{"id":1039209,"date":"2026-09-29T06:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039209"},"modified":"2026-09-29T06:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:23:23","slug":"indias-4g-smartphone-segment-shows-recovery-shipments-may-grow-by-3-in-2026-counterpoint-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/indias-4g-smartphone-segment-shows-recovery-shipments-may-grow-by-3-in-2026-counterpoint-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s 4G smartphone segment shows recovery, shipments may grow by 3% in 2026: Counterpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s 4G smartphone market is set to recover in 2026 and show a shipment growth of nearly 3% year-on-year after a 48% year-on-year decline in 2025, Counterpoint Research said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>4G smartphone segment\u2019s share in the overall market is set to rise to 13% this year, compared to 11% in 2025, the research agency said in a report. It attributed this to a widening price gap between 4G and 5G mobile handsets as a result of rising component costs, which has made 5G smartphones costlier for consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s 4G smartphone market is set to recover in 2026 and show a shipment growth of nearly 3% year-on-year after a 48% year-on-year decline in 2025, Counterpoint Research said on Monday. 4G smartphone segment\u2019s share in the overall market is set to rise to 13% this year, compared to 11% in 2025, the research agency said in a report. It attributed this to a widening price gap between 4G and 5G mobile handsets as a result of rising component costs, which has made 5G smartphones costlier for consumers.<\/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-1039209","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\/1039209","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=1039209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039224,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039209\/revisions\/1039224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}