  We present a generalized telecloning (GTC) protocol where the quantum channel
is non-optimally entangled and we study how the fidelity of the telecloned
states depends on the entanglement of the channel. We show that one can
increase the fidelity of the telecloned states, achieving the optimal value in
some situations, by properly choosing the measurement basis at Alice's, albeit
turning the protocol to a probabilistic one. We also show how one can convert
the GTC protocol to the teleportation protocol via proper unitary operations.
