Brasil Telecom Participações S.A.
Brasil Telecom Participações S.A.'s only asset is Brasil Telecom S.A., a telecommunications operator. Its shares are traded on Bovespa under the symbols BRTP3 and BRTP4, and on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BRP. It is worth highlighting that Brasil Telecom has a broad shareholder base abroad.

In 2007, Brasil Telecom Participações S.A.'s preferred shares appreciated 44.1%, while its common shares closed the year with an appreciation of 33.9%.

 

2007 Share Performance (Base 100 = 12/28/2007)

 

Shareholding Structure

 

Backbone

This Report presents the main activities of Brasil Telecom S.A.

Brasil Telecom S.A.
Brasil Telecom S.A. is one of the largest companies in the Latin American telecommunications industry. It provides services in the following areas: fixed line and mobile telephony; data solutions; Internet; video; and data center - a business unit that provides IT and telecommunications infrastructure for other companies. In 2007, Brasil Telecom was the first among Brazilian telecommunications companies-and second in Latin America-to offer IPTV, which allows users to watch audio and video material, access web content, and play online.

In Brazil, Brasil Telecom provides telephony services to millions of Brazilians who live in Region II, which covers the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Goiás, Tocantins, Acre, Rondônia, and the Federal District. Headquartered in Brasília (DF), and counting on approximately 17 thousand employees, the Company's client base includes 8 million fixed terminals in service, 4 million mobile connections, 282 thousand public use terminals, and 1.6 million ADSL (broadband) connections.

Internet providers iG, iBest, and BrTurbo, which compose the Internet Group-Brasil Telecom's Internet unit-, have 1.4 million broadband and 4 million dialup customers. This figure makes it the third most viewed portal in the country, with over 11.2 million unique residential visitors per month, according to the method that measures Internet access from homes in a given period.

Brasil Telecom Cabos Submarinos ("Globenet") owns 22 thousand kilometers of undersea cables connecting Brazil with Venezuela, and Bermuda with North America, with landing points in Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, Caracas, Miami, New York, and Bermuda. This network strengthens the group's leading position in the data communication market. The subsidiary Brasil Telecom Comunicação Multimídia operates, in addition to other sites, in the three main cities outside the concession region: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte, with a focus on corporate and business markets. Both companies offer complete nationwide and worldwide solutions, including Cyber Data Centers.

This diversified portfolio makes the operator the first Brazilian telecommunications company capable of meeting market demands in an integrated manner, through converging services.