{"id":799464,"date":"2022-08-30T11:11:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T11:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2022\/08\/30\/india-does-not-plan-to-restrict-low-cost-foreign-smartphone-sales\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T11:11:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T11:11:47","slug":"india-does-not-plan-to-restrict-low-cost-foreign-smartphone-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2022\/08\/30\/india-does-not-plan-to-restrict-low-cost-foreign-smartphone-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"India does not plan to restrict low-cost foreign smartphone sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s IT ministry has no proposal to restrict sales of foreign smartphone brands that cost below $150, a junior minister said on Monday, after reports suggested New Delhi could impose restrictions to promote domestic players.<\/p>\n<p>Rajeev Chandrasekhar\u2019s comments followed reports that India was planning to restrict sales of cheap Chinese smartphones to revive the prospects of Indian-build competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if there was any plan to limit the sale of devices below 12,000 rupees ($150) to Indian brands, Chandrasekhar told reporters: \u201cThere is no such proposal in our ministry.\u201d \u201cThere is a space for Indian brands \u2026 it is not to the exclusion of foreign suppliers or foreign brands,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s IT ministry has no proposal to restrict sales of foreign smartphone brands that cost below $150, a junior minister said on Monday, after reports suggested New Delhi could impose restrictions to promote domestic players. Rajeev Chandrasekhar\u2019s comments followed reports that India was planning to restrict sales of cheap Chinese smartphones to revive the prospects of Indian-build competitors. Asked if there was any plan to limit the sale of devices below 12,000 rupees ($150) to Indian brands, Chandrasekhar told reporters: \u201cThere is no such proposal in our ministry.\u201d \u201cThere is a space for Indian brands \u2026 it is not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799464","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=799464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}