Eastlink (company)

Eastlink, Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1970 (as Bragg Communications Inc.) 1998 (as EastLink)
Headquarters	Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Key people	Lee Bragg
Products	Digital Television, Cable High Speed Internet, Telephone, Cellular
Revenue	$310.6 million (cable); $273 million (Internet); $6.3 million (advertising) (all 2010)
Net income	$53.8 million
Number of employees	1,500
Website	Eastlink

Eastlink is a Canadian cable television and telecommunications company. The privately held company was founded by the Bragg family, through the amalgamation of several telecommunications companies in 1969.

It was founded in Amherst, Nova Scotia in 1971, when it was issued one of the first cable licences granted by the CRTC. Through a series of acquisitions, which included the purchase 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. As of 2010, it was the largest privately owned cable company in Canada, with 457,075 subscribers in nine provinces (excluding Saskatchewan). It remains privately held by the Bragg family of Oxford, Nova Scotia.

In 2008, Eastlink purchased ISN, Prince Edward Island's only internet service provider.

In 2015, Eastlink came under fire for introducing data caps of 15 GB/month for broadband customers. Critics argued that the amount of data was considered unusually low for residential internet.

Eastlink delivers digital video/television and cable-network-based Internet services with speeds up to 940 megabits per second, one of the faster networks of this kind in North America. It was one of the first companies in North America to bundle digital cable and broadband Internet services with home phone service.

Eastlink's 100 and 940 megabit service has unlimited usage. Its mid-tier 150 and 300 megabit services have usage based billing except if you get a bundle.