ST. THOMAS — Viya, the largest telecommunications company in the U.S. Virgin Islands experienced a major service interruption Friday that impacted a number of its consumer products and services in the St. Thomas-St. John district. The outage — caused by a Viya fiber cable being cut by AT&T contractors — lasted for over twelve hours for some customers and affected cable subscriptions, residential and corporate internet service, and wireless phone service on both islands, according to Viya. Viya’s popular MiFi devices also experienced gaps in connectivity since they run on the same towers as cellular phones. "We are experiencing intermittent connectivity issues," Viya said at 10:41 a.m. The telecommunications company noted that network issues were affecting “wireless and internet services,” on St. Thomas and St. John. A number of retail stores…