{"id":935549,"date":"2025-05-31T11:25:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=935549"},"modified":"2025-05-31T11:25:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:55:44","slug":"global-smartphone-sales-to-grow-just-0-6-this-year-as-tariff-threats-loom-idc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/31\/global-smartphone-sales-to-grow-just-0-6-this-year-as-tariff-threats-loom-idc\/","title":{"rendered":"Global smartphone sales to grow just 0.6% this year as tariff threats loom: IDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Data Corporation (IDC) has cut down its global smartphone shipment growth forecast to 0.6% from 2.3% citing high uncertainty, tariff volatility and macro-economic challenges like inflation and unemployment across various regions. IDC further predicts that growth will remain in the low single digits throughout the forecast period and a five year (2024-2029) compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.4% owing to increasing smartphone penetration, lengthening refresh cycles, and cannibalization from used smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the impact of US President Donald Trump&#8217;s so called reciprocal tariffs on the smartphone industry, Nabila Popal, senior research director at IDC&#8217;s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, said, \u201cSince April 2nd, the smartphone industry has faced a whirlwind of uncertainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Data Corporation (IDC) has cut down its global smartphone shipment growth forecast to 0.6% from 2.3% citing high uncertainty, tariff volatility and macro-economic challenges like inflation and unemployment across various regions. IDC further predicts that growth will remain in the low single digits throughout the forecast period and a five year (2024-2029) compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.4% owing to increasing smartphone penetration, lengthening refresh cycles, and cannibalization from used smartphones. Speaking about the impact of US President Donald Trump&#8217;s so called reciprocal tariffs on the smartphone industry, Nabila Popal, senior research director at IDC&#8217;s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935549","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}