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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the
information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the
information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Yes ______ No ___X___

 

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BRASIL TELECOM S.A.
Publicly Traded Company
Corporate Taxpayer Registration: 76.535.764/0001 -43
Board of Trade: 53 3 0000622 9

Minutes of the Board of Directors’ Meeting,
Held on January 30, 2007

Date, Time and Place:

On the 30^th of January, 2007, at 10:30 a.m., in Brasil Telecom S.A.’s (“BT” or “Company”) headquarters, in the city of Brasília, Federal District, at SIA SUL – ASP, Lote D, Bloco B.

Summons:

Summons made in compliance with article 26, sole paragraph of the Company’s bylaws, according to letter signed by the BT´s Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr. Sergio Spinelli Silva Junior (Doc. 01).

Presence:

The following effective members of the Company’s Board of Directors were present: Sergio Spinelli Silva Junior, Pedro Paulo Elejalde de Campos, Elemér André Suranyi, Ricardo Ferraz Torres and Antonio Cardoso dos Santos, according to signatures in these minutes. Also present were Messrs. Ricardo Knoepfelmacher, Chief Executive Officer, Charles Laganá Putz, Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer, Fábio de Oliveira Moser, Corporate Governance Officer, João Alberto Santos, Controller, and Mr. José Arthur Escodro, Chairman of the Fiscal Council.

Meeting’s Board:

President: Sergio Spinelli Silva Junior
Secretary: Filipe Laudo de Camargo

Day’s Agenda:

(A) Deliberate on the Senior Management’s proposal for the declaration of Interest on Own Capital (Juros Sobre Capital Próprio – JsCP) for the fiscal year of 2007 (Doc. 2); and

(B) Deliberate on the update of the feasibility study for the payment of deferred tax credits assets, in compliance with CVM (Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission) Instruction 371, dated 06/27/2002 (Doc. 3).

Resolutions:

Initially, the Board of Directors approved unanimously that the Minutes of this Board of Directors’ Meeting be drafted in summarized form, in compliance with art. 130, 1^st paragraph, of Law 6,404/76, being authorized the submission of protests and manifestations, which shall be received by the Meeting’s board and filed at the Company’s headquarters.

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Preliminarily, the President registered the receipt of the Minutes of Invitel S.A.’s and Brasil Telecom Participações S.A.’s Previous Shareholders’ Meetings, both held on January 29, 2007 (Docs. 4 and 5, respectively), which contain vote instructions to be followed in this conclave by the members of the Company’s Board of Directors, by indication of Invitel.

Following, the President put to the vote item 1 of the Day’s Agenda. The members of the Board of Directors who were present approved, unanimously, the Senior Management’s proposal for declaration of Interest on Own Capital (Juros Sobre Capital Próprio – JsCP) for the fiscal year of 2007 (Doc. 2).

Regarding item 2 of the day’s agenda, it was unanimously approved by the present members, the update of the feasibility study for the payment of deferred tax credits assets in compliance with CVM Instruction 371, dated 06/27/2002 and according to the attached proposal (Doc. 3).

Closing:

With nothing further to be discussed, the meeting was closed and the Minutes for this Board of Directors’ Meeting were drafted and, once read, were approved and signed by all present.

Brasília, January 30, 2007.

Sergio Spinelli Silva Junior		Filipe Laudo de Camargo
President		Secretary

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