China Telecom signed up another 4.84 million clients to its broadband Internet services in 2003, the company announced in Beijing Monday.

The China Telecom Group, China's largest fixed-line operator, has 7.35 million clients using its broadband Internet services across the country.

China Telecom has increased its broadband subscribers tenfold in two years, said an official with the Ministry of Information Industry.

China Telecom mainly uses ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber lines) technology in its broadband Internet services.

(Xinhua News Agency February 23, 2004)