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Thora
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Why can't I get virgin media both neighbours have it?

Both neighbours have virgin media installed. But I've been told that I can't receive any services. I've contacted virgin 4 times, they were supposed to call me back. But never do. Every house on the road is listed when you check to see if you can get the service except mine. 

  • Hi, some background info before an answer of sorts....

    virgin use their own cables etc, so totally separate to bt. This means virgin need to have cables running past your property which they can tap into and run to your house. Note all other providers piggy back on bts lines.
    if your neighbours have virgin, this means you probably will be ok. I say probably as i have virgin as i have a frontage to the main road and virgin ran a fibre cable up my garden to my house. One neighbour also has main road access and has virgin. The other neighbour has no main road access and cant access virgin (unless virgin invest in running fibre into the housing estate itself, not likely for now)

    so, if your property has direct acces to wherever your neighbours cable goes to, you can get virgin. It must be direct access, not through someone elses property..

    assuming you do, then virgin ought to be ok.....i say ought as their systems may not recognise you have access. I had to convince virgin i had main road access when i originally moved from bt....Good luck talking with them 🙂

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  • Hi There,

     

    In the same boat as everyone else. Recently bought a house and the availbility checker says I do not have access to virgin. I spoke to my next door neighbour and he has virgin media, and his virgin box is located right next to my drive way.

    It seems like it should be easy enough to install virgin into my house as it just has to go up through my driveway but after doing the availbility checker and phoning numerous times I am still no further forward. 

     

    Any help would be massively appreciated, hopefully someone could escalate this as my cooling off period with my current provider is coming to an end soon. 

    Thanks

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      David_Bn
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      Thanks for reaching out to us JG7062, and a very warm welcome to you!

      Sorry to hear of the difficulty faced when trying to gain our services at your new property.

      Check out the envelope in the top right hand corner for a private message from me and I'll take some details from you

      Thanks,

      David_Bn