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2009
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- EastLink named one of Canada's 50 Best Managed companies for 2008, third consecutive year for the designation.
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2008
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- EastLink purchases Bluewater TV Cable and Ex-Cen Cablevision. The company currently serves Goderich, Clinton, Bayfield, Exeter and surrounding areas in Southern Ontario.
- EastLink launches wireless Internet service in Caledonia, first community under Broadband for Rural Nova Scotia program to receive service.
- EastLink raises more than $600,000 for hospitals, community groups and organizations during May fundraising blitz on EastLink Television.
- Success in wireless spectrum auction as EastLink secures spectrum in Atlantic Canada, Northern and Southern Ontario and Grand Prairie.
- Requalified as one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies for 2007
- Named 2008 Business of the Year by Halifax Chamber of Commerce
- EastLink Submits Application to Participate in Spectrum Auction
- EastLink grows to 295,000 subscribers with the rebranding of Persona Atlantic to EastLink
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| 2007 |
- EastLink First ISP in Maritimes to Launch Windows Vista Compatible Security Services.
- EastLink raises over $592,000 for Maritime charities through fundraisers and telethons on EastLink Television.
- Through the acquisition of Persona Communications, EastLink is the only privately owned cable company to operate in 10 Canadian provinces.
- Amtelecom is acquired by EastLink. The incumbent telephone company serves more than 40,000 customers throughout southwestern and central Ontario.
- Eastlink named one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies for 2006.
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| 2006 |
- EastLink launches The Movie Network OnDemand increasing the availability of interactive entertainment services to Maritimers.
- EastLink is honoured by the Human Resource Associations of Atlantic Canada with the Excellence in Human Resources award.
- EastLink Telephone now available to over 95 per cent of EastLink's cable subscribers.
- EastLink and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Foundation of Prince Edward Island celebrate the 10th Anniversary 21-Hour Equipment Drive. Over $2.5 million has been raised to date.
- EastLink demonstrates commitment to on-line safe surfing by supporting Cybertip.ca, a national public awareness campaign designed to combat online sexual exploitation.
- EastLink recipient of Partners for Life award by Canadian Blood Services Atlantic Region for EastLink Television's work on raising awareness about the importance of blood donations.
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| 2005 |
- EastLink is the first company in Atlantic Canada to introduce Internet speeds up to 10 Megabits per second.
- EastLink partners with The Source By Circuit City retail stores to offer customers EastLink Digital Cable, High Speed Internet, and Telephone in 26 locations across the Maritimes.
- The Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association (CCTA) presents EastLink Television with a Galaxi Award for outstanding performance in the On-Camera Performance and Information Category.
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| 2004 |
- EastLink and Rogers Wireless announce a wireless agreement that provides EastLink Bundle customers with access to Rogers Wireless services. This is the first agreement of its kind in Canada between an independent cable company and a wireless provider that offers residential customers a joint, bundled offer.
- EastLink brings telephone competition to the New Brunswick market by launching local telephone service in Sackville.
- EastLink unveils Digital Video Recording (DVR) allowing customers to pause, record and rewind LIVE programming.
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| 2002 |
- EastLink connects Mount Allison University's computer network to its fibre optic network, giving faculty and students access to CA*net 3, the world's first national optical Internet. This network allows universities and research centres to transfer more intense data faster and more efficiently.
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| 2001 |
- EastLink Television celebrates 30 years of delivering local programming to communities throughout the Maritimes.
- EastLink purchases Shaw's Nova Scotia cable systems in Dartmouth, Bedford, Sackville, New Minas, Kentville, and Digby. The companies are amalgamated under the EastLink brand.
- EastLink brings telephone competition to Prince Edward Island with launch of telephone service in Charlottetown.
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| 2000 |
- EastLink expands high speed Internet service to additional communities throughout its service areas.
- EastLink launches "triple-play" communications and entertainment bundle combining Cable, High Speed Internet, and Local Telephone.
- First communications and entertainment company in North America to bundle all services on one bill for one price. Other major communications and entertainment soon follow EastLink's lead.
- Business Communication services are now available with EastLink.
- EastLink launches Digital Cable delivering even more channel choice to consumers.
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| 1999 |
- Lee Bragg and Dan McKeen are appointed Co-Chief Executive Officers for EastLink.
- In addition to providing cable television service, EastLink launches local telephone service. This establishes EastLink as the first cable company in Canada to move into the telephone market.
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| 1998 |
- Bragg Communications and Halifax Cablevision Limited are merged under the brand of EastLink resulting in the formation of the sixth largest cable company in Canada.
- EastLink purchases Island Cable of Prince Edward Island. The system delivers cable television service to communities throughout the province.
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| 1997 |
- Keddy's cable system is purchased. System serves the communities of St. Margaret's and Prospect Bay, Nova Scotia.
- K-Right Communications Limited, serving New Glasgow, Nova Scotia is purchased.
- EastLink launches High Speed Internet in Halifax. This is the first system to have access to the service in Nova Scotia.
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| 1992 |
- K-Right Communications Limited, serving the communities of Sydney and Windsor, Nova Scotia and Summerside, Prince Edward Island is purchased.
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| 1990 |
- Seabreeze Cable, serving the community of Shelburne, Nova Scotia is purchased.
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| 1989 |
- Viking Cable, serving Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and surrounding communities is purchased.
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| 1986 |
- Collingwood, Nova Scotia system is purchased. The system serves the communities of Oxford and Collingwood.
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| 1985 |
- Halifax Cablevision Limited, the largest cable system in eastern Canada, is purchased by the Bragg Communications.
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| 1983 |
- MidValley Cable Limited is purchased. System serves the Nova Scotian communities of Middleton/Greenwood/Aylesford.
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| 1980 |
- Antigonish Cablevision Limited, serving Antigonish, Nova Scotia is purchased.
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| 1978 |
- Springhill Cable TV, serving the community of Springhill, Nova Scotia is purchased.
- Tri-Town Cable is purchased. System serves customers in Bridgewater, Mahone Bay and Lunenburg.
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| 1971 |
- John Bragg enters the cable business in Amherst, Nova Scotia with one of the first cable licenses granted by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). As a result, Amherst is the first community in Nova Scotia to enjoy cable television.
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