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EastLink firms up wireless plans

HALIFAX – EastLink is throwing its hat into the competitive world of wireless starting next year.Vice-president of marketing Dan MacDonald told Cartt.ca on Monday that after buying up spectrum in “a lot of different areas where our current wireline footprint is” almost two years ago, the Halifax-based company is busy building its own network in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island where it will launch wireless by mid-2012.While Macdonald says the company has already decided which devices and what types of plans that it will offer at launch, it’s keeping those details under wraps until early next year.“We do know them,...