Dell Inc , the world's largest maker of personal computers, said on Thursday it aims to extend the use of high-speed Internet connections on notebook PCs by offering links via mobile phone networks. But a company spokesman denied a French newspaper report that Dell is looking to sell mobile phone subscriptions by 2006, which daily Le Figaro quoted founder and Chairman Michael Dell as saying in its Friday newspaper edition. Lionel Menchaca, a Dell corporate spokesman based at the company's Round Rock, Texas, headquarters, said the company was looking to offer high-speed Internet links to PC users via mobile phone networks, but not phone service itself.
"That wasn't the point of the comments he was making at all," Menchaca said in denying the subscription plan push. Dell already offers high-speed data cards for use with its mobile, or notebook computer, PCs by reselling service from US operators Cingular and Sprint , Menchaca said.
"We will sell mobile phone subscriptions" as of 2006, Michael Dell was quoted as telling the newspaper in an interview to be published in Friday editions of Le Figaro.
Menchaca said the report by Le Figaro appeared to conflate Dell's plans to extend its existing push into mobile data services.
"The point Michael was making is that we have an interest in bridging the gap between wireless technology on the computer side like Wi-Fi and wireless technology on the mobile phone," Menchaca told Reuters. Michael Dell said his company was looking to offer the next generation of mobile broadband data connections, including WiMax, which offers wireless broadband connections up to 30 miles, and HSDPA, or High Speed Download Packet Access.
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