Motorola Increases Brazilian Research Investment

The Networks business of Motorola's Brazilian subsidiary, Motorola Industrial Ltda., has announced an investment of approximately US$5million over the next three years for two new research initiatives in Brazil. These efforts will be focused on developing new applications for mobile and fixed telephony carriers and the continued development of Motorola's SoftSwitch technology. Research on these two new initiatives is scheduled to begin this month using simulated real world commercial network environments in Motorola laboratories at its Jaguariuna Industrial and Technological Campus in the state of Sao Paulo.

Products and research developed locally through these efforts will be used by Motorola worldwide.

These new research initiatives are part of Motorola's ongoing investment of its Technology Development Program in Brazil. Motorola has invested more than US$175million in that program since it was established in 1997.

A part of this investment may benefit from incentives under the Informatics Law (Lei de Informatica)."

Posted to the site on 4th March 2005