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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

Alleviate my network pain!

You'll probably notice something new today in our newsletter and our FierceTelecom site. We have launched a new series of poll questions that ask what your major network pain points are. We'll be

KPN ups ante to purchase rest of iBasis

The ongoing war between iBasis and KPN, which has been trying since this past summer to purchase the rest of its stake in the wholesale voice competitor, is once again heating up as the Dutch

France Telecom's group deputy CEO departs

Amidst a raft of employee suicides, France Telecom as Louis-Pierre Wenes, the telco's deputy CEO, said he will resign from thecompany today. Citing unhappiness with his respective work environment,

Windstream could be examining a bid for FairPoint

It's unlikely anyone envisioned the outcome to be this bad when FairPoint crafted a deal to purchase Verizon's New England telephone lines, but now the company is facing possible bankruptcy. And with

Time Warner: We're not interested in NBC Universal

Just as rumors emerged last week that Comcast was making a move to purchase NBC Universal--one that Comcast executives denied was ever in the cards--Time Warner said that they don't have any plans to

Level 3, 8x8 target public sector opportunities

The U.S. public sector is one of the biggest buyers of telecom services, and VoIP provider 8x8 thinks partnering with a larger wholesale carrier such as Level 3 will increase its sales chances in

Is Comcast's Brian Roberts overpaid?

At a time when families are struggling to pay their monthly bills, Comcast's CEO Brian Roberts has the honor of being named to the top five list of the most overpaid CEOs. As reported in a Telephony

Sprint reaches VoIP patent agreement with Big River Telephone

Large incumbent operators filing lawsuits against competitive and independent service providers over VoIP services has become a phenomenon in recent years. Case in point is Sprint. The IXC, which

Hargray Communications, GulfPines go Ethernet over Copper with Actelis

Just as the baseball season heads into the playoffs, Actelis Networks scored a double play this week as independent ILEC Hargray Communications and CLEC Gulf Pines will extend their copper-based

AT&T to acquire VeriSign security business

Looking to beef up its network-based enterprise security war chest, AT&T announced it will acquire VeriSign's global security consulting business. Terms of the deal, however, have not been