Eastlink 1
Dan MacDonald, Vice President of Marketing for Eastlink, a national provider of cable and telecommunications services faces a challenge. He needs to figure out how to allocate scarce financial resources to help the firm enter the market in suburban Toronto in the face of potential competition from much larger competitors. Visit casenet.ca for more free, open access decision focused video teaching cases from Acadia University.
Interviewee
Dan MacDonald
Company
Industry
Business Activity
Eastlink
Telecommunications
Information and communication
Headquarters
Halifax, Canada
Size
Large
Employees
500 to 10,000
Greater than $25 million
Yearly Revenue
Private Company
Type of Entity
Subject
Marketing
Level of Difficulty
Medium
Teaching Objectives
Learn about telecommunications industry
Keywords
Market Entry
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