NEW DELHI: Most telecom stocks, including Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) (up 4.20 per cent), Sterlite Technologies (up 3.96 per cent) and Aksh Optifibre (up 2.89 per cent), were trading in the positive territory in Friday's session.The BSE Telecom index was trading 1.03 per cent up at 1,153 around 01:10 pm.
Shares of ITI (up 1.85 per cent), GTL (up 1.35 per cent), MTNL (up 1.31 per cent), Reliance Communications (up 1.23 per cent) and Bharti Airtel (up 1.06 per cent) climbed over 1 per cent.Vindhya Telelinks (up 0.91 per cent), OnMobile Global (up 0.80 per cent), Himachal Futuristic Communications (up 0.79 per cent), Bharti Infratel (up 0.59 per cent), Tata Communications (up 0.55 per cent) and Idea Cellular (up 0.53 per cent) too were in the green.GTPL Hathway (down 1.88 per cent) was the only stock in the telecom index that was suffering loss around that time.Gains in heavyweights such as Infosys, ITC, State Bank of India and Reliance Industries were keeping the equity benchmarks aloft, while firm global cues boosted the sentiment.The BSE Sensex was up 289 points at 37,274, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 81 points at 11,249.ITC, Tata Motors and Hero MotoCorp were leading the pack of Sensex gainers.Power Grid and Adani Ports, however, were among the top losers in the Sensex index.