{"id":1037905,"date":"2026-09-23T08:42:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037905"},"modified":"2026-09-23T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:25:41","slug":"refurbished-phones-emerge-as-premium-upgrade-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/23\/refurbished-phones-emerge-as-premium-upgrade-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Refurbished phones emerge as premium upgrade route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refurbished phones are moving beyond their traditional role as a low-cost alternative, with consumers increasingly using them to upgrade to premium devices as rising prices of new smartphones is widening the value gap ahead of the festive season. <\/p>\n<p>The shift is particularly visible in the higher-priced segments, where consumers are increasingly weighing a recent-generation refurbished flagship against a new mid-range smartphone. Industry executives and analysts expect this trend to gather pace during the festive season as higher component costs are pushing up prices of new devices and leaving brands with less room for deep discounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refurbished phones are moving beyond their traditional role as a low-cost alternative, with consumers increasingly using them to upgrade to premium devices as rising prices of new smartphones is widening the value gap ahead of the festive season. The shift is particularly visible in the higher-priced segments, where consumers are increasingly weighing a recent-generation refurbished flagship against a new mid-range smartphone. Industry executives and analysts expect this trend to gather pace during the festive season as higher component costs are pushing up prices of new devices and leaving brands with less room for deep discounts.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037905","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=1037905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037935,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037905\/revisions\/1037935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}