Liberty VI and DPW Seek Solutions for Fiber Optic Quagmire

According to testimony at government hearings, the effort to bring faster and more secure Internet connections to the territory residents is stumbling. Depending on whom you are talking to, the stumbling block could be the slow permitting process or how the work is done.

Liberty VI is being paid to implement the Federal Communications Commission’s Connect USVI initiative. The project’s design includes a fiber-to-the-home standard to increase speed. When completed, it should deliver a resilient network with improved performance.

Some residents are linking this project’s slowness to various other complaints.

Up to this week, most of the finger-pointing has been at the Public Works Department.

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