NEW DELHI: Telecom shares were trading with gains in Wednesday's morning session.
Shares of Vodafone Idea (up 10.75 per cent), Bharti Infratel Ltd (up 5.52 per cent), Reliance Communications (up 4.65 per cent), Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (up 2.26 per cent), Tejas Network (up 1.18 per cent), ITI (up 0.9 per cent), Bharti Airtel (up 0.88 per cent), GTPL Hathway (up 0.65 per cent) and Vindhya Telelinks (up 0.14 per cent) were among the top gainers.
The S-P BSE Telecom index was trading 1.75 per cent up at 1145.7 around 10:57 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 23.65 points at 10427.8 , while the BSE Sensex was down 34.96 points at 35599.99 .
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 16 were trading in the green, while 34 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, RIL, Petronet LNG, SBI, BHEL, Tata Motors, ITC and ONGC were among the most traded shares on the NSE.