 We're here at ITU Telecom World 2012, and I'm extremely pleased to be joined by Mr. Francois Rancy, who is Director of the Radio Communication Bureau for ITU. Mr. Rancy, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Sure. Good afternoon, Max. I'd like to start off by asking you about the incredible transformations of the ICT sector, and what it means to you. Well, I think we have been living in the last 10 years two revolutions in ICT. The first one is the revolution of mobile telephony. What it has done is in less than 10 years changed the life of practically everybody in the world from a situation where about 2% of the population in most countries had access to telephone services to a situation where nearly everybody has access to it. So that has radically changed the life of the vast majority of the population in the world. Now what the second ICT revolution is now producing is the development of Internet access and the use of Internet access, especially with broadband connectivity. And as we know, this is also going to change a lot in everybody's life and probably even more than the first revolution. So this is what we are seeing now and I think it is in the mind of everybody who is actually in this telecom forum. What are going to be the major challenges facing us? From the radio communication point of view, but I think one of the major aspects as well overall is the fact that to enable the Internet access revolution to happen, the mobile telephone networks are going to need an increase in investment to provide Internet access. This has started with 3G but this is not enough. It will be amplified with 4G and especially with the advance in maybe one or two years from now of equipment conforming to the IMT advance specification adopted by the ITU this year which will enable basically up to 100 megabit per second service on the mobile devices. So this is going to be the instrument by which the large majority of people in the world are going to access Internet broadband in the future. And this is what people have in mind when they come here is to know how to do that and exchange experience with those who have already started. And what is going to be the best response in order to be able to take advantage of these opportunities? Well the first important response is how to make the necessary spectrum available for the development of this new generation of mobile services. Getting more spectrums mean taking spectrum from somebody. And obviously it's not any spectrum. It is a spectrum which comes in phase with the rest of the world. You don't want to have specific equipment developed for your country. You want to take advantage of development which are made for the worldwide market. And therefore what really people want is to have worldwide if possible worldwide harmonization of the use of spectrum for the new generation of mobile devices. And this is what has been started in the ITU. We have done that for the last 20 years of course with 3G, 4G but we are now amplifying this effort to make sure that everybody, every country in the world can benefit of the economies of scale of a worldwide market. Finally we're here at ITU Telecom World 2012. I wanted to find out what your experience has been of it so far and what you hope the outcome will be. Well I think it's a great experience. There are so many people of various countries of various origins whether regulators, governments, industry, manufacturing equipment. So all these people are addressing the type of problems I was mentioning from a different angle and the confrontation of minds to get things happening is really extraordinary and I think this is a great event. And what you hope the outcome will be? I think the outcome is basically that everybody is given an equal chance to develop ICTs and especially mobile networks for broadband access in the best possible way and I think we are doing that. François Ronsi, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Thank you Max, pleasure for me.