Viya Receives Over 9,000 Mobile Internet Devices For St. Croix Customers; Company Aims For 100 Percent Restoration By March 2018

ST. CROIX -- During a Tuesday press event to unveil its mobile hotspot devices set to begin distribution on Monday, Viya -- the most established communications firm in the U.S. Virgin Islands with over 25,000 Internet service customers before Hurricanes Irma and Maria -- said that it's aiming for 75 percent restoration by February 2018, and 100 percent by the end of March 2018. Viya's internet cables were on poles belonging to the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority when the hurricanes struck, and the company has suffered huge losses as most of its customers are still without its multi-prong services package: cable TV, high-speed Internet service, and its landline telephone offering. The company's wireless network, which was recently launched with 4G LTE, is up and running, and tests by The Consortium have yielded extremely positive results -- above competitors AT&T and Sprint (a full review of the network is in the works). Even so, customers have left the company i...