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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 June 17, 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
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)__.

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)__.

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___

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


FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE   
CVM - COMISSÃO DE VALORES MOBILIÁRIOS (SECURITIES COMMISSION) Corporate Law 
ITR QUARTERLY INFORMATION   
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND OTHER COMPANIES 
Date: 03/31/2008 


 
REGISTRATION AT THE CVM DOES NOT REQUIRE ANY EVALUATION ON THE COMPANY, BEING ITS DIRECTOR RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VERACITY OF THIS INFORMATION. 
 

01.01 - IDENTIFICATION

1 - CVM CODE
     01131-2
2 - COMPANY NAME
     BRASIL TELECOM S.A.
3 - CORPORATE TAXPAYER ID (CNPJ)
     76.535.764/0001-43
4 - NIRE
     5.330.000.622-9

01.02 - - ADDRESS OF COMPANY’S HEADQUARTERS

1 - COMPLETE ADDRESS :
   SIA/SUL - LOTE D - BL B - 1° ANDAR
2 - DISTRICT
     SIA
3 - ZIP CODE
    71215-000
4 - CITY 
     BRASILIA
5 - STATE
     DF
6 - AREA CODE (DDD)
     61
7 - TELEPHONE NUMBER
     3415-1010
8 - TELEPHONE
     3415-1256
9 - TELEPHONE
    3415-1119
10 - TELEX
11 - AREA CODE (DDD)
    61
12 - FAX
     3415-1593
13 - FAX
    3 415-1315
14 - FAX
 
15 - E-MAIL
     ri@brasitelecom.com.br

01.03 - INVESTORS RELATIONS OFFICER (Address for correspondence to Company)

1 - NAME
    PAULO NARCÉLIO SIMÕES AMARAL
2 - FULL ADDRESS
    SIA/SUL - ASP - LOTE D - BL A - 2º ANDAR 
3 - DISTRICT
     SIA
4 - ZIP CODE
    71215-000
5 - CITY 
     BRASILIA
6 - STATE
     DF
7 - AREA CODE (DDD)
     61
8 - TELEPHONE
     3415-1010 
9 - TELEPHONE
    3415-1140 
10 - TELEPHONE
    
11 - TELEX
12 - AREA CODE (DDD)
    61
13 - FAX
     3415-1593 
14 - FAX
15 - FAX
 
16 - E-MAIL
     ri@brasitelecom.com.br

01.04 - REFERENCE / AUDITOR

ACCOUNTING PERIOD IN PROGRESS  CURRENT QUARTER  PRIOR QUARTER 
1 - START   2 - END  3 - NUMBER  4 - START  5 - END  6 - NUMBER 7 - START  8 - END 
01/01/2008  12/31/2008  01/01/2008  03/31/2008  4 10/01/2007  12/31/2007 
9 - AUDITOR NAME/COMPANY NAME 
   DELOITTE TOUCHE TOHMATSU AUDITORES INDEPENDENTES 
10 - CVM CODE
       00385-9 
11 - NAME OF THE TECHNICAL RESPONSIBLE 
       MARCO ANTONIO BRANDÃO SIMURRO 
12 -INDIVIDUAL TAXPAYER ID (CPF) OF THE TECH. RESPONSIBLE TECHNICIAN 
       755.400.708-44 

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01.05 - COMPOSITION OF CAPITAL STOCK

Number of Shares 
(Units)
1 - CURRENT QUARTER
03/31/2008 
2 - PREVIOUS QUARTER 
12/31/2007 
EQUAL PREVIOUS QUARTER e.g 
PREVIOUS  03/31/2007 
Issued Capital       
         1 - Common shares  249,597,049  249,597,049  249,597,049,542 
         2 - Preferred shares  311,353,240  311,353,240  311,353,240,857 
         3 - Total  560,950,289  560,950,289  560,950,290,399 
Treasury Shares 
     
         4 - Common shares 
         5 - Preferred shares  13,572,523  13,678,100  13,678,100,000 
         6 - Total  13,572,523  13,678,100  13,678,100.000 

01.06 - COMPANY’S CHARACTERISTICS

 
1 - COMPANY TYPE 
Trade, Industrial and Other Companies 
 
2 - SITUATION TYPE 
Operating 
 
3 - SHAREHOLDING NATURE 
National Private 
 
4 - ACTIVITY CODE 
1130 - Telecommunications 
 
5 - MAIN ACTIVITY 
Switched Fixed Telephone Service Exploitation 
 
6 - CONSOLIDATED TYPE 
Total 
 
7 - AUDITORS’ REPORT TYPE 
No Exceptions 
 

01.07 - SUBSIDIARIES EXCLUDED FROM THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 
1 - ITEM    2 - CNPJ    3 - COMPANY NAME 
 


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01.08 - DIVIDENDS APPROVED AND/OR PAID DURING AND AFTER THE QUARTER

1- ITEM  2 - EVENT  3 – APPROVAL  4 - INCOME  5 - PAYM. START  6 - SHARE TYPE AND CLASS  7 - INCOME VALUE PER SHARE 
01  RD  01/31/2007  Interest on Shareholder’s Equity  04/16/2008  ON  0.0003805236 
02  RD  01/31/2007  Interest on Shareholder’s Equity  04/16/2008  PN  0.0003805236 
03  RD  12/28/2007  Interest on Shareholder’s Equity  04/16/2008  ON  0.1637028188 
04  RD  12/28/2007  Interest on Shareholder’s Equity  04/16/2008  PN  0.1637028188 
05  AGO  03/18/2008  Dividend  04/16/2008  ON  0.7437302894 
06  AGO  03/18/2008  Dividend  04/16/2008  PN  0.7437302894 
07  RD  03/31/2008  Interest on Shareholder’s Equity    ON  0.3804502355 
08  RD  03/31/2008  Interest on own capital    PN  0.3804502355 

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01.09 - ISSUED CAPITAL AND CHANGES IN CURRENT YEAR

1- ITEM  2 - CHANGE DATE  3 - CAPITAL STOCK VALUE  4 - CHANGE VALUE (Thousand Reais) 5 - CHANGE ORIGIN  7 – NUMBER OF SHARES ISSUED  8 - SHARE PRICE UPON ISSUANCE (Reais)

01.10 - INVESTOR RELATIONS OFFICER

1 - DATE
04/17/2008 
2 - SIGNATURE
    

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02.01 - BALANCE SHEET - ASSETS (IN THOUSAND OF REAIS)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 03/31/2008  4 - 12/31/2007 
Total Assets  14,682,517  14,570,633 
1.01  Current Assets  3,788,147  3,623,756 
1.01.01  Cash and Cash Equivalents  289,038  635,387 
1.01.01.01  Cash and Bank Accounts  52,255  285,385 
1.01.01.02  High-Liquidity Investments  236,783  350,002 
1.01.02  Credits  1,970,672  1,931,840 
1.01.02.01  Clients  1,970,672  1,931,840 
1.01.02.02  Sundry Credits 
1.01.03  Inventories  5,727  6,138 
1.01.04  Others  1,522,710  1,050,391 
1.01.04.01  Loans and Financing  1,655  1,797 
1.01.04.02  Deferred and Recoverable Taxes  764,642  571,274 
1.01.04.03  Escrow Deposits  381,929  326,222 
1.01.04.04  Temporary Investments  201,232 
1.01.04.05  Other Assets  173,252  151,098 
1.02  Non-Current Assets  10,894,370  10,946,877 
1.02.01  Long-Term Assets  2,114,585  1,879,326 
1.02.01.01  Sundry Credits 
1.02.01.02  Credits with Related Parties 
1.02.01.02.01  From Direct and Indirect Associated Companies 
1.02.01.02.02  From Subsidiaries 
1.02.01.02.03  From Other Related Parties 
1.02.01.03  Others  2,114,585  1,879,326 
1.02.01.03.01  Loans and Financing  5,979  6,176 
1.02.01.03.02  Deferred and Recoverable Taxes  736,417  728,333 
1.02.01.03.03  Fixed-Income Securities  911  892 
1.02.01.03.04  Escrow Deposits  1,286,102  1,054,992 
1.02.01.03.05  Other Assets  85,176  88,933 
1.02.02  Permanent Assets  8,779,785  9,067,551 
1.02.02.01  Investments  4,092,925  4,129,501 
1.02.02.01.01  Direct and Indirect Associated Companies 
1.02.02.01.02  Direct and Indirect Associated Companies - Goodwill 
1.02.02.01.03  Subsidiaries  4,051,811  4,075,868 
1.02.02.01.04  Subsidiaries - Goodwill  23,913  29,431 
1.02.02.01.05  Other Investments  17,197  24,198 
1.02.02.02  Property, Plant and Equipment  4,145,388  4,383,480 
1.02.02.03  Intangible Assets  514,893  527,650 
1.02.02.04  Deferred Charges  26,579  26,920 

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02.02 - BALANCE SHEET - LIABILITIES (IN THOUSAND OF REAIS)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 03/31/2008  4 - 12/31/2007 
Total Liabilities  14,682,517  14,570,633 
2.01  Current Liabilities  3,833,878  3,688,344 
2.01.01  Loans and Financing  475,532  487,345 
2.01.02  Debentures  38,158  8,956 
2.01.03  Suppliers  1,117,513  1,145,481 
2.01.04  Taxes, Duties and Contributions  702,235  685,423 
2.01.04.01  Indirect Taxes  562,858  617,163 
2.01.04.02  Taxes on Income  139,377  68,260 
2.01.05  Dividends Payable  974,314  764,841 
2.01.06  Provisions  238,428  280,417 
2.01.06.01  Provisions for Contingencies  182,174  178,950 
2.01.06.02  Provisions for Pension Plans  56,254  101,467 
2.01.07  Debts with Related Parties 
2.01.08  Others  287,698  315,881 
2.01.08.01  Payroll and Related Acruals  64,571  67,739 
2.01.08.02  Consignment in Favor of Third Parties  105,870  123,164 
2.01.08.03  Profit Sharing  18,361  67,906 
2.01.08.04  Advances from Clients  1,432  2,065 
2.01.08.05  Service Exploitation Licenses  16,421 
2.01.08.06  Other Liabilities  81,043  55,007 
2.02  Non-Current Liabilities  5,194,639  5,306,398 
2.02.01  Long-Term Liabilities  5,194,639  5,306,398 
2.02.01.01  Loans and Financing  2,630,243  2,786,779 
2.02.01.02  Debentures  1,080,000  1,080,000 
2.02.01.03  Provisions  1,258,083  1,252,450 
2.02.01.03.01  Provisions for Contingencies  670,767  666,172 
2.02.01.03.02  Provisions for Pension Plans  586,384  586,278 
2.02.01.03.03  Provisions for Losses with Subsidiaries  932 
2.02.01.04  Debts with Related Parties 
2.02.01.05  Advance for Future Capital Increase 
2.02.01.06  Others  226,313  187,169 
2.02.01.06.01  Suppliers  17,602  11,234 
2.02.01.06.02  Indirect Taxes  117,726  86,247 
2.02.01.06.03  Taxes on Income  63,049  62,115 
2.02.01.06.04  Advances from Clients  5,249  5,473 
2.02.01.06.05  Other Liabilities  14,713  14,126 
2.02.01.06.06  Funds for Capitalization  7,974  7,974 
2.02.02  Deferred Income 
2.04  Shareholders’ Equity  5,654,000  5,575,891 
2.04.01  Paid Up Capital Stock  3,470,758  3,470,758 
2.04.02  Capital Reserves  1,329,671  1,327,927 

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1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 -31/03/2008  4 -31/12/2007 
2.04.02.01  Goodwill on Share Subscription  358,862  358,862 
2.04.02.02  Donations and Fiscal Incentives for Investments  123,558  123,558 
2.04.02.03  Interest on Works in Progress  745,756  745,756 
2.04.02.04  Special Monetary Correction - Law 8200/91  31,287  31,287 
2.04.02.05  Other Capital Reserves  70,208  68,464 
2.04.03  Revaluation Reserves 
2.04.03.01  Owned Assets 
2.04.03.02  Subsidiaries/Direct and Inidirect Associated Companies 
2.04.04  Revenue Reserves  349,155  349,155 
2.04.04.01  Legal  349,155  349,155 
2.04.04.02  Statutory 
2.04.04.03  For Contingencies 
2.04.04.04  From Profits to Realize 
2.04.04.05  Profit Retention 
2.04.04.06  Special Reserve for Undistributed Dividends 
2.04.04.07  Other Profit Reserves 
2.04.05  Retained Earnings/Accumulated Deficit  504,416  428,051 
2.04.06  Advance for Future Capital Increase 

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03.01 - STATEMENT OF INCOME (IN THOUSAND OF REAIS)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 01.01.08 to 03.31.08  4 - 01.01.08 to 03.31.08  5 - 01.01.07 to 03.31.07  6 - 01.01.07 to 03.31.07 
3,01  Gross Revenue from Sales and/or Services  3,458,370  3,458,370  3,385,404  3,385,404 
3,02  Deductions from Gross Revenue  (1,085,934) (1,085,934) (1,024,524) (1,024,524)
3,03  Net Revenue from Sales and/or Services  2,372,436  2,372,436  2,360,880  2,360,880 
3,04  Cost of Goods and/or Services Sold  (1,263,333) (1,263,333) (1,373,384) (1,373,384)
3,05  Gross Profit  1,109,103  1,109,103  987,496  987,496 
3,06  Operating Expenses/Revenues  (972,436) (972,436) (995,832) (995,832)
3,06,01  Selling Expenses  (264,873) (264,873) (232,949) (232,949)
3,06,02  General and Administrative Expenses  (292,112) (292,112) (270,906) (270,906)
3,06,03  Financial  (275,578) (275,578) (356,820) (356,820)
3,06,03,01  Financial Income  125,316  125,316  79,518  79,518 
3,06,03,02  Financial Expenses  (400,894) (400,894) (436,338) (436,338)
3,06,04  Other Operating Income  140,141  140,141  100,099  100,099 
3,06,05  Other Operating Expenses  (236,606) (236,606) (166,625) (166,625)
3,06,06  Equity Income  (43,408) (43,408) (68,631) (68,631)
3,07  Operating Income  136,667  136,667  (8,336) (8,336)
3,08  Non-Operating Income  1,210  1,210  (281) (281)
3,08,01  Revenues  32,629  32,629  4,699  4,699 
3,08,02  Expenses  (31,419) (31,419) (4,980) (4,980)
3,09  Income Before Tax and Minority Interests  137,877  137,877  (8,617) (8,617)
3,10  Provision for Income and Social Contribution  (119,021) (119,021) (68,783) (68,783)
3,11  Deferred Income Tax  57,509  57,509  46,406  46,406 
3,12  Statutory Interest/Contributions 
3,12,01  Interests 
3,12,02  Contributions 
3,13  Reversal of Interest on Shareholders’ Equity  245,000  245,000  245,000  245,000 
3,15  Income (Loss) for the Period  321,365  321,365  214,006  214,006 

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03,01 - STATEMENT OF INCOME (IN THOUSAND OF REAIS)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 01.01.08 to 03.31.08  4 - 01.01.08 to 03.31.08  5 - 01.01.07 to 03.31.07  6 - 01.01.07 to 03.31.07 
  NUMBER OF OUTSTANDING SHARES, EX-TREASURY (UNITS) 547,377,766  547,377,766  547,272,190,399  547,272,190,399 
  EARNINGS PER SHARE (REAIS) 0.58710  0.58710  0.00039  0.00039 
  LOSS PER SHARE (REAIS)        

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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE   
CVM - COMISSÃO DE VALORES MOBILIÁRIOS  CORPORATE LAW 
ITR – QUARTERLY INFORMATION   
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND OTHER COMPANIES 
Data-Base - 03/31/2008 


         
         01131-2    BRASIL TELECOM S.A.    76.535.764/0001-43 
         
         
         
04.01 – EXPLANATORY NOTES     
     


NOTES TO THE QUARTERLY INFORMATION AS OF 03.31.08

(In thousand of Brazilian Reais)

1. OPERATIONS

BRASIL TELECOM S.A. ("Company") is a concessionaire of the Switched Fixed Telephone Service ("STFC") and operates since July of 1998 in the Region II of the General Concession Plan (GCP), covering the Brazilian states of Acre, Rondônia, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Tocantins, Goiás, Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, in addition to Distrito Federal. As of January 22, 2004 the Company started developing national and international long distance calls services in all Regions and under the local modality the service outside Region II started to be offered as of January 19, 2005,

The Company businesses, as well as the rendered services and the charged fees are regulated by ANATEL.

The concession agreements effective under local and long distance services modalities got into effect on January 1, 2006 being valid until December 31, 2005, Further information on such agreements are mentioned in the note no. 5,i.

Information related to the quality and universalization targets of the Switched Fixed Telephone Service are available to interested parties on ANATEL’s homepage, on the website www. anatel.gov. br.

The Company control is performed by Brasil Telecom Participações S.A. ("BTP"), incorporated on May 22, 1998 as a result of privatization of the Telebrás System.

The Company is registered at the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (“CVM”) and at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission – SEC. Its shares are traded on the São Paulo Stock Exchange (“BOVESPA”), where it also integrates Level 1 of Corporate Governance, and trades its American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”).

Subsidiaries

In the second semester of 2006, the process for restructuring subsidiaries has started, since approved by the Company’s administration council. Such restructuring aims at optimizing the control structure with reduction of companies, concentration of similar activities, and simplification of equity among companies. The corporate alterations already performed, carried out based on the book values, did not have material effects in the cost structure. The alterations occurred in the quarters or fiscal years referred to in the present quarterly information are mentioned in the comments of the companies below, when attributed to them.

14 Brasil Telecom Celular S.A. ("BrT Celular"): a wholly-owned subsidiary which operates since the fourth quarter of 2004, to provide Personal Mobile Services (“SMP”), with authorization to render such services to the Region II of PGO.

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BrT Serviços de Internet S.A. a wholly-owned subsidiary whose main product is internet broadband services. It also provides both residential and corporate clients with a series of value-added services, among which wireless internet access.

BrTI, on the other hand, has the control of the following companies:

(i) iBest Group

iBest has its operations concentrated in providing dialup connection to the Internet, sale of advertising space for disclosure in its portal and value-added service, and one of its main services is its internet connection speedup device. iBest activities are totally represented by Freelance S.A., established in Brazil. It also has the iBest Holding Corporation, constituted in Cayman Islands, which is not operating and does not have investments in other companies.

(ii) iG Group

iG operates as an internet access provider, both dialup and broadband. It also provides value added services focused on the residential and corporate markets. In addition, iG also sells advertising space in its portal.

BrTI’s control over the iG Companies is attributed to its 88.81% share in the capital stock of Internet Group (Cayman) Limited (“iG Cayman”), located in the Cayman Islands.

iG Cayman is a holding which, in its turn, has the control of the companies iG Participações S.A. (“iG Part”), Internet Group do Brasil S.A. (“iG Brasil”) and Central de Serviços Internet Ltda. (“CSI”),subsidiaries established in Brazil.

Agência O Jornal da Internet Ltda. ("Jornal Internet")

BrTI holds thirty percent interest in the capital stock of Jornal Internet, which aims at the commercialization of goods and services through the Internet, edition of daily newspapers or magazines, as well as the obtainment, generation and publication of news on selected facts. Seventy per cent of the capital stock of Jornal Internet is held by Caio Túlio Vieira Costa, executive vice-president of the Company’s subsidiaries related to internet businesses.

c) Brasil Telecom Cabos Submarinos Ltda. ("BrT CS"): company that, jointly with its own subsidiaries, operates through a system of submarine fiber optics cables, with connection points in the United States, Bermudas Islands, Venezuela and Brazil, allowing data traffic through packages of integrated services, offered to local and international corporate clients.

BrT CS is holds 100% of the capital stock of Brasil Telecom Subsea Cable Systems (Bermuda) Ltd. (“BrT SCS Bermuda”), which, on its turn, holds the total shares of Brasil Telecom of America Inc. (“BrT of America”) and of Brasil Telecom de Venezuela, S.A. (“BrT Venezuela”).

d) Brasil Telecom Comunicação Multimídia Ltda. ("BrT Multimídia"): the Company held until April 10, 2007, 100% of the MTH Ventures do Brasil Ltda. (“MTH”) capital, a holding company that controlled the capital of Brasil Telecom Comunicação Multimídia Ltda, with the Company and BrTI holding the remaining equities. On the aforementioned date, the Extraordinary General Meeting deliberated the incorporation of MTH by the Company. Since then, the Company has equities corresponding to 89.8% of the BrT Multimídia capital stock, with the remaining 10.2% held by BrTI.

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BrT Multimídia is a service provider of private telecommunications network through optical fiber digital networks, of local scope in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, and long distance network connecting these major metropolitan commercial centers. It performs nationwide through commercial agreements with other telecommunication companies to offer services to other regions in Brazil. It also has Internet solution center in São Paulo, Brasília, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza, which offer co-location and hosting services, and other value added services.

e) Vant Telecomunicações S.A. (“VANT”): it’s a company whose total capital stock is practically held by the Company. BrTI has only one share in VANT’s capital stock, representing less than 0.01% interest.

VANT aims at the rendering of multimedia communication services, acquisition and onerous assignment of capabilities and other means, operating in the main Brazilian state capitals.

f) Brasil Telecom Call Center S.A. (“BrT Call Center”): Previously named Santa Bárbara dos Pinhais S.A, BrT Call Center, together with the change of its company name, decided in the shareholders meeting carried out on August 21, 2007, its social object has also been changed, and became call center service provisioning to third parties, including client services, active and receptive telemarketing, training, support, consulting services and similar activities, among others. Its operations started on November, 2007, upon rendering call center services to Brasil Telecom S.A. and its subsidiaries that need that service. Previously, the call center services were outsourced.

Change in the Management

During the third quarter of 2005, there were changes to the management of the Brasil Telecom Participações S.A. and Company. The process of replacing the former managers, formerly related to the manager Opportunity, was litigious, according to various material facts published by the Companies during the 2005 and various lawsuits still in progress, filed by the former manager, aiming at retaking the Companies’ management.

