{"id":1011067,"date":"2026-05-30T10:49:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011067"},"modified":"2026-05-30T11:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:35:35","slug":"rising-prices-may-hit-festive-smartphone-demand-dent-annual-sales-by-up-to-30-pc-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/30\/rising-prices-may-hit-festive-smartphone-demand-dent-annual-sales-by-up-to-30-pc-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising prices may hit festive smartphone demand, dent annual sales by up to 30 pc, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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>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":[4,80,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011067","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=1011067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011085,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011067\/revisions\/1011085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}