{"id":994888,"date":"2026-02-26T07:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994888"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:16:26","slug":"demand-for-chinese-smartphones-in-india-falls-for-first-time-ever-prices-to-rise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/26\/demand-for-chinese-smartphones-in-india-falls-for-first-time-ever-prices-to-rise-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand for Chinese smartphones in India falls for first time ever; prices to rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: Sales of Chinese smartphone brands Xiaomi, Oppo, OnePlus and Realme fell for the first time in India last fiscal year, as their mainstay entry- to mid-level market shrank, with consumers increasingly gravitating towards premium handsets.<\/p>\n<p>Their performance pulled down the combined revenue of the nine largest Chinese electronics firms operating in India by 4.5% in FY25, show data from regulatory filings from last month. This was also the first time the Chinese brigade recorded a revenue contraction in India. The previous year, they had posted a 42% expansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: Sales of Chinese smartphone brands Xiaomi, Oppo, OnePlus and Realme fell for the first time in India last fiscal year, as their mainstay entry- to mid-level market shrank, with consumers increasingly gravitating towards premium handsets. Their performance pulled down the combined revenue of the nine largest Chinese electronics firms operating in India by 4.5% in FY25, show data from regulatory filings from last month. This was also the first time the Chinese brigade recorded a revenue contraction in India. The previous year, they had posted a 42% expansion.<\/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-994888","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\/994888","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=994888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}