CHINA Telecom will cut the price of broadband services by 30 percent for its enterprise clients in Shanghai from April, following complaints about their high cost and low speed, the country's biggest fixed-line phone firm said yesterday.

About 100,000 enterprise clients will enjoy the lower priced broadband services, Shanghai Telecom, the telco's local arm, said.

By the end of 2011, Shanghai's average family broadband bandwidth reached 8 Mbps (megabytes per second), more than double the previous year's level. Shanghai Telecom will upgrade the network to advanced fiber optic which can handle a bandwidth of 16 Mbps, the telco said.