- published: 20 Jan 2015
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EastLink is a Canadian cable television and telecommunications company. In 1970, EastLink was established in Amherst, Nova Scotia, 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 (Saskatchewan is the only province without service). It is closely held by the Bragg family of Oxford, Nova Scotia.
Bragg is otherwise barely visible in the business press [3] except for a few in-depth interviews about family business principles [4] and a cheerful refusal to discuss profits and loss.
EastLink delivers digital video/television and cable-network-based Internet services with speeds up to 200 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 mobile phone service (through an agreement with Rogers Wireless). This bundle option is no longer offered, customers who are already on the plan can keep the services bundled. EastLink plans on launching its own cellular services in the Maritimes starting in 2012. see below.
A company is a business organization. It is an association or collection of individual real persons and/or other companies, who each provide some form of capital. This group has a common purpose or focus and an aim of gaining profits. This collection, group or association of persons can be made to exist in law and then a company is itself considered a "legal person". The name company arose because, at least originally, it represented or was owned by more than one real or legal person.
In the United States, a company may be a "corporation, partnership, association, joint-stock company, trust, fund, or organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not, and (in an official capacity) any receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, or similar official, or liquidating agent, for any of the foregoing." In the US, a company is not necessarily a corporation.
In English law and in the Commonwealth realms a company is a body corporate or corporation company registered under the Companies Acts or similar legislation. It does not include a partnership or any other unincorporated group of persons, although such an entity may be loosely described as a company.