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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 7, 2005

(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)


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the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

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  Investor Relations
  (+55 61) 415-1140
  ri@brasiltelecom.com.br
www.brasiltelecom.com.br/ri/
 
  Media Relations
  (+55 61) 415-1378
  cesarb@brasiltelecom.com.br


Free Translation


Brasil Telecom captures 625 million broadband clients


Brasília, Brazil, April 07, 2005 – BRASIL TELECOM S.A.’s (NYSE: BTM; BOVESPA: BRTO3/BRTO4) CEO, Carla Cico, announced that the Company reached the mark of 625 thousand broadband accesses in its concession area in the first quarter of the year. “Our target is to maintain our vice-leadership in the Latin American market,” said Cico, who arrived yesterday from London and New York, where she had been over the past weeks. Carla Cico set as a target for this year, to double the number of more than 500 thousand broadband accesses attained at the end of 2004.


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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 7, 2005

 
BRASIL TELECOM S.A.
By:
/S/  Carla Cico
 
Name:   Carla Cico
Title:     President and Chief Executive Officer