Virgin Media Outage Report in 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.
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E-mailProblems in the last 24 hours in Essex, England
The chart below shows the number of Virgin Media reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Essex and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Virgin Media users through our website.
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Internet (55%)
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Wi-fi (16%)
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Total Blackout (14%)
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TV (7%)
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E-mail (6%)
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Phone (2%)
Live Outage Map Near Essex, England
The most recent Virgin Media outage reports came from the following cities: Halstead, Chelmsford, Braintree and Essex.
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Halstead |
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| Halstead |
Total Blackout | |
| Halstead |
Internet | |
| Chelmsford |
Internet | |
| Chelmsford |
Total Blackout | |
| Halstead |
Total Blackout |
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Virgin Media Issues Reports Near Essex, England
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Essex and nearby locations:
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Luke Redpath
(@lukeredpath) reported
from
Eight Ash Green, England
Looks like #VirginMedia is on the verge of falling over again. Had connection issues over the last half hour including Twitter not loading, *** pushes failing and Zoom being slow to connect. But weirdly I can still run a solid speed test.
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rachel Wheelhouse 🇺🇦
(@RWheelhouse1) reported
from
Chelmsford, England
@virginmedia 6 days since moving to Virgin, we are having issues, the WiFi won't reach our outside cameras. After completing the troubleshooting guides + waiting for over an hour for a chat agent + 30 mins on the phone, we still haven't spoken to a human....not impressed
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Rachel Romain
(@RERomain) reported
from
Chelmsford, England
@virginmedia It has been almost 30 years since he was a new customer... 🙃
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⭐️ 🇪🇺 Paul ⭐️ Dunning 🇪🇺 ⭐️
(@hairydalek) reported
from
Writtle, England
Sadly, the @horror_channel catchup service isn’t on @virginmedia , which is a total bummer.
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m
(@leipperm) reported
from
Braintree, England
@virginmedia I just spoke to your customer service team a d was transferred to 2 different opperators before they just hang up on me with out resolving the issue .
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m
(@leipperm) reported
from
Braintree, England
It's annoying that @virginmedia customer service refused to acknowledge this other persons details had some how been linked to my email with my bank account on their account.
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Paul
(@Paul07852224) reported
from
Chelmsford, England
@virginmedia Hi, yeah done that - no issues
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Paul
(@Paul07852224) reported
from
Chelmsford, England
@virginmedia Hi, done the reboot and pin reboot but still dropping out drastically. The speeds I was getting to the speeds I am getting is really bad
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Rohan Ataa
(@RohanAtaa) reported
from
Great Notley, England
@virginmedia @deantorris Why you guys don't have call back service?
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Laura Dyer
(@MrsDyer25) reported
from
Great Baddow, England
@virginmedia So what can be done to improve the technical issues we are having? Could it be our equipment?
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Laura Dyer
(@MrsDyer25) reported
from
Great Baddow, England
@virginmedia Yes and I am doing it again now. No network issue has been found
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Laura Dyer
(@MrsDyer25) reported
from
Great Baddow, England
@virginmedia I have checked and there are no faults. I am still having issues over a week later and this is totally unacceptable! Two children trying to take part of zoom lessons which they keep dipping in and out of as the connection just keeps dropping! Unable to get through to you on 150
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Jon Read
(@joniread68) reported
from
Great Baddow, England
Any @virginmedia customers out there who’ve been landed a price increase - just ring them on 03454541111 and the automated service immediately offers you a £4.50 pm discount for 6 months = £27 of savings. Bit of a weird way of doing business but obvs hope many just suck it up. 👍
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Jon Read
(@joniread68) reported
from
Great Baddow, England
@virginmedia no way of contacting you over cancelling my contract, lines are down. How do we speak to you?
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katie lee
(@katiewoo26) reported
from
Chelmsford, England
@virginmedia After spending 1 hour on hold, I gave up. I just want to order a booster for my broadband! Please help!