2, PRESENTATION OF THE ACCOUNTING STATEMENTS

Preparation Criteria

The accounting statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting practices adopted in Brazil, in compliance with the Brazilian corporate law, rules of the CVM - Comissão de Valores Imobiliários (Securities Commission) and rules applicable to telephony service concessionaires.

As the Company is registered with the SEC, it is subject to SEC’s standards, and it must prepare accounting statements and other information by using criteria that comply with that agency’s requirements. To comply with these requirements and aiming at meeting the market’s information needs, the Company adopts, as a principle, the disclosure of information in both markets in their respective languages.

The notes to the accounting statements are presented in thousands of reais, unless otherwise demonstrated. According to each situation, they present information related to the Company and the consolidated statements, identified as “COMPANY” and “CONSOLIDATED”, respectively. When the information is common to both situations, it is indicated as “COMPANY AND CONSOLIDATED”.

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The amounts of judicial deposits bound to the provisions for contingencies are presented in a deductive way from the liabilities established.

The accounting estimates were based on objective and subjective factors, based on management’s judgment to determine the appropriate amount to be recorded in the accounting statements. Significant items subject to these estimates and assumptions include the residual amount of the fixed assets, provisions for doubtful accounts, inventories and deferred income tax and social contribution, provision for contingencies, valuation of derivative instruments, and assets and liabilities related to benefits to employees. The settlement of transactions involving these estimates may result in different amounts due to the inaccuracy inherent to the process of determining these amounts. Management reviews its estimates and assumptions at least quarterly.

LAW 11,638/07 – Amendments to the Joint Stock Companies Act

On December 28th, 2007 Law No. 11,638 was published, which changed the provisions of the Joint Stock Companies Act – Law No. 6,404/76. The aforementioned law sets forth several changes on accounting subjects and on the elaboration of financial statements, aiming at aligning them with the Financial Reporting Standards - IFRS and attributes to the Securities Commission (Comissão de Valores Mobiliários – CVM) the power to issue rules for publicly traded companies. The main changes introduced by the Law are effective from 2008 and refer to:

The Company has already adopted the segregation of Intangible Assets from fixed assets and the publication of the DFC and DVA, the latter together with the annual accounting statements. Concerning the other items related. what is deemed to be relevant is bound to the market value of financial instruments, published in comparison to the accounting value in the note 5,”b” and “c”. Due to the need for certain alterations that still depend on regulation by the competent authority, the Company will wait for the definitions required for assessment, measurement and acknowledgement of effects resulting form such Law.

Consolidated Accounting Statements

The consolidation was made in accordance with CVM Instruction No. 247/96 and includes the Company and companies listed in note No.1.

Some of the main consolidation procedures are:

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Other Information

The Company is presenting as supplementary information the statement of cash flows, which was prepared in accordance with Accounting Rules and Procedures - NPC 20 of the Brazilian Institute of Independent Auditors - IBRACON. For a better presentation and maintenance of comparison to the first quarter of 2008, reclassifications regarding the first quarter of 2007 have been made, basically related to legal deposits, which started to be presented in investment activities. In order to comprise such balances, the legal deposits bound to contingencies were reclassified – note No. 7, indirect duties – note No. 33 and accounts payable and provisioned expenses.

Report per Segment

The Company is presenting, supplementarily to note 42, the report per business segment. A segment is an identifiable component of the company, intended for service rendering (business segment), or provision of products and services which are subject to risks and compensations which are different among themselves.

3. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING PRACTICES

The criteria mentioned in this note refer to the practices adopted by the Company and its subsidiaries that are included in the consolidated accounting statements.

a. Cash, Bank Accounts and High-Liquidity Investments: Financial investments are temporary high-liquidity investments, with immediate maturity. They are recorded at cost, plus income registered until the closing dates of the quarters presented, and do not exceed market value. Investment funds quotas are appreciated considering the quota values on the quarter dates.

Trade Accounts Receivable: Receivables from users of telecommunications services are recorded at the amount of the fee or the service on the date the service is rendered. Accounts receivable from services include credits for services rendered and not billed until the quarters date. Receivables resulting from sales of cell phones and accessories are recorded by the amount of sales made, at the moment in which the goods are delivered and accepted by the client. The criterion adopted for making the provisions for doubtful accounts takes into account the calculation of the actual percentage of losses incurred on each range of accounts receivable. Future losses on the current receivables balance are estimated based on these historic percentages, which include accounts coming due and also the portion of services rendered yet to be billed, thus composing the amount that could become a future loss, which is recorded as a provision.

c. Material Inventories: Stated at average acquisition cost, not exceeding replacement cost. Inventories are segregated into inventories for plant expansion and those for maintenance and in relation with the consolidated accounting statements, goods inventories for resale, mainly composed of cell phones, accessories and

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electronic cards. The inventories to be used in expansion are classified in property, plant and equipment (construction in progress), and inventories to be used in maintenance are classified as current and long-term assets, in accordance with the period in which they will be used, and the resale inventories are classified as current assets. Obsolete inventories are recorded as provisions for losses. With regard to cell phones and accessories, the subsidiary BrT Celular records adjustments, in the cases in which the acquisitions presented higher values conforming them to the realization value.

d. Investments Investments in subsidiaries are assessed using the equity method of accounting. Goodwill is calculated based on the expectation of future results and its amortization is based on the expected realization/timing over an estimated period of not more than ten years. Other investments are recorded at acquisition cost, less provisions for losses, when applicable. The investments resulting from income tax incentives are recognized on the date of investment, and result in shares of companies with tax incentives or investment fund quotas. In the period between the investment date and receipt of shares or quotas of funds, they remain recognized in long-term assets. These investments are periodically valued and the result of the comparison between its original and market costs, when the latter is lower, results in the constitution of provisions for probable losses.

e. Property, plant and equipment Stated at cost of acquisition and/or construction, less accumulated depreciation. Financial charges resulting from obligations for financing assets and construction in progress are capitalized.

The expenditures incurred, when they represent improvements (increase in installed capacity or useful life) are capitalized. Maintenance and repair expenditures are charged to the profit and losses accounts, on an accrual basis.

Depreciation is calculated under the straight-line method. Depreciation rates used are based on expected useful lives of the assets and in accordance with the standards of the Public Telecommunications Service.

f. Intangible assets: These mainly refer to licenses and rights to use software and regulatory licenses. The amortization of rights to use software is calculated by the straight-line method, for a five-year period and the regulatory licenses according to the terms determined by the regulatory agency. When benefits are not expected from a license or right connected to such asset, it is written off against the non-operating income.

g. Deferred Charges: Mainly refer to implementation and reorganization expenses. Amortization is calculated under the straight-line method, for a five-year term. When benefits are not expected from an asset, it is written off against non-operating income.

h. Income and Social Contribution Taxes: Corporate income and social contribution taxes are accounted for on an accrual basis. These taxes levied on temporary differences, tax losses and the social contribution negative basis are recorded under assets or liabilities, as applicable, according to the assumption of realization or future demand, within the parameters set forth in CVM Instruction No. 371/02,

i. Loans and Financing: These are restated by monetary and/or exchange variations and interest incurred until the quarter closing date. Equal restatement is applied to the guarantee contracts to hedge the debt.

j. Provisions for Contingencies: The contingency provisions are made based on a survey of the respective risks and they are quantified according to economic grounds and legal opinions on the contingency proceedings and facts known on the quarter closing date, according to the parameters of Deliberation CVM No. 489/05, The provisions basis and nature are described in note No. 7,

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k. Revenue Recognition: Revenues from services rendered are recognized when provided. Local and long distance calls are charged based on time measurement according to the legislation in force. Revenues from sales of payphone cards (Public Use Telephony - TUP), cell phones and accessories are recorded when delivered and accepted by the clients. For prepaid services linked to mobile telephony, the revenue is recognized in accordance with the utilization of services. Revenue is not recognized if there is a significant uncertainty in its realization.

I. Recognition of Expenses: Expenses are recognized on an accrual basis, considering their relation with revenue realization. Expenses related to future periods are deferred.

m. Financial Income (Expenses), Net: Financial income is recognized on an accrual basis and comprises interest earned on overdue accounts settled after the term, gains on financial investments and hedges. Financial expenses comprise interest incurred and other charges on loans, financing and other financial transactions.

Interest on shareholders’ equity, when credited, is included in the financial expenses balance, and for financial statement presentation purposes, the amounts are reversed to profit and loss accounts and reclassified as a deduction of retained earnings, in the shareholders’ equity.

n. Benefits to Employees: Private pension plans and other retirement benefits sponsored by the Company and its subsidiaries for their employees are managed under three Foundations. Contributions are actuarially determined, whenever applicable, and recorded against the result according to the accrual basis. Additional information on private pension plans is described in note No. 6,

o. Profit Sharing: The provision for employees and management profit sharing is recognized on an accrual basis, being accounted as operating expense. The calculation of the amount, which is paid in the subsequent year after the provision is recognized, is based on the target program established with the labor union, by means of collective labor agreement, in accordance with Law 10,101/00 and the Company’s Bylaws.

p. Profit per share: Earnings per share are calculated with basis on the quantity of outstanding shares existing on the quarter closing date. The outstanding shares are represented by the totality of shares issued, minus the treasury stocks.

4. RELATED PARTIES TRANSACTIONS

Related parties transactions refer to operations with Brasil Telecom Participações S.A., the Company’s parent company, and are carried out according to the prices and conditions usual at the market. The main transactions are:

Sureties and Guarantees: (i) The Company renders sureties as guarantee of loans and financing owed by the Company to the lending financial institutions. In the quarter, related to the guarantee benefit, the Company posted expenses in favor of the Company amounting to R$ 591 (R$ 1,211 in 2007); and (ii) the Company renders surety for the Company, related to the contracting of insurance policies, guarantee of contractual liabilities (GOC), which amounted to R$ 104,021 (R$ 97,457 in 2007). In the quarter, in return to such surety, the Company registered an operating expense of R$ 33 (R$ 29 in 2007).

Receivables: resulting from transactions related share of resources. The balance receivable is R$ 192.

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5. MARKET VALUE OF FINANCIAL ASSETS AND LIABILITIES (FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS) AND RISK ANALISYS

The Company and its subsidiaries assessed the book value of its assets and liabilities as compared to market or realizable values (fair value), based on information available and evaluation methodologies applicable to each case. The interpretation of market data regarding the choice of methodologies requires considerable judgment and determination of estimates to achieve an amount considered adequate for each case. Accordingly, the estimates presented may not necessarily indicate the amounts, which can be obtained in the current market. The use of different assumptions for calculation of market value or fair value may have material effect on the obtained amounts. The selection of assets and liabilities presented in this note took place based on their materiality. Instruments whose values approximate their fair values, for example, cash, bank accounts and high-liquid investments, accounts receivable, assets and liabilities of taxes, pension funds, among others, and whose risk assessment is not significant, are not mentioned.

In accordance with their natures, the financial instruments may involve known or unknown risks, and the potential of such risks is important for the best judgment. Thus, there may be risks with or without guarantees, depending on circumstantial or legal aspects. Among the principal market risk factors which can affect the Company’s business are the following:

a. Credit Risk

The majority of services provided by the Company are related to the Concession Agreement, and a significant portion of these services is subject to the determination of fees by the regulatory agency. The credit policy, in its turn, in case of telecommunications public services, is subject to legal standards established by the concession authority. The risk exists since the Company may incur losses arising from the difficulty in receiving amounts billed to its clients. The Company’s default in the quarter was 2.69% (2.3% in 2007), taking into account the accounts receivable total losses in relation to gross revenue. For the Consolidated it was 2.97% (2.46% in 2007). By means of internal controls, the level of accounts receivable is constantly monitored, thus limiting the risk of past due accounts by cutting the access to the service (out phone traffic) if the bill is overdue for over thirty days. Exceptions are made for telephone services, which should be maintained for national security or defense.

The Company operates in co-billing, concerning long distance calls with the use of its CSP (Operator Selection Code) originated by subscribers of other fixed and mobile telephony operators. The co-billing accounts receivable are managed by these operators, based on the operational agreements entered into with them and according to the rules set forth by ANATEL. The blocking rules set forth by the regulating agency are the same for the fixed and mobile telephony companies, which are co-billing suppliers. The Company separately controls receivables of this nature and maintains an allowance for losses that may occur, due to the risks of not receiving such amounts.

Regarding mobile telephony, the credit risk in cell phones sales and service rendering in the post-paid category is minimized with the adopt on of a credit pre-analysis. Still regarding to post-paid service, whose client base at the end of the quarter was 18.1% of the total portfolio (20.1% in 31.12.07), the accounts receivable are also monitored in order to limit the default rate and blocking the service (of phone traffic) when the bill is overdue for more than 15 days.

b. Exchange Rate Risk

Liabilities

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The Company has loans and financing contracted in foreign currency. The risk related to these liabilities arises from possible exchange rate fluctuations, which may increase these liabilities balances. Consolidated loans subject to this risk represent approximately 15.0% (16.0% on 12.31.07) of the total liabilities of consolidated loans and financing, minus the contracted hedge balances. In order to minimize this kind of risk, the Company has been entering into exchange hedge agreements with financial institutions. Of the debt installment consolidated in foreign currency, 61.1% (92.6% on 12.31.07) is covered by hedge operations in the exchange rate swap and dollar options mode and financial investments in foreign currency. The positive or adverse effects not paid up in hedge operations, under exchange rate swap modality and dollar options, are recorded in the result as earnings or losses, according to the situation of each instrument.

Net exposure as per book and market values at the exchange rate risk prevailing on the quarter closing date was as follows:

  COMPANY AND CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Book Value  Market Value  Book Value  Market Value
Liabilities         
Loans and Financing  603,591  630,515  636,912  655,533 
Hedge Contracts  326,205  326,497  398,112  397,832 
Total  929,796  957,012  1,035,024  1,053,365 
Current  201,744  201,894  213,050  213,528 
Long-term  728,052  755,118  821,974  839,837 

The method used for calculating the market value (fair value) of swap instruments was future cash flows associated to each instrument contracted, discounted at market rates in force on the closing date of the quarter. For securities negotiable in organized markets, the market (fair) value is equivalent to the value of the last closing quotation available on the closing date of the quarter multiplied by the number of securities in circulation. For contracts in which the current contracting conditions are similar to those in which they have been originated, or that do not present parameters for quotation or contracting, market values are equal to accounting values.

In the case of American dollar options; the fair value adopted for accounting recognition has been calculated based on the Black&Scholes model adapted by Garman Kohlhagen for considering specific features of exchange options. Such operations, which have been contracted with maturity up to February, 2009, registered, on the quarter closing date, net loss of R$ 5,383 (R$ 2,465 on 12.31.07) represented by R$ 2,973 for call options and R$ 2,410 for put options (R$ 761 and R$ 1,704 on 12.31.07, respectively).

c. Interest Rate Risk

Assets

The Company has loans granted to the phone directory company, with interest indexed to the IGP-DI (a national index price), as well as loans resulting from the sale of property, plant and equipment to other telephony companies, remunerated by IPA-OG/Industrial Products of Column 27 (FGV). The Company also has Bank Deposit Certificates (CDBs) with Banco de Brasília S.A. related to the guarantee to credit benefit granted by the Federal District Government under a program called Programa de Promoção do Desenvolvimento Econômico e Sustentável do Distrito Federal – PRO-DF, (Program to Promote the Economic and Sustained Development of the Federal District), and the remuneration of these securities is equivalent to 94% and 97% of the SELIC rate.

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These assets are represented in the balance sheet as follows:

  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  Book and Market Value  Book and Market Value 
03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Assets         
Loans subject to:         
   IGP-DI  7,459  7,778  7,459  7,778 
   IPA-OG Column 27 (FGV) 175  195  175  195 
Securities subject to:         
   SELIC rate  911  892  3,969  3,709 
Total  8,545  8,865  11,603  11,682 
Current  1,655  1,797  1,655  1,797 
Long-term  6,890  7,068  9,948  9,885 

Liabilities

The Company has loans and financing contracted in Brazilian currency subordinated to interest rates bound to indexing units: TJLP, UMBNDES, CDI and IGP/DI. The inherent risk in these liabilities arises from possible variations in these rates. The market rates are continually monitored to evaluate the need to contract instruments to protect against the variation of these rates.

In addition to loans and financing, the Company issued public debentures, non-convertible or exchangeable with shares. This liability has been contracted at interest rate bound to CDI and the risk on this liability arises in function of eventual rate increase.

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These liabilities are represented in the balance sheet as follows:

  COMPANY 
  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Book Value  Market Value Book Value  Market Value
Liabilities         
Loans subject to TJLP  2,059,445  2,105,499  2,112,204  2,123,308 
Debentures - CDI  1,118,158  1,117,711  1,088,956  1,088,956 
Loans subject to UMBNDES  87,029  87,029  94,713  94,713 
Loans subject to IGP/DI  6,172  6,172  6,276  6,276 
Other Loans  23,333  23,333  25,907  25,907 
Total  3,294,137  3,339,744  3,328,056  3,339,160 
Current  311,946  317,787  283,251  286,789 
Long-term  2,982,191  3,021,957  3,044,805  3,052,371 
 
  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Book Value  Market Value Book Value  Market Value
Liabilities         
Loans subject to TJLP  2,159,809  2,205,863  2,112,204  2,123,308 
Debentures - CDI  1,118,158  1,117,711  1,088,956  1,088,956 
Loans subject to UMBNDES  87,029  87,029  94,713  94,713 
Loans subject to IGP/DI  26,138  26,138  26,599  26,599 
Other Loans  23,333  23,333  25,907  25,907 
Total  3,414,467  3,460,074  3,348,379  3,359,483 
Current  312,419  318,260  283,725  287,264 
Long-term  3,102,048  3,141,814  3,064,654  3,072,219 

The method used for calculating the market value (fair value) of swap instruments was future cash flows associated to each instrument contracted, discounted at market rates in force on the closing date of the quarter. For securities negotiable in organized markets, the market (fair) value is equivalent to the value of the last closing quotation available on the closing date of the quarter multiplied by the number of securities in circulation. For contracts in which the current contracting conditions are similar to those in which they have been originated, or that do not present parameters for quotation or contracting, market values are equal to accounting values.

d. Risk of Not Binding Monetary Restatement Indexes of Loans and Financing to Accounts Receivable

Loan and financing rates contracted by the Company are not bound to amounts of accounts receivable. Thus, a risk exists, since telephony fees adjustments do not necessarily follow increases in local interest rates, which affect the Company’s debts.

e Contingency Risks

Contingency risks are assessed according to loss hypotheses, as probable, possible or remote. Contingencies considered probable risks are recorded as liabilities. Details of these risks are presented in Note 7,

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f Risks Related to Investments

The Company has investments, which are assessed through the equity method of accounting and the acquisition cost. Provisions are constituted for losses when the expected future cash flows from an investment induce to loss expectations.

The investments assessed by equity equivalence are represented by limited liability companies, for which there is no market value.

Investments assessed at cost are immaterial in relation to total assets. The risks associated to them would not produce significant impacts for the Company in case of losses with these investments.

g Financial Investment Risks

The company has temporary high-liquidity investments, in domestic currency, in financial investment funds (FIFs), and investments in its own portfolio of (based on post-fixed rates) private securities issued by first-tier financial institutions (CDBs). The FIFs portfolios are comprised of federal bonds (based on post-fixed, prefixed and foreign exchange rates) and CDBs issued by first-tier financial institutions (based on post-fixed rates). Funds may carry out non-leveraged derivative operations, aiming at protecting their portfolios and complying with the purposes established in their respective investment policies. The exposure to market risks is monitored everyday by the VaR (Value at Risk) methodology, which expresses the loss risk quantification in these investments.

The temporary high-liquidity investments, in foreign currency, are represented by overnight operations backed by securities issued by foreign financial institutions, with low credit risk.

BrT Celular holds short-term investments in federal bonds, aiming at ensuring its participation at bidding procedures at ANATEL. Such investments are represented by National Treasury Bills – LTN, compensated according to a fixed interest rate. Aiming at getting protection against fluctuation on the market rates concerning such bonds, the Company has contracted hedge operations under the exchange rate swap modality, binding the remuneration of bonds to the CDI variation.

The investments carried out in CDBs and overnight operations are subject to the credit risk of financial institutions, and the foreign currency investments are subject to the exchange rate risk.

The balances of financial investments and short-term investments – public securities - are shown in notes No. 17, No. 18 and No. 19, respectively.

h. Risk of Early Maturity of Loans and Financing

Liabilities resulting from financing, mentioned in note No. 36, concerning agreements of BNDES, public debentures and most of them referring to financial institutions, have clauses that estimate the early maturity of liabilities in the cases in which certain levels for certain indicators are not reached, such as ratios of indebtedness and leverage (financial covenants).

For the financing agreements maintained with BNDES, the Company must comply with a set of financial ratios and in the event of non-compliance with some of these ratios, the Bank is allowed to request the temporary block of transitory values in collection accounts bound by the agreements.

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All indicators set forth in agreements are being complied with, thus there are no sanctions or penalties set forth in the agreement clauses entered into upon the Company.

i. Regulatory Risks

Concession Agreements

New local and domestic long distance concession agreements were entered into by Brasil Telecom S.A. with ANATEL, which took effect between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2025, These new concession agreements, which provide for reviews on a five-year basis, in general have a higher intervention level in the management of the businesses and several provisions defending the consumer’s interest, as noticed by the regulation body. The main highlights are:

Interconnection tariffs are defined as a percentage public local and domestic long distance tariff until the effective implementation of cost model by service/modality, estimated for 2009, according to the models defined in the Regulation for Separation and Accounting Allocation (Resolution 396/05).

The amendment to the tariff method applicable to the STFC Basic Plan in the Local Modality Rendered under Public Scheme (PBS) – Conversion from Pulses to Minutes, and the implementation of the Alternative Service Plan of the Mandatory Offer (PASOO) shall be concluded in all areas of operations of the Company up to July 31, 2007, in compliance with the regulatory requirements defined by ANATEL set forth in Rules 423/05, 432/06 and 450/06, This change enables the clients selecting one of two service plans of mandatory offer (PBS and PASOO), as well as exercising the right of requesting details on their local calls in the telephone bills.

