 Welcome to WRC 19, the World Radio Communication Conference being held in Shama Sheikh in Egypt, where I'm very pleased to be joining the studio today by Luciana Ferreira, who is the Vice-Chair of Study Group 4, the ITU R Study Group on Satellite Services, and also Telecommunications Specialist for Anatole, which is the national telecommunications agency for Brazil. Luciana, welcome to the studio. Thank you for having me. Why is this event important? And what importance does it have in particular for Brazil, for the Brazilian delegation that you have part of? Yes, there are several items that we are we are attending, and for example 1.5 ZIMs, it's very very important for us because we already have some station operating the FSS exclusive bands, but having all the K-A band, it will be very very nice for us. It will enlarge our capacity. And for example issue A, it's one of the most popular and most difficult, and in Brazil we don't have yet a GSO system, a Brazilian GSO system, but it seems that this is the future, so we want to be prepared. So non- geostationaries, satellites? Yeah, they bring into the milestones, and also issue I, because we are receiving a lot of requests from universities in Brazil to send files to ITU, and having the boundaries that will be approved here is the, it is important for us. So we can classify if it's a short duration mission or not. Okay, for those who are not attending the conference who won't know anything about issue I's and 10.1.3s, and what is issue I for example? Issue I, it's a modified regulation for short duration missions satellites, so non-GSO short duration missions satellites, and issue A it's about the milestones, it's the NGSO milestones. What does that mean? They are going to set some milestones for the launch of the constellations, so for example, we are supporting the Citadel IAP that the first milestone will be in three years, 10% of the whole constellation launched in five years, 50% of the constellation launch, and in seven years, 100% of the constellation. So we are here discussing that because we are supporting the Citadel IAP, but the other regional groups are not supporting this, so we'll have to discuss about and try to find a way forward. When you're with your friends or when you're with people who aren't involved in the industry, how do you explain the work here? Well, how do you explain what's going on here exactly? Well, I think that we are shaping the future. We are trying to forecast what will happen in the future and try to find a regulation that will set the boundaries. So we are here to work a lot. And how does this affect the general public? Well, in Brazil, the satellite is very, very important. That's why I'm now the new vice-chair of the satellite group in ITU. So the country is very, very big. And when we decide here what we are going to do in the future, we are trying to enlarge our capacity of Brazil. So this will affect the customers, the final customers. And what is it, what is in terms of connectivity? What are the main challenges in Brazil at the moment? The size of the country, it is very, very big. And most of the operators want to cover only the places that has a lot of people, like in the coast. But we also have some places in Brazil, for example, in Amazon, that we don't have this coverage. And this is our goal, to find a way to cover the people, remote places. So not necessarily terrestrial infrastructure, but infrastructure. Exactly, in the space. So I wanted to, coming back to your work as vice-chair of the ITUR study group, on satellite services, what exactly happens in these study groups? And why is that work important? And how is it feeding into your daily work as well? Yes, in SG4, it's the satellite service group in ITUR. We study all the parameters to support the agenda items. So we, in the last cycle, the last four-year cycle, we studied all the parameters that support the agenda items. And here we are deciding which parameters we are going to use. So it's very, very important to go to the student groups and participate in the decisions. How many people are involved in these study groups? Your study group, for example? Yeah, I'm the rapporteur of the 4A in Brazil. And about 200 people go to 4A. And I have two other people that also are rapporteurs of the 4B and 4C. But in 4A, it's where almost all the agenda items are studied. So it's very, very important for us. And how often do you meet? I've lived twice a year. This year we only have one meeting because of the CPM in the beginning of the year. So it's twice a year. So you're also involved in the conference preparatory meeting as well for this conference here. And just in terms of this conference, WRC 19, what do you hope some of the outcomes will be from this? I hope that 1.5 ZIMs be approved. 1.5 is? Yeah, 1.5. We find a way forward for issue A in agenda item 7 of the milestones. They bring it to use of milestones. We find a way forward. Okay, so 1.5, just explain what 1.5 is. 1.5 is ZIMs, Earth Station Motion in the KA band. Right. Okay. And the issue, I hope that there is a regulation, a strong regulation so we can set the boundaries in Brazil. Thank you very much for joining us. And all the best with your work in the study group and the rest of the conference too. Okay, thank you very much. Thanks a lot. Cheers.