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.