{"id":842436,"date":"2024-08-08T09:47:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T04:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=842436"},"modified":"2024-08-08T09:47:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T04:17:51","slug":"smartphone-sales-unlikely-to-see-any-fireworks-this-festive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/08\/smartphone-sales-unlikely-to-see-any-fireworks-this-festive-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone sales unlikely to see any fireworks this festive season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Market trackers estimate sales of smartphones during the September-October festive season are likely to grow in single digits on-year supported by affordable 5G phones amid huge efforts by brands to boost demand through discounts and offers.<\/p>\n<p>Research firm Counterpoint Research expects handset sales to grow 4-5% year-on-year to 30-35 million units during the one-month festive period, with online channels being more aggressive in terms of promotions and discounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Market trackers estimate sales of smartphones during the September-October festive season are likely to grow in single digits on-year supported by affordable 5G phones amid huge efforts by brands to boost demand through discounts and offers. Research firm Counterpoint Research expects handset sales to grow 4-5% year-on-year to 30-35 million units during the one-month festive period, with online channels being more aggressive in terms of promotions and discounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-842436","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\/842436","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}