Motorola given permission to operate in Krakow's SSE

The management company Centrum Zaawansowanych Technologii (CZT), which is responsible for Krakow's Special Economic Zone (SSE), is to grant telecoms-company Motorola permission to invest in the zone. Motorola is planning to build a software center at a cost of $18 million, with construction scheduled to begin at the end of the year. Construction is expected to take about 12 months. The new center will initially employ 250 people, but the company plans to double that number eventually. CZT's president Krzysztof Krzysztofiak says the company is still negotiating with Motorola regarding further investment in the zone, estimated to be worth about $100 million . The final decision is not expected until the end of the year. (Puls Biznesu, page 4) A.D.