{"id":1041163,"date":"2026-10-06T09:10:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041163"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:14:09","slug":"indian-it-companies-to-see-muted-growth-pricing-pressure-in-q2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/06\/indian-it-companies-to-see-muted-growth-pricing-pressure-in-q2\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian IT companies to see muted growth, pricing pressure in Q2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian IT firms are set for another muted quarter in Q2, with weak discretionary spending, AI-led pricing and productivity pressures, and longer decision-making cycles limiting revenue growth. Persistent macroeconomic uncertainty, geopolitical volatility and higher interest rates are also weighing on demand. <\/p>\n<p>The second quarter normally provides a boost before the holiday season, but expectations remain for low-single-digit sequential revenue growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian IT firms are set for another muted quarter in Q2, with weak discretionary spending, AI-led pricing and productivity pressures, and longer decision-making cycles limiting revenue growth. Persistent macroeconomic uncertainty, geopolitical volatility and higher interest rates are also weighing on demand. The second quarter normally provides a boost before the holiday season, but expectations remain for low-single-digit sequential revenue growth.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041163","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=1041163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041174,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041163\/revisions\/1041174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}