BANGALORE: India's software capital notched up another
first today with the inauguration of Finland-based Elcoteq Network
Corporation's manufacturing facility for mobile phones and communications
network equipment.
With this, Elcoteq becomes the first global company to manufacture
telecommunications equipment in India.
Union minister of communications & information
technology Dayanidhi Maran inaugurated the facility. Elcoteq's Bangalore
facility will employ approximately 1,000 people when fully operational
and provide products for global customers operating in India as well
as the Asia Pacific region. The facility was completed in a record
time of nine months.
Elcoteq is the first high-volume electronics manufacturing
services company in India for global communications technology customers.
The products manufactured in Bangalore include terminal products like
mobile phones and communications network equipment.
The inauguration heralds the emergence of electronics
manufacturing services in India and signals India's firm intention
in establishing itself as a global telecommunications-manufacturing
hub.
