Dell Inspiron Mini 10 Netbook to surf on CMCC 3G Network

By: Raghav kapoor

This Strategic Partnership may result in a Win-Win situation

 Dell is teaming with China Mobile Communication Corporation to provide users of its recently launched Inspiron Mini 10 Netbook the ability to surf on the web using CMCC’s 3G network. This way users will be able to surf, check mails, chat, blog, access social networking sites and do lot more while roaming about in a park, train or a café.

China is said to lead the world in Internet Access with 298 million net users, as stated by the 2008 CNNIC Internet Survey report. The report pointed out a net increase of 42% from 07-08 i.e. almost 88 million new internet users were added. International Data Corporation (IDC) (US based analyst firm) forecasts mini notebook growth in China to be around 276% by 2009. So, the partnership couldn’t have come at a better time.

The need of the hour is portable computing along with connectivity, so Dell is trying to leverage this partnership to reach out and sell more. This is not the first time that Dell has entered into a strategic partnership we have seen Dell team up with other global telecom providers, like Vodafone in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, AT&T in the US, M1 and Starhub in Singapore and Maxis in Malaysia.

Dell already offers users with a free online storage space of 2GB so that users can upload their docs, photos, music and then access it anywhere using an internet connection. Moreover, Dell is soon set to release the Dell Remote Access in China so that users can remotely access files from their PC through a Netbook/Notebook while they are on the move. All this software support would definitely benefit the above partnership.