NEW DELHI: The SP BSE Telecom index was trading 1.41 per cent up at 970.63 around 12:24 pm on Friday with most of its components trading in the green.
Shares of Sterlite Technologies (up 4.60 per cent), Vindhya Telelinks (up 3.19 per cent), Bharti Airtel (up 1.99 per cent) and Himachal Futuristic Communications (up 1.53 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.
Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) (up 1.25 per cent), Tejas Networks (up 1.25 per cent) and Tata Communications (up 1.23 per cent) too, were among top performers.Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 0.90 points at 10,124 while BSE Sensex was down 19.89 points at 33,670.2 at that time.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 25 were trading in the green, while 24 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, JP Associates, Reliance Communications, Equitas Holdings, Dewan Housing, Adani Power, Infibeam Avenues, Suzlon Energy, PC Jeweller, GMR Infra, Ujjivan Financial Services, BHEL, South Indian Bank, PNB and Tata Motors were among the most traded shares on the National Stock Exchange.