Viya (company)

Viya
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryTelecommunications
PredecessorInnovative Communications Corporation
Choice Communications
Founded2017
Headquarters
St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands
Area served
The United States Virgin Islands
ParentATN International
Websitewww.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]

Logo of Innovative Communications
  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.