A telecommunication filter arrangement comprising two similar filter cells (T1, S1a, S1b, R1a, R1b; T2, S2a, S2b, R2a, R2b) coupled in cascade to provide a POTS/ADSL splitter. The filter arrangement further comprises at third filter cell (C3, R3, S3) coupled in-between the two other filter cells and comprising a cell capacitor (C3) series coupled with the parallel connection of a cell coil (S3) and a cell resistor (R3). A 3rd order filter is so provided and the filter arrangement behaves as known 5th order filter but with a fixed “switchable insertion loss circuit”. This filter arrangement is thereby cheap, simple and has a small size with respect to the known filter arrangements, while providing good performances.