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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

Time Warner Cable winds up WiMAX in North Carolina

Keeping to its promise of launching in four markets by the end of this year, Time Warner Cable debuted WiMAX-based services in three major North Carolina areas: Charlotte, Greensboro, and Raleigh. In

Infonetics: Nortel takes top optical networking spot

Given all of the troubles Nortel has had over the past year--a tale that saw not only the recent resignation of the CEO meant to turn things around and an ongoing garage sale of its assets--it's a

ADTRAN Q3 09: profits dip, but earnings beat expectations

At first blush there's not much to like about ADTRAN's Q3 09 report as the Huntsville, Ala.-based vendor reported that profit was down due to slow sales in the quarter. On the bright side, ADTRAN's

TELUS takes the packet optical networking plunge

While still an emerging concept, TELUS is taking a chance on packet optical networking. The Canadian incumbent operator announced that it will deploy Fujitsu's FLASHWAVE Packet Optical Networking

NTT DoCoMo paves all-IP path

Claiming to be one of the first operators to make the switch to LTE, Japan's NTT DoCoMo is putting some juice into its IP core network by deploying Alcatel-Lucent's 7450 Ethernet Service Switch

TeleCuba Communications to build U.S.-Cuba cable

Following the Obama Administration's removal of telecom restrictions under a previous embargo the U.S. had with Cuba, TeleCuba has secured licenses from the U.S. Department of the Treasury to build a

FCC: Republicans' net neutrality protest gets louder

Opposition to the FCC's proposed net neutrality plans continues to mount. Leading the protest is Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and 17 other Republican senators, who sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius

Primus gets ready to conquer the U.S. business market

Although Primus Telecom is a U.S.-based service provider, its influence has been mainly known in other countries such as Canada and Australia. Now that's going to change. Starting with an expansion

Sigma Designs snaps up CopperGate Communications

With the ITU approving the G.hn physical layer specification and now Sigma Designs signing a deal to purchase CopperGate Communications, it's shaping up to be a big week for telco home networking.

ITC^Deltacom turns on the metro optical charm

Seeing a demand for more higher speed optical bandwidth from its wholesale customers, ITC^DeltaCom is extending the reach of its optical network service into a number of its Southeastern markets.