 Welcome to the World Radio Communication Conference 2023 in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. I am very pleased to be joining the studio today by Isabel Mauro, who is the Director-General of the Global Satellite Operators Association, Josoa. Isabel, great to see you in the studio today. Great to see you too, and great to see you. I think it's a few times now that we've met in Dubai for such events. Indeed, absolutely. Yes, I'm in Shemoshake in the place of the news. Yes, and now in Dubai as well. So that's fantastic. Look, I wanted to start off by asking you why is the Radio Communication Conference important to Josoa? I think for us, for our industry, the satellite industry, this is really a key conference because it is at the time where we've never seen so much innovation and growth in the space economy and in the satellite industry. Investments have really tripled. I mean, we've never seen investment as we have seen in the last few years. Services that we are providing are becoming more affordable, more reliable. And in particular, we go to areas that are underserved and where over terrestrial, maybe there is no terrestrial coverage as well. So for us, this is key because any regulation, any resolutions that come out of WRC are clearly not only important for our own industry, if you want, the services that we provide, but also to connect the world, the 2.6 billion that are still not connected or still not online, any outcome will really have a tremendous impact on digital connectivity and we are major players in that part of the economy. Now, space sustainability is a big talking point both here and around the globe. Could you tell us what this really means to Josoa and how you're contributing to this? Well, I think what I just said about what is our role in terms of bridging the digital divide and providing more connectivity, whilst we're doing that, we also need an increasing our services, an industry that is incrementally increasing. We really need also to make sure that we do operate in a very responsible manner. And so very recently, I think 10 days ago, we adopted as Josoa a code of conduct on space sustainability. And that I think is really an important first step in the direction of working towards space sustainability. What we are doing with that is that the code of conduct calls on operators to really take actions in four areas. So one is really to minimize the threat of debris. The other one is to minimize in-orbit collision. Thirdly, it's also to protect human life in space, so protect our astronauts. And fourth is really as well to minimize the optical astronomy, so the impact of satellites on optical astronomy. So I think this is really a critical step. I know it's been very, very much welcomed by the secretary general of the ITU, by the director of the Bureau of Radio Communications Bureau. So we are really looking forward as well to work with all relevant stakeholders to ensure that it's in the interest of everybody that we have a space that is secure, safe, and then manageable and sustainable. And in terms of the outcomes, what do you hope will be some of the key outcomes that will come out from this year's World Radio Communication Conference? Well, I think for us we came here really with three areas that are main. One is to sort of safeguard the critical services that we are already providing. So this is really sort of protecting, safeguarding the spectrums that we have that is allocated to satellite. And ensuring maybe that any additional spectrum that is proposals for more spectrum for IMT, particularly in the band like 6 GHz, for us this spectrum we don't want any change. The no change position for anybody here will know what Agenda Item 1.2 is. So we don't want any change to Agenda Item 1.2. The second one is promoting innovation and growth. We are really growing as an industry exponentially, but we have a lot of innovative services coming up as well. So really any sort of, you know, if we have the S-SIM regulations around E-SIM in the KU and KA band, for us it's really ensuring that we have a regulatory framework that is sort of predictable and that can foster the growth of the services, of all these new innovation. And the third one is looking really ahead at new services, in the space when we think maybe already at WRC 27. As you know, here we already talk of new Agenda Items for the next four years. So for us, again, it's ensuring that our industry safeguards the spectrum that we have so that we can foster, we can continue to innovate these services. And again, it's really making sure that maybe the mobile industry or the spectrum for IMT, we look at how the allocation that is already there can be used more efficiently before we look into proposing new allocation of IMT, of spectrum for IMT. So that would be, you know, our ideal scenario to come out with regulations, I said, resolutions that really help us, you know, moving forward with these three objectives that we have. Well, thank you very much for joining us in the studio and giving us a few insights into the world of the satellites and satellite operators. Isabel Mauro, Director General of the Global Satellite Operators Association, thank you very much indeed for joining us today. Thank you very much. Thank you. And if you've enjoyed this interview, which I hope you have, there are plenty more on the ITU YouTube channel as well as podcasts on our ITU SoundCloud channel and wherever you get your podcasts from. And for further information, please visit www.itu.int. 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