 We're here in Shamal Sheikh in Egypt where I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Wael Said who is the Executive Director of Radio Spectrum Resources and he has a Spectrum Vice-Chairmanship as well for the NTRA, the National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Egypt. Wael, welcome to the studio. Thank you very much and for hosting me here in your nice studio of ITU. Well thank you for hosting us here in your country. Thank you very much. That's wonderful. Now I wanted to start off by talking to you a little bit about where we're at, what we're doing. This is the Radio Communication Assembly which is prior to the World Radio Communication Conference. We're here for a fair few weeks here in Shamal Sheikh and a lot of things are going to be discussed. I wanted to ask you why are these conferences important? Okay we start from the assembly here. Egypt is part of the Arab groups and part of also of the African group which are very popular within the ITU. All sectors we have a lot of activities within the ITUR and the special ITUR. In Radio Assembly we have some positions we should follow especially that we are finalizing the last study period. We should care about the studies made for the agenda items of the conference. We should finalize them and just to be sure that our positions may be reached as much as possible during the conference. And for the World Radio Communication Conference what are the topics that are going to be important that are being discussed there? A lot. We have of course the most famous 113 for the IMT. We have good positions from the Arab group and from the African group within this agenda item. So this is IMT 2020? Yes. Which is also named for? We don't like to give names other than IMT or IMT 2020. What does IMT stand for then? International Mobile Telecommunications. Okay. Yes. And what is this resolution about IMT 2020? What is this about IMT 2020? Okay. It is about for the 113 it is about finding more spectrum for the IMT communications especially. I know you want me to speak about 5G of mobile communications of course. We are here trying to find some more spectrum for this technologies just to accommodate the high demand in the personal telecommunication just to accommodate the new trends for smart cities and sustainable cities. This is an important issue we should follow and care about it. And is there anything else that we should be looking out for? Yes. Of course we have satellite issues. We have a lot of satellite issues in the science and in the broadband communication also for the ISM. We follow all of these agenda items and we have good positions in this topics. Correct. And what you hope will be the outcomes from WRC? Regarding the outcomes may be difficult to talk about. Most of the time we can reach something far from what we are wishing. This is because we need to accommodate all the positions of the regional groups. So we should meet somewhere in the middle. So we are not sure how to expect the outcomes of the conference in this stage. Now this is not the first time that Egypt has hosted an ITU conference. I mean here in Shamash Sheik there was also the Global Subversive Regulations, GSR 16 as well, which we attended. And I just really wanted to ask you, I mean what are the major challenges in hosting an event such as this and what are the benefits for Egypt as a whole? Of course now we are showing to the world that we have, I want to say, a new era of Egypt towards the international community. We want to open ourselves for all continents around the world. So this is important to host these big events like for ITU or any other international organization, especially for the UN. Well thank you very much again for hosting us here very, very graciously and we look forward to the next few weeks together and hopefully we will have very suitable outcomes for everybody.