TIM PARTICIPAÇÕES S.A.

CNPJ/MF nº 02.558.115/0001 -21
NIRE 4130001760-3
A listed company

CALL NOTICE – SPECIAL SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING

TIM Participações S.A. (“Company”) shareholders are hereby called, as provided in Article 124 of Law 6404/76, to the Special Shareholders' Meeting to be held on August 15, 2005, at 10:30 a.m. at the main office, located at Rua Comendador Araújo nº 299, Curitiba (PR), with the following Order of Business: (i) in view of the resignation of the Chairman of the Board, submitted to the Board meeting held on July 20, 2005, to elect another chairman to fill the unexpired term of office; (ii) to appreciate and adopt the Senior Management motion to move the corporate main office to the city of Rio de Janeiro (RJ) with the consequent amendment to Article 3 of Articles of Organization; (iii) as a consequence of the foregoing resolution, to choose a mass circulation newspaper published in Rio de Janeiro (RJ) in which to publish the statutory corporate notices; and (iv) to pass the amendment to Article 5 of the Articles of Organization, to properly mirror the number of shares of corporate stock resulting from the cancellation of the shares purchased from the shareholders disagreeing with the resolution adopting the merger of TIM Nordeste Telecomunicações S.A. and TIM Sul S.A into the Company.

Miscellaneous Instructions:

The documents concerning the business to be transacted by the Shareholders’ Meeting are available to the Shareholders at the Company’s main office.

Shareholders or their properly appointed proxies shall observe, when attending the Shareholders’ Meeting hereby called, the provision of Article 126 of Law 6.404/76 and Article 15 of the Articles of Organization. Therefore, shareholders not appearing in person at the Shareholders’ Meeting shall deposit at the Company’s main office the proper proxy and/or the corporate acts concerning the appointment, as the case might be, and the representative’s ID document no later than two (2) business days before said Shareholders’ Meeting. Within that same period of time, the holders of book-entry shares or shares in custody shall deposit copies of their ID documents and the respective statement of book-entry shares issued at least five (5) business days before the Shareholders’ Meeting.

Curitiba, July 27, 2005

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.