EastLink wireless launch "close", says CEO

HALIFAX – While this morning’s EastLink/Cisco press conference was about mobile video, reporters also had other mobile questions for EastLink CEO Lee Bragg. His company purchased AWS spectrum in the 2008 auction for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island and despite much hiring and a significant network build, the company has yet to launch a wireless telephony service out east. That will change in the not too distant future, said Bragg. “We’re close to a cellular announcement,” he said. “I’m not in a position to announce it today. It is quite a strategic initiative on our part but we’re very...