{"id":5040,"date":"2024-05-02T05:12:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T03:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=5040"},"modified":"2024-05-02T05:12:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T03:12:59","slug":"demand-for-refurbished-and-secondhand-phones-increased-in-africa-last-year-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=5040","title":{"rendered":"Demand for refurbished and secondhand phones increased in Africa last year, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The smartphone market in the Middle East and Africa region experienced the highest rate of growth in 2023, reaching 8%, which was primarily influenced by increased affordability, expanding digitalization, and a rising consumer demand for technology, according to the research by Canalys.<\/p>\n<p>The report cited numerous factors fueling the Middle East and Africa&#8217;s secondhand smartphone market. One of them was inflation, which has caused phone makers to raise the price of new devices.<\/p>\n<p>Lack of reason for smartphone upgrades was another major factor. The research also noted that growing costs of living and limited consumer purchasing power had reduced non-essential purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, high import taxes and tariffs on smartphones have driven up retail prices in addition to fluctuations in local currencies, reducing demand for smartphones.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smartphone market in the Middle East and Africa region experienced the highest rate of growth in 2023, reaching 8%, which was primarily influenced by increased affordability, expanding digitalization, and a rising consumer demand for technology, according to the research by Canalys. The report cited numerous factors fueling the Middle East and Africa&#8217;s secondhand smartphone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}