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Update: Liberty Mobile USVI Service on St. Croix Restored

  • Ernice Gilbert
  • May 10, 2021

Updated at 5:11 a.m. Tues. May 11: Service for Liberty Mobile USVI, formerly AT&T, has been restored after an all-day outage on St. Croix Monday. The service appeared to have been restored during the wee hours of Tuesday morning.  Original Story: Liberty Mobile USVI, a division of Liberty Latin America which purchased the AT&T operations of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2020, announced Monday afternoon that the cause of an all-day service outage on St. Croix was due to one of the company's fiber cables being cut by a third-party company doing excavation work. “We are currently dealing with a general service outage in St. Croix. We have identified a main line fiber cut as the cause. The fiber was accidentally cut by a third party doing excavation work at the site, which has affected service in St. Croix," said Liberty Mobile USVI spokesperson Catherine Kling. "A Liberty Mobile USVI technical team and a specialized splicing crew are already at the scene working on the pro...