Access Communications (Nova Scotia)

For information on the Saskatchewan cable company, see Access Communications.

Access Communications was a major Canadian cable television provider, particularly in parts of Nova Scotia, until its acquisition by Shaw Communications in 1999. Shaw later sold the systems to EastLink in 2001 as it focused on its systems in western Canada.^[1]

Cable, satellite, and other specialty television providers in Canada

Major¹	Bell (Cablevision for Val-d'Or, QC) Cogeco (Ontario, Quebec) EastLink (Atlantic, Northern Ontario, Western Canada) Look Communications MTS Cable (Manitoba) Rogers Cable (Ontario, New Brunswick) Source (Hamilton, ON) Shaw (Western Canada, Northwestern Ontario) Vidéotron (Quebec)

Minor	Access (Saskatchewan) Cable Axion (Magog, QC) CityWest (Prince Rupert, BC) DERYtelecom (Saguenay, QC) Novus Cable (select areas of BC Lower Mainland) Omineca Cablevision (Prince George, BC) Westman (Brandon, MB)

See also	Defunct cable and DBS companies of Canada

¹More than 400,000 television service subscribers.

References

↑ PlaybackOnline.ca (4 Oct 1999) CRTC approves Shaw’s Atlantic Cda. cable buys Retrieved 27 Jul 2013

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