Dell selling mobile phone subscriptions. Hmm, not too sure about that. Oh, I m sure that they can make it work on some level, but I am having a hard time getting excited about it.

Dell Inc. (Nasdaq:DELL - news), 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 U.S. operators Cingular and Sprint (NYSE:FON - news), 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. [Read the rest]