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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
 
FORM 6-K
 
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
February 01, 2008

(Commission File Number: 001-10579)
 
 
COMPAÑÍA DE TELECOMUNICACIONES DE CHILE S.A.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its Charter)
 
TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY OF CHILE
(Translation of Registrant's name into English)
 

Avenida Providencia No. 111, Piso 22
Providencia, Santiago, Chile
(Address of principal executive offices)


Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file
annual reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.

Form 20-F ___X___ Form 40-F ______

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K
in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1): Yes ______ No ___X___


Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K
in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7): Yes ______ No ___X___

Indicate by check mark whether by furnishing the information contained in this Form,
the registrant 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___

If "Yes" is marked, indicated below the file number assigned to the
registrant in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): ___N/A___


Compañía de Telecomunicaciones de Chile, S.A.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Item

1.     
Material Event

Item 1.

Material Events of Compañía de Telecomunicaciones de Chile S.A.

We hereby inform that the board of directors of the Company agreed to the following, on the 30th of January of 2008:

a) to make void the appointment of Mr. Raul Morodo Leôncio to the position of Substitute Director, which had been announced as a “material event” on last December 20, 2007;

b) To call a Stockholders’ General Meeting, to be held on April 14, 2008, at noon, at Avenida Providencia 111, in the district of Providencia; and

c) In accordance with the Policy for the Distribution of Dividends, to propose to the meeting the distribution of a definitive dividend in connection with the profits of the fiscal year of 2007, in the amount of $5,050,016,393, equal to $5.270606 per share, which, added to the provisional dividends disbursed in November 2007, in the amount of $ 5,806,114,878, will implement the Policy of distributing 100% of the profits of this year.

Reported to the Chilean Securities and Exchange Commission on January 31, 2008

 
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: February 01, 2008

 


COMPAÑÍA DE TELECOMUNICACIONES DE CHILE S.A.
By:
  /S/ Isabel Margarita Bravo C.
 
Name:  Isabel Margarita Bravo C.
Title:    Financial Director
 


 

 

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

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