{"id":1027153,"date":"2026-08-07T09:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027153"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:52:32","slug":"ai-led-deflation-weak-demand-to-keep-it-sector-growth-muted-in-q2fy27-mid-tier-firms-may-post-healthy-gains-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/07\/ai-led-deflation-weak-demand-to-keep-it-sector-growth-muted-in-q2fy27-mid-tier-firms-may-post-healthy-gains-report\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-led deflation, weak demand to keep IT sector growth muted in Q2FY27; Mid-tier firms may post healthy gains: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], August 7 (ANI): The Indian IT sector is expected to remain under pressure in Q2FY27 amid weak demand and AI-driven pricing headwinds, with Tier-1 companies likely to see only modest sequential growth of 0-2 per cent, while mid-tier firms are projected to post moderate-to-healthy growth, as per a report by Kotak Institutional Equities. <\/p>\n<p>The report noted the country&#8217;s IT sector reported a mixed Q1FY27 on the back of geopolitical tensions, macro uncertainty and client- and vertical-specific challenges dampening demand and delaying deal closures and project ramp-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], August 7 (ANI): The Indian IT sector is expected to remain under pressure in Q2FY27 amid weak demand and AI-driven pricing headwinds, with Tier-1 companies likely to see only modest sequential growth of 0-2 per cent, while mid-tier firms are projected to post moderate-to-healthy growth, as per a report by Kotak Institutional Equities. The report noted the country&#8217;s IT sector reported a mixed Q1FY27 on the back of geopolitical tensions, macro uncertainty and client- and vertical-specific challenges dampening demand and delaying deal closures and project ramp-ups.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027153","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=1027153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027190,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027153\/revisions\/1027190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}