NEW DELHI: Telecom shares were trading with losses in Wednesday's morning session.Shares of GTL Infrastructure (down 4.26 per cent), Optiemus Infracom (down 4.09 per cent), Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (down 3.61 per cent) and Tejas Networks (down 3.49 per cent) were trading lower.
Bharti Infratel (down 0.75 per cent), Sterlite Technologies (down 0.57 per cent), Bharti Airtel (down 0.50 per cent) and OnMobile Global (down 0.29 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
The S-P BSE Telecom index was trading 0.49 per cent down at 1051.04 around 11:06 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 46.95 points at 12084.65, while the BSE Sensex was up 144.15 points at 40965.45 .
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 41 were trading in the green, while 9 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, NCC, Ashok Leyland, Tata Motors, ZEEL, Motherson Sumi, L-T Fin Holding and Aditya Birla Fashion were among the most traded shares on the NSE.