THOUSANDS of Virgin Media customers are struggling to access the internet.
The telecoms firm appears to be suffering from outages across the UK, leaving customers unable to work from home.
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Over 38,000 customers have reported problems using the website DownDetector.
Areas including Birmingham, Nottingham and London are experiencing issues.
Millions of people around the UK are currently working at home due to the coronavirus crisis.
The outage began shortly around 5.45pm and are believed to be ongoing, leaving many unable to work.
Virgin Media, which has 3.2million customers, have confirmed that they are looking into the issue.
The telecoms firm has been tweeting some customers to apologise and says its aware of “technical issues” affecting some customers.
Frustrated customers took to Twitter to vent their fury over their lack of connectivity.
One said:”@virginmedia has your entire service and network just died? My internet has gone down and your site is unreachable. My friends on Virgin also lost internet.”
Another added: “Virgin media’s gone down for the whole country by looks of it, can still get on Xbox but can’t get on any games.”
A third said: “I’m currently working from home! I have no internet cannot access work systems what is going on!?.”
Virgin Media isn’t alone in experiencing technical issues, as internet providers, banks and mobile firms regularly suffer from outages.
Tens of thousands of Three Mobile customers were left without phone and internet access due to an outage in October last year.
While HSBC suffered from a technical error locking out customers in September.
