EastLink

Type	Private
Founded	1971 (as Bragg Communications Inc.) 1998 (as EastLink)
Headquarters	Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Key people	Lee Bragg
Industry	telecommunications
Products	cable television, high speed internet, telephone
Website	EastLink

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EastLink is a Canadian cable television and telecommunications company. EastLink got its start in Amherst, Nova Scotia, in 1970 when it was issued one of the first cable licences granted by the CRTC. Today it is the largest privately owned cable company in Canada, with customers in all 10 provinces. In fact, it is the only privately held cable company with a national footprint.

As well as delivering digital video and high speed Internet, the family company has launched a local residential telephone service over its cable network. EastLink has the distinction of being the first cable company in cable in Canada to do this, pioneering and launching telephone services in 1998.^{[citation needed]}

Through a series of strategic acquisitions, which included the purchase of Amtelecom, Persona, Bluewater, Delta and Coast Cable, EastLink became the fifth-largest cable television provider in Canada, with over 1,500 employees working in offices across the country.

EastLink was the first^[1] major Canadian cable company to offer competitive local telephone service in its territory in 1999 over a fibre optic network.^[2] In 2005 the area code 902 telephone market was the most competitive telephone exchange in North America and this was credited to EastLink's presence in the market. EastLink was also the first provider to deliver local telephone competition to its service area in New Brunswick in 2005.^[3]

It was one of the first companies in North America to bundle digital cable and broadband Internet services with mobile phone service (through an agreement with Rogers Wireless).

EastLink also produces community channels branded as EastLink TV to serve the company's cable customers.

In late 2009, EastLink was fined $2 million for promising that everyone in Nova Scotia would have highspeed by the end of 2009, but then failing to get that done.

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