At a higher edge, telecom stocks were traded, with the S&P BSE Telecommunication index rising 6.69 points or 0.37%.

Other stocks are S&P BSE Telecommunication index, Sterlite Technologies Ltd, up 3.95%, Railtel Corporation of India Ltd, up 4.29%, Optiemus Infracom Ltd up 3.06%, GTL Infrastructure Ltd up 0.78%, Vodafone Idea Ltd (up 0.95%). Other stocks are Indus Towers Ltd, up 0.77%, Bharti Airtel Ltd, up 0.42%, Tejas Networks Ltd (up 0.77%) and Route Mobile Ltd (up 0.07%).

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The lower edge is Tata Communications Ltd, down 1.13%. OnMobile Global Ltd, down 0.9% and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (down 1.08%) moved lower. The S&P BSE Sensex was down 106.32 or 0.17% in the morning trade. The Nifty50 index was down 32.4 points or 0.18%.

The S&P BSE Small-Cap index was down 28.22 points or 0.09%. The S&P BSE 150 Midcap Index was down 49.11 points or 0.53%.

On the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), 1737 shares were trading higher, 1113 were trading in red and 122 remained the same.