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Evening Standard
Anna Wise

Virgin Media fined £23.8m after putting vulnerable customers at ‘risk of harm’

Virgin Media said it has introduced further safeguards to improve its treatment of vulnerable customers (Nick Ansell/PA) - (PA Archive)

Virgin Media has been fined £23.8 million by Ofcom after putting thousands of vulnerable customers at “direct risk of harm” when moving them to digital landlines.

A number of serious incidents took place when Virgin was upgrading its customers’ home phone services in November and December 2023, the media and communications watchdog said.

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