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STOCKHOLM, Feb 7 (AFP) - American telecoms giant Motorola is to open a Swedish center for research and development in mobile telephony, the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported on Monday. Motorola would establish some 30 researchers here to develop new products and services in the hope of benefiting from Swedish expertise, the report said. "We chose Sweden because all of Scandinavia is an advanced mobile market," the vice president of Motorola, Bo Hedfors, told the newspaper. "The new center will work with tele-operators and pick up local ideas for solutions," Hedfors added.
Motorola will thus join the ranks of other international telecoms and computer firms such as Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Nortel and Compaq, which have based research teams in Sweden. Stressing the importance of accessing local markets, Hedfors described new Japanese technology for downloading music from the Internet to be listened to on a mobile telephone. "We would never have been able to develop that kind of service on our own. You have to be part of the local market," he explained.
Motorola did not know where in Sweden they would locate the center, but said that proximity to universities, small development companies and telecoms operators was essential. The Swedish center, one of 10 Motorola said it would launch worldwide, would be opened around June, Svenska Dagbladet reported
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