Dell Inc. revealed plans to incorporate connectivity to high-speed mobile-phone networks in its notebook models, according to a Reuters report.

High-speed data cards already are available from Dell for use with its notebook PCs under a reselling agreement the computer company has with U.S. carriers Cingular and Sprint, the report said.

However, comments attributed by a French newspaper to Dell chairman Michael Dell, which suggested the company would be getting into the mobile-phone subscription business, were misconstrued, Lionel Menchaca, a Dell corporate spokesman based at the company's Round Rock, Texas, headquarters, told Reuters.

Menchaca explained that Dell wanted to bridge the gap between Wi-Fi and mobile-phone network technology.

"We are in talks with all leading operators," Dell reportedly told the French paper, Le Figaro. "The mobile phone market has great potential.... We will continue to add functions to portable computers, notably third-generation mobile telephony."

By: DocMemory
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