 We're here at ITU Telecom World 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand, and I'm very pleased to be joining my Mr. Mohamed Al-Khanim, who is Director General of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of the UAE. Mr. Al-Khanim, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Yeah, it's good to be back again and it's good to be with you. Very nice to see you. And I'd just like to start off by talking about the theme for this event this year is embracing change in a digital world. Where do you see the biggest opportunities in that change for the industry and for society? I think the biggest era that we are now living in, the biggest thing in this era that we are living in in the telecommunication field is that it is changing. We have telecommunication companies where they built infrastructure like highways and we have over-the-top companies which they deliver the services and today there is a shift in terms of revenue making where the over-the-top companies making more revenue and more profit than the telcos who's actually building the highways. Now if you think about it for a minute you will find that you know who should pay for what but the thing is now we have an additional value proposition which is much bigger than what the telcos was thinking of by having the OTTs. So we are living in a telecommunication environment where now the market has over the past years enlarged by so many folds where has created so many opportunities, jobs. There has been a lot of innovation and I think that that can get bigger than what classically was driven by only voice, data and SMS. So today we are having an opportunity for OTTs, an opportunity for telcos. The thing is about the financial equation where where's going to go the world will require fiber so who's going to pay for this fiber and how the let's say the business model is going to has to change in order to fit the circumstances. And what do you think of the biggest threats to this change? Okay now we are we are living into an open data environment and we are driven by the customer the customer is uploading all his information into the net. So the driver for future economies is the internet as we see it right now and the biggest threat is privacy and data protection. We have a lot of companies where we have they gather big data so and they are called big data companies. So the privacy of the consumer is the most important part where we consider it as a threat because it's a threat to the customer privacy. We have information which cross borders countries so your information is stored somewhere globally you don't know where it is in one of these servers somewhere under a completely different jurisdiction than your own place. If your privacy has been breached it's becoming so complex and trying to resolve it if you report it to the police or to the court in your jurisdiction. So this is the biggest issue that we face right now and hopefully we will get into a global model where we can solve it. And bringing it back closer to home what is the TRA doing to embrace this change? We are we are doing different things now in the UAE we have the Prime Minister declared that we will transform the government to smart government so we are upgrading the e-services to become smart and we are we are planning to transform all the government services to be delivered through mobile phone and that's given to us within two years time frame. So this is one of the biggest opportunities and interesting challenge that we have. The second thing is the declaration of the Prime Minister and the ruler of Dubai to transform Dubai to a smart city which is again following the smart government move but it's also on a much bigger scale. We have all the enablers on ground. We are working on the on the road map and hopefully we will we'll have that happening. Now the key issue here is the society. So the society is something that we need to work on in order to educate them on how to use these services on smart platforms. And finally I'd like to ask you what is the value in your opinion of attending events such as ITU Telecom World 2013 for example which we're here and I know that you travel a lot and you attend a number of events so we'd very much like to hear your opinion on that. It's always it's always good to to do knowledge sharing. Now whether you give knowledge or you receive knowledge and with the platform that we have in the ITU Telecom World every year, it's enhance enhancements of communication with our with our colleagues everywhere in the world. We're becoming such a small planet that that we need to learn from each other and it's open. It's transparent. It's really nice platform that we exchange information. We exchange models fit them according to our our need. At the same time we have models. We have experiences. We have we have projects that we can share it with with our colleagues from different countries. I think this is the right platform to to to come and to share knowledge with other people. Thank you very much. Deep English today. Thank you.