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Virgin Media Outage Report in Rayleigh, Essex, England

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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 Rayleigh, England

The chart below shows the number of Virgin Media reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Rayleigh and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

Virgin Media Outage Chart in Rayleigh, Essex, England 12/26/2025 11:20

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Virgin Media users through our website.

  1. Internet (60%)

    Internet (60%)

  2. Wi-fi (17%)

    Wi-fi (17%)

  3. Total Blackout (12%)

    Total Blackout (12%)

  4. TV (7%)

    TV (7%)

  5. E-mail (4%)

    E-mail (4%)

  6. Phone (1%)

    Phone (1%)

Live Outage Map Near Rayleigh, Essex, England

The most recent Virgin Media outage reports came from the following cities: Southend-on-Sea, Basildon, Canvey Island, Chelmsford, Gravesend and Grays.

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomSouthend-on-Sea Internet
United KingdomBasildon Internet
United KingdomSouthend-on-Sea Internet
United KingdomSouthend-on-Sea Wi-fi
United KingdomBasildon Internet
United KingdomSouthend-on-Sea Wi-fi

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Virgin Media Issues Reports Near Rayleigh, England

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

  • engineer59a Richard S (@engineer59a) reported from Corringham, England

    @virginmedia So only total loss of service allows me compensation,just 7 days of really awful service including customer services, when asked about compensation and I query the criteria,throw a ‘sorry I can’t hear you’... Now that’s really awful customer service 😡

  • claire_m_willia Claire Williams (@claire_m_willia) reported from Gravesend, England

    @virginmedia your customer service is an absolute joke won't ever be using you again . Worst customer service ever !!!!!!!!!

  • marcsnappy Marc Corn (@marcsnappy) reported from Basildon, England

    Hey @virginmedia you better offer me a better deal tomorrow or else I will be leaving. New customers are always treated better than existing. I know from experience with you guys that this never changes.

  • RyanTCB Ryan (@RyanTCB) reported from Basildon, England

    I hate phoning virgin media at weekends and getting the Indian support centre 🤬

  • karengale7 Karen Gale (@karengale7) reported from Corringham, England

    @virginmedia I was waiting to speak to your team after asking to cancel my contract and got cut off just before 9pm!!! Urrrrggghh

  • engineer59a Richard S (@engineer59a) reported from Corringham, England

    @virginmedia 15 minutes wasted waiting on the phone till 9PM For the most awful internet service, 6 days now of truly awful service

  • hilarymillingt hilary (@hilarymillingt) reported from Southend-on-Sea, England

    @virginmedia my landline has had a fault for over 24hrs. Have rung 151 from mobile but being visually impaired can't follow links, help pls

  • engineer59a Richard S (@engineer59a) reported from Corringham, England

    Virgin media - your automated service has a flaw, it just repeats the same message, ‘ no faults found’, when there is a fault, like my internet is giving 2Mb download right now

  • karengale7 Karen Gale (@karengale7) reported from Corringham, England

    @virginmedia I'm really fed up I've waited 45 minutes to speak to you to cancel my services after yet another price increase to be told I've got another 30 minutes to speak to another team I'll go sky for a cheaper deal now

  • shannonispeng S H A N (@shannonispeng) reported from Southend-on-Sea, England

    @virginmedia are trying to say I owe them 2 months of bills even though I can see on my bank statement I paid last months bill. Can someone please advise me as I just sat on hold for 30 minutes only for the rude inept **** to hang up on me after placing me on hold. #fuming

  • LawroGardiner Lawrence Gardiner ➡️ (@LawroGardiner) reported from Basildon, England

    @Dianemiddleto @tankhead666 @virginmedia Thanks. I got the text hours after talking to Virgin Media on the phone to activate my hub after a house move. Never had it before. Something not right in their call centres.