Authorizations for Third Generation Personal Mobile Services – 3G

14 Brasil Telecom was classified in the bidding procedure organized by ANATEL in December 2007, relatively to the authorizations for exploitation of Personal Mobile Service – SMP, concomitantly to the grant of authorization for use of radio frequency, which allows acquiring authorizations and operating in sub-bands that will allow offering products related to the third generation mobile services network – 3G in its services area. The amount of these authorizations, valid for a period of fifteen years, likely to be extended for the same period, under onerous title, is R$ 488,235, The execution of the Authorization Terms is expected to happen by the end of May, 2008 in compliance with the definition of date to be established by ANATEL. The new SMP

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authorizations and those already existing will be unified within the maximum period of eighteen months as of the publication in the Federal Official Gazette, of the extract of the Authorization Terms for Use of Radio Frequencies, and keeping the differentiation of the radio frequencies blocks according to the respective original contracts and their validity terms.

The deployment of the new 3G network will allow providing SMP clients with, besides the mobile voice services, data communication services at speeds higher than those made available by the current network 2.5G. In addition, the 3G network will operate complementarily to the 2.5G network, allowing the extension and update of the coverage network of BrT Celular and assisting the client’s base growth.

6. BENEFITS TO EMPLOYEES

The benefits described herein are offered to employees of the Company and its direct or indirect subsidiaries, except for BrT Call Center, in connection with supplementary social security. These companies are better described jointly, and can be referred to as “Brasil Telecom Companies” and for the purpose of the supplementary pension plan mentioned in this note, are also denominated “Sponsor” or “Sponsors”.

a. Supplementary Pension Plan

The Company sponsors supplementary pension plans related to retirement for its employees and assisted members, and, in the case of the latter, medical assistance in some cases. These plans are managed by the following foundations: (i) Fundação 14 de Previdência Privada (“Fundação 14”); (ii) Fundação BrTPREV (“FBrTPREV”) former CRT, a company merged by the Company on 12.28.00; and (iii) Fundação SISTEL de Seguridade Social (“SISTEL”), originated from certain companies of the former Telebrás System.

The Bylaws stipulate approval of the supplementary pension plan policy, and the joint liability attributed to the defined benefit plans is bound to the acts signed with the foundations, with the agreement of the Secretaria de Previdência Complementar - SPC, where applicable to the specific plans.

The plans sponsored are valued by independent actuaries on the fiscal year closing date. For benefit plans defined and identified in this note, the prompt recognition of actuarial earnings and losses is adopted, therefore constituting the total liabilities for the plans that are in a deficit situation, according to the rules of the Resolution CVM no. 371/00, For those plans that present a positive actuarial status, assets are constituted in the cases of express authorization for compensation with future employer dues.

The characteristics of supplementary pension plans sponsored are reported below:

FUNDAÇÃO 14

Private Pension Fundação 14 was created in 2004 and since 3.10.05 has been in charge of the management and operation of the TCSPREV pension plan. On such a date, it entered into an administration agreement with SISTEL, so that the latter would provide management and operating services to the TCSPREV and PAMEC-BrT plans up to 9/30/06. From this date on, Fundação 14 took over the management and operation services of its plans. As of the reference date of October 31, 2007, Fundação 14 gave up administrating the assistance plan PAMEC-BrT, once it is a private pension plans administration-oriented entity. In November, 2007, the assets and liabilities of PAMEC-BrT were transferred to the Company that, besides holding the attribution of sponsor, started in the position of administrator of that plan.

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Plans

TCSPREV (Defined Contribution, Settled Benefit and Defined Benefit)

This defined contribution and settled benefit plan was introduced on 2/28/00. On 12/31/01, all pension plans sponsored by the Company with SISTEL were merged, being exceptionally and provisionally approved by the Secretaria de Previdência Complementar – SPC of document sent to that Agency, due to the need for adjustments to the regulations. Thus, TCSPREV is comprised of defined contribution groups with settled and defined benefits. The plans that were merged into the TCSPREV were the PBS-TCS, PBT-BrT, BrT Management Agreement, and the Unusual Contractual Relation Instrument, and the conditions established in the original plans were maintained. In March 2003, this plan was no longer offered to the sponsors’ new contracted ones. However, concerning the defined contribution group, this plan started being offered as of March 2005, TCSPREV currently provides assistance to nearly 65.6% of the staff.

Contributions to this plan, by group of participants, are established based on actuarial studies prepared by independent actuaries according to regulations in force in Brazil, using the capitalization system to determine the costs. Currently, contributions are made by the participants and the sponsor only for the internal groups PBS-TCS (defined benefit) and TCSPREV (defined contribution). In the TCSPREV group, the contributions are credited in individual accounts of each participant, equally by employee and sponsor, and the basic contribution percentages vary between 3% and 8% of the participant’s salary, according to participant’s age and limited to R$ 21,104.40 for 2008, Participants have the option to make additional contributions to the plan but without parity of the Company. In the case of the PBS-TCS group, the sponsor’s contribution corresponds to 12% of the payroll of the participants; while the employees’ contribution varies according to the age, service time and salary. An entry fee may also be payable depending on the age of joining the plan. The sponsors are responsible for the cost of all administrative expenses and risk benefits.

Assets Constituted for Compensation of Future Employer Dues

In view of the approvals from the decision-making body of Fundação 14 occurred on December 18, 2007, which established the deliberation of surpluses, directing them to the formation of reserves for contingencies, special reserve in favor of participants, both assisted and participant, and sponsor’s contributions balance, assets amounting to R$ 81,209 were constituted in order to be used in the compensation of employer dues. In that sense, Fundação 14 also promoted alterations in the Regulation of TCSPREV pension plan, whose protocol at SPC was recorded on October 24, 2007,

The balance of such assets, recorded in other assets, is represented below:

    COMPANY AND CONSOLIDATED 
   
    03/31/08    12/31/07 
     
Future Contributions to be Compensated – TCSPREV Pension Plan    71,476    74,476 
     
Total    71,476    74,476 
     
Current    15,208    18,743 
     
Long-term    56,268    55,733 
     

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FUNDAÇÃO SISTEL DE SEGURIDADE SOCIAL

The supplementary pension plan – PBS-A, which remains under SISTEL’s management, comes from the period before the Telebrás’ Spin-off and assists participants who had the status of beneficiaries in January 2000, SISTEL also manages the PAMA/PAMA-PCE pension plan, formed by participants assisted by the PBS-A Plan, the PBS’s plans segregated by sponsor in January 2000 and PBS-TCS’ Internal Group, merged into the TCSPREV plan in December 2001,

Plans

PBS-A (Defined Benefit)

Maintained jointly with other sponsors subject to the provision of telecommunications services and destined for participants that had the status of beneficiaries on 1/31/00,

Contributions may occur in case of accumulated deficit. On 12.31.07, the actuarial appraisal date, the plan presented a surplus.

PAMA - Health Care Plan for Retirees / PCE – Special Coverage Plan (Defined Contribution)

Maintained jointly with other sponsors subject to the provision of telecommunications services and destined for participants that had the status of beneficiaries on 01.31.00, for the beneficiaries of the PBS-TCS Group, merged on 12.31.01 into TCSPREV (plan currently managed by Fundação 14) and for the participants of PBS’s defined benefit plans sponsored by other companies, together with SISTEL and other foundations. According to a legal and actuarial appraisal, the Sponsor’s responsibility is exclusively limited to future contributions. From March to July 2004 and from December 2005 to April 2006, an incentive optional migration of retirees and pensioners of PAMA took place for new coverage conditions (PCE). The participants who opted for the migration began to contribute to PAMA/PCE.

The contributions for this plan corresponding to 1.5% on payroll of active participants subject to PBS plans, segregated and sponsored by several sponsors company. In the case of Brasil Telecom, the PBS-TCS was merged into the TCSPREV plan on 12.31.01, and began to constitute an internal group of the plan. Due to the utilization of PAMA, the participants share a portion of its individual costs used in the plan. Contributions by retirees and pensioners who migrated to PAMA/PCE are also carried out.

FUNDAÇÃO BrTPREV

It is the manager originated from the plans sponsored by former CRT, company incorporated by the Company at the end of 2000. The main purpose of the Company sponsoring FBrTPREV is to maintain the supplementary retirement, pension and other provisions in addition to those provided by the official social security system to participants.

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Plans

BrTPREV

Defined contribution plan and settled benefits, launched in October 2002, destined for the concession of pension plan benefits supplementary to those of the official pension plan and that initially assisted only employees subject to the Subsidiary Rio Grande do Sul. This pension plan remained open to new employees of the Company and its subsidiaries from March 2003 to February 2005, when its offering was suspended. Currently, BrTPREV provides assistance to nearly 22.8% of the staff.

Contributions to this plan are established based on actuarial studies prepared by independent actuaries according to the regulations in force in Brazil, using the capitalization system to determine costs. Contributions are credited in individual accounts of each participant, the employee’s and Company’s contributions being equal, the basic percentage contribution varying between 3% and 8% of the participation salary, according to the participant’s age and limited to R$21,831,00 for 2008, Participants have the option to make additional contributions to the plan but without parity of the sponsor. The sponsor is responsible for the administrative expenses and risk benefits.

Fundador - Brasil Telecom e Alternativo - Brasil Telecom

Defined benefits plans destined to provide supplementary social security benefits in addition to those of the official social security, closed to the entry of new participants. Currently, these plans assist approximately 0.16% of the staff.

The regular contribution by the sponsor is equal to the regular contribution of the participant, rates of which are variable rates according to age, service time and salary. With the Alternativo Plan - Brasil Telecom, the contributions are limited to three times the ceiling benefit of INSS and the participant also pays an entry fee depending on the age of joining the plan.

Actuarial Insufficiency of the Plans

The mathematical reserve to amortize, corresponding to the current value of the Company’s supplementary contribution, as a result of the actuarial deficit of the plans managed by FBrTPREV, have the settlement within the maximum established period of twenty years, as from January 2002, according to Circular 66/SPC/GAB/COA from the Supplementary Pension Department dated 1/25/02. From this maximum term, remains thirteen years and nine months for total liquidation, and in the current period to the quarter closing, an amount of R$ 101,350 (R$ 28,760 in 2007) has been already amortized.

ASSISTANCE PLAN ADMINISTERED BY THE COMPANY

PAMEC-BrT – Health Care Plan for Supplementary Pension Beneficiaries (Defined Benefit)

Directed to the health care of retired employees and social security recipients linked to PBT-BrT Group, pension plan administered by Fundação 14,

The contributions for PAMEC-BrT were fully paid in July 1998, through a single payment. However, as that plan is now administered by the Company after the transfer of administration by Fundação 14 in November 2007, there is no assets and liabilities constituted to cover the current expenses, and the actuarial obligation is fully recognized in the liabilities of the Company, in the amount of R$ 2,183 (R$ 2,077 on 12.31.07) .

b. Stock Call Option Plan for Management and Employees

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The Extraordinary General Meeting that took place on November 6, 2007, approved a new general plan for grant of stock call options for officers and employees of the Company and its subsidiaries; therefore, the plans described below being valid on the quarter closing date, in accordance to the respective approval dates.

Plan Approved on April, 28th 2000

The rights acquired via stock call options grant instruments during the validity of this plan previously approved, remain valid and effective according to the respective terms agreed, and no new grants through this plan are allowed.

On the quarter closing date, there were options for circulation as described in the program below:

Program B

The exercise price is established by the management committee based on the market price of the shares on the date of the grant of option and will be monetarily restated by the IGP-M between the date of signing the contracts and the payment date of the option selected.

In the first quarter of 2008, 105,577 options were exercised through this program, which were liquidated by means of transfer of shares kept in treasury by the Company.

The movements occurred in the balance of options related with this plan are summarized below:

   
    03/31/08 
   
    Preferred Share Options    Average Exercise Price R$ 
     
Initial balance in the quarter    256,855    16,88 
     
Options Exercised    (105,577)   16,53 
     
Extinguished Options    (11,458)   17,30 
     
Final balance in the quarter    139,820    17,71 
     

The right to exercise the option is given in the way and terms presented as follows:

 
 Grant    Updated Price for    Options 
     
                Deadline for the    the Fiscal Year    (In shares)
Concession    Lot    Fiscal year as of    Fiscal Year    (in Reais)    
           
        33%    12/22/05    12/31/11    17,71    46,607 
             
3rd    12/22/04    33%    12/22/06    12/31/11    17,71    46,607 
             
        34%    12/22/07    12/31/11    17,71    46,607 
             

The representativity of the options balance in view of the total outstanding shares is 0.03% (0.05% on 12.31.07) .

Considering the hypothesis that the options will be fully exercised, the premium of the respective options, calculated based on the Black&Scholes method, for the Company would be R$ 1,047 (R$ 1,761 in 12.31.07) .

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Plan Approved on November, 6th 2007

The new plan authorizes granting options, providing the participants, under certain conditions, with the opportunity to acquire or subscribe, in the future, shares that integrate a basket of shares defined as Performance Unity – UP, at a pre-established price The amount corresponding to the number of UPs granted shall not exceed the maximum amount of 10% of the book value of shares of each type of share of the Company.

Shares derived from exercising options guarantee the beneficiaries the same rights granted to other Company shareholders.

According to the Plan, the Company is forced to repurchase the shares acquired by the employees and officers through the exercise of the option, at the weighed closing average market price in the last thirty floors.

The administration of that plan has been attributed to the board of executive officers, which holds wide powers for establishing options programs, and may be delegated to a remuneration committee formed by up to three members of the board.

At Meeting of December 14, 2007 the Company’s Administration Council ratified the approval of both programs related with the new call option plan, which is effective as of July 1, 2007 and consists in the following:

Program 1

The grant has been established under the form of one-time concession, and does not allow new concessions for the period comprised by four years. The exercising price of the UP has been set up by the board of executive officers under the terms defined in the plan, and it is subject to indexation by IGP-M, added by 6% p.a., to be discounted from the amounts paid in the form of dividends and or JSCP in the period.

Program 2

This program establishes annual grant of options, on July 1 of each year, with its first grant having occurred on July 1, 2007, The UP exercise price was fixed by the administration council, under the terms defined in the plan and will be discounted from the amounts paid as dividends and or JSCP (interest on the shareholders’ equity) in the period.

The right to exercise the option included in the programs 1 and 2 is given in the way and terms presented as follows:

 
    Grant    Updated Price for    Options 
       
Program                Deadline for the    the Fiscal Year     
    Concession    Lot    Fiscal year as of    Fiscal Year    (in Reais)   (In UP’s)
             
        25%    07/01/08    06/30/11    29,20    704,329 
             
  07/01/07    25%    07/01/09    06/30/12    29,20    704,329 
             
        25%    07/01/10    06/30/13    29,20    704,329 
             
        25%    07/01/11    06/30/14    29,20    704,337 
             
        25%    07/01/08    06/30/11    26,70    219,121 
             
  07/01/07    25%    07/01/09    06/30/12    26,70    219,121 
             
        25%    07/01/10    06/30/13    26,70    219,121 
             
        25%    07/01/11    06/30/14    26,70    219,132 
             

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The terms established in programs 1 and 2 may be anticipated due to the occurrence of any special events or conditions established in the grant agreement, particularly due to the alteration in the direct or indirect control of the Company and of Brasil Telecom Participações S.A.

The movements occurred in the balance of options related with this plan are summarized below:

         
    03/31/08 
   
    Preferred Share Options    Average Exercise Price R$ 
     
Initial balance in the quarter    4,036,440    28.37 
     
Extinguished Options    (342,621)   28.37 
     
Final balance in the quarter    3,693,819    29.47 
     

The representativity of the options balance (UPs) in view of the shareholder’s equity of the Company on 03.31.08 is 2.20% (2.23% on 12.31.07) .

Considering the hypothesis that the options included in programs 1 and 2 will be fully exercised, the amount of the premiums of the respective options, calculated according to the Binomial options pricing mode, for the Company would be R$ 49,488 (R$ 53,462 on 12.31.07) .

c. Other Benefits to Employees

Other benefits are granted to employees, such as: health/dental care, meal allowance, group life insurance, occupational accident allowance, sickness allowance, transportation allowance, and others.

7. PROVISIONS FOR CONTINGENCIES

a. Contingencies Liabilities

The Company and its subsidiaries periodically assess their contingency risks, and also review their lawsuits taking into consideration the legal, economic, tax and accounting aspects. The assessment of these risks aims to classifying them according to the chances of unfavorable outcome among the alternatives of probable, possible or remote, taking into account, as applicable, the opinion of the legal advisors.

For those contingencies, which the risks are classified as probable, provisions are recognized. Contingencies classified as possible or remote are discussed in this note. These proceedings are under discussion in the administrative or judicial spheres, in all the jurisdictions, from the initial to the extraordinary ones.

In a number of situations, due to legal requirement or as a caution measure, judicial deposits are made to assure the continuity of the proceedings in discussion. Judicial deposits related to risk contingencies of possible and remote loss are shown in Note 25,

We emphasize that, in some cases, similar subjects may be ranked in different risk degree rates, and this is justified by the facts and the peculiar status related to each proceeding.

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Labor Claims

The provisions for labor claims include an estimate by the Company’s management, supported by the opinion of its legal advisors, of the probable losses related to lawsuits filed by employees, former employees of the Company, and of service providers related to the labor matter.

Tax Suits

Provisions for contingencies of tax nature, specially refers to those questions related to the collection of taxes arisen from divergences between the best knowledge of the administration, supported by the opinion of the Company’s legal advisors, and the Tax Authorities, as for the interpretation, application, legality and constitutionality of the tax legislation.

Civil Suits

The provisions for civil contingencies refers to an estimate of lawsuits related to contractual adjustments arising from Federal Government economic plans, and other cases related to community telephony plans and suit for damages and consumer lawsuits.

Classification by Risk Level

Contingencies for Probable Risk

Contingencies for probable risk of loss, for which provisions are recorded under liabilities, have the following balances:

     
  PARENT COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
Nature  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Provisions  1,234,542  1,134,171  1,291,896  1,188,528 
 Labor  412,459  414,393  420,044  421,759 
 Tax  369,837  335,754  402,893  367,923 
 Civil  452,246  384,024  468,959  398,846 
Bound Escrow Deposits  (381,601) (289,049) (389,220) (295,843)
 Labor  (216,949) (216,761) (221,163) (220,679)
 Tax  (21,497) (21,414) (22,139) (22,046)
 Civil  (143,155) (50,874) (145,918) (53,118)
Total Provisions, Net of Escrow Deposits  852,941  845,122  902,676  892,685 
Current  182,174  178,950  201,308  197,457 
Long-term  670,767  666,172  701,368  695,228 

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Labor

Variations occurred in 2008:

  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
Provisions on 12.31.07  414,393  421,759 
Variations to the Result  15,358  15,643 
   Monetary Restatement  11,918  12,153 
   Revaluation of Contingent Risks  1,718  1,654 
   Provision of New Shares  1,722  1,836 
Payments  (17,292) (17,358)
Subtotal I (Provisions) 412,459  420,044 
Escrow Deposits Bound on 12.31.07  (216,761) (220,679)
Variations of Escrow Deposits  (188) (484)
Subtotal II (Escrow Deposits) (216,949) (221,163)
Balance on 03.31.08 Net of Escrow Deposits  195,510  198,881 

The main objects affecting the provisioned labor contingencies are:

(i) Risk Premium - related to the claim of additional payment for hazardous activities, based on Law 7,369/85, regulated by Decree 93,412/86, due to the supposed risk of contact by the employee with the electric power system;

(ii) Salary Differences and Consequences - related, mainly, to requests for salary increases due to supposedly unfulfilled union negotiations. The effects are related to the repercussion of the salary increase supposedly due on the other sums calculated based on the employees’ salaries.

(iii) Career Plan - related to the request for application of the career and salaries plan for employees of the Santa Catarina Branch (formerly Telesc), with promotions for seniority and merit, supposedly not granted by the former Telesc;

(iv) Joint/Subsidiary Responsibility - related to the request to ascribe responsibility to the Company, made by outsourced personnel, due to supposed non-observance of their labor rights by their direct employers;

(v) Overtime - refers to the pleading for salary and additional payment due to labor supposedly performed beyond the contracted work time;

(vi) Reintegration - pleading due to supposed inobservance of employee’s special condition, guaranteeing the impossibility of terminating labor contract without cause;

(vii) Request for the application of regulation, which established the payment of the percentage incurring on the Company’s income, attributed to the Santa Catarina Branch; and

(viii) Supplement of FGTS fine arising from understated inflation – it refers to requests to supplement indemnification of FGTS fine, due to the recomposition of accounts of this fund by understated inflation.

Brasil Telecom S.A. filed a lawsuit against Caixa Econômica Federal, with a view to ensuring the reimbursement of all amounts paid for this purpose.

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Tax

Variations occurred in 2008:

  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
Provisions on 12.31.07  335,754  367,923 
Variations to the Result  35,459  38,991 
   Monetary Restatement  4,439  5,242 
   Revaluation of Contingent Risks  3,787  3,782 
   Provision of New Shares  27,233  29,967 
Payments  (1,376) (4,021)
Subtotal I (Provisions) 369,837  402,893 
Escrow Deposits Bound on 12.31.07  (21,414) (22,046)
Variations of Escrow Deposits  (83) (93)
Subtotal II (Escrow Deposits) (21,497) (22,139)
Balance on 03.31.08 Net of Escrow Deposits  348,340  380,754 

The main suits provisioned refer to the following controversies:

(i) Federal Taxes - several additional fiscal assessments that require the payment of taxes and federal contributions on facts qualified in a supposedly inadequate way by the Company or on differences when determining and estimating these taxes; and

(ii) State Taxes - claim for payment of the ICMS tax on operations that, according to the comprehension of the Company, are not subject to taxation based on this tax, and discussions on ICMS credits taken by the Company, which validity or legal status is contested by the State Tax Authorities.

