{"id":423,"date":"2025-07-14T13:43:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T13:43:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:43:03","slug":"virgin-media-down-leaving-customers-complaining-about-total-blackout-news-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media down leaving customers complaining about &#8216;total blackout&#8217; | News Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"646\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SEI_40292710-34ef.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23658492\" alt=\"A shop sign for Virgin media in central London.\" decoding=\"sync\"\/><br \/>\n\t\tCustomers said they were unable to get online this morning (Picture: PA)<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people have reported issues with\u00a0<a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/virgin-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Virgin Media<\/a>\u00a0this morning, according to internet disruption tracker\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.co.uk\/status\/virgin-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Downdetector<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some said that the issue appeared right as they were trying to watch day five of the England vs India cricket test match, and could not access Sky Sports. <\/p>\n<p>David Patterson wrote on X: \u2018I can\u2019t log onto SkySports. It seems to go wrong during the login to VirginMedia from the SkySports Site. I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m missing the end of the Test Match!! Help!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A Virgin Media spokesperson posted in reply: \u2018This is a known issue. Please send us a DM though so we can feedback your details to the team.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>One user shared screenshots showing they were first told \u2018Apologies, we can\u2019t load the page at the moment\u2019, and then: \u2018Our systems are currently down for maintenance, you can try again after 7am.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Others queried whether the problem could be related to a new verification system for log-ins.<\/p>\n<p>One man wrote: \u2018It looks like your new authentication service \u2013 which only started today \u2013 is either struggling with volumes of registration or not able to send SMS. Please do pass to your support team.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In reply to another customer who complained on X, Virgin Media wrote: \u2018Sorry to hear you are having issues with our platform. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">sorry to hear of the issues experienced accessing some of your accounts. We&#8217;ve reached out to our team and been advised there is a known issue the team are working on although there is currently no estimated fix time for this. We apologise for the inconvenience caused but are\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virgin Media \u2764\ufe0f (@virginmedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/virginmedia\/status\/1944707488613372127?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018We have been made aware of this issue, and the relevant team is doing their best to get this resolved. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Please bear with us. We will aim to get systems up and running as soon as possible.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>They said there was \u2018currently no estimated fix time\u2019: \u2018We apologise for the inconvenience caused but are working hard to fully resolve this as quickly as possible.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A Virgin Media O2 spokesperson said:\u00a0\u2018Our fixed and mobile networks are operating as usual today, however we\u2019re aware that a small number of customers are experiencing issues accessing some apps. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Our technical teams are working to restore services as soon as possible and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/07\/14\/virgin-media-leaving-customers-complaining-total-blackout-23658488\/mailto:webnews@metro.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For more stories like this, <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\">check our news page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tNews Updates<\/p>\n<p>Stay on top of the headlines with daily email updates.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Customers said they were unable to get online this morning (Picture: PA) Hundreds of people have reported issues&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,413,50,227,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-internet-outage","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","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=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}