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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
 
FORM 6-K
 
REPORT OF FOREIGN ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
THROUGH April 22, 2008

(Commission File No. 1-15256)
 
 
BRASIL TELECOM S.A.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its Charter)
 
BRAZIL TELECOM COMPANY
(Translation of Registrant's name into English)
 

SIA Sul, Área de Serviços Públicos, Lote D, Bloco B
Brasília, D.F., 71.215-000
Federative Republic of Brazil
(Address of Regristrant's principal executive offices)


Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file
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Form 20-F ___X___ Form 40-F ______

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in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1)__.

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information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

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registrant in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b):


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BRASIL TELECOM S.A.
CORPORATE TAXPAYER REGISTRATION 76.535.764/0001 -43
BOARD OF TRADE 53.3.0000622 -9
PUBLICLY HELD COMPANY

EXTRACT OF THE MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF BRASIL
TELECOM S.A. OF APRIL 22, 2008.

On April 22, 2008, at 10.15 a.m., the members of the Board of Directors of the Brasil Telecom S.A. (“BT” or “Company”), Sergio Spinelli Silva Junior, Pedro Paulo Elejalde de Campos, Renato Carvalho do Nascimento, Ricardo Ferraz Torres, Carlos Alberto Rosa, Henrique Jager and Antonio Cardoso dos Santos met at the Company`s office, at Av. Presidente Wilson, 231 – 26.andar, Rio de Janeiro/RJ having been presented with the results for the first quarter 2008 and unanimously approved: (i) a limit for the new guarantees for companies of the Brasil Telecom S.A. group; (ii) a loan from 14 Brasil Telecom Celular S.A.; (iii) the competences of the Company’s Executive Officers; and (iv) the Internal Audit plan and the list of activities of the area. I hereby certify that the aforementioned resolution was extracted from the minutes registered in the Company’s Minute Book of the Board of Directors’ Meetings.

Rio de Janeiro, April 22, 2008.


Filipe Laudo de Camargo
Secretary

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SIGNATURE
 
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Date: April 22, 2008

 
BRASIL TELECOM S.A.
By:
/S/ Paulo Narcélio Simões Amaral
 
Name:  Paulo Narcélio Simões Amaral
Title:     Chief Financial Officer
 

 

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