Virgin Media outages and service status in Basildon, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Basildon, England

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

The most recent Virgin Media outage reports came from the following cities: Basildon, Southend-on-Sea, Romford, Grays, Wickford, Brentwood, Dartford, Chelmsford, Rochford, South Benfleet, and Billericay.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Basildon	Wi-fi	10 minutes ago
Southend-on-Sea	Internet	17 hours ago
Southend-on-Sea	Wi-fi	3 days ago
Romford	Total Blackout	4 days ago
Southend-on-Sea	Internet	6 days ago
Basildon	TV	7 days ago

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Virgin Media Issues Reports Near Basildon, England

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

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  Nancy S (@mizznansea) reported 34 seconds ago from Aveley, England

  @TracyWoodley4 @virginmedia @Virgin Their service has certainly gone down hill and this issue with the call centre is a complete farce. If they can't even get their own internal systems sorted as a telecomms company what hope do we have? My contract is up in March and I will defo be leaving Virgin.

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  jordan lockey (@LockeyJordan) reported 3 minutes ago from Sutton at Hone, England

  @virginmedia I am not paying the bill until you fix your ****** internet plus your trying to scam us by raising our bill to £225 even though it's supposed to be £130 and we have never missed a payment

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  Penny Rolfe nee Acres (@wonky1961) reported 7 minutes ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  I have had wifi issues since june2020now they are trying to get paid twice im 1 month. Virgin still owe me compensation. Due to Virgin's failure to keepvulnerablepeoplesafe.://www.virginmedia.com/support/help/check-services/address-identification/identify

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  Katie Purkiss (@KatiePurkiss) reported 8 minutes ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  @virginmedia They haven’t got through to anyone to cancel it yet?

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  Nancy S (@mizznansea) reported 10 minutes ago from Aveley, England

  @virginmedia Yes he left a name & phone number, said I should I let him know if I still have issues. I've contacted him 3 times including this morning since his visit last Friday.

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  Dr Stower and the Stock Market of Madness 🦍 (@1CreativeRay) reported 11 minutes ago from Wainscott, England

  @virginmedia Terrible service from you these last two weeks! I have spent more than 4hrs on the phone to Asian based O2, and Virgin call centres who never help or process things. Also Capita in South Africa… Why do you use foreign call centres if they cannot do the job!!

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  Penny Rolfe nee Acres (@wonky1961) reported 16 minutes ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  @MartinSLewis Virgin Media wifi been unstable since June 2020. Virgin Media never resolved the problem caused me to lose hundreds of £'s. Made me lose my PIP. Virgin made me pay double because they kept charging me twice most months. They've made me lose half my PC Guarantee

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  Andee Byford (@BobCratchitt) reported 17 minutes ago from Romford, England

  @virginmedia Yes I have checked the service status, it is the first thing I do & all was fine. The issues is with the cable Ethernet & the phone connection in the Hub 4. I don’t use your WiFi setup as my house is fully cabled for networking. I am a Network Architect, so have done basic tests

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  Mark Connolly (@macon1375) reported 20 minutes ago from Crayford, England

  @virginmedia Of course. I’ve done everything required of me: I was told it’s caused by my home move and the disconnection due on 12th. Things seem to have been prematurely actioned affecting my signal

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  David Ball (@dicksielives) reported 22 minutes ago from Romford, England

  Hi @virginmedia I ordered a new phone via my wife (who is already on Virgin mobile) last Friday. I was told to wait for a confirmation email which I still have not received. Can you help? I have the order No.

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  Nick Miller 🇺🇦 (@NickMillerUK) reported 24 minutes ago from South Ockendon, England

  @virginmedia somehow you have reset my Dad’s Virgin media box, LAN seems to be off and the wifi on it is back on. This is rubbish because we have network setup there with much better hardware than your box. Now none of it works and I am hundreds of miles from his house. Why?

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  Joseph Sweeney (@JosephS65112253) reported 25 minutes ago from Sutton at Hone, England

  @virginmedia I’m going into my 5 week of problems with this crap company they say they will investigate but nothing, no compensation nothing.

