 Welcome to the ITU studio in Geneva where I'm very pleased to be joining the studio today by Mr Joao Noronha who is the head of statistics and market research for the National Authority of Communications for Portugal. Mr Noronha, welcome to the studio. Thank you very much for inviting me. I'd like to start off by talking a little bit about the fact that we're here at the World Telecommunication and ICT Indicators Symposium. What is the current status of the ICT sector in Portugal? Well, in terms of coverage, we are very well placed in terms of international rankings. Fixed coverage is in the top five of the European Union. Operators have been investing heavily in fiber optics, in next-generation cable networks. The government itself has been promoting the investment in rural areas, so both in terms of overall coverage and rural coverage we are very highly placed in terms of international rankings. Traditionally penetration and usage was lower than the average, but in the last few years we've been able to reach the OECD average in terms of fixed broadband coverage. In terms of mobile coverage we are still below the international averages, but this is because mostly issues of pricing, in terms of pricing we do not compare so well. There is also a significant part of the population which is older, retired, has lower incomes, lower illiteracy, so we have a sort of a digital divide within our countries and they pulled the average down, let's say. And that's it, basically. Let's talk about data. In what ways can data from the ICT sector contribute to improvements in regulation and policymaking in the sector? Well, of course data is essential for regulation and policymaking. Investment, coverage, usage, traffic, number of users, these are all essential elements that we need to regulate and devise smart policies. These new areas of, new sources of data are very important for us because they allow us to desegregate the general indicators and look at specific issues like, for instance, specific classes of users, specific geographical areas, specific services, specific offers, and as the process of regulation evolves we need detailed, more detailed information than we used to, and these new sources of data are being very helpful. These new tools that we are seeing presented here are very useful, and of course this is also a challenge for us because we have to learn new skills. We have to invest in software and hardware, but I mean it's essential for our work. Let's talk about challenges. What's coming from a regulatory background? What would you see are the main challenges that regulators are facing in developing up-to-date policies and regulations for the ICT sector and how is Portugal addressing them? Well, in fact our sector is very dynamic, so there are always new challenges. In the symposium yesterday we talked about this new non-traditional operators that are entering the market, so-called over-the-top operators, and this raises lots of issues. There is also a question yesterday about Professor Katz, who was also very interesting because he was saying that because of these operators revenues are falling while investments in these are increasing, we have to know how to deal with that. Also there is an increased market concentration in our country between traditional operators, so there is a need to guarantee users' rights, and then there are other areas like cybersecurity, data privacy, data protection. Of course we in Portugal are members of the European Union and there is a concerted effort within the European Union to tackle these issues. We've been using the guidelines from BEREC to deal, for instance, with net neutrality issues. The new telecoms code that was published by the European Union also deals very strongly with consumer rights and consumer protection. In fact compared with a few years ago we are spending lots of time now with these issues of contracts, complaints, these kind of things. Now you're also chair of the expert group on telecommunication, ICT indicators. I wanted to ask you from your perspective, what are the main takeaways from this year's symposium? Yesterday's session on the IDI was important because it highlighted the importance of our mission. It was highlighted that a lot of countries are not reporting the data or are reporting data in a non-harmonized way. So we have to do better what we are already doing, providing objective clear definitions that allow countries to produce good quality data. We should share our experiences, our best practices, so that countries can implement data collection processes and are able to overcome all the obstacles on data collection that they have. This is the first takeaway. The second takeaway is all these new data sources that are coming up and the new methods to deal with big data that are very important to us and will involve, as I said earlier, an investment in hardware, software, skills. So this is also an important area. And from yesterday's presentation by Mexico and today's presentation from Costa Rica, there is this area of data visualization and data processing that is evolving very rapidly. And we probably have to also to adapt our methods and start discussing this at AGT. Well Mr. Rooney, thank you very much for joining us in the studio and we hope to catch up with you again soon at another symposium or another event. Thank you. Okay, thank you very much.