Among the components of the BSE Telecommunication index, ITI Ltd (up 7.12%), Optiemus Infracom Ltd (up 5.58%),Railtel Corporation of India Ltd (up 4.2%),Bharti Hexacom Ltd (up 3.36%),Indus Towers Ltd (up 1.85%), were the top gainers. Among the other gainers were HFCL Ltd (up 1.25%), Route Mobile Ltd (up 0.99%), Bharti Airtel Ltd (up 0.56%), Vindhya Telelinks Ltd (up 0.46%), and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd (up 0.45%).
On the other hand, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (down 1.3%), and Suyog Telematics Ltd (down 0.06%) turned lower.
At 09:42 IST, the BSE SmallCap was up 194.02 or 0.37% at 52059.31.
The BSE 150 MidCap Index index was up 14.6 points or 0.09% at 15724.67.
The Nifty 50 index was down 56.5 points or 0.23% at 24769.7.
The BSE Sensex index was down 139.95 points or 0.17% at 81411.68.
On BSE,1688 shares were trading in green, 1217 were trading in red and 166 were unchanged.