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Mark Harrison
(@maharrison) reported
from
Chelmsford, England
@virginmedia Thank you I am going to try again via sales as managed to get through last night but was informed I need to speak to construction and they were closed. Complaint ref was/is C-030920566 Thanks for helping Mark
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Mark Harrison
(@maharrison) reported
from
Chelmsford, England
@virginmedia I have continually tried to call, your wait times are really unacceptable, anyway I have also opted for the text service, however no text received. I am losing faith I’ve been waiting since August for some kind of contact from you. Any other options?
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Mark Harrison
(@maharrison) reported
from
Chelmsford, England
@virginmedia I have continually tried to call, your wait times are really unacceptable, anyway I have also opted for the text service, however no text received. I am losing faith I’ve been waiting since August for some kind of contact from you. Any other options?
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Mark Harrison
(@maharrison) reported
from
Chelmsford, England
@virginmedia Ok so I need to arrange another visit I won’t be contacted? Can you see how bad this looks? Now I’ll be in London I need to arrange someone to be there to let an engineer in unless there is a smaller window
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CK|Fitness
(@DjOoooosch) reported
from
Braintree, England
@virginmedia How is it I can buy a new mobile phone from you yet I can’t speak to anyone about my current phone? Shocking and **** Customer care.
Virgin Media Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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The cloudscaper
(@TCloudscaper) reported
@virginmedia @555Husker Virgin Media has promised to fix my broadband since the 15th day in, day out, empty words. They cut my wire and left. Still no service, no fix, just promises. This isn’t acceptable. #VirginMedia #BroadbandFail
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mick harkin
(@mickharkin68531) reported
@brakusmc @virginmedia @SkyUK I would expect so much more from a business broadband service
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The REAL Ric Jones
(@brakusmc) reported
At this point, I'm certain @virginmedia is just a ploy to get me back in the office. My phone is on WiFi but the app says I'm not. Awful signal in my home office & when they tell me to order a pod, the link doesn't work. Even though it was slower, I shouldn't have left @SkyUK
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𝐊𝐀𝐓𝐄 🌺
(@KatieMcElhoney) reported
@virginmedia swapping over to yourselves has been such a mistake & it seems so immoral keeping us in our contract when you can’t provide the speeds we have paid for. 15 years with @O2 and they’ll be losing me as a customer too because your merger insinuates you both think it’s OK
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John Yani
(@JohnYani) reported
@c3llc0de @shangoman @virginmedia VirginMedia beats OpenReach in fibre coverage. And is cheaper. The problem is either aggressive sales or a leaky customer database.
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Kazzaaaaah!!
(@Kazzaaaaah) reported
@bobwootton @virginmedia My broadband is off too (nothing new there). Service check no help - all it wants to do is run a speed check which doesn't work because I'm not online! TV has an amber exclamation mark too but that's working fine. Hope I'm online by am or I'll have to pay to go into the office
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Dan Emsley
(@DanEmsman) reported
@virginmedia I've had broadband for just over a week as a new customer. It seems to be working fine apart from a small dropout last weekend except for my Sky Q TV box. It cannot hold a connection so can't watch any on demand TV. I've tried various things based upon online advice
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Tommybhoy79🍀🏴⚽
(@ruchillbhoy79) reported
Hey @virginmedia get your internet issues sorted in the Uddingston area! Been faulty for months now.... we're fed up paying you lot a lot of money for a shite service! 😡🤬 Time to look for a switch I'm thinking and I won't be the only one I bet!
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Horatio Bullwinkle
(@harryvek) reported
@virginmedia You guys have a scummy customer retention policy. My contract is expiring soon. I'll be paying £63.42 if I take the renewal now costs, and from 13/08/2025 my monthly price will go up to £102.42 otherwise If I don't. Yet new customers after their contract is up at 18 months are being charged £40.49 till April 2026, how do you justify this ridiculous practice ??
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B o b W o o t t o n (also on BlueSkyj
(@bobwootton) reported
@virginmedia Yes, still down, estimated fix by 7pm