BRASIL TELECOM PARTICIPAÇÕES S.A.
Publicly Held Company 
CORPORATE TAXPAYER REGISTRATION 02.570.688/0001-70 
BOARD OF TRADE 53.3.0000581-8 

MATERIAL FACT 

BRASIL TELECOM PARTICIPAÇÕES 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, following the deliberations of the Board of Directors’ Meeting, held on January 08, 2009, at 06:30 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 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. 

PAULO  ALTMEYER  GONÇALVES,  as  Human  Resources  Executive  Officer.  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 startup 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.  

FRANCISCO AURÉLIO SAMPAIO SANTIAGO, remains in his position as Technical Executive 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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