51.   Johnson is now negotiating with officials in Senegal and Nigeria, hoping to slowly extend his wireless data network across the continent.

52.   Jones said the partners could potentially switch to Internet service providers with major national data networks, such as UUNet.

53.   KPMG LLC, the accounting and consulting firm, recently made NewsEdge part of its KWorld internal data network.

54.   Large companies have used these private data networks as powerful competitive tools to streamline their procurement and distribution, curbing inventories, cutting prices and lifting profits.

55.   Last year, the company bid to buy all of CompuServe, including its big data network.

56.   Lucent said the patents cover technology used to unclog congested data networks and control the flow of information.

57.   Micromuse said the deal would give it more products and technologies for finding and automatically solving problems in data networks like telephone networks.

58.   Moreover, electronic document interchange transactions have typically required companies to use custom-built data networks.

59.   Much of that spending will be concentrated in high-growth areas, such as its data network.

60.   Most other vendors are focusing on ways to move video over existing digital data networks.