Civil

Variations occurred in 2008:

  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
Provisions on 12.31.07  384,024  398,846 
Variations to the Result  100,893  104,394 
   Monetary Restatement  12,025  12,545 
   Revaluation of Contingent Risks  79,330  80,360 
   Provision of New Shares  9,538  11,489 
Payments  (32,671) (34,281)
Subtotal I (Provisions) 452,246  468,959 
Escrow Deposits Bound on 12.31.07  (50,874) (53,118)
Variations of Escrow Deposits  (92,281) (92,800)
Subtotal II (Escrow Deposits) (143,155) (145,918)
Balance on 03.31.08 Net of Escrow Deposits  309,091  323,041 

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The suits provisioned are:

(i) Review of contractual conditions - lawsuit where a company which supplies equipment filed legal action against the Company, asking for a review of contractual conditions due to economic stabilization plans;

(ii) Capital Participation Agreements - TJ/RS (court of appeals) has been firmly positioned as to the incorrect procedure previously adopted by the former CRT in lawsuits related to the application of a rule enacted by the Ministry of the Communications. Such lawsuits are positioned in various phases: lower courts, Court of Appeals and Superior Court of Justice;

(iii) Client service centers - public civil actions, comprising the closing of client services centers;

(iv) Free Mandatory Telephone Directories – LTOG’s - lawsuits questioning the non-delivery of printed residential telephone directories; and

(v) Other lawsuits - related to various lawsuits in progress, comprising civil liability suits, indemnifications for contractual termination and consumer matters under procedural progress in the Special Courts, Courts of Law and Federal Courts throughout the country.

Contingencies for Possible Risk

The composition of contingencies with risk level considered to be possible, and therefore not recorded in the accounts, is the following:

  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
Nature  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Labor  560,061  535,459  566,880  540,690 
Tax  1,975,416  1,994,196  2,044,693  2,062,095 
Civil  1,146,082  1,081,376  1,196,278  1,129,175 
Total  3,681,559  3,611,031  3,807,851  3,731,960 

Labor

Variations occurred in 2008:

  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
Amount estimated on 12.31.07  535,459  540,690 
Monetary Restatement  16,864  17,058 
Revaluation of Contingent Risks  (13,280) (13,350)
New Shares  21,018  22,482 
Amount estimated on 12.31.08  560,061  566,880 

The main objects that comprise the possible losses of a labor nature are related to joint/subsidiary responsibility, supplement of FGTS indemnifying fine resulting from understated inflation, risk premium, promotions and the request for remuneration consideration for work hours supposedly exceeding the regular workload of hours agreed also contributed to the amount mentioned.

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Tax

Variations occurred in 2008:

  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
Amount estimated on 12.31.07  1,994,196  2,062,095 
Monetary Restatement  40,089  41,771 
Revaluation of Contingent Risks  (107,729) (109,615)
New Shares  48,860  50,442 
Amount estimated on 03.31.08  1,975,416  2,044,693 

The major existing suits are represented by the objects below:

(i) INSS additional fiscal assessments on the addition of captions in the contribution salary supposedly due by the company;

(ii) Additional fiscal assessments promoted by the Secretaria da Receita Federal (Federal Revenue Secretariat), resulting from divergences between DCTF and DIPJ;

(iii) Public civil suits questioning the supposed transfer of PIS and COFINS taxes to end consumers;

(iv) ICMS incurring on international calls, which tax responsibility for the collection is assigned to other operator;

(v) ICMS - credit and respective tax rate differential in interstate acquisitions made by the Company;

(vi) ICMS - additional fiscal assessments on the supposed incurrence of tax on the activities described in the Agreement No. 69/98;

(vii) ICMS – tax credit on cancelled invoices.

(viii) IR-Withheld at Source - on operations related to the protection for debt coverage;

(ix) FUST – due to the illegal retroactivity, under the best knowledge of the Company, of the effects generated by the change in interpreting its calculation basis by ANATEL.

(x) ISS - supposed incurrence on communications auxiliary services and discussion on services taxed by the cities listed in the Complementary Law 116/2003,

Civil

Variations occurred in 2008:

  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
Amount estimated on 12.31.07  1,081,376  1,129,175 
Monetary Restatement  41,809  43,769 
Revaluation of Contingent Risks  (17,102) (19,050)
New Shares  39,999  42,384 
Amount estimated on 03.31.08  1,146,082  1,196,278 

The major existing suits are represented by the objects below:

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(i) Repayments resulting from Community Telephony Program lawsuits (PCT) - the plaintiffs intend to repay in lawsuits related to the contracts resulting from the Community Telephony Program. Such lawsuits are positioned in various phases: lower courts, Court of Appeals and Superior Court of Justice;

(ii) Lawsuit for damages and consumers; and

(iii) Contractual - Lawsuits related to the claim for a percentage resulting from the Real Plan, to be applied to a contract for rendering of services, review of conversion of installments in URV and later in reais, related to the supply of equipment and rendering of services.

Letters of Guarantee

As for passive contingencies, the Company holds contracts for letters of guarantee executed with financial institutions, as a complementary guarantee for judicial proceedings in provisional foreclosure and as performance bond for commitments regarding authorizations granted by ANATEL. The total amount of guarantees contracted and in force on the closing date corresponds to R$ 1,777,604 (R$ 1,336,279 on 12.31.07) and R$ 1,993,904 (R$ 1,360,006 on 12.31.07) for consolidated purposes. The commission charges in these contracts are based on market rates.

b. Contingent Assets

Next, the tax claims promoted by the Company is shown, through which the recovery of tax paid is claimed.

PIS/COFINS: judicial dispute about the application of Law 9,718/98, which increased the calculation basis for PIS and COFINS. The period comprised by the Law was from February 1999 to November 2002 for PIS and from February 1999 to January 2004 for COFINS. In November 2005, STF (Federal Supreme Court) concluded the judgment of certain lawsuits dealing with such issue and considered unconstitutional the increase of calculation basis introduced by said Law. Part of the lawsuits filed by the Company and the concessionaires of STFC Region II of the Granting Plan, merged into the Company in February 2000, became final and unappealable in 2006, referring to the increase in COFINS calculation basis. The Company is awaiting the judgments of lawsuits of other merged companies, which the assessment of success in future filing of appeals is assessed as probable by the Company’s legal advisors. The amount attributed to outstanding contingency not recognized on an accounting basis, referring to these lawsuits amounts to R$ 17,632 (R$ 17,445 em 12.31.07) .

8, SHAREHOLDER’S EQUITY a. Capital Stock

At the Shareholders General Meeting, held on April 10, 2007, the grouping of shares representing the capital stock of the Company was approved. Resulting from this process, the shares will be grouped at the ratio of one thousand (1,000) share per one (1) share, and the capital stock will be represented by 249,597,049 common shares and 311,353,240 preferred shares, totaling 560,950,289 shares issued. From the total amount of shares, 13,678,100 preferred shares are kept in treasury.

The shares grouping aims at bringing the unit price for quotation of shares to a more appropriate level from the market point of view, reducing operating costs for the Company and its shareholders, and increasing the efficiency of registration systems, controls and publication of information to the shareholders. After approval of the grouping, shareholders had a period of 30 days to adjust their share positions in lots multiple of 1,000

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(one thousand) shares by kind, by means of negotiation at BOVESPA or over-the-counter market. After that period, the shares are negotiated in groups with unit quotation. The remaining shares fractions were separated and grouped in full numbers and sold at auction at BOVESPA. The amounts resulting from such auction, after final settlement of the sale, were made available on behalf of the respective shareholders.

The Company is authorized to increase its capital stock, according to a resolution of the Board of Executive Officers, in a total limit of eight hundred million (800,000,000) common or preferred shares, observing the legal limit of two thirds (2/3) for the issue of new preferred shares without voting rights.

By means of a resolution of the General Shareholders' Meeting or the Board of Executive Officers, the Company’s capital may be increased by the capitalization of retained earnings or reserves prior to this allocated by the General Shareholders’ Meeting. Under these conditions, the capitalization may be effected without modifying the number of shares.

The capital stock is represented by common and preferred stocks, with no par value, and it is not mandatory to maintain the proportion between the shares in the case of capital increases.

By means of a resolution of the General Shareholders’ Meeting or the Board of Executive Officers, the preemptive right for the issue of shares, subscription bonuses or debentures convertible into shares may be excluded, in the cases stipulated in article 172 of Corporate Law.

The preferred shares do not have voting rights, except in the cases specified in paragraphs 1 to 3 of article 12 of the Bylaws, but are assured priority in receiving the minimum non-cumulative dividend of 6% per annum, calculated on the amount resulting from dividing the capital stock by the total number of the Company’s shares or 3% per annum, calculated on the amount resulting from dividing the net book shareholders’ equity by the total number of the Company’s shares, whichever is greater.

Subscribed and paid-up capital as of the date of the end of the quarter is R$ 3,470,758 (R$ 3,470,758 on 12.31.07), represented by shares without par value as follows:

Share Type             Total Shares  Treasury Stock     Outstanding Shares 
03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Common  249,597,049  249,597,049  249,597,049  249,597,049 
Preferred  311,353,240  311,353,240  13,572,523  13,678,100  297,780,717  297,675,140 
Total  560,950,289  560,950,289  13,572,523  13,678,100  547,377,766  547,272,189 
 
  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Book Value per Outstanding Share (R$) 10,35  10,19 

Preferred shares maintained in treasury are deducted when determining the net equity value.

b. Treasury Stock

Treasury stocks derive from Stock Repurchase Programs, carried out between 2002 and 2004, On 9,13,04, the material fact of the current proposal approved by the Company’s Board of Executive Officers was published, for the repurchase of preferred stocks issued by the Company, for holding in treasury or cancellation, or subsequent sale.

The quantity of treasury stocks was the following:

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  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Preferred Shares  Net  Preferred Shares Net 
Initial balance in the quarter  13,678,100  154,692  13,678,100  154,692 
Transferred shares  (105,577) (1,193)(1)
Final balance in the quarter  13,572,523  153,499  13,678,100  154,692 

Equivalent to the cost of disposed shares 

History cost in the acquisition of shares in treasury stock (R$ per share) 03/31/08  12/31/07 
   Weighed Average  11,31  11,31 
   Minimum  10,31  10,31 
   Maximum  13,80  13,80 

The unit cost in the acquisition considers the totality of stock repurchase programs.

The shares disposed in the quarter complied with the Shares Call Option Plan for Officers and Employees of the Company. The total amount disposed represented R$ 1,744 and resulted in net earnings of R$ 551, which has been recorded in the capital reserve account.

Market Value of Treasury Stocks

The market value of treasury stocks on the quarter closing date was the following:

  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Number of preferred shares in treasury  13,572,523  13,678,100 
Quotation per share on BOVESPA (R$) 19,30  18,25 
Market Value  261,950  249,625 

The costs with the acquisition of treasury stocks are recorded in equity’s own account.

Below, a demonstrative chart considering the deduction of the value of treasury stocks from the balance of reserves that originated repurchase.

  Goodwill on Share Subscription  Other Capital Reserves 
03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Account Balance of Reserves  458,684  458,684  123,885  123,334 
Treasury Stock  (99,822) (99,822) (53,677) (54,870)
Balance, Net of Treasury Stocks  358,862  358,862  70,208  68,464 

c. Capital Reserves

Capital reserves are recognized in accordance with the following practices:

Reserve for Premium on Subscription of Shares: results from the difference between the amount paid on subscription and the portion allocated to capital.

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Reserve for Donations and Subsidies for Investments: registered as a result of donations and subsidies received, the contra entry of which represents an asset received by the Company.

Reserve for Special Monetary Restatement as per Law No. 8,200/91: registered as a result of special monetary restatement adjustments of permanent assets to compensate the distortions in the monetary restatement indices prior to 1991.

Other Capital Reserves: formed by the contra entry of the interest on works in progress up to 12.31.98 and funds invested in income tax incentives.

d. Profit Reserves

The profit reserves are recognized in accordance with the following practices:

Legal Reserve: allocation of five percent of the annual net income up to twenty percent of paid-up capital or thirty percent of capital plus capital reserves. The legal reserve is only used to increase capital stock or to absorb losses.

Retained Earnings: recorded at the end of each fiscal year, they are composed of remaining balances of net income or loss for the year, adjusted according to the terms of article 202 of Law No. 6,404/76, or by the recording of adjustments from prior fiscal years, if applicable.

e. Dividends and Interest on Shareholders’ Equity

Dividends are calculated at the end of the fiscal year. Mandatory minimum dividends are calculated in accordance with article 202 of Law 6,404/76, and the preferred or priority dividends are calculated in accordance with the Company’s Bylaws.

As a result of a resolution by the Board of Executive Officers, the Company may pay or credit, as dividends, interest on shareholders’ equity (“JSCP”), under the terms of article 9, paragraph 7, of Law No. 9,249, as of 12/26/95, The interest paid or credited will be offset with the minimum mandatory annual dividend amount, in accordance with article 43 of the Companys Bylaws.

The interest on shareholders’ equity credited to shareholders and which shall be attributed to dividends, net of income tax, as part of the proposal to allocate results for the fiscal year to close at 2008 year-end, to be submitted for approval of the General Shareholders’ Meeting, was the following:

  03/31/08  03/31/07 
Interest on Shareholders’ Equity - JSCP -Credited  245,000  245,000 
     Common Shares  111,717  111,738 
     Preferred Shares  133,283  133,262 
Withholding Income Tax (IRRF) (36,750) (36,750)
Net Interest on Shareholders’ Equity  208,250  208,250 

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9. OPERATING REVENUE FROM SERVICES AND SALES

  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  03/31/07  03/31/08  03/31/07 
 
Fixed Telephone Service         
 
 Local Service  1,589,735  1,649,532  1,588,838  1,648,044 
   Activation fees  2,345  6,614  2,345  6,614 
   Subscription  891,386  862,387  891,199  862,304 
   Fixed  229,028  303,900  228,326  302,570 
   Fixed x Móbile - VC1  463,039  466,016  463,032  465,944 
   Rent  285  299  284  297 
   Others  3,652  10,316  3,652  10,315 
 
 Long Distance Service  766,672  758,839  763,600  756,304 
   Intra-Sectorial Fixed  206,212  213,927  206,211  213,895 
   Intra-Regional Fixed (Inter-Sectorial) Fixed  58,369  68,570  58,352  68,430 
   Inter-Regional Fixed  55,131  60,858  55,130  60,826 
   VC2  218,585  203,866  216,841  202,561 
         Fixed Origin  74,605  73,782  74,605  73,737 
         Mobile Origin  143,980  130,084  142,236  128,824 
   VC3  218,384  199,880  217,076  198,855 
         Fixed Origin  99,411  97,315  99,379  97,223 
         Mobile Origin  118,973  102,565  117,697  101,632 
   International  9,991  11,738  9,990  11,737 
 
 Interconnection  101,813  98,339  81,378  84,956 
   Fixed x Fixed  51,358  56,751  51,352  56,742 
   Mobile x Fixed  50,455  41,588  30,026  28,214 
 
 Cession of Means  124,438  116,534  103,645  89,740 
 Public Telephony  134,078  129,049  134,078  129,049 
 Supplementary Services, Intelligent Network and
  Advanced Telephony 
99,664  106,678  99,529  106,319 
 Others  8,369  11,356  7,900  9,992 
 
Total Fixed Telephone Service  2,824,769  2,870,327  2,778,968  2,824,404 
To be continued...

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... continued,

  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
   03/31/08   03/31/07   03/31/08   03/31/07 
Mobile Telephone Service         
 Telephony  -  -  426,533  377,534 
   Subscription  97,102  101,393 
   Utilization  134,667  109,479 
   Additional per Call  1,771  1,541 
   Roaming  3,595  4,751 
   Interconnection  151,794  139,631 
   Added Value Services    33,672  17,204 
   Other Services  3,932  3,535 
 
 Sale of Goods  -  -  39,546  52,197 
   Cell phones  38,763  50,375 
   Electronic Cards - Brasil Chip, Accessories and Other 
     Goods 
783  1,822 
 
Total of Mobile Telephony Service  -  -  466,079  429,731 
 
Data Transmission Services and Others         
 
 Data Transmission  631,839  513,426  667,729  540,216 
 Other Services of Main Activities  1,762  1,651  123,282  102,723 
 
Total Data Transmission Services and Others  633,601  515,077  791,011  642,939 
 
Gross Operating Revenue  3,458,370  3,385,404  4,036,058  3,897,074 
 
Deductions from Gross Revenue  (1,085,934) (1,024,524) (1,274,078) (1,206,217)
 Taxes on Gross Income  (966,116) (955,689) (1,095,443) (1,064,627)
 Other Deductions on Gross Income  (119,818) (68,835) (178,635) (141,590)
 
Net Operating Income  2,372,436  2,360,880  2,761,980  2,690,857 

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10. COSTS OF SERVICES AND SALES

The costs incurred in the rendering of services and sales of goods are as follows:

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
   03/31/08   03/31/07   03/31/08   03/31/07 
Interconnection  (547,720) (561,421) (563,631) (576,532)
Depreciation and Amortization  (334,158) (442,766) (444,395) (541,792)
Third Parties Services  (190,917) (195,099) (238,310) (238,717)
Rent, Leasing and Insurance  (57,538) (62,021) (81,410) (78,079)
Means of Connection  (48,124) (36,320) (32,677) (30,844)
Personnel  (38,028) (30,463) (84,871) (34,982)
Profit Sharing for Managers and Employees  (6,653) (4,581) (8,280) (5,166)
Burden of the Concession  (16,421) (16,841) (16,421) (16,841)
Material  (16,199) (15,881) (17,021) (16,666)
FISTEL  (4,415) (4,957) (19,224) (16,758)
Sold Goods  (46,346) (52,847)
Others  (3,160) (3,034) (3,162) (3,041)
Total  (1,263,333) (1,373,384) (1,555,748) (1,612,265)

11. SALES OF SERVICES
(Selling Expenses)

The expenses related to commercialization activities are detailed according to the following nature:

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  03/31/07  03/31/08  03/31/07 
Third Parties Services  (119,424) (110,611) (144,535) (175,091)
Losses with Accounts Receivable from Clients  (92,863) (77,743) (119,833) (95,680)
Personnel  (39,061) (35,757) (55,165) (54,804)
Profit Sharing for Managers and Employees  (5,441) (4,179) (6,821) (5,432)
Rent, Leasing and Insurance  (6,561) (2,834) (14,101) (18,772)
Depreciation and Amortization  (748) (1,088) (4,620) (4,760)
Material  (379) (343) (11,332) (6,846)
Others  (396) (394) (8,575) (7,239)
Total  (264,873) (232,949) (364,982) (368,624)

12. GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

The expenses related to administrative activities, which include information technology expenses, are detailed according to the following nature:

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  03/31/07  03/31/08  03/31/07 
Third Parties Services  (171,724) (156,581) (198,732) (173,558)
Depreciation and Amortization  (59,490) (67,055) (77,873) (83,298)
Personnel  (36,440) (32,595) (45,794) (40,863)
Profit Sharing for Managers and Employees  (12,791) (7,467) (14,668) (8,971)
Rent, Leasing and Insurance  (10,545) (5,905) (11,954) (6,815)
Material  (577) (758) (751) (923)
Others  (545) (545) (613) (1,445)
Total  (292,112) (270,906) (350,385) (315,873)

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13. OTHER OPERATING EXPENSES, NET

The remaining revenues and expenses attributed to operational activities are shown as follows:

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  03/31/07  03/31/08  03/31/07 
Taxes and Expenses Refunded  60,416  16,882  64,033  19,999 
Operational Infrastructure Rental and Others  28,963  29,445  20,867  20,511 
Penalties  26,388  21,026  31,038  20,617 
Technical and Administrative Services  19,364  15,411  20,881  14,552 
Subsidies and Donations Received  626  1,598  2,213  3,107 
Reversion of Other Provisions  (35) 6,320  310  15,344 
Results on Write-Off of Repair/Resale Inventories  39  (503) (455)
Contingencies - Provision(1) (151,710) (115,243) (159,028) (122,491)
Pension Plans - Provisions  (32,668) (11,707) (32,668) (11,707)
Taxes (Other than Gross Revenue, Corporate Income Tax and Social Contribution) (20,345) (12,930) (27,373) (14,800)
Court Fees  (11,513) (9,156) (11,648) (9,243)
Goodwill Amortization on the Acquisition of Investments  (5,518) (5,518) (17,819) (19,394)
Donations and Sponsorships  (5,288) (1,317) (5,388) (1,317)
Other Revenues (Expenses) (5,150) (1,376) (4,436) (1,890)
Total  (96,465) (66,526) (119,521) (87,167)
    Other Operating Income 
140,141  100,099  146,097  113,773 
    Other Operating Expenses 
(236,606) (166,625) (265,618) (200,940)
Revenues and expenses of the same nature are represented by the net value. 
(1) Provisions for contingencies are described in note 7 

14. FINANCIAL EXPENSES, NET

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  03/31/07  03/31/08  03/31/07 
Financial Income  125,316  79,518  175,248  107,401 
     Domestic Currency  125,290  78,623  173,229  107,337 
     On Rights in Foreign Currency  26  895  2,019  64 
Financial Expenses  (400,894) (436,338) (422,452) (452,270)
     Domestic Currency  (130,859) (166,127) (150,067) (182,724)
     On Liabilities in Foreign Currency  (25,035) (25,211) (27,385) (24,546)
     Interest on Shareholder’s Equity  (245,000) (245,000) (245,000) (245,000)
Total  (275,578) (356,820) (247,204) (344,869)

15. NON-OPERATING REVENUES (EXPENSES)

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  03/31/07  03/31/08  03/31/07 
Reversal for Investments Losses  19,990  1,623  19,990  2,755 
Result in Investment Write-Off  (18,990) (18,990)
Result in Fixed Assets and Deferred Write-Off  684  (1,632) (391) (4,129)
Provision (Reversal) for Realization Amount and Losses of Property, Plan and Equipment and Properties for Sale  (474) (272) 2,068  4,915 
Amortization of Goodwill on Merger  (126)
Investments Loss  (5)
Total  1,210  (281) 2,677  3,410 

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16. INCOME TAX AND SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION ON INCOME

Income tax and social contribution on income are recorded on an accrual basis, and the tax effects on temporary differences are deferred. The provision for income tax and social contribution on income recognized in the income statement are as follows:

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  03/31/07  03/31/08  03/31/07 
Income Before Taxes and Interest  137,877  (8,617) 126,817  (34,531)
Income of Companies Not Subject to Income Tax and Social Contribution Calculation(1) -  -  (1,288) 24,048 
Total of Taxable Income  137,877  (8,617) 125,529  (10,483)
Corporate Income Tax - IRPJ         
IRPJ on Taxable Income (10%+15%=25%) (34,469) 2,154  (31,382) 2,621 
Permanent Additions  (16,532) (19,641) (11,714) (10,271)
   Equity in Subsidiaries  (10,852) (17,158)
   Amortization of Goodwill  (1,380) (1,380) (4,455) (5,322)
   Exchange Variation on Investments  (234) (548)
   Other Additions  (4,300) (1,103) (7,025) (4,401)
Permanent Exclusions  5,507  714  7,512  8,807 
   Investment Dividends at Acquisition Cost 
   Non-Operating Equity in Subsidiaries  193 
   Other Exclusions  5,506  712  7,511  8,612 
Tax Losses Offset  1,877  476 
Others  (326) 263  (4,587) 486 
Effect of IRPJ on Statement of Income  (45,820) (16,510) (38,294) 2,119 
Social Contribution on Net Income - CSLL         
CSLL on Taxed Result (9%) (12,409) 776  (11,298) 943 
Permanent Additions  (5,240) (6,789) (3,414) (3,409)
   Equity in Subsidiaries  (3,907) (6,177)
   Amortization of Goodwill  (497) (497) (1,604) (1,916)
   Exchange Variation on Investments  (84) (197)
   Other Additions  (836) (115) (1,726) (1,296)
Permanent Exclusions  1,982  147  2,639  3,061 
   Investment Dividends at Acquisition Cost 
   Non-Operating Equity in Subsidiaries  70 
   Other Exclusions  1,982  146  2,639  2,990 
Offset of Negative Calculation Basis  674  170 
Others  (25) (1) (1,575) 71 
Effect of CSLL on Statement of Income  (15,692) (5,867) (12,974) 836 
Effect of IRPJ and CSLL on Statement of Income  (61,512) (22,377) (51,268) 2,955 
(1) Negative result of subsidiaries which do not constitute IRPJ and CSLL over tax loss and negative calculation basis, for not presenting realization expectation. 