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  Phil (@feyipuk) reported 26 minutes ago from Crayford, England

  @virginmedia Phoned, and as expected; they can't just "put this right". The equipment and service are working fine. That the dish is broken and there is little slack to enable me to bury the cable deeper is due to local engineers. Will just have to dig trench, break cable and wait again!

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  Russell Norris (@rrrussboy) reported 27 minutes ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  @virginmedia I raised the complaint on 14/7 and I’ve heard nothing

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  Katie Purkiss (@KatiePurkiss) reported 36 minutes ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  Hey @virginmedia Parents new 360 box not working and engineer not available to come out til the 27th!!!! Not good enough! 😔

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  Dr Andrew Fleming 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@Andrew007Uk) reported 43 minutes ago from Sutton at Hone, England

  After a mammoth session on the phone to 6 of your departments to arrange interim broadband given your service failed in Nov. & won't be fixed to March I spoke to a helpful chap called David in the Customer Care Dept before I was cut off. Can you help reconnect me @virginmedia 🙏🏻

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  Dr Andrew Fleming 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@Andrew007Uk) reported 46 minutes ago from Sutton at Hone, England

  @virginmedia John - lights are on but the external fault has already been established. It is a contractor that has to deal with the issue - one claimed to have done it but it failed to work - now you contractor is failing to respond to requests by your colleagues 4 updates on a new commission

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  Penny Rolfe nee Acres (@wonky1961) reported 54 minutes ago from Southend-on-Sea, England

  @Mattallwright 2 years on since I have been having trouble with Virgin Media (fingers crossed) they may have now get an uninterrupted supply after charging me late payments more than double my Media prices whilst as a Vulnerable Person they were awful

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  Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@WhiskyOneIce) reported 55 minutes ago from Sutton at Hone, England

  @virginmedia Yes I have chased and chased and spent 4 hours today on WhatsApp, no advise just can't help because I have outstanding bill....no the line isn't active because it was ported over to Community Fibre on 8th July

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  Phil (@feyipuk) reported 56 minutes ago from Crayford, England

  @virginmedia I'm sorry for the two poor support staff who are trying to sell us new remote controls, routers and O2 sims - for more money - till we hit the nuclear option and say we're leaving to get what we're asking? We're loyal customers; why does it need to get to that?

Virgin Media Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  dawnieC (@CorkinDawn) reported 7 minutes ago

  @virginmedia Plus convenient for you to get out of the compensation clause, restoring it for a few hours. The latest update showing is fix by 5 August at 16:08, so another whole day without internet. Is this a new fault or the last one not fixed properly?

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  Kathy Miller (@KathyMi25429227) reported 7 minutes ago

  How long outage in CR02BG please @virginmedia on hold for forever.. shocking customer service...

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  C (@V4RSTAPP4N) reported 14 minutes ago

  @TheRyanDyslexia @ShiinaBR need to be a customer of o2 or virgin media to get it

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  Roy Andrew Clarke (@royo42) reported 18 minutes ago

  Evri have got to rate alongside Virgin Media as Bloody a awful excuse for a business!

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  John Bhoy Walton (@walton_bhoy) reported 19 minutes ago

  @virginmedia No i am going to i said to the call handler i dont believe a word anyone connected to your company says anymore i took a day off work and was told it was fine. I am paying for something which seems to be known there is an issues which are not getting fixed

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  Davie G 🇬🇧 (@fredbeare) reported 19 minutes ago

  @biggle1908 Wouldnt touch virgin media witha barge pole, agreed to join them then customer service set in was apallingso pulled out

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  oodaluke 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@oodaluke) reported 19 minutes ago

  @cw_fc26 Same here, Virgin Media issue

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  Zoe Smith (@ladyspeakerz) reported 20 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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  Georgios A (@technolagnos) reported 20 minutes ago

  @MTBoar @virginmedia That’s just rubbish, you can take it off you want it (however have a look at the issues people have had with cancelling their Virgin media subscriptions at the end before you do…)

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  Dide (@dide_oluwa) reported 26 minutes ago

  @virginmedia your network has been terrible for days now , no cell signal whatsoever