At Eastlink, creativity, ingenuity and innovation are the driving forces behind our excellent products and services. In addition to numerous honours and awards in the industry and community, Eastlink is proud to have been awarded Platinum status for its continued recognition as one of Canada`s Best Managed Companies for the past seven years. Our parent company, the Bragg Group, was also named Family Business of the Year 2009 in Canada. Eastlink Inc. is a Canadian cable television and telecommunications company. The privately held company was founded in 1969 by the Bragg family in Nova Scotia and has since grown through the merger of several telecommunications companies. [2] Eastlink also produces community channels under the Eastlink TV brand to serve the company`s cable customers. He is looking for his company`s new sales office. “Where is he?” he whispers, leaning forward in his seat and scanning one office front after another. Finally, the CEO and Vice-Chairman of EastLink Communications Inc. discovers his company`s logo.
It is located on a letter-sized sheet of paper glued to a glass door. Eastlink is always looking for energetic and qualified candidates to help us grow the business and build on our success. If you have a competitive spirit and are interested in an exciting career change, take a closer look at the opportunities we have to offer by visiting our website and looking at the current opportunities. In the early 1970s, Eastlink entered the cable television business in Amherst, Nova Scotia, with a handful of employees and a single cable license. Since then, this best-managed Canadian company with platinum status has grown to more than 1,700 employees, providing world-class communications, entertainment, television and advertising services to hundreds of thousands of residential, commercial and public customers in Atlantic Canada, Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, Manitoba, in British Columbia and Bermuda. When the fake offers were counted, Lee realized that EastLink had paid far too much. He and his team repeated the simulated auction over and over again until they found a winning strategy: don`t bid on important goals from the beginning; Rejecting false offers to increase what competitors pay; Don`t get caught paying for much of the unnecessary spectrum. Eastlink spent $25 million at the 2008 Advanced Wireless Auction for 19 licences in Ontario and Atlantic Canada, as well as in Grande Prairie, Alberta. The company announced in 2011 that it would launch wireless services, starting with the announcement for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. In February 2013, Eastlink launched its wireless service, with HSPA+ and LTE services available on the launch date. Eastlink, Canada`s largest private telecommunications company, is one of north America`s fastest Internet service providers and an industry leader in delivering premium digital and HD television programming.
But EastLink shows no signs of slowing down. After purchasing portions of Shaw`s cable properties in Nova Scotia in 2001, the company closed two major transactions in 2007, gaining more than 40,000 subscribers in southwestern and central Ontario with the acquisition of AmTelecom, and then adding Persona Cable Systems, a rural provider with a dilapidated network spanning several provinces. At the time, Eastlink was also the first cable company in Canada to offer local telephone services, bringing much-needed competition and choice to telephone customers. Braggs can afford to wait. Unlike a public company, it does not have to face shareholders or meet quarterly targets. They say all options are on the table – from the company`s liberation to expanding into the production of multimedia content to providing home security services through their cable network. But there is no rush: you can think about what is best for the family. Driven by a passion for innovation, Eastlink has grown from a local cable company to a national telecommunications company. Putting up posters tends to become an afterthought when a business grows as fast as EastLink. With remarkably few headlines, the Bragg family`s cable television operation has expanded from its tiny rural base to much of Atlantic Canada. It is now considered Canada`s largest privately owned cable company – the largest cable company you`ve probably never heard of.
Dan McKeen, vice president of customer solutions at Bell Aliant, knows all about EastLink. He spent 24 years at Braggs and was promoted to co-CEO of Lee Bragg in 1999. In early 2010, he moved to Bell Aliant. “We understand this is a very competitive market,” McKeen said in his Halifax office after declining to talk about his time at EastLink. However, he insists, “It`s a marathon, not a sprint.” With a vision of continuous innovation, the company has now launched its highly anticipated LTE wireless network and looks forward to a number of exciting new video and online products and services. EastLink got a lot: For just $25 million, the company won licenses that cover 85% of the company`s cable footprint, meaning the company can benefit from the combination of mobile phones in addition to its existing cable, internet, and home phone services. The company was founded in 1969 in Amherst, Nova Scotia,[2] where it subsequently received one of the first cable licences issued by the CRTC. In 1985, it acquired Halifax Cablevision Ltd., then the largest network in Eastern Canada. [2] Through a series of acquisitions, including the acquisition of Amtelecom, Persona, Bluewater, Delta and Coast Cable, Eastlink became the fifth largest cable television provider in Canada in 2010, with approximately 1,500 employees working in offices across the country. In 2010, it was the largest privately held cable company in Canada with 457,075 subscribers[3] in nine provinces (excluding Saskatchewan). It remains privately owned by the Bragg family of Oxford, Nova Scotia.
[4] Announced as a pioneer in the Canadian telecommunications landscape, Eastlink stands out for being the first cable company in Canada to enter the telephony market and the first in North America to combine cable, Internet and telephone services into a single communications and entertainment package. The Braggs, who have made their fortune harvesting blueberries, have shown that they are just as adept at taking advantage of technology. They have consistently beaten the industry giants to see where the future lies. In 1999, EastLink was the first cable company in Canada to introduce home phone service. Since then, it has devoured market share in Nova Scotia, especially in Halifax. It also extended beyond its Atlantic homeland, taking over cable operations in Ontario and the West. The company`s spirit of innovation has continued with the introduction of on-demand TV services and an increased amount of high-resolution content, making it a dominant video provider in its major markets. Eastlink was the first major Canadian cable company[12] to offer competitive local telephone services on a fibre optic network in its territory in 1999.
[13] In 2005, the 902 regional telephone market was the most competitive switchboard in North America [after whom?] and this was attributed to Eastlink`s presence in the market. Eastlink was also the first provider to offer a local telephone contest for its coverage area in New Brunswick in 2005. [14] Under the leadership of John Bragg, the company has always been driven by a spirit of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship. The first three decades brought rapid expansion and growth throughout Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, culminating in the founding of Eastlink in the late 90s. . .