 Hello from ITU headquarters in Geneva, where I'm very pleased to be joined by Satoshi Miyagi, KDDI Japan, and Chairman of ITUT Study Group 9, which is our standardization expert group for broadband cable and TV. Mr. Miyagi, thank you very much for joining us. Thank you very much. Study Group 9, could you give us an introduction to their work, what broadband cable and TV means? Okay, so Study Group 9 is responsible for the television and sound transmission over any LAN network, for example, the cable TV network, as well as the fiber to the home network. And also, Study Group 9 is responsible even for the TV transport between the TV stations or the studio to the cable TV head and so anything related to TV transport over the LAN network is under the responsibility of Study Group 9. And to do your work, what are the types of companies that need to contribute to this work? Who do you typically find in Study Group 9 meetings? Actually, so many types of entities are joining Study Group 9. For example, from the ministries and the regional standardization bodies like cable labs, Japan cable labs, and also the operators like us, KDDI, or as a telecommunication or cable TV companies, and even the vendors, like Farway, JC, Fritone, and so on. So many types of the entities are joining the Study Group 9. Before we started this interview, you told me you've been working here or contributing to ITU work for 21 years. And how has it changed in that time, the work of Study Group 9? What is the past and what is the future? Okay. So when I joined Study Group 9, it was 21 years ago. Actually, it was driven by the cable labs in the United States. Chairman is from the cable labs. So at that time, Study Group 9 is really focusing on the very, very cable TV specific technology like cable modems or cable telephony. Most of them are developed by the United States regional standardization activities. But after eight years later, cable labs left the Study Group 9. And I joined the management team of Study Group 9 at that time as a vice chair of the Study Group 9. And we had a difficulty how to maintain or how to enhance the previous momentum of the Study Group 9 for the toward the study period. And we discussed again and again. And we finally found out that we need to incorporate not only cable TV, but the surrounding any issues should be the convergent into the cable TV technology. So we said that we named such a situation as a hybrid cable TV approach, like a convergence of the broadcasting and IP technology and hardware and the software convergence and so on. So the very remarkable outcome at that time was the hybrid cable TV set of books based on the operating system embedded architecture. So where the such set of books can receive the traditional broadcasting, TV broadcasting, as well as the applications originally designed for the mobile phone, but such set of books can execute such application. So such set of books can enjoy the traditional TV broadcasting, as well as the many types of applications, sometimes VOD or sometimes the communication application or sometimes the schedule management and so on. That was a very remarkable outcome in the new era of the Study Group 9. The number of services available to consumers are growing and growing. And we hear about things like VR, AR. How does it affect your work on these enabling networks? How do you support so many different applications? Okay, so for such a realistic experience, we are approaching two types of the studies. One is the enhancement or evolution of the existing cable TV network itself. We are now studying the fifth generation cable modern technology, which supports 10Gbps class by directional communication over the existing coaxial based cable TV network, I believe, which will support such VR or AR experience. And also, we also need to develop the terminal side to support such the advanced technology. So we are also now trying to develop the very advanced operating system, which is now called the Smart TV OS architecture. So both two approaches should be realizing the such new very advanced type of the user experience. And what might be the standards that you're most excited about your work right now? What to look out for from Study Group 9? In addition to the such technology advancement, a Study Group 9 is strongly wants to contribute to the business expansion in the cable TV industry. I'd like to provide a good example. Our recent approach is to harmonize between the cable TV operator and emerging OTT providers. Not just the application of the cable TV set of books, but now we are trying to harmonize these two entities by defining the actual requirement and technical interfaces to connect these two entities to provide a much wider business opportunity. Mr. Miyazaki, thank you very much. Thank you very much for having me. Thank you.