Key events
Here is the map of reports of Virgin Media outages by users (again via DownDetector).
As you can see, reports are fairly widespread in the largest cities, where most of the customers for its fibre optic broadband are concentrated.
Virgin Media users started reporting problems in their thousands after 1am on Tuesday morning, according to DownDetector, a web statistics provider.
DownDetector’s data show when reports of outages rise above a normal baseline. By 1:53am the number of outage reports had risen to more than 15,000. After a lull in the middle of the night, there appear to be thousands more people reporting outages in the morning rush to log on.
Virgin Media users report outages
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Virgin Media users across the UK are reporting problems with internet access.
The DownDetector website showed thousands of reports of outages starting just after 1am on Tuesday morning, with a surge of reports from about 6:30am as users tried to log on in the morning.
Users of Twitter posted that they were unable to access the internet via their Virgin connections.
Virgin Media’s website did not appear to be accessible on Tuesday morning.
The company has been contacted for comment.
The agenda
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9am BST: Credit Suisse annual meeting
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9am BST: European Central Bank consumer expectations survey
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10am BST: Bank of England Silvana Tenreyro speech
