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Virgin Media overall Effort Score: 34 Virgin Media vs 36 Virgin Media last quarter
Sector Effort Score benchmark: 49 Virgin Media vs 49 Virgin Media last quarter

Virgin Media has remained in the last position in the UK Telecommunications rankings again this quarter, as its Overall Customer Effort drops -2 points to 34.

All four of its pillars have dropped in score by -2 points. In the coming quarters, the telecommunications company should focus on improving its Speed of Resolving the Problem score of 27, which is significantly lower than the other pillars.

Diving into more about why it dropped in score this quarter, fewer customers (33%) rated its website/app as ‘good’ in terms of being able to easily find information they wanted.

However, more customers (42%) rated how quickly they were able to achieve what they set out to do, or resolve their issue as ‘good’.

Looking at its Style of Communication score, it has dropped to 45 this quarter. There was a 3% decline in the number of its customers who rated the company as ‘excellent’ for communicating with them in their chosen language, if it wasn’t English.

Most recently, in a bid to improve customer experience, Virgin Media announced its plans to shut down both its 2G and 3G networks by 2025. Doing this will improve their calling, messaging and using data on the go, the company said. We will see in future CEI waves whether it has proactively communicated this well enough. 

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Customer Effort in detail

Style of Communication 45 vs 47 last quarter

38% say the politeness of their customer service agents is 'good'

39% rate the ability to communicate with them in their chosen language (other than English) as 'good'

Knowledge and Expertise 35 vs 37 last quarter

36% rate the expertise of the customer service agent as 'good'

38% say the way details were clearly explained to them was 'good'

38% rate how well the customer service agent understood their particular problem or question as 'good'

Understanding & Valuing the Customer 35 vs 36 last quarter

42% rate how they were able to speak to a customer service agent that can help them with their query as 'good'

35% rate how they were able to speak to a customer service agent that can help them with their query as 'good'

41% rate how they were able to speak to a customer service agent that can help them with their query as 'good'

Speed Solving the Problem 27 vs 29 last quarter

33% rate how they were not left on-hold or in a call queuing system for a long time as 'good'

35% rate how they were able to speak to a customer service agent that can help them with their query as 'good'

42% rate how they were able to speak to a customer service agent that can help them with their query as 'good'

ContactEngine sponsors the Customer Effort Index

ContactEngine believes that a great customer experience is an effortless one, where life is made as easy as possible for the customer. ContactEngine commissioned the Customer Effort Index to measure how real people perceive the effort it takes to be a customer of some of the leading brands in the world. By enabling a comparison of effort not only within an industry, but across industries, we can identify and learn from the brands who lead on making it easy for their customers to do business with them.