NEW DELHI: Telecom shares were trading lower in Monday's afternoon session.Shares of GTL Infrastructure (down 4.35 per cent) , Tejas Networks (down 2.38 per cent) , GTL (down 2.22 per cent) and Himachal Futuristic Communications (down 2.03 per cent) were the worst performers in the index.
Tata Communications (down 1.93 per cent) , Sterlite Technologies (down 1.76 per cent) , Vodafone Idea (down 1.32 per cent) and OnMobile Global (down 0.91 per cent) too were trading lower.The SP BSE Telecom index was trading 0.34 per cent down at 998.45 around 12:40 pm.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 61.20 points at 10,882.40 while the BSE Sensex was 179.88 points at 36366.6 .Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 14 were trading in the green, while 36 were in the red.