 Welcome to WRC 19, the World Radio Communication Conference being held in Shamashheikh in Egypt. We are very pleased to be joined today by Dr Abdullah Al-Araimi, who is the Director of Frequency Planning Department for the Public Authority of Radio and Television for the Sultanate of Oman. Dr Al-Araimi, welcome to the studio. Actually, I am very glad to be first in the lovely country here, Egypt, and mainly in Shamashheikh, and to be with all gathering here worldwide to be here in WRC 19. Thank you very much for these moments that we spent together. Thank you. I'd like to start off by asking you a little bit about WRC 19. Why is the World Radio Communication important to you? I believe it's not your first time at a WRC meeting. It's a long meeting here, but they are obviously very productive, and I really wanted to ask you why is it important in your calendar? Actually, as you know now the world, we can say it is a small village. We can say it. So we are close to each other. So I cannot say for the time being that I am away from you. So all the services, either in mobile, in TV, in aviation and everything, they are all connected to each other worldwide. So WRC, now it's the heart of organizing all the field of communication worldwide. So of course it's very important for us as Sultanate of Oman to participate in this event. And what are the kind of conversations, what are the topics that are of most interest to you here? Actually, there are many topics, but as I am coming from broadcasting field, I am actually dealing with mainly UHF band. Because UHF band, as you know, it's from 470 to 960 before it was belong to broadcasting. But in WRC 15, they cut half of it or more than half actually band 800 and 700 for IMT. And there were one resolution, it's resolution 235, which also asking the administration to make study until WRC 23. And actually we are here to look after this band so that we can complete our service in broadcasting. So in principle what happened was that they reduced the band to make way for IMT 2020 5G and to give that more space and more availability and that's reduced your being able to use that band for television broadcasting. That's right and as you know also broadcasting, actually as mobile, become advanced you know day by day we start from first generation, second generation, third generation, fourth generation and we are talking now about 5 generation for IMT. Broadcasting is same actually. The broadcasting also we start for standard definition, then we move to high definition and now we are talking about the UHD or 4K and also 8K. So all of us as technicals or engineers we are looking also to support our service. So as you know that when if we talk about HD or UHD or 4K, actually the bitrates that we need now today, I want to talk about 8K because all this they need high bitrate to convince also your audience to see your programs and for that reason I think we are as a broadcaster we need this band for us for our service. So moving with the times, what's the migration like between analog and digital for the Sultanate of Oman? Yes actually we have big project in the Sultanate of Oman. We already started our project for moving from analog to digital and we try to apply the latest technology in our project related to the compression system we are using HEVC and of course we are using also DVB T2 for the transmitters. Our projects consist of 70 sites, 70 stations, started from 5 watt to 5 kilowatt and 50% of the project now it's already we are on air. Of course we want to have simultaneous transmission between analog and TV but sometimes we face some problem related to the spare parts for our old transmitter working in analog transmission but our project going very well and day by day we will complete it inshallah. Talking about completion what do you hope will be the final outcomes from this conference? What will be the most important outcomes for you to be going home with safe in the knowledge at the end of this? It's a very good question. Actually the main thing for me is UHF band to be stay as it is for the broadcasting services and also I wish that we can also find a solution for our BMSE services and as you know also we have now everything become wireless either cameras, microphone and a lot of things now become without cables it's wireless so all these things need also a spectrum to use in. So I think the main things for me is that UHF band and BMSE service also we need to fight to get some bands for them especially for BMSE services. I'm sure you'll keep fighting your corner very well and I wish you the very best for the rest of the conference. Thank you Dr. Aroma for being with us in the studio and hopefully we will catch up with you again soon maybe sooner than the next four years. And I am very happy actually to be with you here and also to introduce something from my country and our contributions here in this conference. Thank you very much. Very valuable media. Thank you. Thank you very much.