Virgin Media outages and service status in Runcorn, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Runcorn, England

The chart below shows the number of Virgin Media reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Runcorn, 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 Runcorn, England

The most recent Virgin Media outage reports came from the following cities: Liverpool, Widnes, Warrington, St Helens, Ellesmere Port, Birkenhead, Prescot, Northwich, Runcorn, Chester, and Bootle.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Liverpool	Internet	3 days ago
Liverpool	Internet	3 days ago
Widnes	Total Blackout	3 days ago
Warrington	Wi-fi	4 days ago
Liverpool	Wi-fi	4 days ago
St Helens	TV	5 days ago

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Virgin Media Issues Reports Near Runcorn, England

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

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  Elaine Brown (@laineypb2109) reported 8 minutes ago from Birkenhead, England

  @virginmedia 15% increase, don't think so mate. I'll be in touch via phone shortly with a cancellation notice. So much for long serving customer loyalty

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  Mrs Smith (@SmithysMaud) reported 8 minutes ago from St Helens, England

  Day 42 of no service from @virginmedia. Engineer meant to be coming again today, think I’ve more chance of a unicorn showing up to be fair. 🦄

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  Tom Rushton (@tomrushton88) reported 10 minutes ago from Haydock, England

  @virginmedia Or put me through to a manager or try to be remotely helpful in keeping me as a customer, im trying to sign an 18 month contract to give you money every month which I could just give to someone else I will not let this lie till i have my money back!

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  Tim Jackson (@TimmyJ1972) reported 14 minutes ago from Liverpool, England

  @virginmedia I haven’t seen the credit applied yet, that’s the issue. This will be the 4th time that I’ve been told it’s been corrected and to wait around 24 hours but so far this has never worked

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  DRood 🏳️‍🌈🎗 (@DoctorRood) reported 15 minutes ago from Chester, England

  @virginmedia What does Virgin do for disabled people, when their internet goes down?

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  Martin Travis (@lurkinhead) reported 15 minutes ago from Birkenhead, England

  @virginmedia Okay, but with respect, the problem is your call centre say different stuff every time, which inevitably bears no resemblance to reality. Later, VM deny those conversations ever took place and there is no written evidence to back up what was agreed. That's what I am after here?

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  Mark Langshaw (@MarkLangshaw) reported 17 minutes ago from Liverpool, England

  @virginmedia Hello, my broadband was supposed to be installed on 6th Sept but your engineer only did half a job and ****** off. When I call up to find out when you're coming back to finish my installation, I can't get a straight answer and nobody calls me back! Shite service!

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  Colette Ellison (@colette2511) reported 23 minutes ago from Warrington, England

  @virginmedia No not going through it it’s too long and I don’t have time. Just wanted to everyone know that vm is a bad company and are robbing gets. Trading standards have been told and I’m 💯 % sure that there’s thousands of people doing the same

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  Mrs Smith (@SmithysMaud) reported 33 minutes ago from St Helens, England

  @virginmedia are an absolute joke. Was told to call back at half 6 and guess what? They’re shut! And again, no engineer visit. Getting cancelled 1st thing in the morning. Over a month of total loss of service, piss take. #avoid

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  Colette Ellison (@colette2511) reported 37 minutes ago from Warrington, England

  @richardbranson you really need to sort out your company @virginmedia they a robbing gets. That company is bad in all areas. Some advice for people trying to cancel record everything for proof as they say they have cancelled it then send you loads of bills 😡

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  James (@jgrailpics) reported 39 minutes ago from Liverpool, England

  Completely pathetic useless company @virginmedia Every single day there's some sort of problem EVERY SINGLE DAY Can't wait til this contracts over, after that in a bit useless crap

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  John Kelly (@John_Kelly17) reported 39 minutes ago from St Helens, England

  @CruisingTheCut I’ve had very few issues with virgin media - depends if you need TV though. Otherwise I’ve heard very good things about over the air using the three network or EE.

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  hazzalad (@lfc_shirts) reported 40 minutes ago from Seaforth, England

  @virginmedia any help?

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  Tony (@AckerHeron) reported 45 minutes ago from Liverpool, England

  Hi @virginmedia, my dear old mum has been on the phone for 20 minutes because her broadband has gone down. Your advisors keep saying to reset the hub and disconnecting before it's sorted. Any ideas? Still using the crap one you sent years ago despite her recontracting

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  Mrs Smith (@SmithysMaud) reported 45 minutes ago from St Helens, England

  @virginmedia All the while taking my direct debit payments for a service I am not getting

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  Josh (@Parleyyyyyy) reported 48 minutes ago from Liverpool, England

  @virginmedia I’ve just done that. If you watch the video though you’ll see it doesn’t even let me get to the login page. As soon as I click on virgin media customer it tries to take me to a website & then closes down

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  Simon Roberts (@Simonrob1984) reported 48 minutes ago from Saughall, England

  @virginmedia why is the service down in Chester area? #virginmediadown

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  Mrs Smith (@SmithysMaud) reported 53 minutes ago from St Helens, England

  @virginmedia No, they just left. Rang your customer service they are now telling me the problem is internal. I’ve had no internet since July, no tv since August. It’s beyond a joke now. 5 visits I’ve had.

