{"id":989166,"date":"2026-02-02T08:11:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989166"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:56:19","slug":"budget-2026-will-smartphones-become-expensive-from-february-1-what-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/budget-2026-will-smartphones-become-expensive-from-february-1-what-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2026: Will smartphones become expensive from February 1? What experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the announcement of the Union Budget 2026-2027, there is one question being asked across the tech industry. Whether or not smartphone prices will increase this year? Multiple stakeholders including consumers, experts and even smartphone manufacturers are anticipating the Budget for his very reason. Since India is the world\u2019s second largest smartphones market and which has made smartphone\u2019s a necessity in people\u2019s increasingly digital everyday life. The question of smartphone\u2019s becoming cheaper or expensive is pivotal for the smartphone industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the announcement of the Union Budget 2026-2027, there is one question being asked across the tech industry. Whether or not smartphone prices will increase this year? Multiple stakeholders including consumers, experts and even smartphone manufacturers are anticipating the Budget for his very reason. Since India is the world\u2019s second largest smartphones market and which has made smartphone\u2019s a necessity in people\u2019s increasingly digital everyday life. The question of smartphone\u2019s becoming cheaper or expensive is pivotal for the smartphone industry.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989166","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=989166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}