{"id":1045149,"date":"2026-10-27T07:09:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045149"},"modified":"2026-10-27T08:23:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T02:53:50","slug":"indias-smartphone-shipments-fall-by-20-on-year-in-3q26-counterpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/27\/indias-smartphone-shipments-fall-by-20-on-year-in-3q26-counterpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s smartphone shipments fall by 20% on-year in 3Q26: Counterpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s smartphone shipments fell by 20% year-on-year in the July to September quarter (Q3 2026), weighed down by memory price-driven pressures and holding back of channel inventory by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), Counterpoint Research said in a report released Friday. <\/p>\n<p>For the full calendar year 2026, the research agency has estimated smartphone shipments may decline by 13% as pricing pressure continues to impact affordability and replacement demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s smartphone shipments fell by 20% year-on-year in the July to September quarter (Q3 2026), weighed down by memory price-driven pressures and holding back of channel inventory by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), Counterpoint Research said in a report released Friday. For the full calendar year 2026, the research agency has estimated smartphone shipments may decline by 13% as pricing pressure continues to impact affordability and replacement demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1045149","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\/1045149","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045151,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045149\/revisions\/1045151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}