{"id":1010943,"date":"2026-05-30T09:49:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010943"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:23:17","slug":"rising-prices-may-hit-54-pc-of-festive-smartphone-demand-denting-annual-sales-by-up-to-30-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/30\/rising-prices-may-hit-54-pc-of-festive-smartphone-demand-denting-annual-sales-by-up-to-30-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising prices may hit 54 pc of festive smartphone demand, denting annual sales by up to 30 pc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: More than half of intended smartphone buyers in India may defer their purchases or shift to the second-hand market during the festive half of the year (July to December) if prices continue to rise, potentially dragging down annual sales by up to 30 per cent, according to a study. <\/p>\n<p>A joint report by Trakin Tech and Techarc, released on Friday, revealed that 54 per cent of intended smartphone demand for the second half of the year is at risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: More than half of intended smartphone buyers in India may defer their purchases or shift to the second-hand market during the festive half of the year (July to December) if prices continue to rise, potentially dragging down annual sales by up to 30 per cent, according to a study. A joint report by Trakin Tech and Techarc, released on Friday, revealed that 54 per cent of intended smartphone demand for the second half of the year is at risk.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010943","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=1010943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010971,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010943\/revisions\/1010971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}