More than 650 reports were recorded in the past 24 hours by around 12.20pm this afternoon, according to outage tracker DownDetector.

Of those, 73% relate to landline internet outages, 18% to total blackouts and 9% to TV streaming.

Most reports shown on DownDetector’s map are coming out of London and Birmingham.

It comes just days after customers reported losing their broadband service.

Angry customers have taken to Twitter to complain about the outage

One said: “I presume because my expensive, top of the range Broadband service has crashed again (in the middle of something important) that’s there’s another fault somewhere!?!”

Another wrote: “Virgin Media is down in the north west again but even the service status on the website isn’t working.”

While a third Tweeted: “Honestly sometimes devastating when your phone and your home broadband are both with Virgin Media.

“I’m basically living in the early 90s with no internet today (except twitter for some reason).”