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	Investors Relations
	55 (61) 3415-1140
	ri@brasiltelecom.com.br
	Media and Communication
	55 (61) 3415-1822
	diretoriadecomunicacao@brasiltelecom.com.br

BRASIL TELECOM S.A.
Publicly Held Company
CORPORATE TAXPAYER’s ID76.535.764/0001-43
BOARD OF TRADE 53.3.0000622-9

MATERIAL FACT

BRASIL TELECOM S.A. (“Company”), in compliance with article 157 of Law 6.404/76, and under the terms of CVM Rule 358/02, informs its Shareholders and the market in general the replacement of the following members of the statutory management: Messrs. Ricardo Knoepfelmacher, Paulo Narcélio Simões Amaral, Luiz Francisco Tenório Perrone, André Rizzi de Oliveira, following the deliberations of the Board of Directors’ Meeting, held on January 08, 2009, at 06:45 p.m., due to the Company’s controlling change. The Company also informs that the new controller appointed new management, as follows:

LUIZ EDUARDO FALCO PIRES CORRÊA, as Chief Executive Officer. Luiz Eduardo Falco Pires Corrêa was elected chief executive officer of TNL in October 2002, after being elected CEO of Oi in October 2001. Mr. Falco was elected to TNL’s board of directors as a nominee of TNL’s controlling shareholder, TmarPart. He has previously worked for TAM S.A., where he assumed several positions, such as production manager, technology officer and marketing and sales vice-president. Mr. Falco has bachelor’s degree in aviation engineering from Instituto Tecnológico da Aeronáutica, or ITA, and has participated in permanent education courses in marketing and finance from FGV.

ALEX WALDEMAR ZORNIG, as Director, without a specific designation and Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer. Alex Waldemar Zornig has graduated in Accounting at São Paulo University, and specialized by FGV. Mr. Zornig has initiated his career at PriceWaterhouseCoopers where he worked for 14 years, 3 of which in London, where he last served as Officer. He was the CFO and COO at BankBoston, where he worked for 13 years, 2 of which in Boston. He was also an Officer at Banco Itaú. Recently, Alex was performing the duties of Executive Vice President at Banco Safra, where he was in charge of all support areas of the bank.

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PAULO ALTMEYER GONÇALVES, as Director, without a specific designation. Paulo Altmeyer Gonçalves holds a degree in Electronics Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He began his career as a software programmer at the CPD in UFRGS and later taught Programming Techniques there. He has worked in companies like Crefisul, Procergs, Hewlett Packard and Digitel. In 1994 in São Paulo, he participated in the start-up of digital trunking and pager companies linked to Mcom, Mobilcom and Mcomcast. He returned to Porto Alegre in 1998 to launch the B band mobile operator Telet, where he was Chief Sales and Marketing Officer. He was back in São Paulo in September 2000 as an executive officer at Telemar entrusted with the challenge of leading the group that worked to obtain the D Band mobile license for the region in which the company operated. In Rio in March 2001, after obtaining the D Band license, he set up the PCS mobile service with more than 4,000 stations, hundreds of points of sale, coverage in 16 states, etc. He faced a true "wartime operation" to launch Telemar's mobile service in the beginning of 2002. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer.

JULIO CESAR PINTO, as Director, without a specific designation. Julio Cesar Pinto has been an executive officer of TNL since October 2002. He has also been responsible for TNL’s internal audit since that same date. Mr. Pinto has held several positions in the financial area of large companies such as MRS Logística S.A., ATL — Algar Telecom Leste S.A. (Claro), Globex Utilidades S.A., Aracruz Celulose, Xerox do Brasil S.A., and Minerações Brasileiras Reunidas S.A. He holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Faculdade Moraes Júnior, in 1976, and attended several other courses in the United States, including the Stanford University Financial Management Program, Xerox Corporation Middle Management Program, and the Bourse Game of Citibank N.A.

FRANCISCO AURÉLIO SAMPAIO SANTIAGO, remains in his position as Chief Operations Officer.

The new management’ remuneration will be defined in the next Board of Director’s Meeting.

Brasília, January 08, 2009.

Alex Waldemar Zornig
Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer

 

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