Viya is a telecommunications company that provides

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, mobile

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, and

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services in the

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. Viya is a subsidiary of

ATN International ATN International, Inc. (ATN) (), formerly known as Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc., is a publicly traded telecommunications company that is headquartered in Beverly, Massachusetts. It operates digital wireless, wireline, and both terrestrial and sub ...

. 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 and completed the sale on July 1, 2016. In 2017, ATN merged both Innovative and Choice to form ''Viya''. Viya owned

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until 2008, when it was purchased by

Times-Shamrock Communications Times-Shamrock Communications is an American media company based in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The company, owned by the Lynett and Haggerty families of Scranton, lists among its assets four daily newspapers, six weekly newspapers, and nine radio stati ...

. Viya formerly operated cable TV services in

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until October 2016, when it was acquired by th
TelEm Group
They also had formerly operated cable TV services in the

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as well, until their cable systems were destroyed by Hurricane Irma on September 6, 2017.

References

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