{"id":197371,"date":"2025-10-13T15:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/197371\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T15:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:44:09","slug":"virgin-media-customers-report-outages-as-wifi-signal-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/197371\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media customers report outages as wifi-signal drops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  According to DownDetector, more than 1,000 people have reported issues with Virgin Media in the last hour.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Users have been turning to\u00a0social media platforms to complain about the outages.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n    Network outage.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have Internet connection on your phone or router?<\/p>\n<p>Vodafone, BT, onestream, Virgin Media, Voxi, CityFibre, TalkTalk, EE, Sky, Three, O2. All down.\ud83d\ude07\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    \u2014 george haggi (@HaggiGeorge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HaggiGeorge\/status\/1977752241831358640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 13, 2025<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>  What is Downdetector?<\/p>\n<p>\n  Downdetector is an online website that allows users of popular services including X (Twitter),\u00a0Instagram, Facebook, Virgin Media and more to report if they are having trouble with the services.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The site only reports an incident when the number of problem reports is significantly higher than the typical volume for that time of day.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Describing itself on its website, Downdetector is \u201cwhere people go when services don\u2019t work.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  RECOMMENDED READING:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk\/news\/national\/uk-today\/25522948.apple-samsung-users-owed-share-480-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Around 30 million Apple and Samsung users in the UK could be owed share of \u00a3480m<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The website monitors disruptions to various key services including the internet, web hosting platforms, banks, social media and more.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  You can see the full methodology and learn more about how Downdetector collects status information and detects problems via its website.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In short, users can get involved by submitting any issue reports on the platform.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Problem indicators are also collected from social media and other factors on the web, Downdetector explained.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to DownDetector, more than 1,000 people have reported issues with Virgin Media in the last hour. Users&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-197371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}