 Welcome to the World Ready Communication Conference WRC 23 being held in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates where I'm joining the studio this afternoon by Mr Atarashi Hiroyuki who is the chair of committee 4 here at the World Ready Communication Conference and is also involved with the mobile operators in Japan on a day-to-day basis. Mr Hiroyuki, welcome to the studio. Thank you very much for inviting this interview. Thank you very much. Well thank you for being here. I'd like to start by asking you about your role as chair of committee 4. What are the main agenda issues that your committee is focusing on and why are they important? Yeah, thank you very much for that question. My committee 4 is dealing with a wide variety of terrestrial services and this includes international mobile communication services and also some other aeronautical mobile service and maritime mobile services issues. And among these items in this conference we are discussing the new frequency identification for the IMT and also the new allocation of the frequency to the mobile service. I think this momentum is very important for the future development of the IMT and mobile services. And also we are discussing the some frequencies for the aeronautical mobile service and introduction of the new GMDSS systems. I'm not a real expert in these areas but according to the information from these fields this decision or discussion in the conference is very important for them. Now you mentioned frequencies, there's a lot of competition for frequencies, a lot of people want to have access to them. ITU has got a very much a multi-stakeholder approach here at this conference and in general in the conferences that it hosts, which engages governments, regulatory authorities and industry and the objective is to find consensus amongst all of the delegates here. How successful do you think that is and how is it working for you and how effective do you think it will be on the issues that you're discussing? Actually this is my fourth time to attend World Radio Communication conferences and every time we have a wonderful experience over four weeks. So it's a very tough discussion and complex discussion but I think we should not discuss this conference something like effectiveness in order to decide an important issue like use of the frequency based on the international framework should be a very difficult and complex one. So it takes sometimes to decide something. So in this regard I think this conference or World Radio Communication conference is always important and I believe that this is a core role of ITU. Now there's also been a deliberate effort to encourage more women to participate in the work of the radio communication sector. From your committee experience is this effort bearing fruit or is it a work in progress? I think it is still in working progress and there is much room to improve and facilitate the participation of the women's participants. Actually in my committee one of the working group chair is a female working group chair and actually she is inviting female participants to the podium when she organizes a session and she invites them how she has a feeling on the podium and this kind of initiative is very great and I really thank her for conducting such activities to facilitate the women's participation in ITU activities. Well Mr. Hiroyuki, thank you so much for joining us in the studio today and thank you for your participation here and your work as chair of committee four and we look forward to catching up with you again at some stage in the future hopefully. Thank you very much. Thank you very much indeed. And if you've enjoyed this interview then do check out our other interviews on our YouTube channel as well as our podcasts on our SoundCloud, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Channels or wherever you listen to your podcasts and for further information visit our website at www.itu.int. Thanks for tuning in.