Viya (company)

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Viya
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Telecommunications
PredecessorInnovative Communications Corporation
Headquarters
United States
Area served
The United States Virgin Islands
Parent ATN International
Website www.viya.vi

Viya is a telecommunications company that provides landline, mobile telephone, Internet, and cable television services in the United States Virgin Islands. Viya is a subsidiary of ATN International. Prior to its acquisition by ATN, it was formerly known as Innovative Communications Corporation. In 2015, Choice Communications, which was a former rival telecommunications company and a subsidiary of ATN, purchased Innovative for $145 Million [1] and completed the sale on July 1, 2016. [2] In 2017, ATN merged both Innovative and Choice to form Viya. [3]

Viya owned the Virgin Islands Daily News until 2008, when it was purchased by Times-Shamrock Communications. Viya formerly operated cable TV services in Sint Maarten until October 2016, when it was acquired by the TelEm Group. [4] They also had formerly operated cable TV services in the British Virgin Islands as well, until their cable systems were destroyed by Hurricane Irma on September 6, 2017. [5]

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References

  1. "Choice Communications To Acquire Innovative Group Of Companies for $145 Million". The Virgin Islands Consortium. 2015-10-01.
  2. "ATN Completes Acquisition of Innovative". The St. Thomas Source. 2016-07-02.
  3. "Innovative and Choice Come Together as Viya". The St. Thomas Source. 2017-04-19.
  4. "TelEm Group inks takeover for Sint Maarten Cable TV". Comms Update. 2016-10-10.
  5. "BVI Cable". Facebook. 2017-10-19.