ASCE 2025 report card: Broadband earns a C+ grade

Broadband availability continues to rise, but having earned a C+ grade on ASCE's 2025 report card, there is still more work to be done. Lumen, meanwhile, maintains its position in wavelength services. Sean Buckley, Editor-in-Chief of Lightwave+BTR, breaks it down in this new Friday Five video. 

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Sean Buckley

Sean Buckley

Sean is the Editor-in-Chief of Lightwave. He establishes and executes Lightwave's editorial strategy across its website, email newsletters, events, and other information products. Before coming to Lightwave in July 2023, he served as editor of Broadband Communities. Earlier, he served as senior editor of FierceTelecom and the editor of the former Telecommunications Magazine. He got his start in the optical industry in 1998 when he became the editor of enterprise and optical networks at Information Gatekeepers. He has a BA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and lives in Dracut, Mass, with his wife, two sons, and his cat, Dove. 

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