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BRASIL TELECOM S.A.
Publicly Traded Company
Corporate Taxpayer Registration: 76.535.764/0001 -43
Board of Trade: 53 3 0000622 9
Extract of the Minutes of the Board of Directors’ Meeting,
Held on April 25, 2007
On the 25th of April, 2007, at 10:15 a.m., in Brasil Telecom S.A.’s (“BT” or “Company”) headquarters, in the city of Brasília, Federal District, at SIA SUL – ASP, Lote D, Bloco B, the following members of Brasil Telecom S.A.’s Board of Directors met: Sergio Spinelli Silva Junior, Pedro Paulo Elejalde de Campos, Elemér André Suranyi, Ricardo Ferraz Torres and Antonio Cardoso dos Santos, having deliberated, unanimously, about the following matters:
(i) the election, as statutory directors, with the position defined below and with a term until September 30, 2008, it was approved unanimously. Mr. André Rizzi de Oliveira, Brazilian, married, engineer, bearer of the ID number 18952964, issued by SSP/DF and registered under CPF/MF number 135.529.508 -42, with address in the city of Brasília, Federal District, SIA SUL ASP Lote D Bloco B, was elected as Purchase and Administrative Services Officer. Mr. Fábio de Oliveira Moser, Brazilian, married, business administrator, bearer of the ID number 6180.2773, issued by IFP/RJ and registered under CPF/MF number 777.109.677 -87, with address in the city of Brasília, Federal District, at SIA SUL ASP Lote D Bloco B, was elected Corporate Governance and Corporate Business Officer. Mr. Paulo Narcélio Simões do Amaral, Brazilian, married, economist, bearer of the ID number 05798805-7, issued by IFP/RJ and registered under CPF/MF 790.422.877 -72, with address in the city of Brasília, Federal District, at SIA SUL ASP Lote D Bloco B, was elected as Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer, replacing Charles Laganá Putz, the current Chief Financial Officer and Investors Relations Officer. The positions held by Ricardo Knoepfelmacher, Chief Executive Officer, Luiz Francisco Tenório Perrone, Strategic Planning and Regulatory Affairs Officer and Francisco Aurélio Sampaio Santiago, Chief Operating Officer, remain unchanged. In light of the elections hereby deliberated, the Company’s statutory management now has the following composition:
| Name | Position |
| Ricardo Knoepfelmacher | Chief Executive Officer |
| Francisco Aurélio Sampaio Santiago | Chief Operating Officer |
| Luiz Francisco Tenório Perrone | Strategic Planning and Regulatory Affairs Officer |
| Paulo Narcélio Simões do Amaral | Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer |
| Fábio de Oliveira Moser | Corporate Governance and Corporate Business Officer |
| André Rizzi de Oliveira | Purchase and Administrative Services Officer |
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According to the terms of the by-laws, it was also deliberated that Mr. Francisco Aurélio Sampaio Santiago will be the legal substitute of the Chief Executive Officer, Ricardo Knoepfelmacher, in the case of absence and impediment. Mr. Luiz Francisco Tenório Perrone is designated as Chief Executive Officer in the case of simultaneous absence and impediment of the Chief Executive Officer and the abovementioned substitute.
(ii) the proposal by the Company’s management to pay Interest on Shareholders’ Equity and dividends related to the fiscal year of 2006 was approved and set to May 31, 2007.
Brasília, April 25, 2007
Darwin Corrêa
Secretary
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BRASIL TELECOM S.A.
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/S/ Paulo Narcélio Simões do Amaral
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Name: Paulo Narcélio Simões do Amaral
Title: Chief Financial Officer |
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