Cable / Telecom News

EastLink cuts 33 staff

HALIFAX – EastLink let go 33 employees across the country last week, a move that it described as “a business decision”.In an email response to Cartt.ca, an EastLink spokesperson confirmed that the majority of the employees were from EastLink's community television operations, and that 15 are from Atlantic Canada.The move “is the result of EastLink’s continuous assessment of the market and evaluation of how we do business in a rapidly changing marketplace”, the email from spokesperson Jill Laing read. “We sometimes must make adjustments where appropriate and necessary to ensure that we deliver our products and services in the most efficient...