BRASIL TELECOM PARTICIPAÇÕES S.A.
(PUBLICLY-HELD COMPANY)
Corporate Taxpayers’ ID (CNPJ/MF) : 02.570.688/0001 -70
Company Registry (NIRE) 53 3 0000581 – 8

Minutes of the Board of Directors’ Meeting
held on April 28^th 2008

Date, Time and Venue:

April 28^th 2008, at 10:00 a.m., at the headquarters of Brasil Telecom Participações S.A. (“BTP” or “Company”).

Call Notice:

Call notice issued pursuant to the Company’s Bylaws (Doc. 01).

Attendance:

The following members of the Company’s Board of Directors were present: Messrs. Sergio Spinelli Silva Junior, Pedro Paulo Elejalde de Campos, Mariana Sarmento Meneghetti, Ricardo Ferraz Torres and José Luiz Guimarães Junior. Mr. Darwin Corrêa, Legal Officer, also attended the Meeting.

Presiding Board:

Chairman: Sergio Spinelli Silva Junior Secretary: Darwin Corrêa

Agenda:

- Deliberate on the summons of an Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting to be held by the Company, contemplated by the Minutes of the Board of Directors’ Meeting held on April 24^th 2008.

Resolutions:

Prior to the initial analysis of the Agenda, Board Members present unanimously approved the drawing up of the Minutes of this Board of Directors’ Meeting in the summarized form, by operation of law, permitting the presentation of votes and protests, which will be received by the Presiding Board and filed in the Company’s headquarters.

As justified in the Minutes of the Board of Directors’ Meeting held on April 24^th 2008, Board Members Sergio Spinelli Silva Junior and Kevin Michael Altit clarified that they are impeded from voting the matter included in the Agenda.

As for the single item of the Agenda, the Meeting unanimously approved, with the abstention from voting of Board Members Sergio Spinelli Silva Junior and Kevin Michael Altit, the summons of an Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting to be held on May 29^th 2008, at 12:00 p.m., to deliberate on the following matters:

a) Approve the settlements and transactions contemplated by the “Public Instrument of Transaction, Renunciation, and Settlement” (“Instrument of Settlement”), executed with Telemar Norte Leste S.A., Opportunity Fund, and Others, which depend on the approval of a General Meeting, also in compliance with the provisions contained in the Minutes of the Company’s General and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting, held on April 28^th 2006.

b) Define and provide instructions for the vote to be proffered by the Company at the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting of Brasil Telecom S.A., to be held on May 29^th 2008, at 02:00 p.m., pursuant to the respective Call Notice.

Closure:

With no further business to discuss, the minutes of this Board of Directors Meeting were drawn up, read and found in compliance by all present.

Brasília, April 28^th 2008.

The following members of the Company’s Board of Directors were present:

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