  • dickinson_mark mark Steven (@dickinson_mark) reported from Southend-on-Sea, England

    @virginmedia Only if i had virgin media box for my own but I don't live with my Mum and dad anymore but she my still pays for it anyway on her account by virgin I have a Sony Xperia mobile but my WiFi is Now BT mark Steven Grahame house in Southchurch in Southend please help

  • hilarymillingt hilary (@hilarymillingt) reported from Southend-on-Sea, England

    @virginmedia 2/2 when I've rang them with a toy TV problem,s

  • engineer59a Richard S (@engineer59a) reported from Corringham, England

    @virginmedia WHAT AN AWFUL SERVICE YOU ARE PROVIDING! Internet down over 1 hour, your automated service hangs up when saying it’s going to test my line and when I ring and go to ‘ want to leAve’ that’s a 10 min+ hang on phone Sort yourselves out Virgin Media😡

  • Damboye Damilola Adeboye (@Damboye) reported from Tilbury, England

    Virgin media decided to add £3 to the bill But the broadband service’s poor ...@richardbranson ::: Your company or franchise , can do better

  • tommyewing84 Tom (@tommyewing84) reported from Gravesend, England

    @virginmedia our wifi drips out anything between 4 and 8 times a day. The app always says there are no issues. Getting pretty sick of it now. Looks like going back to @SkyUK is the only way.

  • LIHT80 Lad In His Thirties (@LIHT80) reported from Wickford, England

    @SkyUK internet that I pay for and my package in general is shit! I am contacting @virginmedia tomorrow putting sky. Shocking. Just everything about

  • karengale7 Karen Gale (@karengale7) reported from Corringham, England

    @virginmedia No I've not I will call and cancel my package over the weekend

  • engineer59a Richard S (@engineer59a) reported from Corringham, England

    @virginmedia 3 days of warm weather and your network goes to pot!😔😡 3 rd day in a row no internet intermittently

  • kellydyke08 Kelly Dyke (@kellydyke08) reported from Southend-on-Sea, England

    @virginmedia checked the website apparently no issues in my area, yet tv and WiFi keeps going off 👎🏻👎🏻

Virgin Media Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • yags14 yags14 (@yags14) reported

    @virginmedia No issue being reported, but I’ve not had any internet access since this morning

  • sscott6891 sscott (@sscott6891) reported

    @virginmedia keep suffering small outages ranging from 10-20mins at a time, check your service status doesn't diagnose a problem. Hardware and connections fine. What's the solution?

  • TWAHW Ann Hughes-Wilson (@TWAHW) reported

    @_pauledwards @virginmedia Usually it is ok in the day, and crap at the weekends. But it has been getting worse, despite new cabling, only put in by VM 6 weeks ago....not v happy!!

  • __markbaker Mark Baker (@__markbaker) reported

    @virginmedia I messaged one of your forum staff who has previously helped others with a similar issue, but I haven't had a reply although I know he has been active on the forum since.

  • JamieDawson89 Jamie Dawson (@JamieDawson89) reported

    @virginmedia Yeah after 2 1/2 hours of waiting on chat and an hour on the phone it's sorted, just waiting for someone to come back to me about my complaint

  • wench141 A Olsen (@wench141) reported

    @virginmedia I have, not good when working from home 😣( I know I am not the only one) What are your plans for improving the infrastructure with more people demanding a domestic service?

  • GavinB1991 Gavin (@GavinB1991) reported

    @virginmedia No signs off issues on the Virgin website, but no internet whatsoever. Done the usual disconnect and connect etc. Trying to contact customer services but as usual can’t get though. Happens all the time.

  • hymie66 Addick66 (@hymie66) reported

    @virginmedia @blueberriesbp Can't login to account to find out, hence tweet, aren't you able to find out?

  • JackCounsell Jack Counsell (@JackCounsell) reported

    @virginmedia It has started again after 45 minutes of not working.

  • Andye1975 Andy Edwards (@Andye1975) reported

    @virginmedia All you say is ring the number... The one I spent an hour on last week and they did not fix and the one iv been on hold on for 57 min atm.. For a comms company its so hard to speak to someone.. So basically you cant sort engineer or sort billing... Am I. Correct