EastLink (company)
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Bragg Communications Inc., carrying on business as EastLink, is a group of companies providing the incumbent cable television services, competitive internet, Metro Ethernet and wireline telephone services, serving nearly all major centres of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island as well as a large areas of Newfoundland and Labrador and Sackville, New Brunswick.
In addition to the Bragg Communications name, EastLink previously operated as Halifax Cable, Viking Cable, Seabreeze Cable, Able Cable and Bay Cable until November 24, 1998. It also purchased the former Access Communications assets of Shaw Communications in 2001.
Canada's fifth-largest cable TV provider, EastLink has become a leader as the first[1] major Canadian cable company to offer competitive local telephone service in its territory in 1999 over a fiber optic network.[1] In 2005 the 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.[2]
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 manages a local television channel branded as EastLink Television that serves the company's cable customers.
On May 4, 2007, EastLink announced a purchase offer for Persona Inc., for an undisclosed price. The deal is still subject to Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.[3] On August 20, 2007, EastLink announced that was also acquiring Rush Communications Ltd. of Nova Scotia with customers throughout Nova Scotia. [4]
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In 2004 the company installed a 56 kilometer submarine cable crossing the Northumberland Strait between Graham Pond , Prince Edward Island to Port Hood, Nova Scotia. The installation was carried out by IT International Telecom . [5],
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