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Biography for Sean Buckley

Sean Buckley is the senior editor of FierceTelecom. He joined the FierceTelecom staff in July 2009 and is responsible for covering news and trends in the wireline section of the telecom industry. Before joining the FierceTelecom staff, Sean most recently served as the Editor-in-Chief for Telecom Engine from 2006 to 2009 overseeing both the former print publication Telecommunications Magazine Americas and its transition to a web-based publication. Sean returned to Telecommunications in July 2006 after a brief one-year stint covering the public sector IT and mobile network infrastructure trends as a senior analyst at Current Analysis. In addition to writing about wireline industry trends, Sean enjoys playing with his two sons, reading history books, watching the Celtics, and listening to Grateful Dead concerts on Sirius Satellite Radio. Sean works out of his home office Dracut, Mass., and can be reached at sbuckley@fiercemarkets.com. Follow @FierceTelecom on Twitter and find him on LinkedIn.

Articles by Sean Buckley

Qwest: An attractive tier 2 ILEC acquisition target?

With many of the existing tier 2 ILECs looking to grow their respective businesses through mergers/acquisitions, a UBS report argues that Qwest could be a prime acquisition prospect. Wall Street

Alcatel-Lucent muscles its way to the routing edge

It was interesting to see a recent Dell'Oro report (Routers Report 3Q09) that illustrated that Alcatel-Lucent is gaining market share in the edge router market. Typically, the edge routing market

Survey: Low percentage of African Americans, Hispanics use Internet regularly

According to a new survey of 900 minority adults conducted by Brilliant Corners Research led by Democratic Pollster Cornell Belcher only 42 percent of African Americans and Hispanics use the Internet

ACA wants USF funds to enhance broadband deployments

The American Cable Association (ACA), a group that represents independent cable operators, has made a call to redirect the Universal Service Fund to enhancing the build out of broadband network

Part II - Fierce Telecom Leaders - Jarrett Appleby, CMO, Equinix

FierceTelecom: Speaking of coverage, Equinix recently established a carrier neutral Ethernet exchange. What drove the development of that and how do you see the evolution of Ethernet Network to

Fierce Telecom Leaders - Jarrett Appleby, CMO, Equinix

Data networking is old hat to Equinix's Chief Marketing Officer Jarrett Appleby. In fact, the former CMO of Reliance Globalcom came to Equinix in December 2008 with over 25 years of telecom and

KPN sets aggressive Fiber to the X timeline

KPN has set a high bar for its Fiber to the X ambitions: connect up to 1.3 million homes by the end of 2012. Already serving 460,000 users, KPN will gradually connect customers to the Fiber to the

Verizon puts its 100 Gbps migration in motion

Verizon has decided to double promote its long haul networks from 10 Gbps to 100 Gbps as it turns up its first commercial live link in Europe. This initial move is part of a broader initiative to

AT&T, CWA Southeast hammer out a tentative contract agreement

The ongoing saga between AT&T Southeast's wireline workers and company management may finally be nearing an end as the ILEC has finally reached a tentative agreement with union workers in the

Orange lights up LION undersea optical network

Orange is riding the ongoing submarine fiber cable renaissance as the service provider has turned up the LION (Lower Indian Ocean Network) cable in Reunion, France. Connecting Madagascar, Reunion and