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	Investor Relations
	+55 (61) 3415-1140
	ri@brasiltelecom.com.br
	Media Relations
	+55 (61) 3415-1822
	diretoriadecomunicacao@brasiltelecom.com.br

BRASIL TELECOM S.A.
Publicly Held Company
Corporate Taxpayer Registration
76.535.764/0001 -43
Board of Trade 53 3 0000622–9

CALL NOTICE
GENERAL MEETING OF DEBENTURE HOLDERS

Brasil Telecom S.A. (“Issuer” or “Company”) hereby invites the debenture holders of its 5^th issue, which represents its 4^th public issue, to convene at the General Meeting of Debenture Holders to be held on December 17, 2008 at 3:00 p.m., at the Company’s headquarters located at SIA Sul - Área de Serviços Públicos - Lote D - Bloco B, in the city of Brasília, Federal District, to decide on the following agenda:

(i) proposal to amend Clause V of the Indenture for the 5^th Issue and 4^th public issue by the Company of simple, unsecured, nonconvertible debentures in a single series, with additional security by Brasil Telecom Participações S.A., for Public Distribution, executed on June 20, 2006 (“Indenture”), to include an exception to the rule of Mandatory Acquisition (as determined in the Indenture);
(ii) proposal to amend Clause 4.2 of the Indenture, which describes the return earned by debenture holders; and
(iii) authorization for the trustee to execute an addendum to the Indenture to adjust it to the resolutions of the General Meeting of Debenture Holders.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

1. The documents pertaining to the matters on the Agenda are available to debenture holders at the Company’s headquarters located at SIA Sul - Área de Serviços Públicos - Lote D - Bloco B, in the city of Brasília, Federal District, and at the headquarters of the trustee Pavarini Distribuidora de Títulos e Valores Mobiliários Ltda. located at Rua Sete de Setembro, 99, 24º andar, in the city and state of Rio de Janeiro.

2. Debenture holders represented by proxy must present the power-of-attorney instrument at the Meeting of Debenture Holders.

Brasília, December 1, 2008

Paulo Narcélio Simões Amaral
Investor Relations Officer
Brasil Telecom S.A.

"The Debentures referenced herein have not been, and will not be, registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and have not been, and may not be, offered or sold in the United States absent such a registration or an applicable exemption from registration. "

 

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