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17. CASH, BANK ACCOUNTS AND HIGH-LIQUIDITY INVESTMENTS

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Cash and Bank Accounts  52,255  285,385  65,421  314,330 
High-Liquidity Investments  236,783  350,002  2,022,236  2,062,701 
Total  289,038  635,387  2,087,657  2,377,031 

The breakdown of high-liquidity investment portfolio, on the quarter closing date, is presented below:

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Exclusive Investment Funds         
 Government Bonds  153,127  239,238  1,407,827  1,553,017 
 Private Bonds  69,539  89,261  365,574  354,724 
 Overnight  14,695  22,675  230,742  130,730 
 Derivatives  401  402 
 Provision for Income Tax - Adjustment  (329) (905) (12,637) (7,440)
Total Exclusive Investment Funds  237,035  350,274  1,991,907  2,031,433 
CDB  -  -  3,597  3,583 
Open Investment Funds  -  -  26,611  27,579 
Foreign Investments - Deposit Certificates  -  -  373  378 
Total Investments  237,035  350,274  2,022,488  2,062,973 
 
Partial block by judicial determination  (252) (272) (252) (272)
Total High-Liquidity Financial Investments  236,783  350,002  2,022,236  2,062,701 

Exclusive funds, are subject to liabilities restricted to the payment of services rendered by the asset management, attributed to investment operations, such as custody, audit and other expenses rates, not existing relevant financial liabilities, as well as Company’s assets to guarantee those liabilities.

Statement of Cash Flows

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  03/31/07  03/31/08  03/31/07 
Statement of Cash Flows         
Net Income for the Period  321,365  214,006  321,365  214,006 
Minority Interests  -  -  (816) (582)
Income Items not Affecting Cash  661,833  743,793  767,204  800,999 
   Depreciation and Amortization  399,914  516,427  544,707  649,370 
   Losses with Accounts Receivable from Clients  92,863  77,743  119,833  95,680 
   Provision for Contingencies  151,710  115,243  159,028  122,491 
   Provisions for Pension Plans  32,668  11,707  32,668  11,707 
   Deferred Taxes  (57,509) (46,406) (88,093) (78,281)
   Income in Permanent Assets Write-off  (1,221) 448  (939) 32 
   Equity in Subsidiaries  43,408  68,631 

To be continued 

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... continued,

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  03/31/07  03/31/08  03/31/07 
Equity Changes  (467,617) (346,935) (551,362) (399,605)
   Trade Accounts Receivable  (131,695) (132,012) (151,315) (125,750)
   Inventories  411  990  (5,168) 15,080 
   Payroll, Social Charges and Benefits  (3,168) (140) 5,561  (2,320)
   Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses  44,030  107,437  29,809  33,396 
   Taxes  (164,059) (78,294) (160,483) (77,490)
   Financial Charges  (32,990) (38,421) (33,044) (38,813)
   Service Exploitation Licenses  16,421  16,841  29,837  25,346 
   Provisions for Contingencies  (51,339) (97,944) (55,660) (99,506)
   Provisions for Pension Plans  (77,775) (9,303) (77,775) (9,303)
   Other Assets and Liabilities Accounts  (67,453) (116,089) (133,124) (120,245)
Cash Flow from Operating Activities  515,581  610,864  536,391  614,818 
 
Investment Activities         
   Temporary Investments in Fixed Income Sovereign Bonds  (201,232) 89,409  (202,775) 89,389 
   Funds Obtained in the Sale of Permanent Assets  8,645  98  8,667  98 
   Escrow Deposits  (319,218) (119,661) (320,073) (120,060)
   Investments in Permanent Assets  (243,930) (757,936) (305,389) (378,019)
         Investments 
(18,420) (455,372) -  - 
         Fixed assets, Intangible assets and Deferred Charges  (225,510) (302,564) (305,389) (378,019)
Cash Flow from Investment Activities  (755,735) (788,090) (819,570) (408,592)
 
Financing Activities         
   Dividends/Interest on Shareholders’ Equity Paid in the  (617) (413) (617) (413)
   Loans and Financing  (105,578) (265,363) (5,578) (268,814)
       Loans Obtained  100,000 
       Loans Settled  (105,578) (265,363) (105,578) (268,814)
Cash Flow from Investment Activities  (106,195) (265,776) (6,195) (269,227)
 
 
Cash Flow for the Period  (346,349) (443,002) (289,374) (63,001)
 
 
Cash, Bank Accounts and High-Liquidity Investments:         
 
 Closing Balance  289,038  1,389,363  2,087,657  2,478,607 
 Initial Balance  635,387  1,832,365  2,377,031  2,541,608 
Variation for the Period  (346,349) (443,002) (289,374) (63,001)

Supplementary Cash Flow Information 

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  03/31/07  03/31/08  03/31/07 
   Income Tax and Social Contribution Paid  103,423  45,447  117,503  52,759 
   Interest Paid from Loans and Financing (Includes Debentures) 80,504  166,121  80,982  166,505 
   Variation between Economic and Financial Investment (Fixed Assets, Intangible Assets and Deferred Charges) 81,354  164,542  145,536  225,238 


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18. TEMPORARY INVESTMENTS

The Company has bonds issued by the Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), Spanish public entity, with pre-fixed remuneration. The maturity date of these securities will be 12.22.08, and the updated amount on the closing date of the quarter was R$ 201,232.

19. PUBLIC SECURITIES

Investments performed by BrT Celular in pre-fixed federal bonds represented by LTN (Treasury Bonds); maintained as a guarantee for taking part in bidding procedures of ANATEL, amounting the consolidated gross value of R$ 55,000 (R$53,573 on 12,31,07) on the quarter closing date, for which there is the reductive amount of R$ 79 (R$ 17 on 12.31.07), resulting from the hedge operation under swap interest modality, resulting in the net amount of R$ 54,921 (R$ 53,556 on 12.31.07) . Such bonds are released for immediate availability of the Subsidiary with the conclusion of the bidding process associated thereto.

20. TRADE ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE

The amounts related to accounts receivable are as follows:

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Billed Services  1,433,882  1,395,393  1,657,502  1,597,040 
Services to be Billed  870,281  854,214  908,847  892,448 
Sales of Goods  430  344  47,354  75,603 
Subtotal  2,304,593  2,249,951  2,613,703  2,565,091 
Provision for Doubtful Receivables  (333,921) (318,111) (392,519) (375,390)
   Services Rendered  (333,921) (318,111) (388,147) (370,799)
   Sales of Goods  (4,372) (4,591)
Total  1,970,672  1,931,840  2,221,184  2,189,701 
Due  1,495,110  1,466,023  1,694,269  1,681,551 
Past due:         
   01 to 30 days  367,615  363,174  402,866  390,471 
   31 to 60 days  118,237  108,731  137,796  125,924 
   61 to 90 days  72,634  73,764  85,203  87,161 
   91 to 120 days  53,818  49,743  63,136  61,219 
   More than 120 days  197,179  188,516  230,433  218,765 

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21. INVENTORIES

The maintenance and resale inventories, to which provisions are recorded for losses or adjustments to the forecast in which they must be realized, are composed as follows:

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Inventory for Resale (Cell Phones and Accessories) 58,619  53,532 
Maintenance Inventory  6,012  6,423  6,893  7,158 
Provision for the Adjustment to the Realization Value  (27,208) (27,554)
Provision for Potencial Losses  (285) (285) (425) (425)
Total  5,727  6,138  37,879  32,711 

22. LOANS AND FINANCING - ASSETS

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Loans and Financing  7,634  7,973  7,634  7,973 
Total  7,634  7,973  7,634  7,973 
Current  1,655  1,797  1,655  1,797 
Long-term  5,979  6,176  5,979  6,176 

Loans and financing credits refer to the transfer of financial resources to the company responsible for the production of phone directories, and result from the sale of fixed assets to other telephony companies. The variations of IGP-DI and IPA-OG/Industrial Products of Column 27 issued by Fundação Getulio Vargas – FGV are incurred.

23. DEFERRED AND RECOVERABLE TAXES

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Deferred Taxes  900,524  839,930  1,668,490  1,585,758 
Other Taxes Recoverable  600,535  459,677  813,890  657,060 
Total  1,501,059  1,299,607  2,482,380  2,242,818 
Current  764,642  571,274  1,003,353  790,791 
Long-term  736,417  728,333  1,479,027  1,452,027 

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Deferred taxes related to Corporate Income Tax And Social Contribution on Income

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Corporate Income Tax         
Deferred Income Tax on:         
 Tax Losses  513,865  498,803 
 Provisions for Contingencies  308,635  283,543  324,929  297,553 
 Provision for Pension Plan Actuarial Insufficiency Coverage  160,660  171,936  160,660  171,936 
 Provision for Doubtful Receivables  83,480  79,528  97,403  93,548 
 Interest on Shareholders’ Equity - Pro-Rata  39,353  39,353 
 ICMS - Agreements No. 69/98 and 78/01  23,625  35,509  28,337  39,820 
 Provision for Profit Sharing  3,849  13,658  4,705  16,092 
 Provision for Suspended Collection - FUST  16,081  14,673  21,490  19,027 
 Provision for Inventory Material Loss  8,181  7,930  11,344  10,606 
 Provision for Cofins/CPMF/INSS Suspended Collection  27,524  20,155  27,525  20,155 
 Provision for Losses - BIA  71  71 
 Other Provisions  8,367  8,780  14,590  16,358 
 Subtotal  679,755  635,712  1,244,272  1,183,969 
Social Contribution on Income         
Deferred Social Contribution on:         
 Negative Calculation Basis  187,209  181,382 
 Provisions for Contingencies  111,109  102,075  116,974  107,119 
 Provision for Pension Plan Actuarial Insufficiency Coverage  57,837  61,897  57,837  61,897 
 Provision for Doubtful Receivables  30,053  28,630  35,065  33,677 
 Interest on Shareholders’ Equity - Pro-Rata  14,167  14,167 
 Provision for Profit Sharing  1,645  5,599  1,953  6,476 
 Provision for Inventory Material Loss  2,945  2,855  4,084  3,818 
 ICMS Agreement No. 78/01  1,651  1,510 
 Provision for Losses - BIA  25  25 
 Other Provisions  3,013  3,162  5,253  5,885 
 Subtotal  220,769  204,218  424,218  401,789 
Total  900,524  839,930  1,668,490  1,585,758 
Current  317,607  276,544  376,516  336,508 
Long-term  582,917  563,386  1,291,974  1,249,250 

The following table shows the periods in which the deferred tax assets corresponding to income tax and social contribution on net income are expected to be realized, which are derived from temporary differences between book value on the accrual basis and the taxable income, as well as in the tax loss and in the negative basis of social contribution, when existing. The realization periods are based on a technical study that used forecast future taxable income, generated in fiscal years when the temporary differences will become deductible expenses for tax purposes. These assets are recorded in accordance with CVM Instruction 371/02 requirements, and at the closing of the fiscal years the technical study is submitted to the approval of the board of executive officers and the Board of Directors, as well as its examination by the finance committee.

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  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
2008  238,205  282,528 
2009  176,796  223,146 
2010  104,375  160,284 
2011  89,235  198,206 
2012  77,423  209,684 
2013 to 2015  102,344  471,041 
2016 to 2017  24,921  36,376 
2018 and following years  87,225  87,225 
Total  900,524  1,668,490 
Current  317,607  376,516 
Long-term  582,917  1,291,974 

The recoverable amount expected after 2017 is a result of a provision to cover an actuarial insufficiency of pension plans that is being settled according to the maximum remaining period of 13 years and 9 months, in line with the period established by the Supplementary Pension Department (“SPC”). Despite the time limit stipulated by the SPC and according to the estimated future taxable income, the Company presents conditions to fully offset the deferred taxes in a period lower than ten years, if it opts to fully anticipate the payment of the debt. Tax credits in the amount of R$140,544, to the Consolidated, were not recorded due to the nonexistence of necessary requirements for the history and/or future forecast of taxable income in VANT, BrT Multimídia, Freelance and BrT CS, companies controlled by the Company.

Other Taxes Recoverable

They are comprised of federal withholding taxes and payments made, calculated based on legal estimates, which will be offset against future tax obligations. The ICMS recoverable arises, for the most part, from credits recorded in the acquisition of fixed assets, whose compensation with ICMS payable may occur in up to 48 months, according to Supplementary Law 102/00,

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
ICMS  450,030  374,509  575,012  500,994 
PIS and COFINS  65,312  61,478  98,098  90,410 
Corporate Income Tax  68,733  20,580  119,715  56,468 
Social Contribution on Net Income  15,785  2,274  16,116  4,413 
Others  675  836  4,949  4,775 
Total  600,535  459,677  813,890  657,060 
Current  447,035  294,730  626,837  454,283 
Long-term  153,500  164,947  187,053  202,777 

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24. FIXED-INCOME SECURITIES

Represented by bank deposit certificates (CDB) of Banco de Brasília S.A. – BRB, remunerated with 94% and 97% of SELIC rate, maintained as guarantee of the financing obtained through Programa de Promoção do Desenvolvimento Econômico e Sustentável do Distrito Federal (Program to Promote Integrated Economic and Sustainable Development of the Federal District – PRÓ-DF). These income securities will be kept during the period of utilization and amortization of financing (liability), whose grace period establishes the first payment for year 2019, payable in 180 monthly, consecutive installments. This asset may be used to pay the final installments of that financing.

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Banco de Brasília S.A. - BRB - Bank Deposit Certificates  911  892  3,969  3,709 
Total  911  892  3,969  3,709 

25. ESCROW DEPOSITS

Balances of judicial deposits related to contingencies with level of possible and remote risk of loss.

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
Blocking by Nature of Liabilities  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Labor Claims  266,956  248,625  269,009  250,564 
Tax Suits  87,701  93,901  90,208  98,153 
Civil Suits  1,313,374  1,038,688  1,320,390  1,044,152 
Total  1,668,031  1,381,214  1,679,607  1,392,869 
Current  381,929  326,222  384,821  329,357 
Long-term  1,286,102  1,054,992  1,294,786  1,063,512 
The judicial deposits subject to liability provisions are shown on a deductive basis of such provisions. Refer to Notes No. 7 and No. 33. 

26. OTHER ASSETS

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Pension Funds – Future Outstanding Contributions(1) 71,476  74,476  71,476  74,476 
Tax Credits Acquired(2) 46,543  46,543  46,543  46,543 
Advances to Employees  26,425  31,424  31,829  36,541 
Advances to Suppliers  14,476  17,940  15,145  18,588 
Values Receivable from Other Telecommunications Companies  8,807  8,807  8,807  8,807 
Prepaid Expenses  66,005  44,874  124,172  57,405 
Compulsory Deposits  1,562  1,562  1,562  1,562 
Assets for Sale  1,333  1,280  1,333  1,280 
Others  21,801  13,125  33,862  25,183 
Total  258,428  240,031  334,729  270,385 
Current  173,252  151,098  244,105  175,529 
Long-term  85,176  88,933  90,624  94,856 
(1)Asset constituted to be used on the offset of future employer contributions to the supplementary pension – TCSPREV plan, as mentioned in note No. 6, 
(2)State Letters of Credit, acquired for the full payment of ICMS tax assessment notices issued in face of the Company. 

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27. INVESTMENTS

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Investments Carried Under the Equity in Subsidiaries  3,984,745  4,027,222  -  - 
     14 Brasil Telecom Celular S.A.  3,202,621  3,247,042 
     BrT Serviços de Internet S.A.  407,171  423,039 
     BrT Comunicação Multimídia Ltda.  195,541  189,692 
     Brasil Telecom Cabos Submarinos Ltda.  171,519  159,641 
     Vant Telecomunicações S.A .(1) 7,893  7,720 
     Brasil Telecom Call Center S.A.(2) 88 
Advances for Future Capital Increase  67,066  48,646  -  - 
     BrT Serviços de Internet S.A.  6,696  6,696 
     BrT Comunicação Multimídia Ltda.  27,130  27,130  -  - 
     Brasil Telecom Call Center S.A.  33,240  14,820 
Goodwill Paid on Acquisition of Investments, Net  23,913  29,431  139,017  156,835 
     MTH Ventures do Brasil Ltda.  23,913  29,431  23,913  29,431 
     iG Cayman Ltd.  83,299  95,011 
     IBEST Group  31,335  31,452 
     BrT Cabos Submarinos Group  470  941 
Interest Valued at Acquisition Cost  3,718  5,013  3,718  5,013 
Tax Incentives, Net of Provisions for Loss  13,460  19,166  13,460  19,166 
Other Investments  23  23  39  39 
Total  4,092,925  4,129,501  156,234  181,053 
(1) On March 31, 2007 VANT had the negative net equity in the amount of R$ 9,098, The Company held in that quarter a provision in the amount of the Subsidiary non-covered liabilities.
(2) On March 31, 2008 BrT Call Center had a negative net equity in the amount of R$ 932, with provision constituted in the amount of unsecured liabilities of the Company. 

The advances for future capital increase in favor of the subsidiaries were considered investments, for the purpose of statement, since the allocated investments are waiting for the formalization of the corporate acts of these companies to perform the respective capital increases.

Interest Valued Using the Equity Method of Accounting: the main data related to directly controlled companies are as follows:

  BrT Celular  BrTI  BrT CS 
03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Shareholders’ Equity  3,202,621  3,247,042  407,171  423,039  171,519  159,641 
Capital Stock  4,473,443  4,473,443  505,149  505,149  272,444  272,444 
Book Value per Outstanding Share/Quota (R$) 715.92  725.85  602.59  626.07  0.63  0.58 
Number of Shares/Quotas held by the Company 
       Common Shares  4,473,443  4,473,443  675,703  675,703 
       Quotas  272,443,966  272,443,966 
Ownership % in Subsidiary’s Capital Company’s Capital Stock 
       In Total Capital Stock  100%  100%  100%  100%  99.99%  99.99% 
       In Voting Capital  100%  100%  100%  100%  99.99%  99.99% 
 
  03/31/08  03/31/07  03/31/08  03/31/07  03/31/08  03/31/07 
Net Profit (Loss) in Period  (44,421) (52,459) (15,867) (17,821) 11,878  696 

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  BrT Multimídia  VANT  BrT-Call Center 
03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Shareholders’ Equity  217,669  211,158  7,893  7,720  (932) 88 
Capital Stock  414,233  414,233  141,512  141,512  400  400 
Book Value per Outstanding Share/Quota (R$) 0.53  0.56  0.06  0.05  (2,329.77) 220.00 
Number of Shares/Quotas held by the Company 
       Common Shares  141,511,999  141,512,000  134  134 
       Preferred Shares  266  266 
       Quotas  372,123,000  372,123,000 
Ownership % in Subsidiary’s Capital Company’s Capital Stock 
       In Total Capital Stock  89.83%  89.83%  100%  100%  100%  100% 
       In Voting Capital  89.83%  89.83%  100%  100%  100%  100% 
 
  03/31/08  03/31/07  03/31/08  03/31/07  03/31/08  03/31/07 
Net Profit (Loss) in Period  6,511  1,922  173  (751) (1,020)

On March 31, 2008 MTH had a net profit in the amount of R$ 1,618 relatively to the first quarter of that fiscal year. Later, on April 10, 2007 the Company incorporated MTH.

