TELECOMUNICAÇÕES DE SÃO PAULO S.A. - TELESP ANNOUNCES THE MINUTE OF THE 43th BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETING HELD ON DECEMBER 15, 2000 – ELECTION AND MANDATE OF VICEPRESIDENT. Press Release, January 10, 2001. ( 1 page) For more information, contact: Charles E. Allen TELESP, São Paulo, Brazil Tel. : (55-11) 3047-1990 Fax : (55-11) 3047-1576 [email protected] http://www.telefonica.net.br (São Paulo - Brazil), (January 10, 2001) - The management of Telecomunicações de São Paulo S/A – TELESP (NYSE: TSP; BOVESPA: TLPP), hereby informs the minute of the 43th Board of Directors’ meeting held on December 15, 2000: 1. Date, Time and Place of the Meeting: December 15th, 2000, at 17:00 PM, at Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 3.729 – 10th floor, in the Capital of the State of São Paulo. 2. Preliminary Procedures: The President of the Board, in the presence of counselors that subscribe this minute, verified that the quorum was in accordance to the Company’s Bylaws. 3. Deliberations: Mr. Carlos Augusto Ferreira, Brazilian, divorced, engineer, was appointed to substitute (until the date of the General Ordinary Meeting, 2001) the VicePresident of Corporate Clients, Mr. Yon Moreira da Silva Junior, who will be fully dedicated to his new responsabilities at the total subsidiary of Telesp - Telefónica Empresas S/ A. It was also registered that the new appointee has no legal impediments to occupy said position. 4. Board of Directors: Persuant to previous elections the following was ratified: President: Fernando Xavier Ferreira; General Director : Manuel Ramón García García; Strategic Planning Vice-President: José Maria Del Rey Osório; Corporate Strategy and Regulatory Issues Vice-President: Eduardo Navarro de Carvalho; Administration and Finance Vice-President: Juan Vicente Revilla Vergara; Network VicePresident : Fábio Silvestre Micheli; Vice-President of General Clients: Stael Prata Silva Filho; Corporate Clients Vice-President: Carlos Augusto Ferreira; and Vice-President of Small Business Clients: Mariano Sebastian de Beer. 5. Approval and Signatures: This minute was approved and signed by the couselors: Antônio Viana-Baptista, President of the Board; Fernando Xavier Ferreira, Vice-President of the Board; the Couselors: Jacinto Diaz Sanchez; Manuel Ramón García García; Félix Pablo Ivorra Cano; Antonio Golderos Sánchez; Juan Carlos Ros Brugueras; Javier Nada Ariño; Victor Goyenechea Fuentes and the Board Secretary, João Carlos de Almeida. 6. Registry: The minute was officially registered under No. 5.886/01-6 on January 03, 2001. -1-