{"id":1020913,"date":"2026-07-15T07:44:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020913"},"modified":"2026-07-15T07:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:18:38","slug":"ericsson-to-raise-telecom-equipment-prices-as-ai-boom-drives-up-component-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/15\/ericsson-to-raise-telecom-equipment-prices-as-ai-boom-drives-up-component-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ericsson to raise telecom equipment prices as AI boom drives up component costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson on Tuesday said the company is adjusting prices upwards for new tenders, renegotiating existing contracts, and engaging in discussions to broaden price increases as the AI boom is driving up component costs. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe external environment continues to be rather challenging as the AI boom is driving up component costs,\u201d outgoing president and chief executive B\u00f6rje Ekholm told analysts in an earnings call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson on Tuesday said the company is adjusting prices upwards for new tenders, renegotiating existing contracts, and engaging in discussions to broaden price increases as the AI boom is driving up component costs. \u201cThe external environment continues to be rather challenging as the AI boom is driving up component costs,\u201d outgoing president and chief executive B\u00f6rje Ekholm told analysts in an earnings call.<\/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-1020913","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\/1020913","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=1020913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020937,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020913\/revisions\/1020937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}