The equity in subsidiaries result is composed of the following values:

  Operating 
03/31/08  03/31/07 
14 Brasil Telecom Celular S.A.  (44,421) (52,459)
BrT Serviços de Internet S.A.  (15,867) (17,821)
Brasil Telecom Cabos Submarinos Ltda.  11,878  696 
MTH Ventures do Brasil Ltda.  1,618 
BrT Comunicação Multimídia Ltda.  5,849  86 
Vant Telecomunicações S.A.  173  (751)
Brasil Telecom Call Center S.A.  (1,020)
Total  (43,408) (68,631)

Equities Assessed by Acquisition Cost: correspond to shareholding obtained by converting shares or capital quotas of the tax incentive investments in the FINOR/FINAM regional programs, the Incentive Law for Information Technology Companies, and the Audiovisual Law. The amount is predominantly composed of shares of other telecommunications companies located in the regions covered by the regional incentives.

Fiscal Incentives: arise from investments in FINOR/FINAM and audiovisual funds, originated in the portions allocated to income tax due.

Other Investments: are related to collected cultural assets.

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28. PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

  COMPANY
Fixed Assets Type  Annual
 Depreciation
 Rates 
  03/31/08    12/31/07 
Cost  Depreciation
 Accumulated
Net Value  Net Value 
Works in Progress  231,493  231,493  256,484 
Public Switching Equipment  20%  4,989,957  (4,872,829) 117,128  133,824 
Equipment and Transmission Means  16,8%(1) 11,229,406  (9,893,959) 1,335,447  1,440,845 
Termination  20%  512,699  (471,736) 40,963  43,608 
Data Communication Equipment  20%  2,121,549  (1,446,807) 674,742  701,916 
Buildings  4,2%  921,754  (557,672) 364,082  370,932 
Infrastructure  8,7%(1) 3,633,178  (2,538,420) 1,094,758  1,142,326 
General Use Assets  18,5%(1) 914,877  (710,781) 204,096  210,897 
Lands  82,613  82,613  82,582 
Other Assets  66  66  66 
Total    24,637,592  (20,492,204) 4,145,388  4,383,480 
(1) Weighed annual average rate 

According to the STFC concession agreements, the Company’s assets that are indispensable to providing the service and qualified as “revertible assets” will be automatically reverted to ANATEL when the concession ends, and the Company will be entitled to indemnifications established in the legislation and in the respective agreements. The amount of reversible assets on the quarter closing date was R$ 21,683,683 for cost, with residual value of R$ 3,102,594,

  CONSOLIDATED 
Fixed Assets Type  Annual
 Depreciation
 Rates 
  03/31/08    12/31/07 
Cost  Depreciation
 Accumulated
Net Value  Net Value 
Works in Progress  325,651  325,651  460,354 
Public Switching Equipment  20%  5,189,967  (4,953,946) 236,021  227,183 
Equipment and Transmission Means  16,8%(1) 12,584,147  (10,652,073) 1,932,074  2,071,772 
Termination  20%  514,231  (472,433) 41,798  44,511 
Data Communication Equipment  20%  2,213,887  (1,503,782) 710,105  733,069 
Buildings  4,2%  960,836  (574,261) 386,575  392,040 
Infrastructure  8,7%(1) 3,902,471  (2,643,150) 1,259,321  1,310,936 
General Use Assets  18,5%(1) 1,179,619  (852,323) 327,296  338,874 
Lands  85,078  85,078  84,613 
Other Assets  66  66  66 
Total    26,955,953  (21,651,968) 5,303,985  5,663,418 
(1) Weighed annual average rate 

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Commercial Lease

Financial leasing contracts are kept for IT equipment, and the amounts paid as commercial lease are recorded in the account of operating expenses.

Considering the hypothesis of recognition of leased assets in the fixed assets, in consideration to the liabilities of installments payable, the balances calculated on the quarter closing date would be the following:

Property, Plant and Equipment

  COMPANY 
Fixed Assets Type  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Cost  Depreciation 
Accumulated
Net Value  Net Value 
General Use Assets  66,835  (44,735) 22,100  26,774 

  CONSOLIDATED 
Fixed Assets Type  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Cost  Depreciation 
Accumulated
Net Value  Net Value 
General Use Assets  68,582  (46,385) 22,197  27,016 

Obligations in Commercial Lease Agreements

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Financing  29,247  34,811  29,392  35,166 
Total  29,247  34,811  29,392  35,166 
Current  25,053  25,006  25,198  25,361 
Long-term  4,194  9,805  4,194  9,805 

The installments that form the long-term obligation are expected to become due in 2009.

The payment of the commercial lease contracts is subject to the DI-Over rate variation.

Insurances (not reviewed by the independent auditors)

The Company holds insurance policy program for covering revertible assets, loss of profits and contractual guarantees, as established in the Concession Agreement executed with the public power, and civil liability for telephony service operations.

The assets, liabilities and interests covered by insurance are:

Mode  Scope  Insured Value 
03/31/08  12/31/07 
Operating Risks  Buildings, machines and equipment, premises, call centers, towers, infrastructure and IT equipment  15,039,478  12,705,368 
Loss of Profits  Fixed expenses and net profit  8,955,588  8,669,400 
Contractual guarantees  Fulfillment of contractual obligations  94,601  89,405 
Civil Liability  Telephony service operations  12,000  12,000 

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There is also an insurance coverage related to civil liability of managers, supported by a policy of Brasil Telecom Participações S.A., related to the Holding Company and Company, which total value is equivalent to US$ 90,000,000,00 (ninety million American dollars).

There is no insurance coverage for the optional civil liability, related to casualties with vehicles of the Company, involving third parties.

29. INTANGIBLE ASSETS

  COMPANY 
  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Cost  Cumulated 
amortization 
 Net 
Value 
   Net 
Value 
Data Processing Systems  1,737,442  (1,265,196) 472,246  485,040 
Trademarks and Patents  392  (45) 347  348 
Others  53,158  (10,858) 42,300  42,262 
Total  1,790,992  (1,276,099) 514,893  527,650 
 

  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Cost  Cumulated 
amortization 
 Net 
Value 
   Net 
Value 
Data Processing Systems  2,254,419  (1,502,240) 752,179  746,182 
Regulatory Licenses  296,313  (76,718) 219,595  247,293 
Trademarks and Patents  652  (52) 600  601 
Others  98,587  (21,481) 77,106  55,484 
Total  2,649,971  (1,600,491) 1,049,480  1,049,560 

30. DEFERRED CHARGES

  COMPANY 
  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Cost  Cumulated 
amortization 
 Net 
Value 
   Net 
Value 
Installation And Reorganization Costs  70,202  (46,339) 23,863  23,625 
Others  13,971  (11,255) 2,716  3,295 
Total  84,173  (57,594) 26,579  26,920 
 

  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Cost  Cumulated 
amortization 
 Net 
Value 
   Net 
Value 
Installation And Reorganization Costs  304,605  (205,145) 99,460  107,657 
Others  13,971  (11,255) 2,716  3,295 
Total  318,576  (216,400) 102,176  110,952 

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31. PAYROLL AND RELATED ACCRUALS

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Salaries and Compensation  89  5,985  6,010 
Payroll Charges  55,795  57,113  80,251  72,834 
Benefits  3,083  3,373  3,540  3,837 
Others  5,604  7,253  6,156  7,690 
Total  64,571  67,739  95,932  90,371 

32. ACCOUNTS PAYABLE AND ACCRUED EXPENSES

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Suppliers  1,135,115  1,156,715  1,393,745  1,496,038 
Consignment in Favor of Third Parties  105,870  123,164  116,844  131,850 
Total  1,240,985  1,279,879  1,510,589  1,627,888 
Current  1,223,383  1,268,645  1,492,954  1,614,432 
Long-term  17,602  11,234  17,635  13,456 

33. INDIRECT TAXES

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
ICMS, net of Judicial Deposits of the Agreement No. 69/98  479,942  523,896  583,896  621,601 
   ICMS  600,440  713,736  704,718  811,743 
   Judicial Deposits referring to Agreement ICMS 69/98  (120,498) (189,840) (120,822) (190,142)
Taxes on Operating Revenue (COFINS and PIS) 161,042  139,973  184,310  161,587 
Others  39,600  39,541  63,394  60,711 
Total  680,584  703,410  831,600  843,899 
Current  562,858  617,163  699,756  746,216 
Long-term  117,726  86,247  131,844  97,683 

The balance referring to ICMS comprises amounts resulting from the Agreement no. 69/98, which has been questioned in Court, and court deposits have been monthly made. It also includes the ICMS deferral, based on incentives by the government of the State of Paraná.

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34. TAXES ON INCOME

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Corporate Income Tax         
Payable Due  147,137  94,652  152,776  99,779 
Law 8,200/91 - Special Monetary Restatement  5,368  5,492  5,368  5,492 
Subtotal  152,505  100,144  158,144  105,271 
Social Contribution on Income         
Payable Due  47,989  28,254  49,791  30,015 
Law 8,200/91 - Special Monetary Restatement  1,932  1,977  1,932  1,976 
Subtotal  49,921  30,231  51,723  31,991 
Total  202,426  130,375  209,867  137,262 
Current  139,377  68,260  146,278  74,628 
Long-term  63,049  62,115  63,589  62,634 

35. DIVIDENDS/INTEREST ON SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY AND PROFIT SHARING

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Controller Shareholders  614,339  474,246  614,339  474,246 
 Dividends/Interest on Shareholders’ Equity  674,423  509,608  674,423  509,608 
 Withholding Income Tax on Interests on Shareholders’ Equity  (60,084) (35,362) (60,084) (35,362)
Minority Interests  359,975  290,595  359,975  290,595 
 Dividends/Interest on Shareholders’ Equity  328,000  247,815  328,000  247,815 
 Withholding Income Tax on Interests on Shareholders’ Equity  (27,386) (17,198) (27,386) (17,198)
 Unclaimed Dividends of Previous Years  59,361  59,978  59,361  59,978 
Total Shareholders  974,314  764,841  974,314  764,841 
Employees and Management Profit Sharing  18,361  67,906  24,104  81,328 
Total  992,675  832,747  998,418  846,169 

36. LOANS AND FINANCING

(Includes Debentures)

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Financing  4,110,732  4,264,694  4,230,589  4,284,543 
Accrued Interest and Other on Financing  113,201  98,386  113,674  98,860 
Total  4,223,933  4,363,080  4,344,263  4,383,403 
Current  513,690  496,301  514,163  496,775 
Long-term  3,710,243  3,866,779  3,830,100  3,886,628 

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Financing

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
BNDES  2,146,475  2,206,917  2,246,838  2,206,917 
   Domestic Currency  2,059,446  2,112,204  2,159,809  2,112,204 
   Basket of Currencies, including dollar  87,029  94,713  87,029  94,713 
Financial Institutions  958,143  1,065,830  978,110  1,086,153 
   Domestic Currency  29,505  32,183  49,472  52,506 
   Domestic Currency  928,638  1,033,647  928,638  1,033,647 
Public Debentures  1,118,158  1,088,956  1,118,158  1,088,956 
Suppliers - Foreign Currency  1,157  1,377  1,157  1,377 
Total  4,223,933  4,363,080  4,344,263  4,383,403 
Current  513,690  496,301  514,163  496,775 
Long-term  3,710,243  3,866,779  3,830,100  3,886,628 

Financing denominated in domestic currency: bear of (i) fixed interest of 2.4% per year to 11.5% per year, resulting in a weighed average rate of 6.71% per year; and (ii) variable interest based on TJLP plus 2.3% to 5.5% per year, UMBNDES plus 5.5% per year, 104% of CDI, resulting in a weighed average rate of 11.25% per year.

Financing denominated in foreign currency: bear of (i) fixed interest of 1.75% to 9.38% per year, resulting in a weighed average rate of 9.35% per year, and (ii) variable interest of 0.5% above LIBOR and 1.92% per year above YEN LIBOR, resulting in a weighed average rate of 3.01% per year. LIBOR and YEN LIBOR rates on 03.31.08, for half-yearly payments, were 3.19% per year and 1.03% per year, respectively.

Public Debentures:

Forth Public Issue: 108,000 debentures not convertible into shares without renegotiation clause, for the unit face value of R$10, amounting to R$1,080,000 on July 1, 2006. The payment term is seven years, maturing on June 1, 2013. The remuneration corresponds to the interest rate of 104,0% of CDI and its payment periodicity is semiannual. Amortization, which shall indistinctly consider all debentures, will occur annually as from June 1, 2011, in three installments of 33.3%, 33.3% and 33.4% of the unit face value, respectively. On the quarter closing date there were no issuance debentures in Treasury.

Payment schedule

The long-term debt is scheduled to be paid in the following fiscal years:

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
2009  450,558  608,463  450,558  608,463 
2010  723,227  719,714  726,799  719,714 
2011  780,367  778,469  794,654  778,469 
2012  641,130  640,969  655,417  640,969 
2013  641,886  641,720  656,173  641,720 
2014  466,940  471,309  481,227  471,309 
2015 and following years  6,135  6,135  65,272  25,984 
Total  3,710,243  3,866,779  3,830,100  3,886,628 

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Currency/index debt composition

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
Updated by  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
TJLP (Long-Term Interest Rate) 2,059,445  2,112,204  2,159,809  2,112,204 
CDI  1,118,158  1,088,956  1,118,158  1,088,956 
US dollars  375,945  394,979  375,945  394,979 
Yens  227,646  241,933  227,646  241,933 
Debt Hedge on the Debt in Yens  326,205  398,112  326,205  398,112 
UMBNDES - BNDES Basket of Currency  87,029  94,713  87,029  94,713 
IGP-DI  6,172  6,276  26,138  26,599 
Others  23,333  25,907  23,333  25,907 
Total  4,223,933  4,363,080  4,344,263  4,383,403 

Guarantees

Certain loans and financing contracted are guaranteed by collateral of pledge of credit rights derived from the provision of fixed telephony services and the Parent Company’s surety.

The Company maintains hedge contracts executed with third parties are kept over 60.9% of these obligations in American dollars and yens, aiming at protecting from meaningful oscillations in quotations of these debit correcting factors. On 12.31.08, taking into account the hedge operations and foreign currency investments, the Company had an effective exposure of 8.0% (3.6% on 12.31.07) . The gains and losses on these contracts are recognized on the accrual basis.

Public debentures have personal guarantee, through surety granted by Brasil Telecom Participações S.A. According to the deed of issue, the Parent Company, in the capacity as intervening guarantor undertakes before the debenture holders as primary obligor and guarantor, to be jointly liable for all obligations assumed by the Subsidiary related to its debentures.

BrT Celular Financial Contractual Obligation with BNDES

BrT Celular entered into with Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico – BNDES, on February 19, 2008 the contracting of financing in the amount of R$ 259,100 to be used in the expansion and modernization of the mobile phone network (personal mobile service) by 2009. The financing shall have the total term of nine years and six months, with a thirty months grace period, from which period the payment in eighty four installments shall begin. The duties regarding such financing are associated to the TJLP variation, plus 3.52% a year. From the amount under contract, the capitation of R$ 100,000 has been effected in the present quarter, and the supplementary part of financial inputs is expected to occur by the end of the fiscal year of 2009, This obligation is guaranteed by cession and binding of receivables resulting from the revenue of the Parent Company, as well as guarantee from the same.

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37. SERVICE EXPLOITATION LICENSES

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Personal Mobile Service  255,012  242,162 
STFC concession  16,421  16,421 
Other Licenses  11,879  11,314 
Total  16,421  283,312  253,476 
Current  16,421  99,967  78,844 
Long-term  183,345  174,632 

The licenses for Personal Mobile Services are represented by the terms signed, in 2002 and 2004, by the subsidiary 14 Brasil Telecom Celular S.A. with ANATEL, to offer SMP Services for the next fifteen years in the same area of operation where the Company has a concession for fixed telephony. Out of the contracted value, 10% was paid at the time of signing the contract, and the remaining balance was fully recognized in the Subsidiary’s liabilities to be paid in equal, consecutive annual installments, with maturities foreseen for the years 2008 to 2010 (balance of three installments), and 2008 to 2012 (balance of five installments), depending on the fiscal year when the agreements were executed. The remaining balance is adjusted by the variation of IGP-DI, plus 1% per month.

The STFC concession relates to the provision constituted on an accrual basis, based on the application of 1% upon the taxes net revenue. According to the concession agreement in force, the payment in favor of ANATEL becomes due at each two-year period, set up for April of odd years and equivalent to 2% of net revenue verified in the previous fiscal year. The next payment to be carried out is expected to occur in 2009,

The amount of other licenses pertains to BrT Multimídia and refers to the authorization granted to the use of radiofrequency blocks associated with the exploitation of multimedia communication services. Upon such obligation, variation of IGP-DI added by 1% per month applies. The settlement of the balance of such obligation will be paid in four equal, consecutive and annual installments, falling due in May.

38. PROVISIONS FOR PENSION PLANS

They refer to the recognition of the actuarial deficit of the pension plans of defined benefit managed by FBrTPREV and the pension plan managed by the Company appraised by independent actuaries in accordance with CVM Resolution 371/00. Such sponsored plans are detailed in Note 6.

     
  COMPANY AND  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07 
FBrTPREV - BrTPREV Alternativo and Fundador Plans  640,456  685,668 
PAMEC Plan  2,182  2,077 
Total  642,638  687,745 
Current  56,254  101,467 
Long-term  586,384  586,278 

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39. ADVANCES FROM CLIENTS

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Telecommunications Means Assignment  6,240  6,691  88,604  91,273 
Prepaid Services  52,377  42,877 
Advances from Clients  441  847  881  940 
Total  6,681  7,538  141,862  135,090 
Current  1,432  2,065  71,992  62,957 
Long-term  5,249  5,473  69,870  72,133 

The long-term balance refers to the assignment agreements of telecommunications means, for which the clients made advances aimed at obtaining benefits for a more extensive period, with realization to occur in the following years.

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
2009  654  879  6,107  7,920 
2010  879  879  7,732  7,770 
2011  879  879  7,680  7,718 
2012  879  879  7,457  7,496 
2013  879  879  7,200  7,238 
2014  230  230  6,551  6,589 
2015  162  162  6,483  6,521 
2016 and following years  687  686  20,660  20,881 
Total  5,249  5,473  69,870  72,133 

40. OTHER LIABILITIES

     
  COMPANY  CONSOLIDATED 
  03/31/08  12/31/07  03/31/08  12/31/07 
Self-Financing Funds - Rio Grande do Sul Branch  24,143  24,143  24,143  24,143 
Bank Credits and Repeater Receivables under Processing  13,859  10,359  16,362  12,293 
Liabilities from Acquisition of Tax Credits  6,107  7,053  6,107  7,053 
Liabilities resulting from Grouping of Shares  5,920  5,842  5,920  5,842 
Bonuses and Premiums - Next Periods  3,022  3,249  6,308  3,249 
CPMF - Suspended Collection  2,451  2,421  2,451  2,421 
Other Taxes  1,783  1,987  12,808  11,332 
Liabilities with Other Telecommunications Companies(1) 25,792  1,616  2,208  1,616 
Self-Financing Installments Reimbursement - PCT-  605  608  605  608 
Others  12,074  11,855  15,443  16,816 
Total  95,756  69,133  92,355  85,373 
Current  81,043  55,007  71,900  68,153 
Long-term  14,713  14,126  20,455  17,220 
(1) It includes R$ 23,584 owed to BrT Celular, resulting from operating transactions. 

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Self-financing funds - Rio Grande do Sul branch

They correspond to the credits of capital participation, paid by engaged subscribers, for acquisition of the right of use of switched fixed telephone service, still under the elapsed self-financing modality. It happened that, as the shareholders of the Company had fully subscribed the capital increase made to repay in shares the credits for capital participation, there were no unsold shares to be delivered to the engaged subscribers. Part of these engaged subscribers, who did not accept the Company’s Public Offering for return of the referred credits in cash, as established in article 171, paragraph 2, of Law 6,404/76, are awaiting resolution of the ongoing lawsuit, filed by the Public Prosecution Service and Other, aiming at reimbursement in shares.

41. FUNDS FOR CAPITALIZATION

The expansion plans (self-financing) were the means by which the telecommunications companies financed part of the network investments. With the issue of Administrative Rule No. 261/97 by the Ministry of Communications, this mechanism for raising funds was eliminated, and the existing amount of R$7,974 (R$7,974 on 12.31.07) derives from plans sold prior to the issue of the Administrative Rule, the corresponding assets to which are already incorporated in the Company’s fixed assets through the Community Telephony Plant – PCT. For reimbursement in shares, it is necessary to await the judicial ruling on the suits brought by the interested parties.

42. INFORMATION PER BUSINESS SEGMENT - CONSOLIDATED

Information per segments is presented in relation to the Company and its subsidiaries’ business, which was identified based on their performance and management structure, as well as the internal management information.

The operations carried out among the business segments presented were based on conditions equivalent to the market.

The income by segment, as well as the equity items presented, takes into consideration the items directly attributable to the segment, also taking into account those which can be allocated on reasonable basis.

