster, Worcestershire (DY11) and my Virgin Media broadband connection is very poor this week. I have checked your website & apparently there are no issues in my area. I have also restated my access point/router twice but no improvement.

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  Jazba Entertainment (@JazbaEnt) reported 34 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

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  Adie Hughes (@AdieJAMster) reported 39 minutes ago from Swindon, England

  @virginmedia Internet has been down again for the whole night. When I spoke to you about the recent last 6 times it’s been down you said there was no issue! Looks like whole of UK was down now yet our bills go UP & UP & UP! #virginmedia

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  Stuart McCullagh (@stumccullagh) reported 44 minutes ago from Solihull, England

  @IanMurphy111 @virginmedia I am mate awful service

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  Trickie Dickie (@NickHickey84) reported 50 minutes ago 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?

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  Steve Lees (@measlewolf) reported 50 minutes ago from Dudley, England

  @virginmedia afternoon. I’ve been on hold for 25 mins and when I finally got through the line went dead after security questions. My mum has been without her TV service for over a week. Last night an engineer was due by 6 o’clock and never showed. Another text stating the 26th

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  Marianne Sommerville 🌻 (@MariannexS) reported 53 minutes ago from West Bromwich, England

  @virginmedia red button for the football not working again. @SkySports

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  Simon Neale (@nealesj) reported 56 minutes ago 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

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  Evan Davis (@EvanD) reported 57 minutes ago 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.

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  Satish Danny Paul (@________Danny) reported 58 minutes ago 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

Virgin Media Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Stephen Old #FBPE (@StephenOld) reported 3 minutes ago

  @thenorth4theeu @virginmedia I tried to change a few years ago but they made the process impossible. They sent me texts instead of emails and no other providers will deal with Virgin directly. They have just been fined for their poor customer service, I think. They don't even reach basic standards of decency

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  Raymond Watts (@raydwatts) reported 4 minutes ago

  @virginmedia I have still recieved no response from your help team

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  Shaun (@shauny67) reported 10 minutes ago

  @QxPain_ @virginmedia Restart phone then should connect to WiFi ensure it connects to your network then test with opening a browser and running a speed test

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  Richard Bignell (@NothingLane) reported 12 minutes ago

  @trapdoor456 @virginmedia Nope, but much the same story. Dumped useless Virgin years ago. Now with @zeninternet. Once you start a contract, the price NEVER increases. They're a UK company, so absolutely no overseas call centres and the tech service has been first class.

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  rob smith (@robsmit54519473) reported 12 minutes ago

  @scripture36 @virginmedia Perhaps try being actually disabled. Instead of a bit slow

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  Robson Ramalho (@Rp61Robson) reported 13 minutes ago

  Tired of paying for multiple subscriptions like Sky, BT Sport, Virgin Media, Now TV, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV+? I have got the solution. This IPTV @8k_World_Iptv14 offers: • 300,000+ live channels • 65,000+ VODs • PPV events • Netflix • 78,000+ movies

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  Ermito Fernandes (@ErmitoF) reported 22 minutes ago

  Hi any idea whats whats happening with the service outage in Hinckley Road, Narborough Road area since morning? This is so unreliable as I lost my today's appointments as there was no prior intimation of this outage. When is this expected back online? @virginmedia

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  Sophie (@sophm108) reported 24 minutes ago

  @virginmedia - recordings on my TV hasnt worked for 2 days now. Ive tried restarting , checking connection etc but still having issues. Once again paying for a service that im not receiving

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  Ali Dalton (@alidalton) reported 24 minutes ago

  In 2017 I was the first designer at a UK fintech startup now valued at $100m+, with 500+ employees across 60 countries. It was just me, two founders, and two others in a room in London. The work wasn't a redesign. It was branding and the early flows for a payments platform. Nobody in that room called it design strategy. It was five people deciding how the product should work before there was a product. Then I spent almost a decade in the corporate world. Citibank, Mercedes, NatWest, Virgin Media. Products used by 50M+ people. £11M NPV on one project. That world taught me systems thinking, rigour, how to make a decision that survives fifteen stakeholders and a compliance review. It also taught me that six months to ship a signup flow is not a law of physics. It's a byproduct of the org chart. Most funded founders assume those two things come as a package. That if you want big company craft you have to accept big company timelines. You don't. The thinking travels. The process doesn't have to. I didn't leave because the work was bad. It was the best training I could have asked for. I left because I wanted the room of five again. Take everything those companies taught me and run it my way. No six week kickoff. No deck to justify a deck. A way founders can actually work with. So I started my studio last year. 5+ projects since across Fintech, publishing, agri-tech, and two founders launching their brands from zero. It's graft. But it's my graft now. If you're funded, building, and the product works but the numbers don't - that's the exact problem I spend my days on.

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  Emily Atkins (@bahallathegreat) reported 25 minutes ago

  @virginmedia hi guys um I need a engineer to relay my cable also just to check my hub etc as my speeds up stairs are half what the used to be we’ve done all the normal stuff soo just need the number but all I find is customer services