{"id":1034538,"date":"2026-09-11T08:05:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034538"},"modified":"2026-09-11T08:12:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:42:55","slug":"india-gets-one-of-worlds-steepest-iphone-price-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/11\/india-gets-one-of-worlds-steepest-iphone-price-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"India gets one of world&#8217;s steepest iPhone price hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Apple raised prices on its existing iPhone lineup in India by as much \u200cas 41% within \u2060hours of \u2060unveiling newer models, bucking its usual practice of discounting older variants and marking one of \u200bthe steepest hikes in any market where it has repriced this year. <\/p>\n<p>While Apple also raised \u200bprices in the U.S. late Wednesday, those increases ranged from 10% to 21%. The hikes followed Apple&#8217;s September event, dubbed &#8216;Surprise and Shine,&#8217; where new Chief Executive John \u200bTernus unveiled Apple&#8217;s first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Apple raised prices on its existing iPhone lineup in India by as much \u200cas 41% within \u2060hours of \u2060unveiling newer models, bucking its usual practice of discounting older variants and marking one of \u200bthe steepest hikes in any market where it has repriced this year. While Apple also raised \u200bprices in the U.S. late Wednesday, those increases ranged from 10% to 21%. The hikes followed Apple&#8217;s September event, dubbed &#8216;Surprise and Shine,&#8217; where new Chief Executive John \u200bTernus unveiled Apple&#8217;s first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.<\/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-1034538","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\/1034538","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=1034538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034547,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034538\/revisions\/1034547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}