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  03/31/08 
Fixed Telephony 
and Data 
Communications 
Mobile 
Telephony 
Internet  Call 
Center
Inter- 
Segment
 
Eliminations
Consolidated 
Gross Operating Revenue  3,560,179  576,749  112,079  52,827  (265,776) 4,036,058 
Deductions from Gross Revenue  (1,102,184) (150,687) (16,752) (5,325) 870  (1,274,078)
Net Operating Income  2,457,995  426,062  95,327  47,502  (264,906) 2,761,980 
Costs of Services Rendered and Goods Sold  (1,311,082) (374,170) (13,193) (46,362) 189,059  (1,555,748)
Gross Income  1,146,913  51,892  82,134  1,140  (75,847) 1,206,232 
 
Operating Expenses, Net  (669,345) (144,596) (94,730) (2,293) 76,076  (834,888)
 Sales of Services  (269,966) (117,584) (65,666) (1) 88,235  (364,982)
 General and Administrative Expenses  (302,330) (33,011) (19,041) (2,380) 6,377  (350,385)
 Other Operating Revenue (Expenses) (97,049) 5,999  (10,023) 88  (18,536) (119,521)
 
Operating Income (Loss) Before Financial Revenues (Expenses) 477,568  (92,704) (12,596) (1,153) 229  371,344 
 
 
Trade Accounts Receivable  2,088,090  161,123  100,386  34,281  (162,696) 2,221,184 
Inventories  5,754  32,125  -  -  -  37,879 
Fixed and Intangible Assets, Net  4,988,218  1,308,348  56,899  -  -  6,353,465 
 
  03/31/07 
Fixed Telephony 
and Data 
Communications 
Mobile 
Telephony 
Internet  Call 
Center
Inter- 
Segment
 
Eliminations
Consolidated 
Gross Operating Revenue  3,456,227  541,285  95,873  -  (196,311) 3,897,074 
Deductions from Gross Revenue  (1,037,520) (156,323) (14,090) -  1,716  (1,206,217)
Net Operating Income  2,418,707  384,962  81,783  -  (194,595) 2,690,857 
Costs of Services Rendered and Goods Sold  (1,418,105) (352,058) (13,769) -  171,667  (1,612,265)
Gross Income  1,000,602  32,904  68,014  -  (22,928) 1,078,592 
 
Operating Expenses, Net  (583,905) (123,055) (87,737) -  23,033  (771,664)
 Sales of Services  (235,799) (104,016) (59,872) 31,063  (368,624)
 General and Administrative Expenses  (276,943) (29,426) (15,374) 5,870  (315,873)
 Other Operating Revenue (Expenses) (71,163) 10,387  (12,491) (13,900) (87,167)
 
Operating Income (Loss) Before Financial Revenues (Expenses) 416,697  (90,151) (19,723) -  105  306,928 
 
  12/31/07 
Fixed Telephony 
and Data 
Communications 
Mobile 
Telephony 
Internet  Call 
Center
Inter- 
Segment
 
Eliminations
Consolidated 
Trade Accounts Receivable  2,033,133  194,556  110,223  22,151  (170,362) 2,189,701 
Inventories  6,165  26,546  -  -  -  32,711 
Fixed and Intangible Assets, Net  5,254,440  1,399,206  59,332  -  -  6,712,978 

 

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         01131-2    BRASIL TELECOM S.A.    76.535.764/0001-43 
 
 
 
05.01 – COMMENTS ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE OF THE COMPANY IN THE QUARTER 
 

See to Comments about Consolidated Performance

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06.01 – BALANCE SHEET – CONSOLIDATED ASSETS (IN THOUSAND OF REAIS)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 03/31/2008  4 - 12/31/2007 
Total Assets  15,723,067  15,575,736 
1,01  Current Assets  6,236,807  5,950,473 
1,01,01  Cash and Cash Equivalents  2,087,657  2,377,031 
1,01,01,01  Cash and Bank Accounts  65,421  314,330 
1,01,01,02  High-Liquidity Investments  2,022,236  2,062,701 
1,01,02  Credits  2,221,184  2,189,701 
1,01,02,01  Clients  2,221,184  2,189,701 
1,01,02,02  Sundry Credits 
1,01,03  Inventories  37,879  32,711 
1,01,04  Others  1,890,087  1,351,030 
1,01,04,01  Loans and Financing  1,655  1,797 
1,01,04,02  Deferred and Recoverable Taxes  1,003,353  790,791 
1,01,04,03  Escrow Deposits  384,821  329,357 
1,01,04,04  Temporary Investments  201,232 
1,01,04,05  Government Bonds  54,921  53,556 
1,01,04,06  Other Assets  244,105  175,529 
1,02  Non-Current Assets  9,486,260  9,625,263 
1,02,01  Long-Term Assets  2,874,385  2,620,280 
1,02,01,01  Sundry Credits 
1,02,01,02  Credits with Related Parties 
1,02,01,02,01  From Direct and Indirect Associated Companies 
1,02,01,02,02  From Subsidiaries 
1,02,01,02,03  From Other Related Parties 
1,02,01,03  Others  2,874,385  2,620,280 
1,02,01,03,01  Loans and Financing  5,979  6,176 
1,02,01,03,02  Deferred and Recoverable Taxes  1,479,027  1,452,027 
1,02,01,03,03  Fixed-Income Securities  3,969  3,709 
1,02,01,03,04  Escrow Deposits  1,294,786  1,063,512 
1,02,01,03,05  Inventories 
1,02,01,03,06  Other Assets  90,624  94,856 
1,02,02  Permanent Assets  6,611,875  7,004,983 
1,02,02,01  Investments  156,234  181,053 
1,02,02,01,01  Direct and Indirect Associated Companies 
1,02,02,01,02  Direct and Indirect Associated Companies - Goodwill 
1,02,02,01,03  Subsidiaries 
1,02,02,01,04  Subsidiaries - Goodwill  139,017  156,835 
1,02,02,01,05  Other Investments  17,213  24,214 
1,02,02,02  Property, Plant and Equipment  5,303,985  5,663,418 
1,02,02,03  Intangible Assets  1,049,480  1,049,560 
1,02,02,04  Deferred Charges  102,176  110,952 

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06.02 - BALANCE SHEET - CONSOLIDATED LIABILITIES (IN THOUSAND OF REAIS)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 03/31/2008  4 - 12/31/2007 
Total Liabilities  15,723,067  15,575,736 
2,01  Current Liabilities  4,448,922  4,377,469 
2,01,01  Loans and Financing  476,005  487,819 
2,01,02  Debentures  38,158  8,956 
2,01,03  Suppliers  1,376,110  1,482,582 
2,01,04  Taxes, Duties and Contributions  846,034  820,844 
2,01,04,01  Indirect Taxes  699,756  746,216 
2,01,04,02  Taxes on Income  146,278  74,628 
2,01,05  Dividends Payable  974,314  764,841 
2,01,06  Provisions  257,562  298,924 
2,01,06,01  Provisions for Contingencies  201,308  197,457 
2,01,06,02  Provisions for Pension Plans  56,254  101,467 
2,01,07  Debts with Related Parties 
2,01,08  Others  480,739  513,503 
2,01,08,01  Payroll and Related Acruals  95,932  90,371 
2,01,08,02  Consignment in Favor of Third Parties  116,844  131,850 
2,01,08,03  Profit Sharing  24,104  81,328 
2,01,08,04  Service Exploitation Licenses  99,967  78,844 
2,01,08,05  Advances from Clients  71,992  62,957 
2,01,08,06  Other Liabilities  71,900  68,153 
2,02  Non-Current Liabilities  5,612,564  5,613,866 
2,02,01  Long-Term Liabilities  5,612,564  5,613,866 
2,02,01,01  Loans and Financing  2,750,100  2,806,628 
2,02,01,02  Debentures  1,080,000  1,080,000 
2,02,01,03  Provisions  1,287,752  1,281,506 
2,02,01,03,01  Provisions for Contingencies  701,368  695,228 
2,02,01,03,02  Provisions for Pension Plans  586,384  586,278 
2,02,01,04  Debts with Related Parties 
2,02,01,05  Advance for Future Capital Increase 
2,02,01,06  Others  494,712  445,732 
2,02,01,06,01  Suppliers  17,635  13,456 
2,02,01,06,02  Indirect Taxes  131,844  97,683 
2,02,01,06,03  Taxes on Income  63,589  62,634 
2,02,01,06,04  Service Exploitation Licenses  183,345  174,632 
2,02,01,06,05  Advances from Clients  69,870  72,133 
2,02,01,06,06  Other Liabilities  20,455  17,220 
2,02,01,06,07  Funds for Capitalization  7,974  7,974 
2,02,02  Deferred Income 
2,03  Minority Interest  7,581  8,510 
2,04  Shareholders’ Equity  5,654,000  5,575,891 
2,04,01  Paid Up Capital Stock  3,470,758  3,470,758 

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1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 -31/03/2008  4 -31/12/2007 
2,04,02  Capital Reserves  1,329,671  1,327,927 
2,04,02,01  Goodwill on Share Subscription  358,862  358,862 
2,04,02,02  Donations and Fiscal Incentives for Investments  123,558  123,558 
2,04,02,03  Interest on Works in Progress  745,756  745,756 
2,04,02,04  Special Monetary Correction - Law 8200/91  31,287  31,287 
2,04,02,05  Other Capital Reserves  70,208  68,464 
2,04,03  Revaluation Reserves 
2,04,03,01  Owned Assets 
2,04,03,02  Subsidiaries/Direct and Inidirect Associated Companies
2,04,04  Revenue Reserves  349,155  349,155 
2,04,04,01  Legal  349,155  349,155 
2,04,04,02  Statutory 
2,04,04,03  For Contingencies 
2,04,04,04  From Profits to Realize 
2,04,04,05  Profit Retention 
2,04,04,06  Special Reserve for Undistributed Dividends 
2,04,04,07  Other Profit Reserves 
2,04,05  Retained Earnings/Accumulated Deficit  504,416  428,051 
2,04,06  Advance for Future Capital Increase 

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07.01 - CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF INCOME (IN THOUSANDS OF REAIS)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 01,01,08 to 03,31,08  4 - 01,01,08 to 03,31,08  5 - 01,01,07 to 03,31,07  6 - 01,01,07 to 03,31,07 
3,01  Gross Revenue from Sales and/or Services  4,036,058  4,036,058  3,897,074  3,897,074 
3,02  Deductions from Gross Revenue  (1,274,078) (1,274,078) (1,206,217) (1,206,217)
3,03  Net Revenue from Sales and/or Services  2,761,980  2,761,980  2,690,857  2,690,857 
3,04  Cost of Goods and/or Services Sold  (1,555,748) (1,555,748) (1,612,265) (1,612,265)
3,05  Gross Profit  1,206,232  1,206,232  1,078,592  1,078,592 
3,06  Operating Expenses/Revenues  (1,082,092) (1,082,092) (1,116,533) (1,116,533)
3,06,01  Selling Expenses  (364,982) (364,982) (368,624) (368,624)
3,06,02  General and Administrative Expenses  (350,385) (350,385) (315,873) (315,873)
3,06,03  Financial  (247,204) (247,204) (344,869) (344,869)
3,06,03,01  Financial Income  175,248  175,248  107,401  107,401 
3,06,03,02  Financial Expenses  (422,452) (422,452) (452,270) (452,270)
3,06,04  Other Operating Income  146,097  146,097  113,773  113,773 
3,06,05  Other Operating Expenses  (265,618) (265,618) (200,940) (200,940)
3,06,06  Equity Income 
3,07  Operating Income  124,140  124,140  (37,941) (37,941)
3,08  Non-Operating Income  2,677  2,677  3,410  3,410 
3,08,01  Revenues  45,250  45,250  23,290  23,290 
3,08,02  Expenses  (42,573) (42,573) (19,880) (19,880)
3,09  Income Before Tax and Minority Interests  126,817  126,817  (34,531) (34,531)
3,10  Provision for Income and Social Contribution  (139,361) (139,361) (75,326) (75,326)
3,11  Deferred Income Tax  88,093  88,093  78,281  78,281 
3,12  Statutory Interest/Contributions 
3,12,01  Interests 
3,12,02  Contributions 
3,13  Reversal of Interest on Shareholders’ Equity  245,000  245,000  245,000  245,000 
3,14  Minority Interest  816  816  582  582 
3,15  Income (Loss) for the Period  321,365  321,365  214,006  214,006 

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07.01 - CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF INCOME (IN THOUSANDS OF REAIS)

1 - CODE  2 - DESCRIPTION  3 - 01,01,08 to 03,31,08  4 - 01,01,08 to 03,31,08  5 - 01,01,07 to 03,31,07  6 - 01,01,07 to 03,31,07 
  NUMBER OF OUTSTANDING SHARES, EX-TREASURY (UNITS) 547,377,766  547,377,766  547,272,190,399  547,272,190,399 
  EARNINGS PER SHARE (REAIS) 0.58710  0.58710  0.00039  0.00039 
  LOSS PER SHARE (REAIS)        

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         01131-2    BRASIL TELECOM S.A.    76.535.764/0001-43 
 
 
 
08.01 – COMMENTS ABOUT CONSOLIDATED PERFORMANCE IN THE QUARTER 
 

PERFORMANCE REPORT – 1st QUARTER 2008

The performance report provides consolidated figures for Brasil Telecom S.A. and its subsidiaries, mentioned
in the explanation note No. 1 of this Quarterly Information.

OPERATING PERFORMANCE (not reviewed by the independent auditors)

Fixed Telephony

Plant

       
Operational Data  IT08  4T07  IT08/4T07 
      (%)
       
Installed Lines (1,000) 10,380  10,376  0.0 
Additional Installed Lines (1,000) 4  8  -57.3 
       
Lines in Service - LES (1,000) 8,036  8,034  0.0 
Home  5,435  5,420  0.3 
No-Home  1,237  1,228  0.7 
Public Telephones - TUP  280  282  -0.5 
- Hybrid Terminals  412  441  -6.6 
Others (includes PABX) 672  663  1.3 
Added Lines in Service (1,000) 2  (30) N.A. 
       
Active Lines - LES (-) Blocked Lines  7,826  7,846  -0.3 
       
Blocked Lines  211  189  12.2 
       
Medium Lines in Service - LMES (1,000) 8,035  8,049  -0.3 
       
LES/100-inhabitants  18.2  18.2  0.0 
TUP/1,000-inhabitants  6.3  6.4  -0.5 
TUP/100-Installed Lines  2.7  2.7  -0.6 
       
Utilization Rate  77.4%  77.4%  0.0 p.p. 
       

With the objective of obtaining the client’s loyalty, Brasil Telecom has launched the packages Pluri, which allow the client integrating fixed phone, mobile phone and broadband services.

To expand telephony through lower consumer segments, Brasil Telecom kept on encouraging the plan Controle Total, the prepaid plan of fixed phone, whose offer is made by direct approach in areas with technical availability. By the end of IT08, 113 thousand clients had already adhered to the plan Controle among which 43% had never had fixed telephone.

In the IT08, Brasil Telecom has reached 3.6 million lines in local alternate plans of fixed phones and 845.1 lines in alternate plans for long distance calls. By the end of 1T08, the participation in local alternate plans reached 44.8% of the lines base in services as a result of the strategy of approaching the market in a more segmented form.

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Traffic

       
Operational Data  IT08  4T07  IT08/4T07 
      (%)
       
Exceeding Pulses (million) -  -  N.A. 
       
Exceeding Minutes (million) 2,434  2,631  -7.5 
       
VC-1 (million minutes) 671  718  -6.6 
       
Minutes Long Distance (million) 1,357  1,377  -1.4 
       
         Long Distance  992  1,060  0.8 
       
         VC-2  207  178  -1.5 
       
         VC-3  158  139  -14.7 
       
 
       
Traffic - Indicators  IT08  4T07  IT08/4T07 
      (%)
       
Exceeding Pulses/LES/Month  -  -  N.A. 
       
Exceeding Minutes/LES/Month  101  109  -7.4 
       
Minutes/LDN/LMES/Month  56  57  -1.2 
       
Minutes Mobile Fixed/LMES/Month  43  43  0.3 
       

Local Pulses and Exceeding Minutes

The reduction in traffic in relation to IT07 was influenced by the lower number of working days of IT08 and by the reduction of 3.8% in the average lines in service in the period.

VC-1

VC-1 traffic totaled 670.8 million minutes in 1T08, 3.1% lower than 1T07, in function of the fixed-mobile replacement.

Long Distance Traffic

The reduction of 5.6% in the long distance traffic in 1T08 in comparison to 1T07 was partially offset by the increase in traffics VC-2 and VC-3, due to some products of added-value (i.e. the partnership with Big Brother Brasil).

LD Market Share

In 1T08, Brasil Telecom held its leadership position and achieved an average market share of 84.6% in intra-regional segment. In the intra-sectorial segment, Brasil Telecom achieved 89.7% of market share. Brasil Telecom reached 64.3% of market share in inter-regional segment and increased in 1T08, 0.2 p.p. in the international segment, reaching 38.8% of market share.

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Mobile Telephony

       
Operational Data IT08 4T07 IT08/4T07
      (%)
       
Clients (1,000) 4,578  4,263  7.4 
 Post-paid  830  856  -3.1 
 Prepaid  3,748  3,407  10.0 
Net Additions (1,000) 315  239  31.8 
 Post-paid  (26) (1) 2,408.0 
 Prepaid  341  240  42.3 
Gross Additions (1,000) 669  837  -20.1 
 Post-paid  75.1  96  -22.1 
 Prepaid  594  741  -19.8 
Cancellations  354  598  -41.0 
 Post-paid  101  97  4.5 
 Prepaid  253  501  -49.6 
Prepaid Annual Churn  32.0 %  57.8 %  -25.7 p.p. 
 Post-paid  48.2 %  45.5 %  2.7 p.p. 
 Prepaid  28.2 %  61.0 %  -32.7 p.p. 
Client acquisition Cost (SAC - R$) 67.7  82.7  -18.2 
Assisted Locations  873  873  0.0 
% of Population  88%  87%  0.8 p.p. 
Coverage Cell Sites (ERBs) 2,645  2,642  0.1 
Commutation and Control Centers (CCC) 11  11  0.0 
Employees  628  616  1.9 
       

Mobile Accesses

Mobile telephony reached 4,577.6 accesses in service, which represented net addition of 314.9 accesses in 1T08, By the end of 1T08, the portfolio of clients of BrT Móvel was 25.8% greater than that of 1T07.

By the end of 1T08, the mobile plant was comprised by 829.3 thousand post-paid subscribers (18.1% of BrT Móvel client base) and 3,748.2 thousand prepaid clients. The reduction of 14.2% in the post-paid clients base in 1T08 is mainly due to the migration of clients from the hybrid plan to the pre-paid plan.

Gross additions in 1T08 were 668.9 thousand accesses, 49.6% over 1T07. This result reflects the success of the plans and promotions offered by BrT Móvel and the capillarity increase of the points of sale.

BrT Móvel has maintained the strategy of growth with profitability and assisting the practices of the market in a balanced way. The cost of acquisition of the client (SAC) of BrT Móvel was R$ 77.6, 20.6% lower in comparison to those obtained at 1T07, due to the reduction of 51.0% in subsidies in function of the shorter addition of post-paid in relation to the pre-paid ones.

The market share of BrT Móvel in Region II was 13.7% by the end of 1T08, 0.8% p.p. over 1T07, BrT Móvel has maintained its third position in the market share in the Federal District and the GO,. TO, MT, AC and RO.

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DATA

Broadband

       
Operational Data  IT08  4T07  IT08/4T07 
      (%)
       
ADSL Accesses (1,000) 1,637  1,568  4.4 
 Net Additions (1,000) 70  45  55.6 
 ADSL penetration (%) 20.4%  19.5%  4.6 p.p. 
       

Throughout 1T08, Brasil Telecom added 69.5 thousand ADSL accesses to its plant, totaling 1,637.3 thousand accesses in service by the end of 1T08, with an increase of 18.3% when compared to 1T07, ADSL (ADSL/LES) penetration in 1T08 reached 20.4%, against 16.7% in 1T07, In continuity to the expansion of the broadband network, Brasil Telecom has reached 80% of the cities with ADSL coverage, the biggest rate among expressive carriers.

Internet Providers

The Internet Group, Internet unit at Brasil Telecom that comprises the activities of iG, iBest and BrTurbo providers, is the 2nd top broadband provider in the Brazilian market, with 1.3 million clients, representing an increase of 16.2% when compared to the same period in the previous year.

Internet Group also has 4 million clients in dial-up access, in addition to be the 4th top Brazilian portal in audience, with more than 12.1 million home unique visitors per month (source. IBOPE – Mar/08). Considering the iG and BrTurbo subscribers, the group maintains the market leadership in Region II.

ECONOMICAL-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

Income

The consolidated gross revenue of Brasil Telecom reached R$ 4,036.1 million in 1T08, 3.6% higher to that of 1T07, due to the growth in the participation of data transmission services and mobile telephony in the consolidated revenue, as well as the tariff restatements of 2.14% in the basket of services and 3.29% in the VCs occurred in July of the last year.

Local Service

The gross revenue of local services reached R$ 1,588.8 million in 1T08, 3.6% lower than that recorded in 1T07, mainly because of the drop of 24.5% in the gross revenue of the local traffic and the reduction in the number of subscribers, partially offset by the increase of 3.3% in the gross revenue of subscriptions.

Public Telephony

The public telephony gross revenue reached R$ 134.1 million in 1T08, 3.9% higher in relation to the revenue of 1T07, mainly because of the tariff restatement.

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Interconnection

The interconnection revenue in 1T08 was R$ 81.4 million, 4.2% less than the R$ 85.0 million registered in 1T07, mainly because of the reduction of 18.3% of the TU-RL in 2007,

Data Transmission

In 1T08, the gross income in data transmission reached R$791.0 million, with an increase of 23.0% when compared to 1T07, due primarily to an increment of 18.3% in the ADSL client base.

Mobile Telephony

In 1T08, total consolidated gross revenue in mobile telephony totaled R$466.1 million, from which R$426.5 million were related to services, and R$39.5 million to the sale of handsets and accessories. The consolidated gross revenue of services with mobile telephony in 1T08 exceeded 13.0% to that recorded in 1T07, due to the expansion of the clients base and the launch of new services plans.

ARPU (Monthly average net revenue per user)

The ARPU of fixed telephony (excluding data transmission) reached R$ 78.89 in 1T08, 1.3% above that recorded in 1T07, reflecting the tariff restatements. Including the data transmission revenue, the ARPU recorded in 1T08 was R$ 101.35, 6.0% above that registered in 1T07, reflecting the growing increase in the penetration of ADSL accesses.

The ARPU of ADSL recorded in 1T08 was R$ 68.92, 3.4% lower than the R$ 71.34 recorded in 1T07, due to more aggressive promotions with discounts to encourage adhesion to Turbo products.

The total ARPU of mobile telephony recorded in 1T08 was R$ 29.80, mainly because of a change in the behavior in the incoming traffic, which resulted in an impact estimated in the net revenue of interconnection of approximately R$ 22 million.

Costs and Expenses

Operating Costs and Expenses

In 1T08, operating costs and expenses totaled R$2,374,8 million, stable when compared to R$2,383,9 million registered in 1T07,

Personnel

In 1T08, personnel costs and expenses reached R$215.6 million, an increase of 43.5% when compared to 1T07, Such increase happened primarily due to the internalization of the call center, accomplished by the end of 2007, the salary adjustments in accordance with collective deals and labor charges resulting from the reduction in the staff and outsourcing of the activity of maintenance of the plant. By the end of 1T08, the BrT group employed a total of 16,578 workers, divided into 5,125 workers in the segment of fixed telephony, data and internet providers, 629 at Brt Móvel, and 10,824 workers in the segment of call center.

