{"id":960057,"date":"2025-09-09T08:28:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T02:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=960057"},"modified":"2025-09-09T08:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T03:11:24","slug":"smartphone-sales-to-stay-weak-this-festive-season-despite-early-discounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/09\/smartphone-sales-to-stay-weak-this-festive-season-despite-early-discounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone sales to stay weak this festive season despite early discounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphone sales will likely remain lacklustre this festive season, according to industry trackers who cut forecasts of annual shipments for 2025 citing a dearth of organic demand drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Brands, on their part, have started releasing price discount offers for the festive season earlier than the norm, increasing the discount period, in a desperate attempt to entice buyers, executives said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphone sales will likely remain lacklustre this festive season, according to industry trackers who cut forecasts of annual shipments for 2025 citing a dearth of organic demand drivers. Brands, on their part, have started releasing price discount offers for the festive season earlier than the norm, increasing the discount period, in a desperate attempt to entice buyers, executives said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-960057","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\/960057","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}