{"id":1045267,"date":"2026-10-27T08:39:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T03:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045267"},"modified":"2026-10-27T11:58:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T06:28:50","slug":"a-missed-call-for-china-is-a-loud-wake-up-call-for-desi-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/27\/a-missed-call-for-china-is-a-loud-wake-up-call-for-desi-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"A missed call for China is a loud wake-up call for desi companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese smartphone brands are losing ground in India just as rising memory chip prices are making budget phones harder to sell profitably. Their retreat is opening a window for Indian companies such as Lava and Ai+, whose combined market share has climbed to its highest level in nearly eight years. <\/p>\n<p>New entrants from the consumer electronics industry are also eyeing the sub-Rs 15,000 segment. The opening, however, comes in a shrinking market where consumers are delaying purchases and established rivals retain enormous advantages in technology and distribution. The challenge before India&#8217;s homegrown smartphone makers is whether a cost-driven opportunity can become a lasting competitive advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese smartphone brands are losing ground in India just as rising memory chip prices are making budget phones harder to sell profitably. Their retreat is opening a window for Indian companies such as Lava and Ai+, whose combined market share has climbed to its highest level in nearly eight years. New entrants from the consumer electronics industry are also eyeing the sub-Rs 15,000 segment. The opening, however, comes in a shrinking market where consumers are delaying purchases and established rivals retain enormous advantages in technology and distribution. The challenge before India&#8217;s homegrown smartphone makers is whether a cost-driven opportunity can [&hellip;]<\/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-1045267","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\/1045267","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=1045267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045273,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045267\/revisions\/1045273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}