NEW DELHI: Telecom shares were trading on a mixed note with the SP BSE Telecom index down 0.35 per cent at 992.41 around 12:49 pm on Monday.Shares of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (up 11.84 per cent), GTPL Hathway (up 4.00 per cent), OnMobile Global (up 2.60 per cent) and ITI (up 2.45 per cent) were the top performers in the index.
GTL Infrastructure (down 2.47 per cent), Bharti Infratel (down 1.59 per cent), Himachal Futuristic Communications (down 0.71 per cent), and Reliance Communications (down 0.54 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 5.55 points at 10,865.45 while the BSE Sensex was up 8.41 points at 36,085.13.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 27 were trading in the green, while 21 were in the red.
Shares of Reliance Communications, JP Associates, Hind Construction Company, SAIL, HDIL, YES Bank, DHFL, Spicejet, NCC, Suzlon Energy, Adani Power, BEL, NBCC, PC Jeweller, JSPL and PNB were among the most traded shares on the NSE.