A profinite group G is just infinite if every closed normal subgroup of G is of finite index. We prove that an infinite profinite group is just infinite if and only if, for every open subgroup H of G, there are only finitely many open normal subgroups of G not contained in H . This extends a result recently established by Barnea, Gavioli, Jaikin-Zapirain, Monti and Scoppola in [1], who proved t...