{"id":1006233,"date":"2026-05-01T09:20:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006233"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:02:13","slug":"exclusive-oneplus-denies-realme-merger-reports-says-its-business-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/01\/exclusive-oneplus-denies-realme-merger-reports-says-its-business-as-usual\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: OnePlus denies Realme merger reports, says it\u2019s business as usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OnePlus has denied reports that hinted its merger with sister brand Realme in a statement released exclusively to Financial Express Online. <\/p>\n<p>The Oppo-owned brand, which has been around for more than a decade in India and defined the \u2018flagship-killer\u2019 smartphone segment, stated that the company continues its business operations as usual. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnePlus India continues to operate its business as usual, with all local operations on track. We urge the media to exercise restraint before amplifying unverified speculation,\u201d the Chinese brand told the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OnePlus has denied reports that hinted its merger with sister brand Realme in a statement released exclusively to Financial Express Online. The Oppo-owned brand, which has been around for more than a decade in India and defined the \u2018flagship-killer\u2019 smartphone segment, stated that the company continues its business operations as usual. \u201cOnePlus India continues to operate its business as usual, with all local operations on track. We urge the media to exercise restraint before amplifying unverified speculation,\u201d the Chinese brand told the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006248,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006233\/revisions\/1006248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}