Persona was purchased by EastLink in 2007.

At that point it ceased to be an independent company, and was used only as a brand by some of EastLink's operations in Western Canada, before the transition to the EastLink brand was completed in 2010.

Until its takeover by EastLink, Persona was the fifth largest cable television provider in Canada, following Shaw, Rogers, Vidéotron and Cogeco.

While the Canadian Parliamentary Channel's name was soon changed to Cable Public Affairs Channel to reflect the greater diversity of programming and the cable industry's ownership of the service, the original ownership structure continues today ; accordingly the largest shareholders are Canadian media giants such as Rogers Communications ( 41. 4 %), Shaw Communications ( 25. 05 %), Vidéotron ( 21. 71 %), Cogeco ( 6. 7 %), Bragg Communications ( EastLink / Persona ) ( 3. 76 %) and three other cable companies owning a combined equity of 1. 37 %.

* A court case was heard, where the plaintiffs argued that constructing EastLink would result in pressure to build the " missing link " between EastLink and the Metropolitan Ring Road.

In 2007 the station was upgraded as part of the EastLink road project linking the north-eastern suburb of Ringwood to Frankston.

The freeway was unique in that it did not connect to any other freeway prior to EastLink being built.

It was changed to 30px for a short time just before EastLink opened then it was reverted back to 11.

This station can also be seen on EastLink TV channel 6, Bell Aliant TV channel 4, Bell TV channel 204 ( channel 198 for the Saint John feed ) and Shaw Direct channel 329 ( the New Brunswick feed was previously available through Star Choice / Shaw Direct on channel 330, but was dropped in May 2008 for capacity reasons ).

With the route numbering conversion of the freeway, it was initially going to be changed to 30px after the completion of EastLink in 2008, although plans fell through and the route was retained as 20px ).

In 1970, EastLink was established in Amherst, Nova Scotia, when it was issued one of the first cable licences granted by the CRTC.

As EastLink deployed many wireless repeater towers for its Motorola Canopy service launched as part of the Broadband for Rural Nova Scotia initiative, upgrading these to serve as a cell and Wi-Fi mesh network was an obvious potential that would attract third parties with no tower access, such as Wind, to partner with EastLink.

EastLink was the first major Canadian cable company to offer competitive local telephone service in its territory in 1999 over a fibre optic network.

EastLink was also the first provider to deliver local telephone competition to its service area in New Brunswick in 2005.

In 2010 EastLink launched another service in cooperation with other providers and the government of Nova Scotia's Broadband for Rural Nova Scotia initiative: a Motorola Canopy based rural Internet service capable of 0. 5 megabit uploads, 1. 5 megabit downloads, which was intended to reach " 100 % of civic addresses " in Nova Scotia.

It was widely anticipated that EastLink would offer access to its new cell network in 2012 on favourable terms to cut-off rural users.

Regional subsequently became Persona Communications in 2001, and Persona in turn was sold to EastLink in 2007.

As of early 2011, Rogers, Aliant, and Telus ' mobile Internet offerings are extraordinarily expensive for heavy users and tethering of personal computers is not necessarily included under these plans ; the price per gigabyte of the EastLink service is clearly superior to any of these offerings.

As of February 2011, EastLink has acquired service territory on the island of Bermuda.

As of May 12, 2011, the HD signal of CJCH is available on EastLink.

A second car park is beside the railway line on the eastern side of Heatherdale Road, stretching towards EastLink and has been redeveloped as part of its project.

EastLink plans on launching its own cellular services in the Maritimes starting in 2012. see below.

" EastLink has not commented on the consistency of speeds or latency on this network nor released any public Quality of Service ( QoS ) statistics or actual usage information about the services its users actually use.

Although the company has mostly unified its acquisitions under the EastLink brand, in parts of British Columbia, EastLink operates as Coast Cable ( Sunshine Coast ) or Delta Cable ( in Delta, British Columbia, also serving the American community of Point Roberts, Washington ).

Shaw later sold the systems to EastLink in 2001 as it focused on its systems in western Canada.

EastLink has, however, kept Northern Cable's former head office open as its divisional office for operations in Ontario.

EastLink is electronically tolled via a system commercially called Breeze, entirely provided by SICE, Spanish system integrator company with broad experience in the tolling market.

Frankston Council has been in talks with EastLink, with a view to getting the bypass built from EastLink to as far as Cranbourne Road.

The EastLink tollway runs through Wantirna with interchanges at Boronia Road and Burwood Highway.

The main east-west road is Whitehorse Road ( Maroondah Highway ), which connects with the EastLink tolled freeway, which skirts the northern and eastern boundaries of the suburb.

Dandenong North is also subject to the EastLink Freeway project ( which connects the South-East with the Eastern Arterials ).

As part of the EastLink tollway project, Heatherdale station, along with Kananook have been upgraded.

The EastLink tollway project, which extends the Eastern Freeway to Ringwood and then south to join with the Monash and Mornington Peninsula Freeways, has recently been completed.

As a result of the closedown of the repeater network, some cable systems in Newfoundland and Labrador owned by EastLink replaced the province's regional CBC outlet, CBNT-DT, with CBHT, due to what EastLink claimed were " technical issues " involving CBNT.

It is one of the most important freeways in terms of commuting to the city, connecting Alexandra Parade and Hoddle Street in the inner suburbs, with EastLink tollway farther east.

The proposed EastLink is touted as a solution, linking with the freeway ( and hence Frankston and Mornington Peninsula ) to Melbourne's comprehensive freeway network.

As a result of the closedown, some cable systems in Newfoundland and Labrador owned by EastLink replaced CBNT with CBHT-DT Halifax, due to what EastLink claimed were " technical issues " involving CBNT.

The traffic on the highway has been significant over the years with the worst bottlenecks at Burwood Highway, Ferntree Gully Road, Wellington Road, Princes Highway, and Thompsons Road, but since the opening of the 30px EastLink, the traffic burden has significantly reduced along the highway with the north-south tollway, opening to traffic on 29 June 2008.

Faced with a choice of having to fund road infrastructure at the expense of development of Victoria's schools, hospitals and public transport, Brumby decided to impose a toll on the new Scoresby Freeway ( later known as EastLink ) in eastern Melbourne.

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.

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.