{"id":1041086,"date":"2026-10-06T08:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041086"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:21:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:51:51","slug":"festive-demand-on-easy-finance-samsung-vivo-xiaomi-and-others-stretch-emis-to-30-months-bear-interest-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/06\/festive-demand-on-easy-finance-samsung-vivo-xiaomi-and-others-stretch-emis-to-30-months-bear-interest-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive demand on easy finance: Samsung, Vivo, Xiaomi and others stretch EMIs to 30 months, bear interest costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: Smartphone and consumer electronics makers are stretching equated monthly instalment (EMI) tenures to as long as 30 months this festive season-six to eight months more than usual-taking a hit on margins as they absorb the financing cost to cushion consumers from steep price increases and revive demand, especially in the mass-to-mid-level segments. <\/p>\n<p>Samsung, Vivo, Realme, Xiaomi, Oppo and Nothing have done this even for entry- and mid-segment smartphones, where EMI options weren&#8217;t offered to customers or were for a shorter eight to 10 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: Smartphone and consumer electronics makers are stretching equated monthly instalment (EMI) tenures to as long as 30 months this festive season-six to eight months more than usual-taking a hit on margins as they absorb the financing cost to cushion consumers from steep price increases and revive demand, especially in the mass-to-mid-level segments. Samsung, Vivo, Realme, Xiaomi, Oppo and Nothing have done this even for entry- and mid-segment smartphones, where EMI options weren&#8217;t offered to customers or were for a shorter eight to 10 months.<\/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-1041086","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\/1041086","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=1041086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041087,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041086\/revisions\/1041087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}