 We are here at the World Telecommunication Development Conference 2014 in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. I am pleased to be joined by Mr Bokar Baal, CEO of the SEMINA Telecommunication Council. Mr Baal, thank you for being with us today. Thank you and good morning. Thank you very much for inviting me. I would like to start off by talking about SEMINA Telecommunication Council. Perhaps you can tell us a little bit about what SEMINA Telecommunication Council stands for South Asia, Middle East and North Africa. And it's an organisation that represents the telecommunication operators across the 25 countries. And our role is advocacy role for the operators' private sector with the government. Now that's quite a large area that you're representing there. They've obviously got all their different specific regional concerns. Perhaps you can talk a little bit about what you've been seeing here and what's been happening here at the World Telecommunication Development Conference. Well, the subject for this World Telecommunication Development Conference is about broadband for sustainability development. It's a very good and important subject. And our role and expectation is what could we expect from this conference. So of course, it's a given that broadband will foster development and socio-economic development. From the telecom operator perspective, we take it as an opportunity, but what is not discussed today and during this conference and what we would like to see happening in the future is also these challenges for having broadband. We all know that broadband will be good for our societies. Broadband will support all the new application, will support smart living, will support e-government, a number of applications that we are talking every day. Broadband is provided by the service providers, by the telecom operators. It's a big challenge. And we would like this debate to be addressed with lots of maturity because operators are the one to implement broadband and they are facing a number of challenges. Now in front of these challenges, we need to have to define the role of the government, maturity from the consumers and the civil society. We need to have a collective discussion and define together how we can make it happen. It cannot be seen only as a responsibility of the telecom operators. Now we're here in the second week of the conference. Have the discussions, have the conversations been going the right way? Well, the conversations are going the right way. We are having some meetings with different parties, with regulators, with policy makers. The main point that we are bringing on the table is telecom operators need to be incentivized in order to deploy broadband infrastructure network. Let me elaborate a little bit more on that because if we look at the entire ecosystem, on one side we have government, policy makers and regulators, on the other side we have the internet players, what we so-called over the top. We have on the third party we have the consumer and civil society. Now broadband is seen as a human right, basic human right. If it is a human right it's a government issue and a private sector. If broadband is a commodity, all commodities today prices are going high except telecommunication which has to go down. Broadband is also a luxury and that's the role of the telecom operators to deploy the broadband. So when we look at it from different angles what we are saying is government needs to incentivize telecom operators. I'm talking about taxation, not to have a tax burden and to be incentivized to invest into broadband. Now we have two types of broadband, fixed broadband, mobile broadband and the world is going toward mobility. So when we talk about fixed broadband, fiber, when we talk about mobile broadband, LTE 4G or 5G tomorrow. It's very expensive and we need to work together to collaborate to agree that if all of us in our society we want to enjoy the service of broadband, telecom operators have to be supported by government on one side, consumers have to be reasonable, internet players they have to participate. It's a problem of all of us, not only telecom operators. Very briefly, if there's an outcome that comes from this conference, what would that be for you? A call for collaboration, that would be a very positive signal. If as an outcome of this conference we decide to face these challenges by having a mature approach, by bringing all these stakeholders around the table have a dialogue and define clearly where we want to head to and operators will take the responsibility if they are incentivised by the other stakeholders and our entire society will enjoy broadband. Mr Bokoval, thank you very much for keeping with us today. Thank you very much for your invitation. And thank you for watching too.