
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
The FCC got the upper hand in realigning the Universal Service Fund as a U.S. appeals court upheld the agency's move to cap subsidies paid to rural service providers. Despite protests from both the
The U.S. government's broadband stimulus program intends to connect the so-called underserved with broadband, but Insight Research reveals that the $7 billion of available funding will do little to
Shouldering large debt and ongoing capital expenditure for expanding its wireless GSM network in India, Reliance Communications needs some cash now. To obtain that cash, the conglomerate reportedly
France Telecom is confident about expanding its fortunes in other countries, but in obtaining those goals it will continue to expand in markets where it already has an established presence and, in
Even if purchasing DIRECTV could make it the number two video provider second only to Comcast, Verizon's CEO Ivan Seidenberg is saying 'no thanks, but we're okay.' This reaction came in response to a
Despite a report that emerged in the Financial Times Germany this fall that Siemens wanted out of the Nokia Siemens Networks venture, Nokia and Siemens sent a letter to their customers late last week
To say Nortel's workforce has had a tough year would be an understatement. Some ex-Nortel employees, who have been laid off too many times due to the poor economy and the company's bankruptcy
Service providers' slow exit out of their current spending holding pattern is not helping telecom equipment vendor Ciena as its full year revenues declined 27.8 percent from $902.5 million to $652.6
Cox Communications continues to plow ahead with its DOCSIS 3.0-based Ultimate Internet mission as it brings the service into Las Vegas and Southern Nevada. This latest DOCSIS 3.0 deployment follows
If Britain's consumers want more available broadband services, they're going to have to pay for it. To help reach the goal of building out enhanced broadband services to 90 percent of the country by