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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
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	Investor Relations
	(55 61) 415-1140
	ri@brasiltelecom.com.br
	Media Relations
	(1 212) 983-1702
	cesarb@brasiltelecom.com.br

Free Translation

BRASIL TELECOM S.A.
Corporate Taxpayers’ ID (CNPJ/MF) 76.535.764/0001 -43
Company Registry (NIRE) 53.3.0000622 -9
PUBLICLY-HELD COMPANY

SUMMONS NOTICE
ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING

Brasil Telecom S.A.’s (“Company”) shareholders are hereby summoned to attend the Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting, in the form of the legal and statutory dispositions, to be held on March 18, 2008, at noon, at the Company’s headquarters located in the city of Brasília - DF, at SIA SUL, ASP, LOTE D, BLOCO B, to resolve the following agenda:

ORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING

1.	Acknowledge the Managerial Accounts, examine, discuss and vote on the Financial Statements and the Management
	Report for the year ended December 31, 2007;
2.	Decide on the appropriation of the earnings and payment of dividend;
3.	Elect the members of the Fiscal Council and their substitutes, and fix their individual remuneration.
4.	Elect members to the Company’s Board of Directors and their substitutes; and
5.	Decide on the election of the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors.

EXTRAORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING

1.	Fix the total remuneration of the Company’s managers;

GENERAL INFORMATION

All documents associated with the matters in the Agenda are available to the Company’s shareholders at its headquarters.

All powers of attorney shall be filed at the Company’s headquarters located in the city of Brasília, Federal District, at SIA Sul, ASP, Lote D, Bloco B – 2^nd floor – Diretoria Jurídica, at least 2 (two) business days prior to the date of the Shareholders’ Meetings.

Shareholders in possession of shares registered with a custodian agent wishing to participate in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meetings shall present a statement of shareholdings issued by the custodian agent no more than 2 (two) business days prior to the date of the Meetings.

Brasília, January 31, 2008.

Sergio Spinelli Silva Junior
Chairman of the Board of Directors

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