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
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 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 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
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 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
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
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