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  Mick Mc 23 (@Mick_McIver1984) reported 58 minutes ago from Kirkby, England

  Anyone else useless @virginmedia gone down got no internet house is in melt down

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  Mrs Smith (@SmithysMaud) reported 58 minutes ago from St Helens, England

  @virginmedia I reported a total loss of service on 31/8. It was finally fixed this morning. After no shows, lies and weeks between visits. They have not even offered to cover the cost of my last 3 dd’s which I wish I hadn’t paid as I had no service whatsoever

Virgin Media Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Martin Jones (@MHartleyJones) reported 5 minutes ago

  @virginmedia OK Thanks. A technician will be visiting us tomorrow, though I suspect that the fault is in your exchange switch. My point is that you should keep repairs and sales separate. A customer with a serious phone problem is unlikely to buy extra services at that time.

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  Captain Nemesis says *settlers are criminals (@Annoyntmint) reported 5 minutes ago

  I wish to cancel my subscription with virgin media. Check my DM to you. @virginmedia

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  (Re)Search & Destroy (@TruthAsylum121) reported 5 minutes ago

  THREAD 9 — COMMUNITY CALLING AND THE MONEY BEHIND THE DEVICES The Community Calling programme gives us another important part of the story. Virgin Media O2 and Hubbub have worked together to collect and redistribute unwanted smartphones. Migrant Help has been one of the organisations receiving devices for asylum seekers and refugees. Then there is the Tech Lending Community Fund. The first phase was worth £400,000 and supported charity partners to establish tablet-lending hubs. The projects included organisations such as Thames Reach, the Kurdish and Middle Eastern Women’s Organisation, Willowacre Trust, Refuge and Leeds Refugee Forum, with tablets and O2 data being made available through the programme. In Swansea, around 700 donated phones were distributed through a Community Calling project, with O2 providing 12 months of free data, calls and texts. Swansea Asylum Seekers Support made 127 referrals to the scheme in 2021. Its records also show £8,175 spent on phone top-ups, covering 1,160 £10 top-ups. There was another £2,400 provided by Hay Brecon Talgarth Sanctuary for Refugees. The funding came through organisations including the Moondance Foundation, Comic Relief/SCVS Emergency Fund and Welsh Government/SCVS Integration Care Fund. This is where the investigation starts moving beyond technology companies. There is philanthropic money. There is council money. There is Government money. There is corporate money. And there are charities distributing the resulting technology.

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  𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆟 𓆝 (@P0lyblank) reported 6 minutes ago

  do not get ******* virginmedia as your wifi plan they ****** up installing this **** and it cuts you every 5 seconds

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  Simone-Lee Deal (@StiffNips2) reported 6 minutes ago

  @JimMooreJourno CEO is too busy counting his £1 mil package to give a ****, and Burnham shows no interest in dealing with it. Amazing that it's a merry-go-round of useless bastards buggering up companies; he used to be at British Gas, equal only to Virgin Media for dissatisfied customers.

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  Karen (@KarenLancs) reported 7 minutes ago

  @O2 @virginmedia had no internet since 7am - intermittent signal! Now says no broadband issues, but still cannot connect - PR5 area - please sort it out!

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  Ashley Smith (@AshleySmithUK) reported 7 minutes ago

  @virginmedia New contract Jul 31. Netflix completely broken, web throwing errors, and profile is showing an incorrect phone number that isn't mine. Called, used WhatsApp, zero help. Logged formal complaint and got a generic 28-day wait. Unacceptable customer service. Fix this.

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  Lynne Harper (@LynneHa33713143) reported 11 minutes ago

  @andyburnham Just keep issuing massive fines to these companies like you did with Virgin Media until these companies make it much less complicated to cancel their subscriptions.

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  Zoe Smith (@ladyspeakerz) reported 11 minutes ago

  @andyburnham PLEASE READ THIS TWEET EVERYONE. IF ANY VIRGIN MEDIA STAFF AT BAGULEY MANCHESTER CALL CENTRE WHERE I WORKED WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR SLANDERING ME / FRAMING ME. THEN HERES PROOF THAT COMPANY ARE A BUNCH OF CRUEL UNETHICAL IMMORAL SCAMMERS YOU DONT THINK IF THEY CAPABLE OF DOING THIS TO THEIR CUSTOMERS WHAT THEY CAPABLE OF DOING TO A WOMAN THEY HATE AND NO DOUBT JEALOUS OF here’s some confirmed validated real evidence NOT THEM BEING FRAMED that the staff at Virgin media call centres were all pardoned allowed to scam MILLIONS of their customers Here is proof Copied and pasted from Google please refer to articles in the press that confirm this what I’ve tweeted here If you think moral decent people do this to their customers scamming them in a cruel cold way SEEK JESUS  Virgin Media was fined a record £28 million by Ofcom in July 2026 for deliberately making it difficult for customers to cancel their contracts and switch to rival providers. Investigation Findings The regulatory investigation covered calls made between January 1, 2022, and September 11, 2024. Ofcom found that MILLIONS of customer service interactions were mishandled to prevent or delay cancellations. Specific tactics included: • Deliberately dropping or hanging up calls when customers asked to cancel. Putting callers on hold for no reason to frustrate them Excessive and unnecessary call transfers between departments. Using a two-tier retention system where only specific agents were allowed to process final cancellations. THIS LOT ARE CONFIRMED CRUEL SCAMMERS

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  Terry Cooke 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇮🇱 (@tezcooke) reported 14 minutes ago

  @virginmedia your routers really are ****!!! I’m sat in garden, in direct line of maybe 8 metres from router and can’t get wifi signal. If only you valued quality of service !