Virgin Media O2

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.

Virgin Media O2 is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Telecommunications, United Kingdom, Mobile Network Operator, Broadband, and Network APIs.

Virgin Media O2’s developer surface includes support, engineering blog, and 20 more developer resources.

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19.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessPartner gated

1 API

Telecommunications United Kingdom Mobile Network Operator Broadband Network APIs CAMARA Open Gateway Identity Verification SIM Swap Age VerificationConverged Operator

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 19.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 4.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points
Access Clarity scores 28.9 — up to +14.2 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Biometrics Testing (biometric recognition vendors, identity verification depth)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

CAMARA

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Virgin Media O2 Website (WordPress REST)

The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Virgin Media O2 website at news.virginmediao2.co.uk: the route index of the site's content management system, catalogued as one si...

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

tag

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Virgin Media O2 Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Compliance

Compliance

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Support

HelpCenter

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 6

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Website

Blog

BlogRSS

LinkedIn

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

APICatalog

APICatalog

Source (apis.yml)

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
  gated: partner
  gated_source:
  - tag:Partner Gated
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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
created: '2026-07-25'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: virgin-media-o2:news-virginmediao2-co-uk-website-wordpress-rest
  name: Virgin Media O2 Website (WordPress REST)
  description: 'The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Virgin Media O2 website at news.virginmediao2.co.uk: the route
    index of the site''s content management system, catalogued as one site surface rather than as separate APIs.'
  baseURL: https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/wp-json
  tags:
  - WordPress
  x-surface: platform-generated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/wp-json
  x-platform: wordpress
  x-platform-surface: rest
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
- type: APICatalog
  url: well-known/virgin-media-o2-newsroom-wp-json-index.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/virgin-media-o2-newsroom-category.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/virgin-media-o2-newsroom-tag.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-tags-removed:
- Partner Gated

Virgin Media O2 API — frequently asked questions

Does Virgin Media O2 have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Virgin Media O2, including Virgin Media O2 Website (WordPress REST).

Is the Virgin Media O2 API ready for AI agents?

Virgin Media O2 has a Kin Score of 19.9 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.0 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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