{"id":990890,"date":"2026-02-10T07:57:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990890"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:39:59","slug":"indias-5g-smartphone-shipments-rise-12-on-year-in-2025-as-budget-devices-fuel-growth-cmr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/10\/indias-5g-smartphone-shipments-rise-12-on-year-in-2025-as-budget-devices-fuel-growth-cmr\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s 5G smartphone shipments rise 12% on-year in 2025, as budget devices fuel growth: CMR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Fifth-generation (5G)-enabled smartphone shipments rose by 12% year-on-year in India in 2025, accounting for 88% of the total volumes, driven by the availability of chipsets for entry-to-premium segments and nationwide coverage of 5G, according to the latest report released by CyberMedia Research (CMR) on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite short-term headwinds from post-festive demand normalisation and rising component and memory costs, the market demonstrated strong underlying resilience,\u201d CMR said. It noted that 5G has moved decisively from a premium feature to a market default.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Fifth-generation (5G)-enabled smartphone shipments rose by 12% year-on-year in India in 2025, accounting for 88% of the total volumes, driven by the availability of chipsets for entry-to-premium segments and nationwide coverage of 5G, according to the latest report released by CyberMedia Research (CMR) on Monday. \u201cDespite short-term headwinds from post-festive demand normalisation and rising component and memory costs, the market demonstrated strong underlying resilience,\u201d CMR said. It noted that 5G has moved decisively from a premium feature to a market default.<\/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-990890","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\/990890","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=990890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}