
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 ongoing war over whether cable or the telco broadband networks are better has been a phenomenon raging between the two industries for over a decade. As Verizon has expanded its Fiber to the
Verizon may be the most aggressive U.S. telco for delivering Fiber to the Premises (FTTP)-based services, but its ambitions don't stop at the residential customer. Now, the same technology being used
by David Sutphen, co-chair of the Internet Innovation AllianceThe Federal Communications Commission recently held a field hearing to further explore broadband adoption issues, specifically among
Appearances are everything even in telecom. Just as it prepares to swallow up a major portion of Verizon's rural lines in 14 states, Frontier's earnings are not exactly painting a pretty picture to
Comcast appeared to hold its own against ongoing telco competition during the third quarter with earnings as a report in FierceTelecom's sister publication FierceIPTV suggested growing revenue per
While service providers have made it a priority to expand their Ethernet services nationally and globally through their own On-Net facilities as evidenced by recent announcements by Verizon to bring
Cablevision may be facing a difficult economy and a tough competitive challenge from Verizon FiOS in its home New York City market, but neither of these factors seemed to make much of a dent in its
As the saying goes, it's not over until the fat lady sings, or in Nortel's bargain asset sale until the final highest bidder bids. A report in Bloomberg says that two unidentified people close to
Windstream may have yet to make a big acquisition of one of its tier 2 peers, but that's not to say it isn't making strategic acquisitions either. Evidence of that trend came yesterday as the tier 2
Things aren't looking so good for Sprint Wholesale these days as the service provider announced yesterday that it will cut more than a dozen jobs from that division. Even though Sprint did
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