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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Kalyeena Makortoff and Alex Hern

Thousands of Virgin Media customers in UK hit by outages

The Virgin Media logo is seen displayed on a smartphone.
The cause of the Virgin Media outages was not immediately clear. Photograph: Rafael Henrique/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock

Thousands of Virgin Media customers across the UK experienced widespread internet, telephone and TV outages throughout Tuesday.

Downdetector, which tracks outages, said around 50,000 people had reported problems with their services at one point, with the glitch first noticed by some customers shortly after 1am BST.

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