Virgin Media O2

aid: virgin-media-o2
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/virgin-media-o2/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Virgin Media O2
kind: company
description: 'Virgin Media O2 is the United Kingdom''s converged fixed and mobile network operator, formed in 2021 as a 50/50
  joint venture between Telefonica and Liberty Global by merging Virgin Media''s cable broadband business with O2 UK''s mobile
  network. It serves roughly half the UK population across mobile, broadband, and fixed wholesale, and sits at the connectivity
  layer of the telecom value chain rather than the developer-tools layer. Its API posture is partner-gated and sales-led:
  probing developer.virginmediao2.co.uk, developers.virginmediao2.co.uk, docs.virginmediao2.co.uk, api.virginmediao2.co.uk,
  opengateway.virginmediao2.co.uk, developer.o2.co.uk and the virginmediao2business.co.uk equivalents returns DNS failure
  or HTTP 404 in every case, and neither the o2.co.uk sitemap nor the corporate site contains a developer or API section.
  Virgin Media O2 is a GSMA Open Gateway participant and on 23 September 2025 joined BT/EE, Vodafone and CK Hutchison (Three
  UK) in the commercial UK launch of CAMARA-standardised KYC Age Verification and KYC Tenure APIs, with SIM Swap already live
  and KYC Match committed; but developers reach that network-API surface only through third-party aggregators such as JT Group
  and TMT.ID, never through a Virgin Media O2 portal. There is no public self-serve signup, no downloadable OpenAPI, no sandbox,
  and no first-party SDK. Its GitHub organisation exists and is empty.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Telecommunications
- United Kingdom
- Mobile Network Operator
- Broadband
- Network APIs
- CAMARA
- Open Gateway
- Identity Verification
- SIM Swap
- Age Verification
- Converged Operator
- Partner Gated
created: '2026-07-25'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: virgin-media-o2:newsroom-content-api
  name: Virgin Media O2 Newsroom Content API (WordPress REST)
  description: 'The anonymous read surface of the Virgin Media O2 press newsroom, served by WordPress at news.virginmediao2.co.uk/wp-json/.
    It is the only callable, self-describing API Virgin Media O2 serves on a host it controls: the route index advertises
    253 routes, and each wp/v2 collection returns its own draft-04 JSON Schema in the OPTIONS response. It is a content API
    for press releases, not a Virgin Media O2 product or network API — the CAMARA network APIs Virgin Media O2 launched commercially
    are specified upstream and reached only through third-party aggregators. Read routes are open; write routes require authentication.
    No OpenAPI is published for it.'
  humanURL: https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/news-views/
  baseURL: https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/wp-json/
  tags:
  - Content
  - Newsroom
  - WordPress
  - Press Releases
  properties:
  - type: APICatalog
    url: well-known/virgin-media-o2-newsroom-wp-json-index.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/virgin-media-o2-newsroom-post.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/virgin-media-o2-newsroom-page.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/virgin-media-o2-newsroom-attachment.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/virgin-media-o2-newsroom-category.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/virgin-media-o2-newsroom-tag.json
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/virgin-media-o2-domain-security.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/virgin-media-o2-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Virgin-Media-O2-Security-Schedule-Version-7.0-Jan-2026.pdf
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/virgin-media-o2-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.o2.co.uk
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://www.virginmedia.com/help/service-status
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/virgin-media-o2-llms.txt
- type: Support
  url: https://www.virginmediao2.co.uk/help
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://www.o2.co.uk/help
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.virginmediao2.co.uk/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.virginmediao2.co.uk/privacy-policy
- type: Website
  url: https://www.virginmediao2.co.uk/
- type: Website
  url: https://www.virginmediao2business.co.uk/
- type: Website
  url: https://www.o2.co.uk/
- type: Blog
  url: https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/news-views/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/feed/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/VirginMediaO2
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/virgin-media-o2
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com