SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              Washington, DC 20549

                                    FORM 6-K

                  REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO
                RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE
                                   ACT OF 1934

                         FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 2002

                         (Commission File No. 001-14489)

                  TELE CENTRO OESTE CELULAR PARTICIPACOES S.A.
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             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

                   TELE CENTRO OESTE CELLULAR HOLDING COMPANY
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                  (Translation of registrant's name in English)

           SCS-QUADRA 2, BLOCO C, EDIFICIO ANEXO-TELEBRASILIA CELULAR
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                            -7 ANDAR, BRASILIA, D.F.
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                          FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL
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                    (Address of Principal Executive Offices)


        (Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file
             annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.)

                          Form 20-F  X        Form 40-F
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                (Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by
                furnishing the information contained in this form
                is also thereby furnishing the information to the
                 Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the
                        Securities Exchange Act of 1934.)

                                    Yes       No  X
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                  TELE CENTRO OESTE CELULAR PARTICIPACOES S.A.
                             A Publicly-Held Company
                             CNPJ 02.558.132/0001-69



            CALL TO SHAREHOLDERS



            EXTRAORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS MEETING

The shareholders of Tele Centro Oeste Celular Participacoes S.A. ("the Company")
are invited to meet in an extraordinary  Shareholders  Meeting to be held at the
Company's headquarters,  located at SCS, QUADRA 2, BLOCO C, ACESSO 226, EDIFICIO
TELEBRASILIA  CELULAR,  7 ANDAR,  BRASILIA-DF  CEP  70302-916,  at 10:00 (ten
hundred hours) of the 9th day of December, 2002, with the following Order of the
Day:

a)    To decide on the  alteration  of  Article 10 of the  Company's  Bylaws for
      compliance with the terms of Law 10303 passed October 31, 2001,  regarding
      the rights granted to preferred shares;
b)    To decide on the  alteration  of  Article 5 of the  Company's  Bylaws as a
      result of the  increase  of the  Company's  capital  stock  occurred  as a
      consequence  of  the  incorporation  of  Telebrasilia  Celular  S/A by the
      Company, approved in the Extraordinary  Shareholders Meeting held on April
      26, 2002.
c)    To ratify the use of the retained  earnings for  cancellation of preferred
      shares held in the Company's  treasury occurred when Telebrasilia  Celular
      S.A. was incorporated, as approved in assembly held by the Company's Board
      of Directors on May 31, 2002.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

1.    Proxies shall be deposited at the Company's  Headquarters,  at SCS, QUADRA
      2,  BLOCO  C,  ACESSO  226,  EDIFICIO   TELEBRASILIA   CELULAR,  7  ANDAR,
      BRASILIA-DF CEP 70302-916, no later than 24 hours prior to the Assembly.

2.    The  shareholders  participating  in the  Fungible  Custody of  Nominative
      Shares of the Stock Market, who wish to participate in the Assembly, shall
      present  the  statement  issued up to (two)  days  prior to the  Assembly,
      containing the respective stockholding, provided by the custodian agency.

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3.    The  documents  concerning  the  matters to be  discussed  in the  General
      Assembly  called herein is available to all  shareholders at the Company's
      headquarters.


                         Brasilia-DF, November 21, 2002.


                              ALEXANDRE BELDI NETTO

                       CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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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.



Tele Centro Oeste Cellular Holding Company


Date: November 22, 2002               By:   /S/ MARIO CESAR PEREIRA DE ARAUJO
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                                          Name:   Mario Cesar Pereira de Araujo
                                          Title:  President