A man in Boston is battling commercial wireless access using his 1997 Saturn outfitted as a mobile Web access point to distribute free Wi-Fi. The 1997 Saturn has enough Wi-Fi equipment installed on its bumper and rooftop to create a 150-foot wireless network, said Oh, who helps run a free wireless network covering two Boston city blocks and is one of hundreds of so-called public hot-spot operators who believe Wi-Fi networks and the Internet access they offer should remain free. The war car's first sortie was nine days ago to a Starbucks cafe, where Wi-Fi access is sold by the minute.

CNET también está disponible en español, Don't show this again, Because of the way KPNQwest was set up, the liquidation of assets was handled by a complex network of receivers in different European countries, hampering any efforts to deal with the network as a whole, The main asset KPN has bought from the company's U.K, inner strength iphone case administrators--for an undisclosed price--is a 310-mile fiber-optic network connecting London with Paris and Amsterdam, The whole KPNQwest operation once carried up to a quarter of European IP (Internet Protocol) traffic, and boasted customers including Hewlett-Packard and Dell Computer..

ZDNet UK's Peter Judge reported from London. As the dust settles around the failed networking giant, another piece of the joint venture has ended up with the Dutch parent company. The KPNQwest network, once valued at $40.8 billion, went bankrupt earlier this year and was eventually shut down in July. Since then, KPN has bought parts of KPNQwest, including the Dutch network and a data center at The Hague. It is in talks to buy other assets in Belgium and an undersea link between Europe and the United States.

CNET también está disponible en español, Don't show this again, Telecommunications companies have been particularly hard hit inner strength iphone case in the last year, bearing the brunt of the technology market meltdown, Under its approved restructuring plan, Teligent exits bankruptcy without any debts, fully funded and holding all of its existing fixed-wireless assets, such as its spectrum licenses in 74 markets nationwide, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Toronto Dominion hold 100 percent of the stock of the privately held company, The financial institutions served as Teligent's former senior secured lenders..

Despite rough times in the telecommunications industry, wireless services provider Teligent comes out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection debt-free and fully funded. Teligent, which slipped into bankruptcy in May 2001, provides transport services to other telecommunications carriers, broadband access services to companies with multiple locations and dedicated Internet access to corporations. The company had a rough ride last year, piling up huge losses each consecutive quarter despite pulling in an impressive list of investors, such as Microsoft and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) in Japan. Prior to entering bankruptcy, the company closed out fiscal 2000 with $1.21 billion in assets against $1.65 billion in debts.