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Materials

The costs and expenses with materials amounted to R$ 75.4 million in 1T08, a drop of 2.4% when compared to 1T07, due to the lower cost of merchandise sold despite the increase in the quantity of phone sets traded.

Third Parties Services

The costs and expenses with outsourced services, with exception of interconnection, propaganda and marketing, amounted to R$ 539,9 million in 1T08, 4.2% below that recorded in 1T07, mainly reflecting the reduction of R$ 64 million in the call center line by the internalization accomplished by the end of 2007, Such reduction was offset with the increase of R$ 24,8 million in variable costs connected to the operation and R$ 13,0 million in corporate consultancy services.

The expenses with advertisement and marketing amounted to R$ 42.4 million in 1T08, an increase of R$ 17.6 million in comparison to 1T07, in function of the campaigns for launching new products that took place in the quarter, among which Pluri, added value products (i.e. partnership with Big Brother Brasil), besides campaigns for the new positioning of iG provider.

Provisions for Contingencies

In 1T08, the provisions for contingencies amounted to R$ 159.0 million, an increase of R$ 36.5 million in comparison to 1T07, basically due to the taxes, civil and labor contingencies.

PCCR/ROB

The relation of Losses with Receivables (PCCR) with the gross revenue in 1T08 was of 3.0% and amounted to R$ 119.8 million, 0.5% p.p. above the 2.5% of 1T07, due to the postponing in the maturity of invoices and respective provision caused by the Post Office strike in 1T07 and due to the increase in the default of co-billing.

Depreciation and Amortization

Depreciation and amortization costs totaled R$544.7 million in 1T08, 16.1% less than 1T07, due to the increase of goods totally depreciated.

Other Costs and Expenses/Operating Income

Other operating costs and expenses amounted R$ 130.8 million in 1T08, 4.6% superior to 1T07, mainly because of the update of actuarial provisions.

Financial Result

In 1T08, Brasil Telecom registered negative financial result of R$247.2 million, versus R$ 344.9 million negative in the previous year. Not taking into account the effect of the interest on own capital, the variation was positive in R$ 97.7 million, mainly because: (i) of the lower indebtedness, resulting in lower financial expenses in domestic currency and (ii) of the financial revenue of R$ 65.5 million resulting from taxes deposited at court in past fiscal years, where the Company has been awarded with the decision.

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Non-Operating Revenues (Expenses)

The non-operating revenue (expenses) amounted to R$ 2.7 million in 1T08, 23.5% below the 1T07, mainly because of the sale of investments valuated by the cost of acquisition of certificates FINAM and FINOR.

Net Profit

Brasil Telecom registered net profit of R$ 321.4 million in 1T08, equivalent to R$0.58710 per share. The net profit per ADR in the period was US$ 1.0070, in the 1T07, the Company recorded a profit of R$ 214.0 million, equivalent to R$ 0.39104 per 1,000 shares, while the profit per ADR in the period was US$ 0.6379.

Indebtedness

Net Debt

By the end of the quarter, the consolidated gross debt of Brasil Telecom totaled R$2,000,5 million, 22.7% less than that registered at the end of March 2007, especially due to the amortization of debentures, amounting to R$500 million in April 2007 and the Real valorization, which reduced the debt in foreign currency and the generation of cash in the period.

By the end of 1T08, the debt bound to the exchange variation, not considering the hedge adjustments, amounted to R$ 690.6 million. On March 31, 2008 Brasil Telecom counted on protection to 53.4% of the debt bound to the exchange variation, resulting in an exposure of only 8.0% of the whole debt.

Investments

      R$ Million 
       
Investments in Permanent Assets  IT08  4T07  IT08/4T07 
      (%)
       
Network Expansion  38.7  141.1  -72.7 
Conventional Telephony  (0.1) 1.1  N.A. 
Transmission Backbone  5.3  32.7  -83.7 
Data Network  30.6  85.7  -64.3 
Intelligent Network  0.7  6.5  -88.6 
Network Management Systems  2.3  9.4  -76.0 
Other Investments in Network Expansion  (0.1) 5.7  N.A. 
Network Operation  46.9  66.5  -29.5 
Public Telephony  0.5  (1.0) N.A. 
Information Technology  3.8  74.9  -94.9 
Personnel Expansion  20.9  21.1  -0.9 
Others  34.6  153.7  -77.5 
Financial expenses for Expansion  5.1  6.2  -17.8 
       
Total Fixed Telephony  150.5  462.5  -67.5 
       
       
       
BrT Celular  9.4  146.3  -93.6 
       
Total Mobile Telephony  9.4  146.3  -93.6 
       

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Total Investment  159.9  608.8  -73.7 
       
 
Reconciliation with Cash Flow:       
Variation between Economical and Financial Investments  145.5  (244.0) N.A. 
       
Investment Cash Flow applied to Permanent Assets  305.4  364.8  -16.3 
       

In 1T08, permanent assets investments at Brasil Telecom totaled R$159.9 million, from which R$150.5 million were invested in fixed telephony, including voice, data, information technology and regulatory, and R$9.4 million in mobile telephony.
When compared to 1T07, the investments presented a slight increase of 4.6% .

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09.01 - EQUITIES IN CONTROLLED AND/OR AFFILIATED COMPANIES

1- ITEM 2 - CONTROLLED/AFFILIATED COMPANY NAME  3 - CORPORATE TAXPAYER ID
(CNPJ) 
4 - CLASSIFICATION  5 -% EQUITY IN CAPITAL
OF INVESTED
6 - % NET EQUITY OF
INVESTOR 
7 - COMPANY TYPE  8 - NUMBER OF SHARES HOLD IN CURRENT QUARTER (Units) 9 - NUMBER OF SHARES HOLD IN PREVIOUS QUARTER (Units)
 
 01   14 BRASIL TELECOM CELULAR S.A.   05.423.963/0001-11  LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY  100.00  56.65 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND OTHER COMPANIES  4,473,443  4,473,443 
 
 02   BRTI SERVIÇOS DE INTERNET S.A.   04.714.634/0001-67  LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY  100.00  7.19 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND OTHER COMPANIES  675,703  675,703 
 
 03  BRASIL TELECOM CABOS SUBMARINOS LTDA.   02.934.071/0001-97  LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY  99.99  3.03 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND OTHER COMPANIES  272,443,966  272,443,966 
 
04  VANT TELECOMUNICAÇÕES S.A.   01.859.295/0001-19  LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY  100.00  0.14 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND OTHER COMPANIES  141,511,999  141,512,000 
 
 05   BRASIL TELECOM COMUNICAÇÃO MULTIM¥DIA LT   02.041.460/0001-93  LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY  89.83  3.45 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND OTHER COMPANIES  372,123,000  372,123,000 
 
 06   BRASIL TELECOM CALL CENTER S.A.   04.014.081/0001-30  LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY  100.00  -0.02 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND OTHER COMPANIES  400  400 

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         01131-2    BRASIL TELECOM S.A.    76.535.764/0001-43 
 
 
 
16.01 – OTHER INFORMATION THAT IS RELEVANT TO THE COMPANY 
 

By fulfilling the Regulation for Differentiated Practices of Corporate Governance, the Company discloses the additional information below, related to the shareholding composition:

1. OUTSTANDING SHARES

Position: 03/31/2008          In share units    
Shareholder Common Shares   %  Preferred Shares   %  Total   % 
Direct and Indirect Controlling Shareholder 247,320,125  99.09  126,495,452  40.63  373,815,577  66.64 
Managers             
 Board of Executive Officers  0.00  79,270  0.03  79,271  0.01 
 Board of Directors  0.00  0.00  0.00 
 Finance Committee  322  0.00  11,669  0.00  11,991  0.00 
Treasury Stock  13,572,523  4.36  13,572,523  2.42 
Other Shareholders  2,276,601  0.91  171,194,326  54.98  173,470,927  30.93 
Total  249,597,049  100.00  311,353,240  100.00  560,950,289  100.00 
Outstanding Shares in Market  2,276,924  0.91  171,285,265  55.01  173,562,189  30.94 

Note: On 04/10/2007, was approved in AGE, the share grouping in a proportion of 1,000 existing shares to 1 share of the respective type. 

Position: 03/31/2007          In share units    
Shareholder Common Shares   %  Preferred Shares   %  Total   % 
Direct and Indirect Controlling Shareholder 247,281,925,707  99.07  127,208,517,723  40.86  374,490,443,430  66.76 
Managers             
 Board of Executive Officers  10  0.00  80,340,668  0.03  80,340,678  0.01 
 Board of Directors  0.00  0.00  0.00 
 Finance Committee  0.00  7,382  0.00  7,384  0.00 
Treasury Stock  13,678,100,000  4.39  13,678,100,000  2.44 
Other Shareholders  2,315,123,822  0.93  170,386,275,084  54.72  172,701,398,906  30.79 
Total  249,597,049,542  100.00  311,353,240,857  100.00  560,950,290,399  100.00 
Outstanding Shares in Market  2,315,123,835  0.93  170,466,623,134  54.75  172,781,746,969  30.80 

2. SHAREHOLDERS WITH MORE THAN 5% OF VOTING CAPITAL (Position on 03.31.08)

The shareholders who, directly or indirectly, hold more then 5% of common and preferred shares of the Company are:

Brasil Telecom S.A.              In share units 
Company Name CPF/CNPJ Nationality Common
Shares
% Preferred
Shares
% Total Shares %
Brasil Telecom Participações S.A.  02.570.688-0001/70  Brazilian  247,317,180  99.09  120,911,021  38.83  368,228,201  65.64 
Treasury Stock  13,572,523  4.36  13,572,523  2.42 
Others  2,279,869  0.91  176,869,696  56.81  179,149,565  31.94 
Total  249,597,049  100.00  311,353,240  100.00  560,950,289  100.00 

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Distribution of Capital Stock of the Controlling Shareholders to Individual Level

Brasil Telecom Participações S.A.                        In share units 
Company Name CPF/CNPJ  Nationality Common Shares  %  Preferred Shares  %  Total Shares   % 
Solpart Participações S.A.  02.607.736-0001/58  Brazilian  68,356,154  51.00  0.00  68,356.154  18.78 
Previ  33.754.482-0001/24  Brazilian  6,895,678  5.14  7,840,962  3.41  14,736,640  4.05 
BNDES Participações S.A.  00.383.281/0001-09  Brazilian  1,271,490  0.95  11,498,991  5.00  12,770,481  3.51 
Treasury Stock  1,480,800  1.10  1,480,800  0.41 
Others  56,027,566  41.81  210,597,572  91.59  266,625,138  73.25 
Total  134,031,688  100.00  229,937,525  100.00  363,969,213  100.00 
Note: On 04.27.07, was approved in AGE, the share grouping in a proportion of 1,000 existing shares to 1 share of the respective type. 

Solpart Participações S.A.                        In share units 
Company Name CPF/CNPJ  Nationality Common Shares  %  Preferred Shares  %  Total Shares   % 
Timepart Participações Ltda.  02.338.536-0001/47  Brazilian  509,991  0.02  509,991  0.02 
Techold Participações S.A.  02.605.028-0001/88  Brazilian  2,126,489,975  99.98  2,126,489,975  99.98 
Others  34  0.00  34  0.00 
Total  2,127,000,000  100.00  2,127,000,000  100.00 

Timepart Participações Ltda. 1                        In share units 
Company Name CPF/CNPJ  Nationality Quotas   % 
         
Privtel Investimentos S.A.  02.620.949-0001/10  Brazilian         208,830  33.10 
Teleunion S.A.  02.605.026-0001/99  Brazilian         213,340  33,80 
Telecom Holding S.A.  02.621.133-0001/00  Brazilian         208,830  33.10 
Total         631,000  100.00 
1 Shareholding position based on the second quarter 2005. 

Privtel Investimentos S.A..1                        In share units 
Company Name CPF/CNPJ  Nationality Common Shares  %  Preferred Shares  %  Total Shares   % 
Eduardo Cintra Santos  064.858.395-34  Brazilian  19,998  99.99       -  19,998  99.99 
Others  0.01       -  0.01 
Total  20,000  100.00       -  20,000  100.00 
1 Shareholding position based on the second quarter 2005. 

Teleunioin S.A..1                        In share units 
Company Name CPF/CNPJ  Nationality Common Shares  %  Preferred Shares  %  Total Shares   % 
Luiz Raymundo Tourinho Dantas   000.479.025-15  Brazilian  19,998  99.99       -  19,998  99.99 
(estate)                
Others  0.01       -  0.01 
Total  20,000  100.00       -  20,000  100.00 
1 Shareholding position based on the second quarter 2005. 

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Telelecom Holding S.A..1                        In share units 
Company Name CPF/CNPJ  Nationality Common Shares  %  Preferred Shares  %  Total Shares   % 
Woog Family Limited Partnership  North American 19,997  99.98       -  19,997  99.98 
Others  0.02       -  0.02 
Total  20,000  100.00       -  20,000  100.00 
1 Shareholding position based on the second quarter 2005. 

Techold Participações S.A.                        In share units 
Company Name CPF/CNPJ  Nationality Common Shares  %  Preferred Shares  %  Total Shares   % 
Invitel S.A.  02.465.782-0001/60  Brazilian  1,157,013,213  100.00  341,898,149  100.00  1,498,911,362  100.00 
Others  Brazilian                   10  0.00  10  0.00 
Total  1,157,013,223  100.00  341,898,149  100.00  1,498,911,372  100.00 

Invitel S.A.                        In share units 
Company Name CPF/CNPJ  Nationality Common Shares  %  Preferred Shares  %  Total Shares   % 
Fundação 14 de Previdência Privada  00.493.916-0001/20  Brazilian  92,713,711  6.27  13,400,644  6.27  106,114,355  6.27 
Telos - Fund. Embratel de Segurid.  42.465.310-0001/21  Brazilian  33,106,348  2.24  33,106,348  1.96 
Funcef - Fund. dos Economiários  00.436.923-0001/90  Brazilian  571,411  0.04  571,411  0.03 
Petros - Fund. Petrobrás Segurid.  34.053.942-0001/50  Brazilian  55,903,360  3.78  8,080,153  3.78  63,983,513  3.78 
Previ - Caixa Prev. Func. B. Brasil  33.754.482-0001/24  Brazilian  285,901,442  19.33  41,323,590  19.33  327,225,032  19.33 
Zain Participações S.A.  02.363.918-0001/20  Brazilian  1,009,796,296  68.28  150,829,870  70.56  1,160,626,166  68.57 
Citigroup Venture Capital International Brazil LP  Cayman Islands  302,945  0.03  45,166  0.03  348,111  0.03 
Investidores Institucionais FIA  01.909.558-0001/57  Brazilian  419,920  0.03  60,694  0.03  480,614  0.03 
Opportunity Fund  Virgin Islands  69,587  0.00  69,587  0.00 
CVC Opportunity Invest. Ltda.  03.605.085-0001/20  Brazilian  14  0.00  14  0.00 
Priv FIA  02.559.662-0001/21  Brazilian  37,778  0.00  5,642  0.00  43,420  0.00 
Tele FIA  02.597.072-0001/93  Brazilian  35,417  0.00  5,290  0.00  40,707  0.00 
Others  0.00  0.00 
Total  1,478,858,235  100.00  213,751,049  100.00  1,692,609,284  100.00 

Zain Participações S.A.                        In share units 
Company Name CPF/CNPJ  Nationality Common Shares  %  Preferred Shares  %  Total Shares   % 
Investidores Institucionais FIA  01.909.558-0001/57  Brazilian  552,668,015  45.85                       -       -  552,668,015  45.85 
Citigroup Venture Capital International Brazil LP  Cayman Islands 511,953,674  42.47                       -       -  511,953,674  42.47 
Opportunity Fund  Virgin Islands  108,497,504  9.00                       -       -  108,497,504  9.00 
Priv FIA  02.559.662-0001/21  Brazilian  28,765,247  2.39                       -       -  28,765,247  2.39 
Opportunity Lógica Rio Consultoria e Participações Ltda  01.909.405-0001/00  Brazilian  3,475,631  0.29                       -       -  3,475,631  0.29 
Tele FIA  02.597.072-0001/93  Brazilian  9,065  0.00                       -       -  9,065  0.00 
Opportunity Equity Partners Administradora de Recursos Ltda.  01.909.405-0001/00  Brazilian  0.00                       -       -  0.00 
Opportunity Investimentos Ltda.  03.605.085-0001/20  Brazilian  15  0.00                       -       -  15  0.00 
Others  1,144  0.00                       -       -  1,144  0.00 
Total  1,205,370,297  100.00                       -       -  1,205,370,297  100.00 

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         01131-2    BRASIL TELECOM S.A.    76.535.764/0001-43 
 
 
 
17.01 – SPECIAL REVIEW REPORT – WITHOUT RESERVATION 
 

 

To the Shareholders, Board of Directors and Management of
Brasil Telecom S.A.
Brasília - DF

1.     
We have performed a review of the accounting information contained in the accompanying interim financial statements, Company and consolidated, of Brasil Telecom S.A. (“Company”) and subsidiaries for the quarter ended March 31, 2008, consisting of the balance sheets, the related statements of income and cash flows, the performance report and the related notes to the interim financial statements, all expressed in Brazilian reais and prepared under the responsibility of the Company’s Management.
 
2.     
Our review was conducted in accordance with specific standards established by the Brazilian Institute of Independent Auditors (IBRACON), together with the Federal Accounting Council (CFC), and consisted, principally, of: (a) inquiries of and discussions with certain officials of the Company and its subsidiaries who have responsibility for accounting, financial and operating matters about the criteria adopted in the preparation of the interim financial statements; and (b) review of the information and subsequent events that had, or might have had, material effects on the financial position and results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries.
 
3.     
Based on our review, we are not aware of any material modifications that should be made to the accounting information contained in the interim financial statements referred to in paragraph 1 for them to be in conformity with standards established by the Brazilian Securities Commissions (CVM), specifically applicable to the preparation of interim financial statements, including the News Release of January 14, 2008.
 
4.     
As mentioned in note 2, on December 28, 2007, Law No. 11,638 was enacted, altering, revoking and adding new provisions to Law No. 6,404/76 (Brazilian Corporate Law). This Law is effective for fiscal years beginning on or after January 1, 2008 and will introduce changes in Brazilian accounting practices. Although this Law has already become effective, the main changes introduced by it are subject to regulation by regulatory agencies before being fully applied by companies. Accordingly, during this transition phase, CVM, through the News Release of January 14, 2008, has permitted companies not to apply the provisions of Law No. 11,638/07 in the preparation of the interim financial statements. Thus, the interim financial statements for the quarter ended March 31, 2008 have been prepared in conformity with specific instructions of CVM and do not include the changes in accounting practices introduced by Law No. 11,638/07.
 
5.     
The accompanying financial statements have been translated into English for the convenience of readers outside Brazil.

Brasília, April 17, 2008

DELOITTE TOUCHE TOHMATSU    Marco Antonio Brandão Simurro 
Auditores Independentes    Engagement Partner 

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CONTENTS

GROUP CHART  DESCRIPTION  PAGE 
 01  01  IDENTIFICATION 
 01  02  HEADQUARTERS 
 01  03  DIRECTOR FOR INVESTORS RELATIONS (Mail address at the Company address)
 01  04  ITR REFERENCE 
 01  05  CAPITAL STOCK COMPOSITION 
 01  06  COMPANY CHARACTERISTICS 
 01  07  COMPANIES NOT INCLUDED IN THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 
 01  08  CASH INCOME 
 01  09  ISSUED CAPITAL STOCK AND CHANGES IN THE ACCOUNTING PERIOD IN PROGRESS 
 01  10  DIRECTOR FOR INVESTORS RELATIONS 
 02  01  BALANCE SHEET ASSETS 
 02  02  BALANCE SHEET LIABILITIES 
 03  01  INCOME STATEMENT 
 04  01  EXPLANATION NOTES  10 
 05  01  COMMENTS ON THE COMPANY PERFORMANCE IN THE QUARTER  64 
 06  01  CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET ASSETS  65 
 06  02  CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET LIABILITIES  66 
 07  01  CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT  68 
 08  01  COMMENTS ON THE CONSOLIDATED PERFORMANCE IN THE QUARTER  70 
 09  01  EQUITIES IN SUBSIDIARIES AND/OR AFFILIATED COMPANIES  78 
 16  01  OTHER INFORMATION CONSIDERED AS RELEVANT BY THE COMPANY  79 
 17  01  REPORT ON SPECIAL REVIEW  82 
    14 BRASIL TELECOM CELULAR S.A.   
    BRTI SERVIÇOS DE INTERNET S.A.   
    BRASIL TELECOM CABOS SUBMARINOS LTDA.   
    VANT TELECOMUNICAÇÕES S.A.   
    BRASIL TELECOM COMUNICAÇÃO MULTIM¥DIA LT   
    BRASIL TELECOM CALL CENTER S.A.  /82 

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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: June 17, 2008

 
BRASIL TELECOM S.A.
By:
/SPaulo Narcélio Simões Amaral

 
Name:  Paulo Narcélio Simões Amaral
Title:     Chief Financial Officer
 

 

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release may contain forward-looking statements. These statements are statements that are not historical facts, and are based on management's current view and estimates offuture economic circumstances, industry conditions, company performance and financial results. The words "anticipates", "believes", "estimates", "expects", "plans" and similar expressions, as they relate to the company, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Statements regarding the declaration or payment of dividends, the implementation of principal operating and financing strategies and capital expenditure plans, the direction of future operations and the factors or trends affecting financial condition, liquidity or results of operations are examples of forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect the current views of management and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. There is no guarantee that the expected events, trends or results will actually occur. The statements are based on many assumptions and factors, including general economic and market conditions, industry conditions, and operating factors. Any changes in such assumptions or factors could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations.